Evie Fordham

CALIFORNIA - Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes filed suit against Twitter and some Twitter users Monday for $250 million in compensatory damages, alleging the social media platform engaged in “shadow-banning conservatives.” …

NEW YORK Corned beef is a St. Patrick’s Day meal staple in the U.S., but how did this holiday tradition begin? Irish immigrants began eating the salty beef dish while celebrating their nationality on St. Patrick’s Day in the 1800s,…

TEXAS - Houston Public Library banned a man who had been previously charged for sexually assaulting a child from reading to children at Drag Queen Storytime ever again. The library apologized after not completing a background check…

NEW ZEALAND - Police said they are evacuating and searching a “location of interest” in Dunedin, New Zealand, after shootings at two mosques Friday in Christchurch, which is hours away from Dunedin. “This is a location of interest…

NEW YORK CITY - A Manhattan district attorney’s idea to use $38 million in forfeiture money to test old rape kits led to 64 new convictions in the past four years. The initiative resulted in authorities testing about 55,000 rape…

BEIJING - China is trying to stem an economic slowdown, including rising unemployment, continuing into the first two months of 2019 after documenting its worst year of economic growth in nearly 30 years in 2018. Beijing is trying to…

NEW YORK - Mob boss Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali, of the Gambino crime syndicate, was fatally shot outside his home in Staten Island Wednesday night, police sources said. Cali, 53, was shot in the chest six times by an unidentified…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDe893RYUeU WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is proposing a fiscal 2020 budget with significant funding increases for an initiative to defeat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. plus additional funds…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDtX3zjMHhs NEW YORK - 2020 Democratic hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is facing a #MeToo reckoning in her own office after a female staffer resigned citing mishandling of her sexual harassment…

According to KWCH12, a federal jury Tuesday convicted a Wichita doctor, Steven Henson, 57, of unlawfully distributing prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. Photo: Mugshot by KWCH12. KANSAS - A judge gave a Kansas…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHVxm12NbrY WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump claimed that the recording of his “Tim Apple” gaffe was “fake news” during a meeting with Republican donors at Mar-a-Lago in Florida Friday night,…

Ann Coulter in 2016 talking about the election, as well as her new book, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! and how Donald Trump became the Republican presidential nominee. Photo credit: C-SPAN. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump…

NEW YORK - The lawyer for Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann will likely sue CNN next, and the stakes could be higher than their suit against The Washington Post. L. Lin Wood is representing Sandmann in another…

NEW YORK - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved esketamine nasal spray Tuesday to treat people with depression who have not found relief with traditional antidepressants. “There has been a long-standing need for…

WASHINGTON - More than 300 health care experts wrote to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday to urge the agency to re-evaluate its guidelines on opioid use for chronic pain. “Patients with chronic pain, who are…

VENEZUELA - Venezuela’s embattled socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro and his subordinates blamed the country’s widespread power outages on sabotage, cyberattacks and even Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Maduro’s rival Juan…

MIAMI - Americans in most states are getting ready to “spring forward” and set their clocks an hour ahead Sunday, but how did daylight saving time start? Many people think that daylight saving time, abbreviated DST, can trace its…

MARYLAND - There is a development in the case of convicted murderer Adnan Syed, whose story was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial” in 2014. Maryland’s highest court reinstated Syed’s conviction for killing his former girlfriend…

Other Democratic candidates have secured the backing of much of their state’s congressional delegation, but no New York lawmaker has endorsed Ms. Gillibrand who is struggling to win over members of her home state congressional delegation,…

KINGSLAND - A Republican-backed bill to make it legal for Georgians to obtain, not just possess, limited amounts of medical marijuana oil cleared its first hurdle in the state’s House of Representatives Tuesday. The bill is…

Activists have included JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in their criticism, even protesting outside his Manhattan apartment on Feb. 14 with signs demanding he “break up with prisons,” reported Reuters. Photo credit: C-SPAN. NEW YORK -…

WASHINGTON - OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma is reportedly weighing a bankruptcy filing after most of its profits ended up in the pockets of the Sacklers, the multibillion-dollar family who control the company, according to…

WASHINGTON - Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is stepping down in the middle of his fight against “epidemic” teen e-cigarette use, Health and Human Services Sec. Alex Azar announced Tuesday. Sources close to…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to combat veteran suicide after a government watchdog report found that Veterans Affairs (VA) needed to step up its suicide prevention outreach. “Just a few…

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) called out pharmacy chain Walgreens and other retailers it said were caught selling tobacco products to minors in a press release Monday. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb also…

IOWA - The illegal immigrant charged with murdering University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts asked for his trial to be moved to a more diverse county in a motion filed Friday. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, pleaded not guilty to…

NEW YORK - House Democratic leaders plan on bringing a resolution to the floor Wednesday after backlash from Jewish lawmakers, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and others to Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments on Israel. …

NEW YORK - Purdue Pharma is moving towards filing bankruptcy — a move that could help it manage liability — as it faces a mountain of opioid crisis-related lawsuits, according to a report Monday. Purdue Pharma, manufacturer of…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump used Twitter on Sunday to weigh in on the U.S. and South Korea’s decision to end their annual large-scale joint military exercises. “The reason I do not want military drills with South Korea is to…