A man who fantasized about shooting or running over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those facing federal charges after the Capitol riot on Wednesday. Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. allegedly sent a text message saying he was thinking of “putting a bullet in [Pelosi’s] noggin on Live TV” and another that said he was headed...

A Congressman from Texas says the only weapon he had to protect himself and his staff from an angry mob of Trump protesters at the US Capitol was a baseball ball. Rep. Michael McCaul told KTRK-TV he and his staff barricaded themselves inside his office when they learned the rioters had broken into the building....

The President Trump supporter killed in the Capitol building Wednesday is an Air Force vet from California who tweeted a day earlier how “nothing will stop us” and “the storm is here.”  Ashli Babbit, who had 14 years in the service and did four tours of duty, was married and lived near San Diego, her husband told KUSI-TV....

The video comes a day after reports emerged that Roberts had died at age 65.

A former Washington, DC, schoolteacher is facing charges for allegedly carrying on a sexual relationship with a student — starting when the boy was 14 years old. Joan Meyer, 45, is accused of abusing the student from 2009 to 2014, with the encounters continuing despite two separate reports of the inappropriate relationship, WJLA-TV reported. The...

A depressed Tennessee mom who had just lost her job at a COVID-19 testing center leaped off a highway overpass cradling her baby boy, killing them both, authorities say. “It’s heartbreaking,’’ Madison County Sheriff John Mehr told local ABC-TV affiliate WBBJ of the early Monday tragedy. Distraught mom Tonisha Lashay Barker, 26, appeared hellbent on...

British TV host Piers Morgan is calling on the Queen to strip Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s of their titles for podcasting with Archie.

A former Miss Virginia who was declared dead from COVID-19 came back to life, reports say. Barbara Guthrie Lay, who was Miss Virginia 1958, had been taken to a hospital in Georgia by her husband Dec. 20 because she developed trouble breathing after contracting the coronavirus, local ABC-TV affiliate WSET said. Lay, 82, who lives...

Students at a California college can now get a COVID-19 test as easily as buying a bag of chips from a vending machine. The University of California at San Diego began offering the tests through campus vending machines Monday as part of a bid to have students and staffers tested weekly, Fox affiliate KSWB-TV reported....

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma has not been seen for more than two months after publicly attacking Beijing finance officials -- even skipping his own reality show, according to reports.

The father of the youngest child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was given a full facial disguise before a television appearance — to protect him from being identified by conspiracy theorists who have threatened his life. Lenny Pozner was given the elaborate “Hollywood style” makeover before his appearance on Sunday’s episode of “60...

An Arkansas woman was allegedly caught on audio recording plotting her husband’s death by poisoning him with eye drops, authorities said. Tina Glasco, 56, was arrested Wednesday after a police investigation revealed she was using Visine eye drops to slowly poison her husband, KAIT-TV reported. Glasco allegedly poured the eye drops in her husband’s drinks...

Asad Khan, a resident of the city’s Moti neighborhood, was reportedly making roaring noises while riding his motorcycle, according to the outlet, which cited Saama TV.

The man shot and killed by Minneapolis police during a traffic stop Wednesday has been identified as Dolal Idd, according to a report. Idd was identified by his father, who showed up among a crowd of people who gathered Thursday at the scene of the 6:15 p.m. shooting at 36th Street and Cedar Avenue, KMSP-TV...

A ceramic bust in memory of Breonna Taylor that was vandalized last weekend has now been stolen. The sculpture, installed less than two weeks ago outside downtown Latham Square in the California city, was smashed and badly damaged Saturday by unknown vandals. Now it’s missing, WDRB-TV reported. “This proves that this was not a one-off...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a TV interview Thursday that is was “inevitable” that a new COVID-19 strain has appeared in Colorado and California — and predicted its spread in the US, though “it does not appear to be more virulent.” “We predicted it would be, when you have so much of it in the...

Dr. Drew Pinsky, who downplayed the dangers of coronavirus early in the pandemic before apologizing, said Tuesday that he has tested positive for the virus.

The four-night primetime "Jeopardy" competition featuring Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer was among the most viewed TV events of 2020.

Spain will compile a registry of those who refuse the novel coronavirus vaccine and share the information with other countries in the European Union, the health minister told a Spanish television station on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin now says he will receive his country’s Sputnik V vaccine coronavirus vaccine, a month after saying he would not be injected with it. A Kremlin spokesman told a Russian state TV channel of the reversal. “He made this decision and was waiting until all formalities are completed,” Dmitry Peskov said. The...

A bust sculpture honoring police shooting victim Breonna Taylor was smashed by vandals over the weekend, prompting a probe by Oakland police, according to reports. The memorial, installed two weeks ago in downtown Latham Square, was smashed in several places sometime Saturday, ABC affiliate KGO-TV reported. The bust includes a plaque that reads: “Say Her...

‘Woke’-up league tackled for big ratings loss  With the Super Bowl just around the corner, Monday morning quarterbacking around the NFL’s nightmare 2020 TV ratings is about to kick into high gear.  The coronavirus will surely be blamed as most games were played in supposedly sterile and fan-less stadiums. Cord-cutting will also be cited as...

TV crime queen Nancy Grace hailed a “Christmas miracle” as her 89-year-old mother was discharged from an Atlanta hospital where she’d been seriously ill with COVID-19 after it sickened the whole family. “The good news is, my mother turned 89 in the COVID ward — but we just brought her home,” the 61-year-old host of...

A father, his wife and two children were found dead inside their Kentucky home Sunday morning just hours after the dad vented on Facebook that his spouse betrayed him. Kyle Milliken was among those found dead after a shooting at his family’s Mayfield home overnight Sunday, WPSD-TV reported. Milliken’s wife, Ashley, and their two sons,...

President-elect Joe Biden and incoming first lady Dr. Jill Biden are being given the COVID-19 vaccine on live television. The 46th commander-in-chief is being inoculated at ChristianaCare Wilmington Hospital near his home base in Wilmington, Del., as part of a broader campaign by lawmakers to encourage confidence in the newly approved vaccines. Word that Biden...

A 12-year-old New Orleans girl was reportedly charged with murder over the death of her 6-month-old brother, officials announced on Thursday. The juvenile was charged after the infant was found dead at the family’s St. Charles Parish home on Sunday, WWL-TV reported, citing police. “He was perfect,” the children’s aunt, Nicole Brown, told the outlet,...

A Washington man applying for a job with the state’s police force got arrested mid-interview. The 31-year-old admitted something that set off alarms as he was going through the background check and polygraph test process for a gig with the Washington State Patrol on Tuesday, local outlet KING-TV reported. “A person in the application process...

MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow dropped a bombshell on Thursday's program by stating that her longtime partner was battling COVID-19.

Spanish transgender icon Cristina Ortiz, better known as La Veneno, was a beloved television personality, sex worker, and singer who reached mainstream success in the late 1990s.

Mexican TV star Kate del Castillo slammed actor Sean Penn for using her as “bait” to get to drug cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and said he exaggerated his “full of s–t” Rolling Stone interview. Del Castillo appeared on an episode of “Red Table Talk: The Estefans” on Facebook Watch and recounted the 2015...