WASHINGTON–The police have given the D.C. Navy Yard the all-clear after putting it on full lockdown as they responded to reports of a shots being fired. The shots were reported in building 197 around 7:30 AM. Employees had been evacuated.
A massive prison break in Yemen freed nearly 1,200 detainees, including some suspected al-Qaeda militants.
Last week, ISIS continued its campaign to establish an Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East, this time forcing 4,000 Christian families to flee their homes as they overran the city of Hassakeh. According to reports, at least 120,000 were part of the mass exodus. Most of the Christian families are seeking refuge in the nearby city of Qamishli.
Several U.S. Army recruits who also happen to be fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse are suing the Federal Bureau of Investigations over the classification of the “Juggalo” fan base as a “hybrid gang.”
The jihadist terror group Islamic State responded to the Supreme Court’s recent decision on gay marriage by killing accused gay men by pushing them off a roof.
Puerto Rico’s governor said that the U.S. territory was in a “death spiral” and may default on the $72 billion debt it has accrued. “Even if we raise revenues and cut costs, the magnitude of the problem is such that we would not resolve anything given the weight of the debt we’re dragging,” the Democratic governor, Garcia Padilla, said in a public address.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) has beheaded women for the first time, accusing the two of “sorcery,” according to a human rights monitor.
Joshua Wong, 18, a student leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, was assaulted by an as-of-yet unidentified attacker. Wong was out on a date with his girlfriend when the assailant attacked him and his girlfriend outside a movie theater near the site of important protests from last year.
Turkish forces are reportedly forcing refugees fleeing the chaos of the Middle East to turn back from the border with Bulgaria. According to reports, as many as 600 refugees, including women and children, are being forced to return to their camps in Turkey now.
Kuwaiti authorities have announced that they believe they know that the ISIS-linked suicide bomber who killed dozens of people in a Shia mosque this Friday is a Saudi national. Kuwait’s Interior Minister identified the attack as Fahad Suleiman Abdulmohsen-Gabaa.
A report claims the Kremlin is sympathetic to groups agitating for an independent Texas, and has been providing support for the secessionists online.
The French National Assembly voted on Wednesday to distribute $60 million to non-French victims of the Holocaust. The fund is set to be administered by the United States. It will be distributed to foreign nationals who were deported from France to Nazi death camps, especially Auschwitz, on French rail lines.
Hungary announced plans to build a 100 mile-long wall across their border with Serbia in order to stem the invasion. Serbian leaders harshly condemned the border fence. Their foreign minister went so far as to call it the “new Berlin Wall.”
Chinese media reports that the government confiscated over 100,000 tons of meat, including one batch dating all the way back to the 1970s. Arrests and seizures were made in 14 provinces and regions across the country, and members of at least a dozen gangs of smugglers were involved.
President Obama is not going to stay in the historic Waldorf Astoria hotel during his upcoming trip to New York, most likely because of the building’s new Chinese owners.
A multimillionaire couple has bought a boat and are using it to save thousands of desperate migrants crossing from Africa to Europe.
Japan has finally lifted a 67-year-old ban on dancing in bars and clubs after midnight. The now-nullified law prohibited dancing in public spaces, unless the venue had a license. Even then, bars and clubs had to stop dancing at midnight.
According to a new survey, 91 percent of South Korean men in their 20s say that they would fight if war broke out with North Korea.
Buddhist monks in Myanmar have called for a government-enforced ban on headscarves in schools across the country. “When [Muslims] live in Myanmar, they need to obey the laws and regulations of the country. We are not targeting or attacking their religion,” U Pamaukkha, a monk calling for this ban, said.
Despite Southeast Asian countries’s heightening fear over the recent MERS outbreak in South Korea, representatives for the Centers for Disease Control and Protection say that they believe the United States can effectively respond to MERS if it reaches American shores.
FireEye, a private sector cybersecurity firm, told media that they believe they have discovered who was behind the massive hack on the federal Office of Personnel Management in which millions of federal employees’s data was stolen.
According to statistics from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the number of veterans who have to wait a month or longer for services in VA hospitals has grown by nearly 50 percent over the last year. As of June, over seven percent of patients at VA hospitals had to wait a month or longer to receive medical care.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Last week, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew announced that the ten-dollar bill is going to see some major changes– namely, that a woman will take Alexander Hamilton’s place on the face of the bill.
Almost 1,500 passengers scheduled to fly with Polish state-owned airline LOT had their flights canceled after unknown hackers attacked the airline’s computers.
According to reports, the Islamic State (ISIS) is leaving behind bombs in the homes of cities they are being forced to flee due to the advance of Kurdish forces.
