Shooting Kills One, Injures Nine at Detroit Basketball Court
One person was killed and nine others were wounded Saturday night when someone opened fire at a party on a basketball court in Detroit, authorities said.
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NY Post: Trump’s Achievements Back Up His Presidential Run
While many question his presence in the race, 2016 may be the year in which America is in desperate need of a suave, successful businessperson like Trump — or former HP CEO Carly Fiorina — to solve what ails our economy.
Max Scherzer Throws No-Hitter, Elbowed Out of Perfect Game in 9th
Max Scherzer followed up a one-hitter against the Milwaukee Brewers earlier this week with a no-no on Saturday.
When the Circus Comes to Town: Tiger Woods US Open Edition
There should be nothing noteworthy or noticeable about the 195th-ranked player in the world missing the cut and shooting 16-over par at the U.S. Open, but Tiger Woods is the biggest circus act in sports right now.
Hillary: ‘Immediate Response’ After Charleston Massacre Was Need for More Gun Control
On Saturday, Hillary Clinton said one of the first things that came to mind after the Charleston church massacre was the need for more gun control–and how to politicize the tragedy to achieve it. She said Congress’s failure to pass strict gun control laws was “a rebuke” to the nation.
Hillary: America Hasn’t Turned Page on Race Relations Under Obama
On Saturday, Hillary Clinton conceded that race relations have not improved under America’s first black president. Speaking at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco, Clinton said it is “tempting to dismiss a tragedy like” like the Charleston church
New Orleans Police Officer Killed While Transporting Suspect
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A veteran New Orleans police officer was shot and killed early Saturday while transporting a suspect to the city jail, authorities said. The suspect escaped and was being sought by law enforcement officers.
National Review: Why the Rebel Battle Flag Should Stay
Like many Southern families’, my family’s military story didn’t end with the Civil War — it continued on to World War I, the European theater in World War II, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and then to my own recent deployment during the Surge in Iraq. The martial history of our family is inseparable from the family story, and it includes men in gray.
CSIS: Iraq and Syria: The Problem of Strategy
The United States has now been actively at war with terrorism movements since 2001. Throughout that time, it has struggled to find ways to develop some form of meaningful strategy, measure its progress, and give that progress some degree of transparency and credibility to the Congress, the American people and our strategic partners, and the media.
Washington Post: An Afghan Jihadist’s Life and Death in Iraq
KABUL — As he listened, Wali Mohammad Darwazi’s worst fears came true. His 23-year-old son, Mohammad Rafi, had vanished two months before with several former classmates from Kabul University. Now, Darwazi was on the phone with one of the classmates, whom he had reached in Syria.
Man runs car into crowd killing 3, injuring 34 in Austria
VIENNA (AP) — A man drove his van into a crowd Saturday in Graz, Austria’s second largest city, killing three people and injuring 34 others, a senior official said. Police said the driver had been arrested and the downtown area
Report: Global Islamic Terror Explodes — Deaths Up 81%
(REUTERS) – Terrorist attacks worldwide surged by more than a third and fatalities soared by 81 percent in 2014, a year that also saw Islamic State eclipse al Qaeda as the leading jihadist militant group, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.
White House: Obama Believes Confederate Flag ‘Belongs in a Museum’
On Friday evening, the White House said that President Barack Obama believes the Confederate flag “belongs in a museum” after calls to remove the flag from the grounds of South Carolina’s Capitol intensified after the mass murder at South Carolina’s
WaPo: America ‘Created on the Idea of White Supremacy’
We have to stop hiding from the truth of race — that this country, and the state of South Carolina in particular, were created on the idea of white supremacy. We’ll never overcome that history unless we acknowledge it.
Univision’s Jorge Ramos Reveals Daughter Working for Hillary Campaign
On Friday, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos revealed that his daughter is working for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “As journalists the most important thing we have is our credibility and integrity. We maintain that, in part, through transparency with our audience,
The Death of ‘Top Gun’
The days of the Navy fighter pilot are almost over—or at least they should be.
Record Gains for Anti-Immigrant Party in Danish Vote
The anti-immigration Danish People’s Party (DPP) became Denmark’s second largest party in Thursday’s general election and the biggest in the right-wing bloc, which ousted a centre-left government.
Ann Coulter on ‘Sharknado 3’ Role: ‘I’m as Good an Actor as Lena Dunham’
From The Hollywood Reporter: In addition to being one of the most controversial conservative pundits on television, Ann Coulter has tried her luck at acting. In 2007, she made a few appearances on the Fox News series The ½Hour News Hour.
Tiger Woods Misses U.S. Open Cut
Tiger Woods missed the cut at the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay in Washington.
Veteran Police Officer Sonny Kim Killed in Cincinnati Shootout
Officer Sonny Kim, a decorated 27-year veteran of the Cincinnati Police Department, died along with the man involved in the Friday morning shooting in the Madisonville neighborhood, police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell said.
Meeting of Christians to Be Addressed by GOP 2016 Hopefuls Evacuated over ‘Credible Threat’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of evangelical Christians were evacuated Friday from a Washington hotel ballroom where they were gathered to hear from several GOP candidates for president.
Charleston Church Shooter Dylann Roof Confesses, Says He Sought Race War
Dylann Roof admits he did it, two law enforcement officials said — shooting and killing nine people he’d sat with for Bible study at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dodgers Win with Walk-Off Balk
A pitching duel ended, appropriately, when one of the men on the mound flinched.
Rachel Dolezal Pretended to Be a Model as Well as Black
She masqueraded as a black woman — and a model.
CNN’s Summer Programming: Over 130 Prison Escapees Currently on the Loose in the U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) — Somewhere out there are an admitted killer who crawled through a Texas prison’s ventilation ducts, a murderer who apparently escaped from an Indiana institution in a garbage truck, and a Florida convict who got other inmates to put him in a crate at the prison furniture shop and had himself delivered to freedom by truck.
