On Wednesday, a 31-year-old nun who originally came from El Salvador gave birth to a son in the Italian city of Rieti, and said after she was rushed to the hospital with what she thought were stomach cramps that she
Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who stayed at his post in the Philippines for 29 years after World War II ended because he would not believe the war was over, died at the age of 91 in Tokyo
On MSNBC Wednesday, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, regarded as a rising star by the Democratic Party, compared the status of illegal immigrants in America to that of black slaves before the Civil War. Castro, the keynote speaker at the
The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication has grudgingly acknowledged that a November 2013 poll found that the number of Americans who think global warming is a myth has climbed to 23%, up seven percentage points since April 2013. The
The number of Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) receiving food stamps zoomed from 1.7 million to 3.9 million between Fiscal Year 2007 and Fiscal Year 2010. In that same period, food stamp recipients in total grew from 26 million to nearly
The Obama Administration is under suspicion for allegedly helping to smuggle children of illegal immigrants across the United States border. Fox News reports that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) wrote a letter to new Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson questioning the policy.
In March, the Latino population in California will overtake the white population, according to a report in Gov. Jerry Brown‘s 2014-15 budget proposal. The date was pushed back from the initial date that was supposed to be seven months before
It’s a heavyweight fight between the Agriculture Department and Congress over a major dietary issue: white potatoes. The Agriculture Department, advised by the Institute of Medicine, wants to prevent participants in the federal Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program from
Hollywood, replete with those whose leftism fuels their anger toward Israel, has honored the Palestinian film Omar with a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination. The director, Hany Abu-Assad, previously helmed Paradise Now. That film, about two would-be suicide bombers, garnered a
The stolid image of the U.S. Postal Service is being tainted by stories of employees’ private misconduct. Last year, the USPS inspector general investigated numerous assault cases within the agency, which the Washington Examiner discovered using the Freedom of Information
Embattled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is getting strong support from some other GOP governors after he was tarnished by his recent scandal. That scandal erupted after revelations that Christie’s aides and appointees allegedly caused a traffic backup in the
A new NBC News/Marist poll shows that Hillary Clinton has remained essentially stationary in a head-to head battle with Chris Christie since the Christie scandal broke, but Christie has plunged downward. Last month Clinton garnered 48% of voters; this month
According to her family’s attorneys, on December 18 a first-grader in Temecula, California, was prevented from finishing her speech that was part of a class presentation about Christmas because she openly talked about Jesus Christ as the Savior. Brynn Williams
Plymouth Rock, the archetypal symbol of the Pilgrims’ arrival in America, was defaced earlier this week with the word “LIES” spray-painted on it. The perpetrators also wrote an obscene figure, the phrase “For a drug filled world” and what appeared
A 2008 New York Times article contradicts claims from Hillary Clinton’s camp that she does not have an enemies’ list. The Times reported that three Clinton associates and campaign officials claimed that Doug Band, “chief gatekeeper to former President Bill Clinton,” kept a
A new Organizing for Action fundraising release shows how it is fundraising by citing the attacks conservatives have made on the polar-vortex argument for global warming. The release reads: When record-low temperatures swept across the country last week, we heard from
The Russian government has banned David Satter, an American journalist, from Russia. He is the first American journalist banned since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. His expulsion was confirmed on Monday by Radio Free Europe’s president, who said no reason
An article in TheWeek delineates how Japan, which has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, is facing an imminent population decline. The population in Japan reached a 2007 peak of 128 million, but it has been dropping
The highly-acclaimed and hugely popular FOX series 24 is returning to television with a 12-part series called 24: Live Another Day starting May 5. Kiefer Sutherland returns as Jack Bauer, the role he played from 2001 to 2010, accompanied by
According to TMZ, Kanye West, who is already facing assault charges for a scuffle at LAX with a photographer, assaulted an 18-year-old teenager who called him the N-word. Allegedly, West’s fiance Kim Kardashian was surrounded by photographers at a Beverly
The FBI will not file criminal charges against the IRS for targeting conservative groups, according to law enforcement officials. The official line is that the FBI didn’t find political bias or “enemy hunting” which would justify filing charges against the
Facing numerous allegations of sexual harassment from his staffers and demands from every area of New York’s state government including from Governor Andrew Cuomo that he step down, New York Democratic Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak resigned Sunday. Gabryszak (pictured), who is
Deadline.com is reporting that Quentin Tarantino’s next movie, a Western with the tentative title The Hateful Eight, is being shown to Christoph Walz, the dual Oscar-winning actor of Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, and 77-year-old Bruce Dern, whose name is
Now that tobacco has become a perennial target for health guardians and salt has followed, with the Consensus Action on Salt and Health fomenting a campaign to reduce salt intake, the latest target of the health guardians of the world
A new book jointly written by The Hill‘s Amie Parnes and Politico‘s Jonathan Allen, HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, details how the Hillary Clinton campaign composed a political hit list of those who had betrayed Clinton
A deadly pig-killing virus called porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, or PED, that has spread to farms in 22 states may have come from China, where an almost identical virus rampaged through the Chinese hog market in 2012. The virus arrived
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is bucking Barack Obama’s plans to table sanctions on Iran in the wake of the Geneva deal reached late last year. He is pushing fellow Democratic Senators to support sanctions on Iran. Schumer has been rumored
As unlikely as it may seem, a prime area for heroin users is now the sleepy state of Vermont. On Wednesday, Gov. Peter Shumlin’s entire State of the State address was devoted to what he called Vermont’s “full blown heroin
The seat of the label Prada is returning to Italy after evidence surfaced that the company transferred Prada Holding, the controlling shareholder of the house, to the Netherlands and Luxembourg to avoid paying taxes totaling roughly £390million, or $532 million.
Meryl Streep should have taken a cue from Abraham Lincoln’s famous admonition, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” Streep, flaunting her highly suspect intellectual credentials but absolutely certain political
A dispute over health insurance “orphaned files” has erupted between insurance companies and the Obama Administration, with the insurers saying there is a major problem looming ahead while the feds say not to worry. Orphaned files occur when customers enroll
A debate is shaping up over a $40 million barrier system that would encircle the 16-acre World Trade Center site. The barrier would include static barriers and sally ports, where booths control barriers screening vehicles attempting entry. Residents of the area
On Thursday, the Democratic chairmen of the Senate Transportation and Energy committees, Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., pushed the Obama administration to take “prompt and decisive” action addressing the problem of oil train derailments. The senators wrote
A heroic 15-year-old Pakistani sacrificed his life to protect his classmates by tackling a terrorist bomber who was going to blow up his school. Aitzaz Hasan, from the Hangu region of northwest Pakistan, saw the terrorist approach the school with
You have to wonder about HBO. The network announced at Thursday’s Television Critics Association press tour that it has already ordered a fourth season of the raunch-fest show Girls even before the third season has aired. The season two finale
In a series of tweets, Iraq War veteran J.R. Salzman, who lost an arm in the war, told a moving story Wednesday about a cab ride from the Dallas airport to his hotel in the taxi of a Kurdish refugee from
Saturday Night Live, the NBC show famous for lampooning conservatives for their narrowmindedness, has addressed its own lack of diversity and hired two black women, LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones, to its writing staff. The Hollywood Reporter said that the two
Sen. Tom Coburn, 65, the fiery, conservative Oklahoma Republican who is well-known for pushing socially conservative measures such as anti-abortion bills and defending gun rights and the death penalty, is fighting prostate cancer and might not serve out his term.
The New York Times, ever eager to push any meme that undermines the Judeo-Christian devotion to traditional morality and the single heterosexual family unit, has progressed from championing LGBT rights to its newest passion: polygamy. The Times is not alone;
Barack Obama, shifting the American public’s focus away from Obamacare toward a debate on income inequality, is launching his Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program titled “Promise Zones,” which entails using government largess to give tax incentives and grants to
