At first, the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City (ISGOC) had denied knowing or being familiar with alleged beheader Jah’Keem Yisrael, nee Alton Nolen. When pictures emerged of Jah’Keem praying at the mosque on his Facebook page, the mosque’s story
Breaking down the ballots for the AP Top 25 and wrapping up college football’s fourth weekend. ____ SORT ‘EM OUT SATURDAY The cure for poll gridlock is next Saturday’s schedule. Six games will match ranked teams, including three Southeastern Conference
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s army has started training 32 Kurdish peshmerga fighters at an army school in Bavaria to support them in their fight against Islamic State extremists. A spokesman for the German defense ministry said Sunday that the 32
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most of the nearly 60,000 Central American children who have arrived on the U.S.-Mexico border in the last year still don’t have lawyers to represent them in immigration court, and advocates are scrambling to train volunteer
My family and I passed Mairav Zonszein’s awful New York Times op-ed around the Sabbath table yesterday afternoon, alternately outraged and bemused. (One family member suggested boycotting the newspaper in response: another shrugged, noting that an anti-Israel op-ed from the Times is
TOKYO (AP) — Rescue workers have found 30 or more people unconscious and believed to be dead near the peak of an erupting volcano in central Japan, local government and police said. Nagano prefecture posted on its website that about
It’s already Week Four, and the bye-weeks are upon us, with Arizona, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Seattle, and St. Louis enjoying the week off. As for the teams playing, some of the top matchups include the 187th meeting of two storied
Sarah Palin is known for having the backs of conservatives. Nicolle Wallace is not. Wallace, who has elevated her profile in the liberal press and most likely got her co-hosting job on the The View solely because she stabbed Palin and other conservatives
The news that certain illegal immigrants will be allowed to serve in the military was welcome news but not enough for one Republican who supported legislation to that end earlier this year. “Today’s decision from the Department of Defense is
AUSTIN, Texas — Last month, a Travis County grand jury indicted Texas Governor Rick Perry on two charges, abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant, which stemmed from his veto of the funding for the Public Integrity
The NRA has launched a new ad in Wisconsin which highlights Governor Scott Walker’s (R) support of the Second Amendment and the passage of concealed carry during his first term. Walker signed concealed carry legislation into law on July 8,
(Washington, D.C.) — The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters today that airstrikes alone will not defeat the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq. DOD Secretary Chuck Hagel
Contrary to the Pentagon briefings on success of the early airstrikes on the Islamic State in Syria — “We’re going to keep the pressure on them,” said Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby — my Arab sources indicate the attacks have produced
Fortunately for President Obama, the world he described Wednesday as being “at a crossroads between war and peace” started its descent into chaos before the full effect of his dramatic cuts to American defenses could be implemented. A fact not loss
Attorney General Eric Holder choked up during his farewell speech to President Obama on Thursday, remembering their long time together as friends in the administration. Holder called his service under Obama the “greatest honor of my professional life” and thanked
Thursday at the Defense Department daily briefing, Rear Admiral John Kirby answered a reporter’s questions on the reports that Iraqi Prime Minister had just revealed ISIS was plotting and attack on America subways. Kirby did not seem surprised or deny
Week 3 in the NFL saw little of the off-field controversy of the previous weeks. Instead, football fans were treated to some fantastic on-field performances from unexpected players: filling in for the injured Robert Griffin III, Kirk Cousins delivered a
PRATICA DI MARE AIR BASE, Italy (AP) — The patient, a slight woman in her 30s, lay motionless on the stretcher as a half-dozen men in biohazard suits transferred her from a C-27J cargo plane into an ambulance and then
Gun control in Britain passed in stages, beginning just after World War I and continuing in a reactionary fashion with increasing strictness through the 1990s. When the final stage arrived in 1997, and virtually all handguns were banned via the
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Former Sen. Scott Brown pulled no punches in a foreign policy speech here on Wednesday, bashing President Barack Obama and incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)–whom he’s trying to unseat in November–for “pathetic” policies on immigration
Socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held a one-on-one meeting yesterday in New York in anticipation for the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Venezuela, desperate for financial aid, has turned to its longtime ally
The U.S. released 14 Pakistanis from the Bagram military prison in Afghanistan on Saturday and transferred their custody to the government of their home country. An intelligence official within Pakistan’s government, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details
What could have been the biggest breakthrough in the war on international jihad took Nigerian media by storm this week, as the army of Cameroon asserted that they had killed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. However, many sources are claiming
Wednesday when President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City he said America would stop “bigger nations bulling smaller nations” by standing with Ukraine with “collective self defense.” Last week Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addressed
The spy formerly known as Bradley Manning is now filing a lawsuit against Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and the Defense Department accusing them of denying Manning “access to medically necessary treatment.” Manning wants to have longer hair, use cosmetics,
