By Jim Miklaszewski, and Courtney Kube, NBC News The U.S. Navy is shifting a guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific to waters off the Korean peninsula in the wake of ongoing rhetoric from North Korea, U.S. defense officials said. The USS Fitzgerald is capable of intercepting and destroying a missile, should North Korea decide to fire […]
By Anthony Melé, RCT Contributor Russian President Vladimir Putin is reported to have told President Obama by phone that a political settlement must be reached in Syria. In diplomatic language that means the current military policy that the Obama Administration continues to push is unachievable. Moscow News reports; Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US […]
(CBS-Chicago) — March 30 – The warmest day of the year so far brings hundreds of mischievous teens to Michigan Avenue. Police are calling it “mob action.” CBS 2 is learning about multiple incidents in at least four different locations along the Magnificent Mile and in the Gold Coast, yielding a slew of arrests. Many innocent […]
Christians across America expressed dismay Easter morning at search engine Google’s decision to post a photo of labor leader Cesar Chavez as their website’s “doodle” for the day. Though it is Chavez’s 86th birthday and Cesar Chavez Day is celebrated on March 31 in Google’s home state of California, as well as Colorado and Texas, […]
A massive swarm of cicada insects are expected to emerge from the ground in parts of eastern US this spring and fill the air with their calls. Magicicada Brood II is set to complete a 17-year cycle and fly at some point in April or May, flooding the sky with cicadas all over the Northeast. […]
By Anthony Melé RCT Contributor According to Reuters and A.P. field reports and the New York Times, the United States support of rebels in Syria is directly benefitting the Al Nusra Front, which is allied with Al-Qaeda. In fact, Al Nusra has become the de facto leaders of the entire rebel movement, international news media […]