NEW YORK (AP) — The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled a star-heavy lineup amid increased festival jockeying for the most plum premieres of Hollywood’s fall season. Toronto’s slate for Sept. 4-14, announced in a press conference Tuesday, features anticipated performances
We talk a good game about embracing other people’s cultures, ethnic backgrounds, sexual preferences, etc. But when it comes to embracing a diversity of opinion, the most important kind of diversity there is, we stink. The sports media has reminded
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that “evidence-tampering on an industrial scale” is taking place at the MH17 crash site, accusing pro-Russian rebels of attempting a “cover-up”. Speaking after the success of an Australian UN resolution calling a full
Sky News reporter Colin Brazier broadcast live from the MH17 crash site this week, with a cameraman panning closely to the personal artifacts of passengers believed to have died almost immediately as the plane was allegedly shot out of the
Monday, Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) announced he is deploying 1,000 Texas National Guard to the U.S. border with Mexico, saying he can not idly sit by while “our citizens are under siege.” Pointing out the tens of thousands pf unaccompanied
A recent crime wave of random attacks known as “knockout games” hit the North Park neighborhood of San Diego Sunday. An unsuspecting woman was struck from behind and rendered unconscious. According to San Diego Police Sgt. Shawn Takeuchi, the incident occurred
According to various media reports, police were called to the Los Angeles home of James Garner Saturday night where the television and screen legend was found dead of natural causes. He was 86. The Emmy winner and 1986 Oscar nominee
On Saturday, 200 people marched through the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles protesting racial profiling and gun violence on the first anniversary of the verdict acquitting George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin. The crowd, led by Trayvon Martin’s parents, carried
Sunday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of a “double war crime,” saying that to gain sympathy and line up the international community against Israel, the terrorist group “wants to kill civilians
It’s Sunday morning, and I’m reading the reports on the Malaysia Airline mass murder, and it’s beyond depressing. Imagine if it were a son or a daughter, a sister or a brother, a mom or a dad–rotting in that field. And
A “homosexuality test,” once commonly used by law enforcement officials in countries where being gay is illegal, appears to have experienced a resurgence in Lebanon, despite the Lebanese Order of Physicians decrying the practice as torture. The practice, which Lebanon’s
Shocking newly-acquired video footage shows an unscrupulous government informant entrapping four unworldly men from a poverty-stricken town into a world of crime to further a post-9/11 government agenda that plays upon American fears and unfairly targets Muslim-Americans at their places of worship.
A Michael Bloomberg-funded analysis of “mass shootings” between January 2009 and July 2014 found that 110 “mass shootings,” where at least four people were killed, were carried out during that five-and-a half-year period. On June 12, Breitbart News reported that a
A total of 80 children were among the victims killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine. The Daily Mail reports that the victims included a three and five-year-old from Indonesia who died with their parents, as
“The Purge: Anarchy” is a big improvement over last year’s “Purge,” which squandered its splendid concept on a substandard home invasion plot that was way too self-contained and rote. When a film sets up a world in the near-future where
Ukraine Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said Kiev has evidence the pro-Russians in east Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Luhansk. “The SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) and the Interior Ministry have collected and continue to collect irrefutable evidence
An Italian appeals court on Friday cleared Silvio Berlusconi of having sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power in a surprise ruling that will strengthen the former prime minister on the political scene. The judge said there was
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Emergency workers, police officers and even off-duty coal miners — dressed in overalls and covered in soot — searched through wreckage and bodies scattered across sunflower fields and Ukrainian villages Friday after a Malaysian jetliner flying
MCALLEN, Texas–A federal judge sentenced a Texas sheriff to five years in prison for taking money from a South Texas drug lord linked to Mexican cartels. On Thursday morning, U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez delivered harsh words to former Hidalgo County
In an unprecedented court ruling, federal judge Cormac Carney in Orange County declared the death penalty to be “unconstitutional” in California, clearing at least one inmate from Death Row and potentially setting a precedent for future cases throughout the nation.
With robberies in Detroit down 37 percent compared to figures from this same time last year, Detroit Police Chief James Craig says the increasing number of armed citizens is making criminals think twice before attacking. In other words, more guns
TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A Texas actress who sent ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and the New York mayor then tried to blame the crime on her soon-to-be ex-husband was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Wednesday. A
Directed by Michael Winner in 1974, “Death Wish” is about a successful liberal New York architect turning to vigilantism as a way to work through his grief after his wife is raped and murdered by home-invading street thugs. With his
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh believes President Barack Obama’s lawlessness on illegal immigration is just another part of his broader war on America’s suburbs. On his Tuesday radio show, Limbaugh spoke extensively about Stanley Kurtz, the author of Spreading the Wealth:
Richard Martinez, father of Santa Barbara shooting victim Christopher Martinez, is joining with Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America to support pro-gun control candidates this November. He is also working with Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety. According
