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12:11 P.M. Fred Henning was holed up inside the paralegal’s office where he works with his wife, about a block from the scene of the San Bernadino shooting. Henning said they were standing outside as helicopters swooped over the area, but fled into the building as police flooded the area. “We just came inside because…
The FBI processed 185,345 gun background checks on Black Friday, setting a new record. The 2015 number was about 5 percent higher than the number performed on Black Friday in 2014. The checks are required for permits and purchases from federally licensed dealers. On the same day, three people were murdered by a gunman at…
Click here to watch live video There were initial reports of at least 20 victims down amid an active shooter incident in San Bernardino late Wednesday morning, according to a police official. The San Bernardino Fire Department first tweeted around 11:15 a.m. that they were responding to a report of a “20-victim shooting.” San Bernardino…
There was a lot of confusion about Donald Trump’s meeting with black pastors from around the country. Was it on? Was it off? Was it an endorsement? In the end, about 100 leaders of prominent African American churches came to talk to Trump. He expected an endorsement, but as Larry Wilmore explained on Tuesday’s “Nightly Show,” got…
Recent calls for the removal of Woodrow Wilson’s name from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs finds similitude, if not echoes, in University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Rhodes Must Fall movement which succeeded, as it were, in removing the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from where it had stood on the campus grounds…
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (Jay Laprete/Reuters) Let’s not mince words: Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist. Some will think this an outrageous label to apply to the frontrunner for a major party’s presidential nomination. Ordinarily, I would agree that name-calling is part of what’s wrong with our politics. Dana Milbank writes…
“Seriously?” That’s all that CNN’s Jake Tapper could summon during an interview with a top aide for Donald Trump on Monday, where the topic predictably turned to the candidate’s widely debunked claims of having seen footage of Muslims in the U.S. celebrating on the day of the 9/11 attacks. In what has become an almost…
Arguing that there are terrorist sympathizers in the United States, Donald Trump says he saw “thousands” of New Jerseyans celebrating after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. “I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down,” the Republican presidential candidate said at a Nov. 21 rally in Birmingham, Ala. “And I watched in Jersey…
We are now into week two of the media’s obsession with Donald Trump‘s claim to have seen thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, a claim that is at once patently false and worthy of endless debate. Enter former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to make…
An armed society is a bullet-riddled society We have to give credit to Fox News for living up to expectations. In our very first post on the murders at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, we joked that it was only a matter of time until a Republican presidential candidate insisted the real problem was…