On Sunday, David Gregory of Meet the Press (NBC) said that he had spoken by phone to Mohammed ElBaradei, leader of the opposition in Egypt, and that ElBaradei had told him that he would be made new interim prime minister
Appearing on This Week (ABC News) with Jonathan Karl, former president George W. Bush told Karl that he “wasn’t going to answer” about his perspective on gay marriage. “I just don’t want to wade back in the debate, I’m out
On Friday, the George Zimmerman defense team opened its case by calling Gladys Zimmerman, George Zimmerman’s mother, to the stand. She quickly identified the screaming voice on the 911 call made during the fight between Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin as
On Friday, the George Zimmerman defense team moved for acquittal of his second-degree murder charge in the killing of Trayvon Martin, suggesting that the prosecution had not fulfilled its burden of proof. Mark O’Mara, the lead lawyer for Zimmerman, said
On Friday, Dr. Shiping Bao, the medical examiner who examined Trayvon Martin’s body, admitted, “I do not remember anything, zero” about the autopsy itself. The defense said that he was relying on his notes on the case, to which the
On Friday, prosecution witness Dr. Shiping Bao, an associate medical examiner who examined Trayvon Martin’s body after he was shot by George Zimmerman, said that Trayvon Martin was alive for “one to ten minutes” after he was shot. Bao also
On Friday, prosecutors in the George Zimmerman trial called Trayvon Martin’s older brother, Jahvaris Fulton, to testify that it was Trayvon’s voice on the 911 call. But defense pointed out that Fulton had told a reporter shortly after the shooting
On Friday, Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, testified on the stand that it was her son’s voice screaming for help on the 911 call made the night of his shooting by a bystander. “Ma’am, that screaming or yelling, do you
On Friday, the George Zimmerman trial will continue with the prosecution concluding its case against Zimmerman for alleged second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin. The prosecution is expected to call Trayvon’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, who is expected to testify that it
In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided on July 4 over the annual Coney Island Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, at which winner Joey Chestnut scarfed down 69 hot dogs. Sonya Thomas, known as the
According to a newly-revised estimate of the immigration reform bill passed by the Senate from the Congressional Budget Office, the bill will cost more money while only minimally preventing more border crossers. According to the CBO, the Corker-Hoeven amendment, which
An Independence Day Gallup poll shows a wide regional disparity in the percentage of Americans who are proud to be American. Conservatives are significantly more proud to be American than liberals (89 percent to 76 percent), and people from the
A Gallup poll released on July 4 shows that while the vast majority of Americans are very proud of being American – overall, 85 percent are either extremely or very proud – a huge percentage of Americans think the founding
As the Egyptian military effectively declared a coup, overthrowing the elected government of repressive Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi, the Obama administration struggled to come up with a coherent strategy to deal with the situation. President Obama released a statement on Morsi’s
On Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) penned a scathing editorial in Foreign Policy ripping President Obama’s ambiguous foreign policy on Egypt. The Obama administration has hinted that it will cut aid to Egypt should the military depose Muslim Brotherhood president
The judge in the George Zimmerman trial has stated that the prosecution will rest today in its case against Zimmerman for second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin. The case for the prosecution has not gone smoothly by any
On Wednesday at the George Zimmerman trial, the prosecution called yet another witness who ended up testifying for the defense: Florida Department of Law Enforcement firearm analyst Amy Siewert. The prosecution had contended that George Zimmerman was on top of
According to NBC News’ sources in the Mohammed Morsi administration, a military coup is underway in Egypt. An advisor to Morsi told NBC News that tanks were moving outside Cairo and that Morsi’s communications had been cut and the president
Employers across the country are complaining about the impacts of Obamacare on their businesses, with many slashing employees in order to comply with the dictates of the program. Writing teacher Clint Benjamin, who normally works for the Community College of
On Tuesday, Jonathan Hurt, senior advisor to Kentucky senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, admitted that his candidate’s rocky rollout — which involved no air conditioning, a toilet paper roll holding up a mic, and the wrong backdrop – might not
On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper apologized for what he termed a “clearly erroneous” statement he made under oath to Congress regarding the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. On March 12, Clapper responded in the negative to a
On Tuesday, the prosecution called medical examiner Dr. Valerie Rao, chief medical examiner for Seminole, Volusia and Flagler counties. The state did not, however, call the pathologist in Daytona Beach who did the autopsy on Trayvon Martin. Rao testified that
Fox News announced on Tuesday that afternoon host Megyn Kelly, who has anchored the network from 1 to 3 p.m. ET, will be moved to primetime when she returns from her upcoming maternity leave. “Megyn is an exceptional talent who
