But the funerals were protected by a group of guardian angels; counter-protestors arrived wearing angel costumes with giant wings in an attempt to block Westboro from making their presence felt.
Obama fought back saying that his reluctance to use the label has nothing to do with political correctness, and everything to do with the U.S.’s efforts to fight extremist groups.
Trump has been harshly criticized, even by some Republicans, for doubling down on his proposal to ban Muslim migration to the U.S.in the wake of last Sunday’s mass shooting at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando that left 49 people dead.
Some 1,200 firefighters backed by helicopters and air tankers battled the so-called Sherpa blaze in Santa Barbara, north of Los Angeles, on Friday after it tripled in size overnight to more than 4,000 acres.
Department of Elections voter services worker Shane Agao works at City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday. In comparison, presidential primary turnout was a whopping 55.8 percent in 2008.
An Egyptian court sentenced former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to life imprisonment Saturday for allegedly passing state secrets to Qatar, a regional rival. Morsi’s secretary, Amin El-Sirafy, received an additional 15-year sentence for a lesser crime.
In a rambling, 20-minute address to live-stream viewers that was basically a Bernie Bro Facebook rant come to life, Sanders insisted that his “political and social revolution” would continue and though he’d work to defeat Donald Trump, he declined the...
The salary cap was originally expected to jump from $70 million this season to $92 million this summer, but it’s going to be even more than that. It was actually a slight improvement from what was expected to be a ceiling of $67 million for the season, so that was a positive.
Two Florida motorcycle deputies were injured in a crash while escorting a funeral procession Saturday for one of the victims in the Orlando massacre. Reports say the woman has not yet been charged but will be shortly.
Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 331 people during an operation targeting criminal aliens and other immigration violators in six Midwestern states.
The waves are expected to lower as a heat wave hits this weekend and sends high temperatures up into potentially record-breaking territory. Temperatures are predicted to climb into the mid 90s by Monday, and the upper 90s later in the week, according to the National Weather Service.