Day: August 29, 2023

Veteran Los Angeles politician sentenced to 3½ years for corruption

12:31 am August 29, 2023

A veteran Los Angeles politician was sentenced Monday to 3½ years in prison for a scheme in which he sought benefits for his son in exchange for supporting lucrative government contracts with the University of Southern California School of Social Work. Mark Ridley-Thomas, most recently a city councilmember, was sentenced in U.S. District Court on […]

Chicago police ‘almost completely dispelled’ shooting at White Sox game came from outside stadium

12:05 am August 29, 2023

Fred Waller, Chicago’s interim superintendent of police, announced Monday that the shooting in which two women were wounded during Friday night’s Chicago White Sox-Oakland Athletics game was most likely caused by a gun that went off inside Guaranteed Rate Field. “We’re dispelling a lot of things,” Waller said during a media availability, per the Associated […]

Biden claims to have ‘literally’ convinced Strom Thurmond to vote for Civil Rights Act — at 21 years old

12:05 am August 29, 2023

President Biden on Monday claimed to have “literally” convinced South Carolina Democrat-turned-Republican Senator Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act — when he was just 21 years old. Biden made the claim while speaking on the 60th anniversary on the founding of the civil rights legal group, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights […]

Adult film star Ron Jeremy accused of sexual assault in negligence suit filed against famed Hollywood bar

12:02 am August 29, 2023

Two women filed a suit against an iconic Sunset Strip bar for knowingly allowing “sexual predator” Ron Jeremy into the establishment, where they claim he “sexually assaulted” them in 2017. In documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 claimed Rockin’ Horse, Inc., aka the Rainbow Bar & Grill, would […]

Texas historical society averts lawsuit in dispute over how state history is taught in classrooms

12:00 am August 29, 2023

An ongoing dispute that impacted how state history is taught in Texas classrooms may be resolved for the time being. The dispute, which dragged on for the better part of a year, concerned the balance of the Texas State Historical Association’s board members. Per its own bylaws, TSHA must comprise half academics and half non-academics, […]

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