Prosecutors in California said Wednesday they plan to seek the death penalty if the man accused of being the “Golden State Killer” is convicted, despite California currently having a moratorium on executions. Four of the six California counties prosecuting Joseph James DeAngelo said in court that they will seek the death penalty if he is…
Ocasio-Cortez Rebukes College Republican Group For ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Label
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) denounced the “uncalled for” language used by a college Republican group after it labeled her a “domestic terrorist” in a fundraising email. Such rhetoric, the freshman congresswoman said in a tweet, “puts me in danger.” On Wednesday, Dave Levinthal, a politics editor at the Center for Public Integrity, tweeted a screenshot…
National Enquirer Parent Company Explores Possible Sale Of Tabloid
NEW YORK (AP) — The supermarket tabloid under fire for paying hush money to a former Playboy model to help Donald Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign is on the auction block. The parent of the National Enquirer said Wednesday that it is exploring a possible sale as part of a “strategic” review of its…
Photo Of Woman Researcher Creating First Black Hole Image Goes Viral
For the first time in the history of humanity, people around the world Wednesday were able to see an image of a black hole 50 million light-years away. The revolutionary image went viral in an instant, as did a photo of Katie Bouman, the 29-year-old who is partly responsible for making the astronomical image happen….
Mike Huckabee Claims LGBTQ Rights Are The ‘Greatest Threat’ To America’s Morality
Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, is claiming that the movement for LGBTQ equality is the “greatest threat” to America’s moral fiber. The former presidential candidate and father of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders voiced his anti-LGBTQ views in an interview published Friday on The Christian Post, a conservative Christian news website. “The biggest…
At Oversight Hearing, Republicans Lavish Praise On Wall Street Oligarchs
If you want to know who exercises real power in American government, take a look at Wednesday’s congressional testimony from the CEOs of the nation’s biggest banks. Over the course of seven relentless hours, lawmakers fell all over themselves to heap praise on the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan…
Colbert Reveals Trump’s ‘Central Governing Philosophy’ In A Single Word
Stephen Colbert tried to interpret what President Donald Trump told reporters about his proposed border wall. It wasn’t easy. “We’ve built a lot of wall, a lot of wall, and it’s new wall,” Trump said this week: “Y’know, when we rip down an old wall and then replace it, it’s called a new wall. And…
Barr Assembles Team To Scrutinize Origins Of The FBI’s Trump Campaign Probe: Reports
President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters have long called for the Justice Department to scrutinize decisions made by the FBI related to its 2016 investigation into the Trump presidential campaign — an investigation that the president has repeatedly lambasted as politically motivated. It now appears that Attorney General William Barr is acceding to this…
How A Picturesque Fishing Town Became Smothered In Trash
MUNCAR, Indonesia ― You smell the beach here before you see it. The stench of decay hits you at around 100 yards. A layer of plastic trash several feet thick covers the black sand. Millions of moldy diapers, ratty shopping bags, sauce and sugar packets, degrading detergent bottles, old shoes and toys clump together at…
Scientists Discover Ancient ‘Cthulhu’ Fossil That Will Give You Nightmares
It’s a real-life version of one of the most feared monsters in horror fiction… only smaller. A lot smaller. On Wednesday, an international team of researchers unveiled the fossilized remains of an ancient relative of the sea cucumber. It had 45 tentacles and lurked at the bottom of the seas some 430 million years ago. They’ve…