Search-and-rescue operations are under way off the coast of Hawaii after two Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters on a nighttime training mission collided, with six people aboard each aircraft.
When President Obama said that all of his policies were on the ballot this year, every Democratic candidate – except, perhaps, Nancy Pelosi – must have cringed. But the President was right: every Democratic candidate should be held accountable for
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadist terror group has crucified and placed on display for three days a 17-year-old boy in Aleppo–yet another public execution meant to scare into submission those under the Islamic State’s rule. The boy reportedly accepted money for filming
An Indiana bishop has expressed objections to Notre Dame University’s rush to extend benefits and housing to “same-sex spouses” after the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear appeals legalized same-sex marriage last week. In a carefully worded column in the diocesan
On October 17, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) indicated a willingness to lift the ban which prevents transgender persons from serving openly in the United States Armed Forces. According to the Washington Blade, Pelosi spokesperson Drew Hammill said, “Pelosi
This story originally appeared at LiveScience. The current Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 4,000 people, but it started with one person: a 2-year-old child who died on Dec. 6, 2013. It’s unclear how the child
This story originally appeared on Bloomberg News. Poor communication, a lack of leadership and underfunding plagued the World Health Organization‘s initial response to the Ebola outbreak, allowing the disease to spiral out of control. In one instance, medics weren’t deployed because
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten weeks into its war against Islamic State extremists, the Pentagon is settling in for the long haul, short on big early successes but still banking on enlisting Syrians and Iraqis to fight the ground war so
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Nigerians skeptical of deal with Boko Haram to release abducted schoolgirls Barrage of airstrikes stops ISIS advance on Kobani, Syria Investors cheer as Wall Street gains 263 points on Friday Nigerians skeptical of deal
On October 16, Joint Chiefs of Staff Special Assistant for Public Affairs John Kirby said the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) tactic of centering its “forces and combat power” around the city of Kobane provided an opportunity for more U.S. airstrikes against the
(AFP) China and Russia are considering building a high-speed rail line thousands of kilometres from Moscow to Beijing that would cut the journey time from six days on the celebrated Trans-Siberian to two, Chinese media reported Friday. The project would
Getting lost in “sideshows” such as homosexual unions is one of the “big negatives” of the Vatican summit on marriage, according to South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier. “You can’t be distracted by sideshows,” the Cardinal said in an interview with
A walking robot named Gigi is being used in hospitals around the country to sanitize rooms used by carriers of infectious diseases. In the wake of the arrival of Ebola to the United States, the Texas hospital affected has been
A 16-year-old student whom Interpol reported missing has surfaced in an Internet video calling upon fellow Muslims to join the Islamic State terror group. The Viennese teenager said that killing “infidels” was now his main goal. Austria’s The Local reported that the light-haired
Islamic State jihadists are being trained to fly captured war planes by Hussein-era Iraqi pilots who have joined the group, reported a group monitoring the Syrian war. However, Gen. Lloyd Austin, the commander of U.S. Central Command, today said
A freak accident in central Sierra Leone left multiple Ebola patients in critical condition and countless more exposed to the virus as an ambulance heading toward a hospital “capsized” over a bridge in tiny Ngumahun Village. Reports of the incident are
They tried to feed him, give him water, and even take him to a mosque to prove that they were not infidels, but an ISIS jihadist captured in the Syrian border town of Kobani insisted his Kurdish captors kill him
The British National Health Service– in a first-of-its-kind, just released study— has documented 467 “newly identified cases” of girls and women who had been genitally mutilated. Half live in London. Previously, 1, 279 such girls and women were known to be receiving
German, French, and British fighters within the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) are threatening their homelands and America following the U.S.-led air attacks against the terrorist group. The three jihadists, who filmed “Wait. We Too Are Waiting” in Aleppo, Syria, challenge the
Colombia, Jamaica, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago have all announced travel bans as Ebola concerns grow. Colombian authorities announced that anyone entering their country from Ebola-stricken countries will face heavy scrutiny. Colombia’s National Health Institutes have said they developed a
Ebola patients in West Africa are isolated as they recover, but the isolation does not stop there. Villages and communities shun the survivors due to the stigma of the disease. Liberia’s Minister of Health and Social Welfare told citizens to
The pro-democracy demonstrations, begun on September 28 in Hong Kong, seem to be reaching their end, as Hong Kong police dismantled tents and barricades Friday morning in the Mong Kok area of the city center. Despite this temporary political defeat,
Two bombs exploded in Egypt’s Nile Delta Tanta city on Thursday, wounding 11 people. No deaths were reported. AP reported, “two bombs went off in a city in northern Egypt late Thursday, striking a Sufi Muslim religious festival and wounding 11
London, October 17 (QNA) – British Prime Minister David Cameron has urged other members of the international community to “look to their responsibilities” to help tackle the Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of West Africa. Cameron insisted the Britain was “leading
BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants unleashed a wave of attacks in Iraq on Thursday, mainly targeting Shiite areas in and around the capital of Baghdad, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens, authorities said. The Islamic State group has overrun
GENEVA (AP) — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein drew comparisons between the Ebola outbreak and the Islamic State group Thursday, labeling them “twin plagues” upon the world that were allowed to gain strength because of widespread
