On Wednesday, Ferguson, Missouri, Chief of Police Thomas Jackson told the media that the officer who shot and killed teen Michael Brown was injured in the scuffle that resulted in the shooting. This is the first official news of the
Marine combat veteran Bing West explains how to defeat our enemies in today’s National Review. We reprint here. By pulling our forces out of Iraq in 2011, Mr. Obama claimed, he “ended the war.” Three years later, the winner of
(Reuters) – Libya’s parliament on Wednesday voted to disband the country’s militia brigades and called on the United Nations to protect civilians in an effort to end the worst fighting between armed factions since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Lawmakers appeared
(Reuters) – The body of an American tourist from Chicago has been found stuffed into a suitcase in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali and the victim’s daughter and her boyfriend have been arrested for what police suspect was a gruesome
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – A Canadian prosecutor has approved criminal charges against four members of an isolated polygamous community in British Columbia nearly three years after the province’s Supreme Court upheld a ban on plural marriages. British Columbia’s Ministry of Justice
L.A. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has joined other billionaires and millionaires in donating money to push a gun control initiative in Washington state, which will expand firearm background checks to online purchases and gun shows. But online sales from any
On Wednesday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said that President Barack Obama’s potential executive amnesty will decimate American workers who are struggling in Obama’s economy, especially minorities who powered Obama to the presidency. “This issue of middle class wage stagnation
Sympathizers with the Hamas cause in Gaza have brought their tactics to America, publicizing an effort to blockade an Israeli ship from unloading its cargo in Long Beach, CA on Wednesday morning. The poster publicizing the intended event read, “Block
In a reminder of the dangers involved with human smuggling, Customs and Border Protection discovered two Mexican nationals “unconscious and not breathing” attempting to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico in the trunk of a car, according to reports. CBP
A local WNEP news report states the owner of a Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, bridal boutique whose business was downgraded and insulted on social media after she refused to service two lesbians due to her religious beliefs says her business is open and
ASHKELON, Israel – Israel and Hamas agreed to extend the current ceasefire by another 72 hours late Wednesday night, although Israel’s Channel 2 News reports a rocket landed in the Eshkol region shortly after reports of the agreement surfaced. As
Despite the media furor surrounding the outbreak of Ebola virus in Africa – and despite the repeated testing throughout the United States and Europe of travelers arriving from Africa – worries about an Ebola outbreak in America are wildly overblown.
This article first appeared at BBC: The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a “high-risk” country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Kenya was vulnerable because it was a major transport hub, with many flights from
In England’s most northerly town, local people are looking over the border to Scotland and worrying about what would happen if it votes for independence next month. Berwick-upon-Tweed changed hands between England and Scotland 13 times in medieval border wars
Deporting illegal immigrants to their home countries in Central America has convinced some migrants that they will not receive amnesty in the United States and discouraged them from making the journey to America. Though mainstream media outlets and Democrats insist
A startling new political science study concludes that corporate interests and mega wealthy individuals control U.S. policy to such a degree that “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public
Visiting India to open the gleaming Trump Tower Mumbai, Real Estate magnate Donald Trump heaped praise upon India’s newly elected conservative Prime Minister Narendra Modi, predicting that his free market policies will unleash an unprecedented wave of foreign investment into
On Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. local time, the US continued its aerial campaign against Islamic State positions, striking a mortar setup in the area of Mt. Sinjar where over twenty-thousand Yazidis remain under siege by the jihadi terror group. The
A Bosnian national named Emrah Fojnica, nicknamed “Khattab” was killed over the weekend in an attempted suicide bombing in Iraq, according to the Macedonian English Language News Agency. Fojnica had been waging jihad in both Syria and Iraq, where he
Mexican officials will reportedly speed up “The Beast” to deter migrants from hopping on and off. Thousands of migrants have risked life and limb by jumping on “The Beast,” the so-called “Death Train” or “La Bestia,” in Southern Mexico to
This weekend, The Washington Post published “Five myths about the Border Crisis,” an article that argued that more border security and less amnesty would not deter illegal immigration. It also significantly downplayed the threat of gang recruitment in the United States. Douglas
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State insurgents who seized a Lebanese border town this month planned to turn Lebanon into another Iraq by unleashing sectarian war between Sunnis and Shi’ites that would have endangered the nation’s very existence, the army commander
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has joined his country’s rabid anti-Israel chorus by calling for a boycott of Israeli goods, the BBC reports. Mbeki, who during his abortive tenure in office guarded Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe as he plundered
SRINAGAR India (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Pakistan on Tuesday of waging “proxy war” by sending militants to attack India and he used a trip to the disputed Kashmir region to stress that reconciliation between the nuclear-armed
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, the first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa, has died in hospital in Madrid, a spokeswoman for the city’s health authorities
