A Turkish court on Thursday handed a 15-month jail term to a teacher over Twitter posts deemed religiously offensive, local media reported on Thursday. The court in the eastern city of Mus ruled that the man, identified as Ertan P.,
WASHINGTON (AP) — Edward Snowden says he repeatedly raised constitutional concerns about National Security Agency surveillance internally, but an NSA search turned up a single email in which Snowden gently asks for “clarification” on a technical legal question about training
Breitbart News readers know that our own Matt Boyle has been the point-man when it comes to scooping up all the scoops in Mississippi around the Republican primary for U.S. Senate involving long-time incumbent Thad Cochran and his Tea Party-backed
Fox News Channel has scheduled an extensive interview with former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the June 10th release of her book Hard Choices. According to an announcement by the cable news network picked up by
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the Got Your 6 initiative was launched two years ago to enlist Hollywood in the effort to help military veterans, it focused on benchmarks in crucial areas including jobs, housing and education. Some of the
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday followers of an Islamic cleric with whom he’s locked in a power struggle might leak a video about him and his family to smear him before an August presidential
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man was jailed on suspicion of battery after rushing up and touching Brad Pitt on the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of the movie “Maleficent,” witnesses and police said, though Pitt was apparently unhurt
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Rebels in eastern Ukraine shot down a government military helicopter Thursday amid heavy fighting around Slovyansk, killing at least 12 soldiers including a general, officials said. Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov told the parliament in Kiev that
Japan’s coastguard was rushing on Thursday to deal with an explosion aboard a tanker off country’s coast, officials said.
(AFP) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday vowed total war against terrorism as the country’s security forces stepped up efforts to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists 45 days ago. Nigeria returned to democracy on May 29,
(AFP) Egypt’s ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was headed on Thursday for an overwhelming victory in a presidential election touted as a plebiscite on his ouster of the elected Islamist leader last year. With almost 15 percent of polling stations
PHOENIX (AP) — Navy veteran Ken Senft turned to the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical care in 2011 after his private insurance grew too costly. It could have been a fatal mistake, he now says. A few years ago,
British girls are the most overweight in Europe and rank in the top 30 worldwide, according to a comprehensive study published Thursday. Some 29.2 percent of British girls aged below 19 are classified as obese or overweight, the 27th-worst record
A series of acoustic transmissions at the heart of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are no longer believed to have come from the plane’s black box, a US navy official said on Thursday. The Navy’s deputy director
The swathe of Indian Ocean where acoustic transmissions were detected was Thursday ruled out as the crash zone of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after a lengthy underwater search. The Australian-led Joint Agency Coordination Centre said that the search in
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Paul George scored 31 of his 37 points in the second half Wednesday night and almost single-handedly kept the Indiana Pacers alive in the Eastern Conference finals with a 93-90 victory over the Miami Heat. The Pacers
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Refugees waved flags and held pictures of Bashar al-Assad as they crushed into Damascus’s embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday to join Syrians worldwide voting early in an election that looks certain to give him a third seven-year
Scout Willis is putting her star power behind the #FreeTheNipple campaign. Willis, daughter of actors Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, strolled around Manhattan Tuesday sans shirt. She later published photos of herself during the walk on Instagram, a social media
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, launching grenades and spraying civilians with gunfire, witnesses said. At least five bodies were brought to area hospitals,
(Reuters) – Local officials in China‘s western Xinjiang region held a public rally for the mass sentencing of criminals on Tuesday, handing out judgements for 55 people and at least three death sentences for crimes such as “violent terrorism”, state media
Tiger Woods, struggling to return to top form after undergoing back surgery, will not play in the 2014 US Open next month, he announced on his website Wednesday. The 14-time major winner has not competed since the final round of
(AFP) Egyptian ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday led with about 93 percent of votes cast in a two-way presidential election with results in from almost 15 percent of polling stations, state media reported. Sisi, who deposed Islamist president
(Reuters) – Four more of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month have escaped than previously thought, Nigeria’s Borno state said on Wednesday, but 219 others were still missing and assumed held by the Islamist militants. The girls were
Famed poet Maya Angelou, a beloved cultural figure, passed away today at the age of 86. She leaves behind a trove of inspirational prose, most notably her signature work, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou also spoke out
BOSTON (AP) — Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez gunned down two men he did not know in their car because one of them bumped into him while dancing at a Boston nightclub, spilling his drink, prosecutors said
