JACKSON, Miss. (TheBlaze/AP) — US Sen. Thad Cochran narrowly defeated tea party-backed challenger Chris McDaniel in a heated and controversial GOP runoff in Mississippi on Tuesday night. Returns showed Cochran with a lead of about 3,800 votes, holding 50.5 percent of the vote to McDaniel’s 49.5 percent with 98 percent of precincts reporting. READ MORE: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/24/longtime-gop-senator-defeats-tea-party-backed-challenger-in-controversial-gop-runoff-in-mississippi/
A New York City fisherman made a shocking catch when he reeled in a great white shark off the coast of a popular Queens beach. Steve Fernandez, 29, and some friends were about a mile off the coast of Rockaway Beach on Sunday when they spotted a baby “Jaws” — a great white shark about […]
Colombia won Group C at the World Cup today and advanced to the knockout stage along with second-place Greece. The Greeks defeated Ivory Coast 2-1 on a stoppage time penalty kick that put them through for the first time in history.
The U.S. intelligence community warned about the “growing threat” from Sunni militants in Iraq since the beginning of the year, a senior intelligence official said Tuesday — a claim that challenges assertions by top administration officials that they were caught off guard by the capture of key Iraqi cities. Earlier Tuesday, in an interview with […]
Domestic abusers are not allowed to have guns. But gun control advocates want to expand that federal law to include those who merely have been accused of threatening violence — by prohibiting those under a temporary restraining order from having firearms. Second Amendment supporters say these bills are unconstitutional because they violate the right to […]
Little Victoria is a victim again, no matter how you look at it. The story of the 3-year-old Mississippi girl being asked to leave a KFC because patrons were repulsed by her injuries from a pit bull attack opened hearts and wallets around the nation when it came to light earlier this month. But the […]
