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The Secret Service is investigating after ex-FBI Director James Comey posted an Instagram photo of seashells arranged to make the numbers "86 47" — a message that White House officials swiftly condemned as an attempt to put out a "hit" against the 47th president. Comey later deleted the post after online backlash from government officials, lawmakers and President Donald Trump’s son. Trump has faced two assassination attempts — one of which resulted in him being shot and a bystander being killed — in the past year. The post including the alleged "hit" showed the numbers in question etched into the...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WFIE) - Henderson Police say a woman called 911 to report her neighbor was armed with a knife. Officers say Angela Duncan called late Friday night, saying the neighbor was making threats to kill herself and her pets. Police say they, along with paramedics, arrived at the home on Short 7th Street, and it was treated as a possible hostile environment. Officers say it turns out, none of it was true. While trying to speak with Duncan, they say she refused to stop screaming. She was arrested and charged with false reporting and disorderly conduct.

VIDEOThe Liberal Pink Hat Lady is the comedy gift that keeps on giving (whether or not she is wearing her pink hat). And now the comedy comes in the form of her angry MELTDOWN over Chuck Schumer betraying her by caving to the nasty Republicans so the Liberal Pink Hat Lady ranted that she is done, Done, DONE with the Democrat party. Well, until the very next day. So what changed? A political Savior, "The Love Of My Life," entered the scene and completely washed away her angst over the Democrats to the extent that she is once again a...

Monica Lewinsky spoke out about having 'lost her future' after becoming notoriously famous for her affair with Bill Clinton during an appearance on Call Her Daddy. The chat with host Alex Cooper, which will go live Wednesday, delves into what Lewinsky experienced in the fallout from the most famous extramarital relationship in American history. Cooper frames the situation: 'You were 22 years old, he was 49, you were an intern. he was the president of the United States.' Lewinsky, now 51, said: 'I was very quickly painted as a stalker, mentally unstable, not attractive enough.' She now realizes her mistakes...

Some Democratic insiders are already expressing concerns over newly elected Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg just two weeks into his tenure in leadership. Hogg has already ruffled some feathers within the DNC for using the committee’s contact list to solicit donations for his own political action committee (PAC), Leaders We Deserve, according to a report from the New York Post. "David Hogg here: I was just elected DNC Vice Chair! This is a huge win for our movement to make the Democratic Party more reflective of our base: youthful, energetic, and ready to win," reads one of...

A prominent community and civil rights activist set himself on fire last week near Santa Cruz City Hall, just hours after President Donald Trump took his oath of office and a heavily attended Martin Luther King Jr. Day march had cleared in downtown Santa Cruz on Jan. 20. Firefighters extinguished the flames while the activist was standing atop the Black Lives Matter street mural in front of city hall. The person was badly burned and airlifted to a nearby trauma unit, according to police and fire scanners.

Steve Bannon unloaded on Elon Musk, calling him a “truly evil guy” who must be run out of the MAGA movement. Musk spent more than a quarter of a million dollars to help return President-elect Donald Trump to the White House. The billionaire Tesla CEO and owner of X has been a fixture at Mar-a-Lago ever since, with some reports indicating Musk’s near-constant presence is wearing on Trump. “I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day,” Bannon, a former Trump White House adviser, told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in an interview published on Wednesday....

The theory: a cargo ship with a "dirty bomb" was just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. The notion came to life during a live YouTube broadcast Wednesday evening. During the broadcast, conspiracy theorist George Webb initially claimed a "source" had told him that there was "a dirty bomb planned for a major city." Based on the information from the "source," Webb said he believed Memphis might be the target. The Coast Guard said in a further statement provided to CNN that the source of the threat had been detained by authorities for further questioning. The statement did not mention Webb's...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A former Georgia poll worker was indicted Tuesday for allegedly threatening to bomb a polling place and lying to the FBI during the investigation, according to the Department of Justice. Nicholas Wimbish, 25, of Milledgeville, was arrested on Nov. 4 and made his first court appearance on Nov. 5. According to the DOJ, Wimbish was working at the Jones County Elections Office on Oct. 16 when he had a verbal altercation with a voter. Later that evening, Wimbish researched online to determine what information about himself would be publicly available. The following day, Wimbish...

here’s this woman on TikTok called Doormat Mom, and she’s stirring the pot with some pretty controversial stuff about her estranged kids. Now, she’s asking if it’s okay to leave them out of her will. “Should I include, axe, or modify? What’s the deal with ungrateful adult children and inheritances?” “What’s the kids’ side of the story?” More than 1200 people answered her. Some viewers are like, “Heck yes, cut them out!” while others are saying, “What about the kids’ side of the story?” A few are even suggesting leaving money to the grandkids, but only if the parents don’t...

Rev. Al Sharpton plans to hold a rally in protest of President-elect Trump on inauguration day. Sharpton announced the rally on his MSNBC show, “Politics Nation with Al Sharpton,” on Tuesday. The rally and Trump’s inauguration coincide with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “While Trump supporters will be on one side of Washington watching him take the oath of office, I will be at the nation’s capital working to keep the dream alive,” Sharpton said. “There has never been a more important time to peacefully organize and mobilize.” Sharpton emphasized that the rally will be nonviolent, “unlike the 2021 insurrection.”...

A weeping New Jersey mom donned a scarlet robe and oversized white hood straight from the dystopian Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale’’ to vote Tuesday morning. “What this outfit means to me is my way of fighting back,’’ said 50-year-old optician Veronica McGrogan after casting her ballot at her polling place, Bloomfield Middle School, in Bloomfield in Essex County. The eerie costume from the acclaimed series has become a protest symbol for women’s rights, particularly involving abortion — and McGrogan said she fears those rights are threatened by GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. “I have a blended family. I have...

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he will be voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 presidential election. The former Republican governor of California shared his shock endorsement on X Wednesday. 'I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians,' the actor wrote. Despite that, the Terminator star, 77, said that it's time for the country 'to move forward,' and that 'the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.' 'We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that...

Controversial social media personality Andrew Tate posted on X/Twitter on Saturday that he was praying to die a death like former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. “I can only pray for a death as heroic as Yahya Sinwar,” Tate wrote. “Brave, defiant in the face of evil and dedicated to his lifes [sic] purpose. He deserves eternal rest. He earnt [sic] it.” Sinwar, the mastermind behind Hamas’s October 7 attacks, which saw the massacring of over 1200 people, was eliminated by the IDF on Wednesday….

A protester who works in the media lit himself on fire outside of the White House during an anti-Israel protest on Saturday evening, disturbing video shows. The man, identified as photojournalist Samuel Mena Jr, can be seen screaming in pain after he set his left arm ablaze in the middle of the street as shocked police officers and bystanders rush over to help, according to one clip. Mena holds his left arm — engulfed in flames — high in the air to show others as several people quickly douse him with water and beat out the flames with pieces of...

Police say a man claimed to have a bomb outside a rally for former President Donald Trump in metro Grand Rapids and that he insisted it was the “real deal” — though it was not. As he appeared in a Grandville courtroom via video linkup from a jail cell Monday afternoon, Steven William Nauta, 65, of Sand Lake, acknowledged he could hear the judge and that he understood the charges against him and his rights. He held his head down for the majority of his arraignment. At one point, he made profane hand gestures, but apologized when the judge warned...

The actress Kathy Griffin has claimed that Donald Trump is preparing to crack down against comedians and pick them off “one by one” if he wins in November. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Griffin insisted that Trump had prepared a “list” and would target her and many others as a result. She did not specify exactly how Trump intends to punish them. “He’s going to pick us off, one by one, like bowling pins, and I’m not kidding, and I’m not being paranoid,” the 63-year-old said.

Singer Chappell Roan is calling out what she describes as “predatory” behavior from fans, asking them to respect her boundaries in public after delivering a similar message in videos last week. The “Good Luck, Babe!” singer opened up in an Instagram post on Friday. “I've been in too many nonconsensual physical and social interactions,” wrote Roan, whose debut album “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” rose to meteoric popularity this year. “I chose this career path because I love music and art and honoring my inner child, I do not accept harassment of any kind because I chose...

Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter tells "Dan Abrams Live" that the Trump-Vance campaign has nothing to fear from Kamala Harris, while the Democrats have plenty to be worried about from Vance, who she says is a monumental pick for the campaign. (see short VIDEO)

VIDEOI enjoy watching Mark Halperin's channel, 2Way, which features both his analysis of current events as well as the people on ZOOM of various political persuasions weighing in on the state of the political world. However, Halperin blew off a great chance to get to the bottom of something he was talking about namely who was the source of the leak of the Doug Emhoff scandal story in which he knocked up his children's nanny. Who better to answer such a question than the person who broke the story as Halperin himself acknowledged. However, when Laura Loomer, unmuted herself on...