Karmelo Anthony's killing of Austin Metcalf, which resulted in a murder conviction for the now-19-year-old on Tuesday, should have been an open-and-shut case. It was complicated by an unfortunate reality: The stabber was black, the victim was white. Now, one of the biggest claims going around was that black jurors...

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The "86 47" crowd has made the news again, this time with what investigators say is a massive act of vandalism on the National Mall in Washington. According to Reuters, authorities are investigating a tracing of those numbers -- a popular code among progressives that effectively means somehow nixing the...

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Congressional Republicans' run of dominance on the baseball diamond continued Wednesday with an 11-2 thrashing of their Democrat colleagues. The play of the game by far came from Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri. In the bottom of the third inning, with the GOP leading 3-0, the left fielder Schmitt...

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Even as his approval rating sinks, many of President Donald Trump's policies remain popular. And that's particularly true when it comes to the matter of illegal immigration. According to a Harvard-Harris online poll, Trump's immigration policies in particular continue to earn broad support even from non-Republicans. Most notably, a majority...

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A father of seven is dead after a dispute with a reported teenager over a loud cellphone conversation on a New York City bus turned deadly this week. According to CBS News, 41-year-old Jonathan Pettigrew was fatally shot about 2:30 p.m. Monday after confronting another passenger who was speaking loudly...

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President Donald Trump's administration has thwarted a planned meeting between two prominent democratic socialists. According to The Washington Post, U.S. diplomats in the Colombian capital of Bogotá told Colombian officials that a planned meeting between Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City and leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro in...

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Thoughts and prayers for the folks over at "60 Minutes," who have been subjected to a bit of a shake-up due to Bari Weiss and actual journalistic standards being introduced. As you've probably heard, the biggest departure was host Scott Pelley, who whinged to The New York Times this weekend...

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Ever since 19-year-old Karmello Anthony was convicted on Tuesday in the murder of a teenager last year, his supporters have been forced to go to extremes to find ways not to blame the killer for the crime. They've blamed "white supremacy" for the prosecution -- Anthony is black, his victim...

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Jerry Seinfeld was ready with a one-liner when thrown a question about Palestine Wednesday night, but Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota deplored the Jewish comedian’s comment. A New York City influencer sought to add a dash of politics to the postgame celebration after the New York Knicks defeated the...

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A former Air Canada captain has been charged after police say he spent years flying large passenger jets without the license required for the job. According to a news release from Peel Regional Police, 59-year-old Geoffrey Wall of Barrie, Ontario, was arrested June 1. The investigation began in January after...

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When a college football player is selected in the first round of the NFL Draft, it will naturally come with lofty expectations. When a player is taken 12th overall, like former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was in the 2020 NFL Draft, they're usually saddled with superstar-level...

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Former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from Congress earlier this year after a public spat with President Donald Trump, is now accusing him of the most serious crime defined in the Constitution. Speaking with CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday, Greene responded to allegations in a new book that...

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' brother is suing the city she leads because of the destruction of his Malibu home in the January 2025 wildfires. The fact that her own brother is accusing her, in effect, of being incompetent, has to be an embarrassment for the mayor, who is up...

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Former NFL linebacker Darron Lee was never quite a household name. Hardcore football fans may recognize the former Ohio State standout as one of the more athletic and dynamic linebackers to play in the NFL over the last decade. That being said, the 31-year-old Lee has, sort of, begun to...

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Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Planter is once again in the news cycle for the wrong reasons. Platner has tried to explain away his Totenkopf chest tattoo in a variety of ways. The symbol - synonymous with the perpetrators of the Holocaust, the Nazi Schutzstaffel - was only covered by...

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Frustration and failure on both sides of the Rio Grande have marked the search for Nancy Guthrie. The mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie was taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home on Feb. 1. Her disappearance has been considered a possible kidnapping. Despite weeks of running down leads in Arizona,...

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Tuesday's conviction and sentencing of 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony for the April 2025 murder of Austin Metcalf, a fellow student from an opposing school who he killed at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, has furthered divisions thanks in large part to Anthony's rabid fan base. Many of Anthony's supporters justified...

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Little light was shed Friday on the twilight zone between peace and war in which the United States and Iran have spent recent weeks. President Donald Trump announced Thursday that airstrikes to be unleashed on Iran were called off because a peace deal was all but done. Iranian officials then...

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SpaceX roared through Wall Street’s stratosphere on Friday in in its initial public offering, leaving Elon Musk in a solo orbit above it all as the world’s first trillionaire. SpaceX shares opened at $150, which, as noted by The Wall Street Journal, was 11 percent above the IPO price of...

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Mum should be the word when it comes to sharing and commenting on atrocities such as the one on a Belfast street in which social media videos showed one man appearing to be trying to behead another, according to one British politician. On Monday, Steven Ogilvie, 44, a partially deaf...

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Sen. Tim Kaine was once his party's vice presidential candidate. He now doesn't seem to understand quite where it's gone, or how it's gotten there in the 10 years since then. Talking to Fox News (!) after the verdict in Karmelo Anthony case in Texas, Kaine -- who is now...

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