“We still have a gunman that is out there,” a police spokeswoman says  —  At least one police officer has been injured in an ongoing active shooter situation at a Colorado Springs branch of Planned Parenthood Friday afternoon.  —  Lt. Catherine Buckley, a Colorado Springs police spokeswoman …

Police: Argument over cigarette leads to murder at Biloxi Waffle House  —  A woman is dead and a man is behind bars charged with murder after an argument over smoking turned deadly at a Waffle House in Biloxi.  —  It happened around 1am Friday morning at the restaurant on Hwy 90, near the Coast Coliseum.

Republican Trump drops 12 percentage points in poll: Reuters/Ipsos  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump's support among Republicans has dropped 12 points in less than a week, marking the real estate mogul's biggest decline since he vaulted to the top of the field in July, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Black Friday brawls break out across the country, including several ugly incidents at Walmart and food court melee — VIDEO  —  Call it Black-eye Friday.  —  Brawls broke out at Walmart retail stores and other shopping centers across the country on Thursday evening, the official start of “Black Friday.”

Virginia County Passes Resolution Urging People To Pray On Thanksgiving  —  The Hanover County Board of Supervisors in Virginia passed a resolution Nov 24. that urged and encouraged citizens to pray on Thanksgiving.  —  Wayne Hazzard, the chairman of the board and a self-described …

Bloomberg: Cruz Says 'Some of the Stupidest Things I've Ever Heard' on Climate Change  —  Former mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz “says some of the stupidest things” he's ever heard about climate change.

Scroll down for video  —  Video footage shows the 39-year-old man arguing with a group of Orthodox Jews outside the Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea, south of Melbourne, on Thursday night  —  The man, who was wearing a red shirt, pair of board shorts and no shoes, then slapped …

Black Tape at Harvard Law  —  Cambridge, Mass. — IN a grand corridor of Harvard Law School, framed professors' photographs hang on a wall.  A week ago, someone put slivers of black tape over the faces of most of the African-American professors.  I am one of those whose photograph was marked.

Insiders: Trump's grip on Iowa is tenuous  —  After months of waiting for Donald Trump's decline, Republican insiders now concede the poll leader could take two of the first four early voting states, though they caution his hold on Iowa is weak.  —  That's according to the POLITICO Caucus …