Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the new House majority leader, said Sunday the United States’ strategy for intervening in the Iraq crisis should be “everything is on the table,” including sending troops to stop the widespread sectarian violence threatening to take over that country. McCarthy, R-Calif., told “Fox News Sunday” that nobody in Washington says sending troops […]
BLAUVELT – Police say that a man was found dead Saturday evening in the parking lot of a Rockland County strip mall. They say the man’s body was found inside a white vehicle in a parking lot on Erie Street in Blauvelt, across from Bailey’s Smokehouse. READ MORE: http://westchester.news12.com/news/police-man-found-dead-in-white-vehicle-in-parking-lot-on-erie-street-in-blauvelt-1.8530523
The search for a missing 70-year-old outdoors writer who disappeared while hiking on Mt. Rainier has been suspended after a woman’s body was discovered Saturday, officials said. Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman Patti Wold told the Associated Press that the body had not been identified, but it was found at approximately 3 p.m. local time […]
The Obama administration has announced that it will work to process and deport illegal immigrants quicker, and that a new detention center for families crossing the border is to be opened. The Wall Street Journal reports that the facility, located on the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s Artesia, N.M., campus, will hold families while their deportation […]
With Primary Day just days away, longtime congressman Charles Rangel said Saturday he’s not overconfident he’ll prevail over his closet rival — but insisted that voters would stick with a veteran lawmaker, dismissing criticism that he was too old to continue serving in Washington. “If you had a racehorse that won 43 races, brings in […]
A federal appeals court said this week that an atheist group trying to keep the so-called Ground Zero Cross out of the National September 11 Memorial Museum must better explain how displaying the artifact is “offensive” and violates members’ constitutional rights. The 17-foot-tall, steel beam “cross” was found in the rubble of the World Trade […]