“CNN President Jeff Zucker has decided to bring an end to Piers Morgan’s low-rated primetime show, network sources told POLITICO on Sunday. “Piers Morgan Live” could end as early as next month, though Morgan may stay with the network in another role. Morgan, a former British tabloid editor, replaced Larry King in the 9 p.m. hour three years ago, …

  “A Texas woman was dragged screaming to a police car in Austin, Texas after being arrested for failing to provide ID while jaywalking. The woman, pulled to a police car in gym clothes, was captured on video shouting, “I didn’t do anything wrong.” A University of Texas Student filmed the police capturing the jogger and placing her in an …

  “Mexico’s most wanted man, drug cartel kingpin Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, was captured on Saturday with help from U.S. agencies in a major victory for the government in a long, grisly war. Guzman, known as “El Chapo” (Shorty) in Spanish, has long run Mexico’s infamous Sinaloa Cartel and over the past decade he emerged as one of the world’s most …

  *Jesus is coming– and he’ll be carrying a really big gun when he does. That’s what former U.S. Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin thinks, according to a speech he gave on behalf of the conservative Family Research Council at the WallBuilders’ Pro-Family Legislators Conference, in which he describes his vision of the Second Coming of Christ, that he …

  “The state of Tennessee has fired a veteran investigator because officials believed that he attempted to use violent stories about how his relatives participated in a lynching to intimidate African-Americans who were trying to file claims against emergency responders. WTVF reported that William Sewell, a medical service investigator who had been with the state for more than 40 years, …

  *While fracking and other drilling techniques have opened up large reserves of oil and natural gas in Texas, they’ve also caused literal headaches, traffic jams and fatal accidents, and strains on water supplies. As a result, some Texas communities are pushing back: Dallas has passed strict limits on drilling; citizens in Denton are working a ban on drilling altogether …

  “Alec Baldwin is still an actor. He’s just no longer in show business. As his one-time “Orphans” co-star, Shia LaBeouf, did last winter, Baldwin has given a public statement that he’s ready to retire from public life. He does so in an essay told to New York magazine, covering a lot of ground recounting the tumultuous events that led …