MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan spent a segment of his show on Friday defending school shutdowns during the pandemic and attacked conservatives for spreading “dangerous myths” of learning loss. Calling it “one of the most important deep dives” he’s ever done, Hasan tackled the “thorny and very emotive issue of kids, schools […]

Thousands of protesters on cars and motorbikes took to the streets of Colombia’s main cities on Monday to reject recent hikes in gasoline prices that have drastically increased the price of fuel in the South American country. Protesters say that the monthly price hikes set by Colombia’s first leftist government […]

A new coalition of Egyptian political parties publicly criticized the country’s current government Monday for persecuting politicians, in a rare act of political dissent. In a news conference Monday, Emad Gad, a spokesman for the Free Current coalition, said the practices of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi’s government “represent a severe […]

Veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford is entering his 15th season in the NFL, and he’s apparently facing an unprecedented issue in the locker room, according to his wife, Kelly Stafford. During the latest episode of her podcast “The Morning After With Kelly Stafford,” she revealed that the Los Angeles Rams quarterback […]

Four people, including two young children, were found dead Monday in a New York City apartment in a possible murder-suicide, police said.  Officers were called to perform a wellness check in a fourth-floor apartment unit at 328 W. 86th Street just before 3 p.m., the New York Police Department told […]

INDIAN LAND, S.C. — EXCLUSIVE — Former ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says her Republican White House campaign has had a “fantastic response” since last Wednesday’s first GOP presidential nomination debate. “I think in the first 72 hours we raised a million dollars. We’ve had thousands of […]

Fighters for militia group attacked a village in northeastern Congo, setting off a battle that killed 14 people, the army said Monday, the latest bloodshed in the country’s restive east. Col. Mapela Mviniama said armed men from the CODECO militia assaulted Gobu village on Sunday evening, killing nine civilians and […]

Florida state Democratic lawmaker Angie Nixon blamed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “anti-woke” policies for motivating the Jacksonville shooting.  The Jacksonville sheriff’s office announced on Sunday that Ryan Christopher Palmeter, 21 White male, killed two Black men and one Black woman at a Dollar General store in a predominately Black neighborhood, […]

A Colorado man has been charged in federal court with cyberstalking his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in Hawaii while repeatedly posing as a different ex-boyfriend, federal prosecutors said Monday. John B. Hart, 53, of Louisville, who previously lived in Hawaii, was arrested Friday in Colorado. Hart was temporarily represented […]

Shuwaski Young, the Democratic nominee for Mississippi secretary of state, will withdraw his candidacy ahead of the November general election as he battles health issues. Weeks before Young’s Sunday announcement, he had secured the Democratic nomination to take on Republican incumbent Michael Watson after running unopposed in the Aug. 8 […]