Two weeks ago in a visit to southern Italy, Pope Francis said that members of organized crime are excommunicated. In response, mobsters in Calabria have struck back in an unusual and insulting way. The Italian press and the Catholic news
The Associated Press is reporting that lawsuits brought by the Department of Justice, the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and the American Civil Liberties Union against a North Carolina voter ID law will go to trial in 2015. The
The Associated Press reports that an appeals court has blocked the state of Arizona ‘s ban on offering drivers licenses to immigrants shielded by an executive order issued by President Obama in June of 2012. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court
Last week, we heard about an epidemic of lice and scabies running through the population of young illegal aliens surging across the border and piling up in refugee camps for temporary storage, before they can be dispersed across the United
On July 7, CNN’s John King told the Associated Press’s Julie Pace that Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety has demonstrated “no influence” in the coming November elections. Pace concurred, saying Bloomberg’s gun control efforts have yet to garner results.
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Kuwait police fired tear gas and stun grenades Sunday in a busy historic market to disperse several thousand protesters calling for the release of an opposition activist and a purge of corrupt judges. Defying government orders
(Associated Press) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Even after seven decades, Wilfred “Spike” Mailloux won’t talk about surviving a bloody World War II battle unless longtime friend John Sidur is by his side. It was Sidur who found the severely wounded
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon of Illinois has died. His son Jeffrey Dixon tells The Associated Press that the 86-year-old died Sunday at his home in Fairview Heights. He had recently been hospitalized for heart problems,
A swimmer was bitten by a great white shark on Saturday morning off Manhattan Beach in Southern California. The attack happened around 9:30 a.m., according to the Associated Press. L.A. County Fire Department spokesman Rick Flores said the shark became
NZACKO, Central African Republic (AP) — The African troops hoped the latest defector from the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group would have fresh insight into the location of infamous warlord Joseph Kony. But Sam Opio, a senior rebel commander who
FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) — With tears streaming down his face after being kneed in the back, Neymar was carried off the field on a stretcher. He won’t be coming back. Not to this World Cup, anyway. The 22-year-old Brazil striker,
A chemical engineer in northern Nigeria, recently released from a mental hospital to which he was interned after declaring himself an atheist, warns that serious death threats have come his way, making it impossible to live a normal life. Mubarak
Terrorists bombed a cafe in Lebanon this week, reportedly for being open during the month of Ramadan, a Muslim holiday in which observers are expected to fast during daylight hours. Some residents explain that the cafe remains open as a
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a tentative step toward improved relations with North Korea on Thursday by announcing his government will lift some of its sanctions in response to the North’s decision to re-open a probe
HOUSTON, Texas–The grieving mother of a 15-year-old boy who was found dead near the Rio Grande River said her son should have stayed in Guatemala. The boy, Gilberto Ramos, left his mountainside village in Guatemala to travel to the United
JERUSALEM (AP) — The suspected abduction of an Arab teen followed by the discovery of a body in Jerusalem on Wednesday ignited clashes between Israeli police and stone-throwing Palestinians, who saw it as a revenge attack for the killing of
As Breitbart News reported Monday, on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision was released in the case of Hobby Lobby, the Eleventh Federal Circuit Appeals Court issued an injunction providing EWTN Global Catholic Network with a reprieve from
Virginia’s voter ID law will go into effect on July 1. Election officials held 13 regional training sessions in May for registrars and their staffs, the Associated Press reported. The new law now requires that registered voters who come to
The Israeli government has confirmed reports initially surfacing at the Associated Press and the New York Times that the bodies of three Israeli teenagers reported missing earlier this month have been found. The Israeli cabinet is conducting an emergency meeting on the
After Holland won a controversial come-from-behind Round of 16 match against Mexico on Sunday, Dutch airline KLM celebrated the win on Twitter by Tweeting, “Adios Amigos.” The Tweet, as the Associated Press noted (see photo), had an image “of a man
On Saturday, disgraced Uruguayan superstar and serial biter Luis Suarez claimed he did not bite Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini last week. He claimed he just lost his balance. “In no way [did] it happen how you have described, as a bite or
27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim, who became internationally known after the government of Sudan sentenced her to death for refusing to convert to Islam, is now safe at the United States embassy in that nation after being re-arrested while trying to leave
On again, off again, on again are plans to transport illegal alien detainees from overcrowded and overwhelmed Rio Grande Valley detention centers. These centers have gained national attention for housing vast numbers of unattended Central American children, captured while crossing
On June 26, U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger upheld the “high capacity” magazine ban and expanded background checks passed by state Democrats and signed by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) in 2013. Weld County Sheriff John Cooke responded by saying
NEW YORK (AP) — Rev. Al Sharpton abruptly canceled a Saturday rally where Rep. Charles Rangel and his chief rival were to pledge unity after a bitter primary campaign. Sharpton said he called the event off over worries his message
