GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and former President Donald Trump have asserted that Ashli Babbitt, a woman fatally shot by a U.S. Capitol Police officer on Jan. 6, 2021, was "murdered." But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has said that the officer was just doing his job.Noting that Greene said Babbitt had been murdered, someone asked McCarthy whether he believed that Babbitt was murdered or if he thought that the officer was performing...
An award-winning professor at Purdue University has supposedly been selling drugs and soliciting sex. On Wednesday, police conducting a traffic stop in Lafayette, Indiana, arrested Sergey Macheret, a 65-year-old professor in the Purdue School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and charged him with dealing and possession of methamphetamine and making an unlawful proposition. Indiana law defines unlawful proposition as any offer to pay another person for sexual favors, including intercourse.According to reports, Macheret had been the...