An al-Qaida breakaway group, apparently backed by other Sunni groups and fighters, has seized a large section of northern Iraq after previously taking much of northeastern Syria with an eye toward establishing an Islamic state straddling the two countries. The situation on the ground is changing rapidly, but some patterns and explanations are now emerging: […]
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine – Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 90th birthday on Thursday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in coastal Maine, delivering on a vow he made five years ago even though he can no longer use his legs. The nation’s 41st president jumped from a helicopter at about […]
WASHINGTON — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson today suggested that the GOP is responsible for the growing border crisis because it has not approved the Senate’s June 2013 immigration rewrite that is backed by President Barack Obama. He suggested that migrants are now crossing the border while wrongly hoping they will be included […]
A Tennessee man has been charged with killing a woman, dismembering her body and eating part of her corpse in a bizarre case that’s perplexing law enforcement in a small pastoral town. Gregory S. Hale, 37, was arrested at his home — in a small rural community just outside Manchester — late Sunday. He is […]
(CNN) — When the shooting started at her high school near Portland, Oregon, early Tuesday, student Jaimie Infante didn’t recognize the sound of the gunshot. She thought maybe somebody had dropped a book. In reality, a lone gunman had opened fire at the school, killing one student and forcing others to flee. READ MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/10/justice/oregon-high-school-shooting/
Secretary of State John Kerry’s dismissive “baloney” response to whether five Taliban members released from Guantanamo pose a risk to American troops is receiving pushback from, of all places, Obama administration officials. Despite Kerry brushing off such concerns in an interview on Sunday, Fox News is told that administration officials who briefed members of the […]