President Barack Obama met with his national security team at the Pentagon Monday and then looked to ease fears of domestic terrorism during the holidays in a press conference. The president assured the public that the U.S.-led coalition is hitting ISIS, or the Islamic State, “harder than ever” and will continue with this strategy and…

Video showing Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies fatally shoot a black man Saturday whose back was turned to them has gone viral and caused a backlash. Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials say that at the time of the shooting, the man, 28-year-old Nicholas Robertson, was holding a gun, which he never let go of, even…

Marvin Banks, 29, had been arrested in the fatal shooting of two Mississippi police officers. On Friday night, Banks was found unresponsive in his cell and rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. According to NBC News, “Autopsy results showed Banks died of severe heart disease, but toxicology tests are still pending.”…

University of Mississippi defensive lineman Robert Nkemdiche is in stable condition after falling from a Buckhead, Ga., hotel-room window late Saturday night. According to CBS News, Nkemdiche reportedly broke a fourth-floor window at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, climbed out of the broken window, walked about 15 feet, then climbed over a wall and fell about 15…

On Thursday a California federal judge ordered a jailed Muslim inmate, who stopped eating after his May arrest for supporting ISIS, to eat or be force-fed. Muhanad Badawi, 24, appeared in court looking rail thin, having lost 30 pounds since his arrest in May. At the time of his arrest, Badawi weighed about 140 pounds.…

Hillary Clinton, like most of America, isn’t laughing at Donald Trump anymore. The Democratic presidential candidate appeared on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers Thursday and said that before Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S., he was laughable, but that now the GOP presidential candidate has crossed the line. “I think for weeks…

A North Carolina man died in police custody Wednesday after he was pepper-sprayed in a reported struggle with Winston-Salem police. According to WXII 12, officers were responding to a call made around 7:30 p.m. about shots fired when they encountered Travis Nevelle Page, 31, of Winston-Salem, who, they claim, matched the description given by the…

A Houston company just made all of its employees’ Christmas dreams come true after everyone, no matter his or her position or salary, received a $100,000 Christmas bonus. That’s right: All 1,380 employees at Hilcorp, “one the largest privately held oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States,” according to KTVU,…

Donald Trump wants to clear a few things up. He has not insulted blacks or Asians. He is not Islamophobic. He has many Muslim friends. He is the least racist person Don Lemon knows. And he is going to win the African-American vote. Or so he said during an interview Wednesday on CNN Tonight With…

Hundreds of protesters took to Chicago’s streets Wednesday, blocking traffic and reportedly attempting to storm business buildings while calling for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation. The protest came just hours after the mayor, during a special Chicago City Council meeting, publicly apologized for the 2014 shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a police officer, Newsweek…