Jordan Schachtel

NASA is ready to test a saucer-shaped spaceship, known as the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), in Kauai, Hawaii, on Tuesday. The results of the test will be critical for the future of a potential mission to Mars, NASA said.

After deserting his forward operating base in Afghanistan in 2009, Sgt. Bowe Bergdhal left behind a note saying that he wanted to renounce his American citizenship, according to Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin. Griffin said Tuesday on the Fox News Channel

A video posted online Monday appears to show senior Taliban terrorists being received by Qatari citizens with open arms.  The Taliban leaders were released from Guantanamo Bay in a highly controversial exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The detainees were

Ten Nigerian generals along with five other senior military officials were found guilty of providing weapons to terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram, a Nigerian newspaper wrote Tuesday. The revelation appears to confirm Breitbart News’s report that the Nigerian military has

According to Iran’s state-run Fars news agency, the Russian-made Bushehr nuclear power plant is back online. Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, told state media, “The power plant which had been turned off for two and a half

The UK’s Daily Mail interviewed the parents of fallen soldier Second Lt. Darryn Andrews, who claim their son was killed in action while on a mission to rescue Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity. They also claim that the Obama administration

Seven people died from oxygen deprivation after hunting for the equivalent of 75 cents. The seven individuals had lost 3,000 Cambodian riel (US 75 cents), which apparently fell down a well, according to the Associated Press. On Saturday in a

For the month of June, Russia will hold the chairmanship of the UN Security Council. Russia is taking over from South Korea and will hand the position over to Rwanda on July 1st. Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said he

Breitbart News had the opportunity to speak with Bill Roggio, managing editor of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ The Long War Journal, about the ongoing debacle over the exchange of five senior Taliban commanders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Roggio has

In 2010, The Taliban claimed U.S. soldier Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had converted to Islam and had taught them bomb-making techniques. Bergdahl had also changed his name to Abdullah, the Taliban claimed, though the mainstream media largely ignored the story, seeing it as

On Friday, the government of Ukraine claimed that the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) it shot down on May 28th is a Russian-made spy drone. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a preliminary report that the UAV is a modified

Breitbart News had the exclusive opportunity to sit down with Lt. Col. Rudy Atallah, former head of African counterterrorism for the Pentagon to discuss Boko Haram and Islamist movements in Africa. Rudolph Atallah is the former Africa Counterterrorism Director for the

Just one day following Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei’s pledge to destroy America through “battle” and “jihad,” a top Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander has reiterated his Ayatollah’s sentiments. According to Iranian state-controlled Fars News agency, IRGC Brigadier General Hossein

A citizen of Niger has been convicted of enslaving his fifth wife. The man crossed the line because Niger apparently only allows for four wives under the country’s interpretation of Islamic law. It took Niger until 2003 to officially declare

President Barack Obama received a chilly reception for his warnings against the alleged dangers of climate change during his address at West Point Wednesday. The cadets exhibited little warmth in applauding their Commander in Chief, which should come as little

A “new record” is not always a good thing. According to a Wednesday report released by the French Labor Ministry, France is now seeing record high unemployment numbers with a record 3.364 million people looking for work. Economists predicted an

Less than two minutes prior to the CCTV footage that captured the death of a teenager, reportedly at the hands of the Israeli Defense Forces, a group of Palestinians was seen orchestrating an attempt to fake injuries, doing so in front

On Tuesday, The New York Times ran as its feature op-ed a story titled “The New Danger in Benghazi.“ Author Ethan Chorin wrote of a Libyan general by the name of Khalifa Haftar who is mounting an offensive against radical

Virginia State Senator Richard Black (R-Loudon County) sent a letter to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, thanking him for his “heroic” acts in fighting the Syrian opposition forces.  The text of the letter, proudly displayed by Assad on his Facebook page,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a special Knesset (parliament) session Wednesday to mark Israel’s Jerusalem Day. The Prime Minister took the occasion to remind the world that he intends to keep Jerusalem the unified capital of the Jewish state.

According to a former Iranian double-agent for the CIA who uses the pseudonym Reza Kahlili, Iran’s Supreme Leader said Sunday that the Islamic Republic intends on conquering the United States. Kahlili provided a Farsi to English translation of Ayatollah Khamenei’s

A man who once weighed in at 1,316 pounds died Monday in Monterrey, Mexico. Manuel Uribe was at a slimmer but still stunning 867 pounds at the time of his death. At his peak weight of 1,316 pounds, Uribe was

PBS is set to air a documentary Tuesday describing the US-backed training and arming of Syrian opposition forces. The purpose of US involvement in the region, while not clearly and overtly stated by the Obama administration, is seemingly to counter

Senator Ted Crux (R-TX) was in Israel Monday. The Senator from Texas spoke of the need to stand with Israel against the many Islamist entities that seek their destruction. Cruz did not buy into the mutual culpability argument that both