America identified a 26-year-old woman the Islamic State (IS) is holding in Syria, but the family asked for her identity to remain a secret. IS sent out a $6.6 million ransom and US prisoners in exchange for the woman. The
Freedom of Information requests have revealed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has spent £92,000 on training to help diplomats and staff to use intuitive social media platforms such as Twitter in the course of their work. As a recent
In a jail cell in Mexico sits Andrew Tahmooressi, a former Marine Corps Sergeant who served honorably and survived two combat tours in Afghanistan. For almost five months, Andrew has languished in prison for simply taking a wrong turn into
The White House has indicated that President Obama will take some kind of executive action on immigration at the end of summer, but the administration has been tight-lipped about the specifics of such a move. Reports have indicated that the
NBC News senior political editor Mark Murray believes President Barack Obama is thrilled to back at the White House from his Martha’s Vineyard vacation and not on the golf course. Murray told MSNBC’s Tamron Hall on Monday that when “you
With President Obama expected to announce some kind of executive action on immigration at the end of the summer, the Latino Victory Project – a PAC recently launched by actress Eva Longoria – is hopeful that such a move will
Forget so-called “Mexifornia.” How about the United States of Mexico? On Monday, Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto called on other states to “evolve” like California so the United States can be more like his home country. Appearing with Los Angeles Mayor
In what’s now considered a “key Senate race”, one in which Republican Joni Ernst initially wasn’t even supposed to be competitive, Ernst and the Democrat’s new John Edwards, Bruce Braley are now all tied up. PPP’s newest Iowa Senate poll
Democrats close to the Obama White House are frustrated and furious over the public relations fallout over President Barack Obama’s now-infamous two-week luxury vacation to Martha’s Vineyard amid myriad crises, including looting and rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, as well as
Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) greeted President Obama warmly at the airport on his arrival in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday to address the national convention of the American Legion. Smiling broadly on the tarmac and even embracing the president in
Though Barack Obama and Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) will both speak at the American Legion convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday, Senator Hagan’s office would not confirm late Monday whether the two would appear on stage together. The convention’s
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) —U.S. President Barack Obama has authorized aerial surveillance over Syria as he weighs possible airstrikes against Sunni extremists in the embattled country. The president made the decision to deploy the surveillance flights over the weekend, a
In recent weeks, the general consensus among the political cognoscenti on the left and right alike has been that the president has “checked out.” As liberal MSNBC commentator Donny Deutsch noted last month, after his colleague Mika Brzezinski interviewed Obama on
The Hill Editor-in-Chief Bob Cusack characterized news that the United Arab Emirates and Egypt carried out airstrikes in Libya without notifying the United States as “a major problem,” and “one of many problems” facing the president, and putting him “in
If you want to know where a Democrat stands on the issue of immigration, all you need ask is if they have to face the voters in less than a deep blue state in November. With Obama contemplating what would
According to The Hill, the White House is struggling to craft a unified message over the threat posed by the Islamic State (IS), the terrorist group surging across Iraq. “Officials have sowed confusion,” the Washington political paper wrote on Monday,
After reportedly getting paid $4 million to leave NBC and not denigrate Meet the Press, former host David Gregory is reportedly trying to cash in some more on the speaking circuit. According to Politico, the president of Gregory’s speakers bureau
The New York Times would like you to believe that immigration is not the significant issue it now clearly is in the mid-term elections and instead wants to focus on an issue that is marginally divisive for Republicans – the
On Monday, the funeral of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was shot under disputed circumstances by Officer Darren Wilson, took place. Slated attendees included Snoop Dogg, Governor Jay Nixon (D-MO), Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), P. Diddy, Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson, and
Files scheduled to be released from Clinton White House records will show his efforts to shackle militias and set up a “strict licensing system” for paramilitary groups, Politico reports. In other words, gun control was to be complemented–and in places,
Monday at the White House daily briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest refused back the comments of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel who said last week that ISIS posses an “imminent threat” to the Untied States of America. When asked directly
Left-wing Professor Cornel West blasted Al Sharpton, reportedly the White House’s point person in Ferguson, Missouri, for his lack of integrity and Obama cheerleading. “When you say the name Al Sharpton, the word integrity does not come to mind,” West told
In January, the New Yorker magazine’s David Remnick asked President Barack Obama about ISIS who had raised the black Islamic State flag in Fallujah in Iraq and in Syria. The President answered, “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and
Left-wing professor Cornel West blasted President Barack Obama for not exploiting Michael Brown’s death and accused him of being a “counterfeit” progressive who is nothing more than a “brown-faced” Bill Clinton. In a weekend interview with Thomas Frank of Salon, West
Talk radio host and Fox News contributor Alan Colmes argued that calling ISIS “evil” helps terrorists on Monday’s “Happening Now” on the Fox News Channel. Colmes said “we went into Afghanistan to get the terrorist training camps, stayed there for
