Hailey, Idaho, thehometown of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, has canceled a rallyplanned for June 28 celebrating his release after five years ofTaliban captivity, a municipal official told Reuters on Wednesday. The cancellation came after allegations emerged that Bergdahl may
President Barack Obama met Ukraine’s President-elect Petro Poroshenko in Warsaw, Poland, and said Poroshenko represents everything Ukraine needs to triumph over Russia. East Ukraine encounters daily violence between pro-Russian forces and the Ukrainian army. “[W]hat the Ukrainians said in the
The U.S. Secret Service is seeking bids on new surveillance software that can monitor social media in real time and detect “sarcasm” by users as well as gather and track users’ past posts across multiple platforms. The new contract is
Members of right-wing Austria student fraternities known as Burschenschaften will march in Vienna this evening. Although they say they are politically neutral, the Burschenschaften have ties with the eurosceptic Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), which took almost 20 per cent of
Stopping immigration would mean British women would have to have “a lot of children very quickly” to keep the economy afloat, according to a Labour MP. Stella Creasy, the Labour & Co-operative MP for Walthamstow, said that Britain either needs
DUBAI (Reuters) – A video of French hostage Serge Lazarevic, appealing to France’s President Francois Hollande to negotiate his release after two years in captivity in the Sahara, was aired by Dubai-based Akhbar Al Aan TV on Tuesday. In the
A rogue Libyan general, who has led repeated deadly assaults on jihadists in second city Benghazi, escaped a suicide attack on Wednesday, one of his commanders told AFP. But three loyalists of former general and longtime US exile Khalifa Haftar
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has approached French President François Hollande privately to ask if he would be willing to put forward Christine Lagarde, the former French cabinet minister who is now head of the IMF, as president of the European
Planned Parenthood of Columbia Willamette in Portland, Oregon has announced that three of its nine locations will be shuttered this year due to fiscal shortfalls. Columbia Planned Parenthood (PP) president and CEO, Stacy M. Cross, bemoaned the decision to shutter
A senior Gulf official speaking to Reuters has said the five Guantánamo detainees traded for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl are being kept in an “accommodation facility” and will be allowed to roam freely in Qatar before moving to other parts of
IHS Consultants just published a report that lifting the U.S. oil export ban would cause U.S. crude oil production to rise by an average of 1.2 million barrels a day. The study argues that allowing crude oil exports would improve the fit
The mother of a Jewish Chicago Public Schools (CPS) student tried for weeks to get the CPS to address the anti-Semitic bullying being perpetrated against her eighth grader, but little was done until the parent contacted local media. The bullying
After 4,000 “trips” on psychedelic drugs, discovering and testing hundreds of mind-altering chemicals, and penning the results of his and wife and co-author Ann’s findings in two separate volumes, Sasha Shulgin–a man who has been dubbed the “Father of Ecstasy”–has
BRENTWOOD — Breitbart News was on site Election Day morning at several Los Angeles-area polling stations, talking with voters and watching one candidate for the 33rd district congressional seat cast her vote. “What’s the election for–mayor?” asked a passerby at
Ten Nigerian generals along with five other senior military officials were found guilty of providing weapons to terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram, a Nigerian newspaper wrote Tuesday. The revelation appears to confirm Breitbart News’s report that the Nigerian military has
Standard and Poor’s Credit Rating Service announced on June 2nd that the ratings on New Jersey’s general obligation (GO) bonds, appropriation-backed, and moral obligation debt were placed on Credit Watch with negative implications. The warning means that S&P could lower the
The San Francisco Chronicle carried a story over the weekend that chastised Silicon Valley venture capitalists for failing to throw money at the marijuana industry the Chronicle says is “experiencing a 68 percent growth rate.” Despite the fact that venture
ISTANBUL, June 2 (Reuters) – Turkey’s peace talks with Kurdish rebels are advancing despite recent unrest in the southeast, representatives of both sides said, and could boost Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s hopes of becoming president. Erdogan is widely expected to
(Reuters) -A U.S.-led international operation disrupted a crime ring that infected hundreds of thousands of PCs around the globe with malicious software used for stealing banking credentials and extorting computer owners, the Justice Department said on Monday. Authorities in nearly
The European Commission has called for the British government to reband properties and increase council taxes. The call was amongst the Commission’s 2014 economic policy recommendations, which also said the government should use the higher tax revenue to cut the
In a major blow to the Israeli government, the US said Monday it would agree to work with the new Hamas-backed Palestinian unity government sworn in on Monday, and would also maintain its aid to the Palestinian Authority, reports The
US Congressmen have urged France to cancel the sale of two advanced helicopter carrier ships to Russia and suggested that NATO buy or lease them instead. “The purchase would send a strong signal to President Putin that the NATO allies
A Libyan warplane targeting “an Islamist militia” in Benghazi fired “three rockets at a neighboring university engineering…[facility]” instead. According to Reuters, “the attack was part of a campaign by irregular forces loyal to former army general Khalifa Haftar to purge the
Moscow’s aggression toward Ukraine is forcing countries around Russia to reconsider security options. Sweden and Finland are toying with the idea of joining NATO, but Russia issued a stern warning during Finland’s National Defense Courses Association. “Military cooperation between Russia
According to Iran’s state-run Fars news agency, the Russian-made Bushehr nuclear power plant is back online. Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, told state media, “The power plant which had been turned off for two and a half
