Category: World

Taylor Swift has been granted a restraining order against an ex-convict who has allegedly not left her alone. On Friday, Swift filed for a temporary restraining order against Brian Jason Wagner after he allegedly came to her Los Angeles home several times over the past year. “Mr. Wagner made various statements about living at my…

Judge Arun Subramanian denied Sean “Diddy” Combs’ request for a mistrial Tuesday morning ahead of the cross-examination of the rapper’s ex-girlfriend. Jurors heard testimony last week from Cassie Ventura’s friend, Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, who claimed Diddy dangled her off a 17th floor balcony in September 2016. Portions of her testimony were questioned after Bana couldn’t…

Matthew Tkachuk is no stranger to fighting on the main stage. In arguably the biggest hockey game in years, Tkachuk, as a member of Team USA in the 4 Nations Face-Off, dropped the gloves against Team Canada right at the opening faceoff. Late Monday night, he found himself in yet another brouhaha, this one involving…

A Justice Department worker was charged with capital murder for allegedly slipping an abortion drug into his pregnant girlfriend’s drink without her consent, forcing her to lose her baby, police said.  Justin Banta, a 38-year-old information technology staffer, was taken into custody Friday following an incident that unfolded at a coffee shop in Tarrant County, Texas,…

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Tom Cotton is renewing his hard-line stance on civil unrest, this time targeting riots tied to immigration enforcement protests in Los Angeles. The Arkansas Republican, who drew widespread criticism for urging military intervention during the 2020 racial justice riots, is now introducing two new bills designed to impose strict penalties on…

A federal judge in California ruled on Monday that the Trump administration cannot enforce executive orders that require groups to halt programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion or acknowledge the existence of transgender people to receive grant funding. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar wrote in his order that a group of pro-LGBTQ nonprofits “demonstrated…

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, who is already on trial over allegations of sexual abuse of a minor, was hit with an illegal possession of a handgun charge on Sunday, prosecutors in the Dominican Republic said. The charge stemmed from an arrest on Nov. 10 after Franco was in an altercation in a parking…

ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith largely agreed with Riley Gaines amid the former NCAA All-American swimmer’s feud with Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles. Smith’s remarks on Monday came a few days after Biles launched into a personal attack on Gaines after the former Kentucky Wildcats star criticized a Minnesota softball league for turning off comments…

Eight people were killed in a school shooting in Austria on Tuesday, officials said.  The gunfire erupted at the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school in Graz, a city of about 300,000. Graz Mayor Elke Kahr said the suspected shooter died as well.   Kahr described the events as a “terrible tragedy,” the Austria Press Agency reported….

Immigration enforcement efforts in Los Angeles served as the ignition point over the weekend, as coordinated ICE raids across the city sparked violent clashes with law enforcement, leading to the arrival of military forces. The Trump administration’s crackdown culminated in the president’s decisive action Monday to deploy a battalion of hundreds of U.S. Marines to…