Month: December 2019

A Baltimore County cop has been charged with sexually assaulting at least three women, including one he allegedly tricked into going to his house after claiming he was ordering her a car to her friend’s home, court documents state.  Baltimore County Police Officer Michael Westerman, 25, was charged Sunday with two counts of second-degree rape…

Key Point: We’ll probably never know what happened. Russian diesel subs chased a British nuclear sub off the Syrian coast, according to British media. The incident reportedly involved one or two Russian Kilo-class diesel-powered submarines, which have been dubbed the “Black Hole” by Western navies because they are remarkably quiet. Their prey was a British Astute-class…

(Bloomberg) — House Democrats leading the panels running the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump announced their next steps during a news conference Tuesday in Washington. Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel, Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal and Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney…

Democrat Adam Schiff’s committee formally presented its findings to the House Judiciary Committee on Monday, bringing the House one step closer to a formal vote to impeach President Trump. “The evidence is overwhelming that the president abused his power by pressuring Ukraine and its new president to investigate a political opponent,” said Barry Berke, staff attorney for…

The gatekeeper to the lawyer for the most powerful man in the world is a 20-year-old conservative activist with a thin resume, an inflated biography and an impossible job. For the past three months, Trumpworld has been both abuzz and baffled by Christianné Allen, a little-known Instagram personality who became Rudy Giuliani’s director of communications…

The missing American couple, whose families hadn’t heard from after the New Zealand volcano eruption, has been located. Matt and Lauren Urey, two newlyweds from Virginia, were both airlifted to different hospitals to treat their burns, The Washington Post reported on Monday. Lauren’s mother, Barbara Barham, previously told the outlet that she hadn’t heard from her daughter…

The United States ambassador to Denmark barred an American NATO expert critical of President Donald Trump from speaking at an international conference hosted by the U.S. Embassy and a Danish think tank, prompting the event’s cancellation, organizers said. The expert, Stanley R. Sloan, was scheduled to give a keynote speech at the conference, which was…

Video by Kristyn Martin The dangers of fetal exposure to alcohol, drugs and lead are widely known by now. But researchers have found increasing evidence of another potential threat to babies in utero: toxic stress. And, more specifically, the kind that’s churned up in a mother who’s struggling to make ends meet. “People living in…

President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Christopher Wray after the FBI director — whom he handpicked after firing James Comey — agreed with the conclusions of the Justice Department inspector general report that the FBI’s Russia probe was justified and not politically biased. “I don’t know what report current Director of the FBI Christopher Wray was…

Just over two months after opening an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Democrats Tuesday unveiled two articles of impeachment: one for abuse of power and a second for obstruction of Congress. Trump “compromised our national security and threatened the integrity of our elections” and then “attempted to conceal the evidence from Congress and from the…