Archives: 2018

White House to stop issuing public summaries of calls with foreign leaders

The White House will no longer issue public summaries of the president’s phone calls with foreign heads of state, breaking with the tradition of past administrations, CBS News has confirmed. Until now, the administration has typically provided such readouts, albeit brief ones, of the president’s calls with his foreign counterparts, although that practice has subsided since John Bolton took over…

Judge orders immediate release of immigrant detained while delivering pizza

Pablo Villavicencio and his two young daughters. Facebook / Pablo Villavicencio NEW YORK — A federal judge has ordered the release of an Ecuadorean immigrant who was held for deportation after he delivered pizza to a Brooklyn Army installation. Judge Paul Crotty issued an order late Tuesday saying Pablo Villavicencio must be immediately released. The man is being held at a…

Scorching heat, wildfires, flooding hammer wide swath of U.S.

Extreme weather continued to affect much of the nation Tuesday. Heat waves feeding wildfires in the West and flooding in the East have at least 1 in 5 Americans dealing with treacherous conditions. Scorching heat is making it tougher to fight the wildfires burning up mile after mile of Western lands. After nearly two weeks of battling the ferocious Ferguson Fire,…

Woman offers to attend LGBTQ weddings as stand-in mom

A mom from Oklahoma has a PSA for the LGBTQ community: if anyone’s biological mom won’t attend their same-sex wedding, she’ll go as a stand-in Facebook/Free Mom Hugs/ Sara Cunningham Sara Cunningham, a mother from Oklahoma, wrote on Facebook last week “If you need a mom to attend your same sex wedding because your biological mom won’t, call me. I’m…