On Thursday morning at 10:16 a.m., over ten million Californians dropped, sought cover, and held on to something to prepare for the next major earthquake that will hit some Golden State community probably sooner than later. The simulated earthquake drill,
Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said during a news conference Wednesday that a Texas nurse should not have taken a flight the day before she was diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus. The CDC acknowledged on October
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that as many as 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week may arrive within the next two months, which is ten times the current rate of infection. Officials also noted that the
A Sudanese national who was employed as a UN medical worker in Liberia has died of Ebola at a hospital in Germany. Despite receiving multiple experimental drugs to help combat the deadly virus, the UN aid worker died of hemorrhagic
HOUSTON, Texas — Following a health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital being diagnosed with Ebola, reports circulated that the hospital’s Emergency Room (ER) had “stopped accepting new ER patients.” Such statements have caused a flurry of confusion; a spokeswoman at the hospital’s
A 47-year-old man has been hospitalized in Brazil and quarantined, suspected of having brought the Ebola virus from Guinea into South America. He is the first suspected case of the Ebola virus surfacing on the continent. According to the Wall
The doctor who treated Spanish Ebola patient Teresa Romero during the time she had not yet been confirmed to be carrying Ebola sent a scathing internal letter to superiors at his hospital, alleging that he only found out about her
An entire French family has packed up and left for Syria, where they are likely to take part in the fighting on the side of the Sunni Islamist opposition forces. A legal source told AFP Wednesday that the family in
The bodies of dead Ebola victims can still pose a significant threat, which will prevent families from having traditional funeral services. On Wednesday, health officials decided that Thomas Eric Duncan’s body should be cremated after the first person to be diagnosed with
A North Korean diplomat speaking before reporters insisted that North Korea does not have prisons or “things like that,” but confirmed publicly for the first time the existence of “re-education through labor” camps in the isolated communist nation. The Associated
The radical Islamic group Boko Haram destroyed at least 185 churches after it captured towns in the states of Borno and Adamawa. Over 190,000 people were displaced due to the terrorists. “It is over 30 days now that our Church
Some Democrats don’t want anyone named Obama anywhere near their races, according to the New York Times. “She’s awesome, but it just brings in the name Obama,” said a Democratic strategist in a state with a close Senate race, who,
Curtis Dvorak, who has been costumed for the last 18 seasons as Jaxson De Ville, the mascot for the Jacksonville Jaguars, is in big trouble for making an Ebola joke during Sunday’s game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Mocking the Steelers
In the midst of the reform of its communications operation, the Vatican has launched its first modern YouTube video, titled What is a Synod? The video, a media “weather balloon” of sorts for Vatican media, reveals that the age-old institution
The Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX), one which has seen over 8,000 Russian students come to the United States since 1992 in order to experience what life is like in America, has been cancelled by the Kremlin. United States Ambassador to Russia
United Airlines has released information on which flights Thomas Eric Duncan took to reach the United States. It then took several more days and two trips to the hospital before he was properly diagnosed and treated. The Daily Mail reports
In response to Troops In Iraq Not Eligible For Military Medals in Fight Against ISIS: The troops may not be eligible for medals in this not-war, but Syrian civilians are eligible to receive errant bombs, as President Obama has exempted
A fascinating moment occurred on Tuesday night, when TBS analyst Pedro Martinez blasted Royals manager Ned Yost after the game for bringing in rookie reliever Yordano Ventura in the sixth inning of the 12-inning, 9-8 Royals victory over the Oakland
A Long Beach child has been infected with enterovirus D-68 this week making it the first confirmed case of the virus in Los Angeles County. Dr. David Michalik, a pediatric infectious disease specialist said that the child was critically ill
For several weeks this summer, President Barack Obama and his State Department insisted that Israel a) reach a cease-fire with Hamas, after the Palestinian terror group started a war; b) restrict its aerial bombing of Hamas targets, so as to
On September 30, American and Afghan officials signed a pact to leave US troops in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 deadline. Nine thousand eight hundred US troops will now remain past 2014, and “the US has the right to keep bases
During Monday’s National Security Action Summit, NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks, one of the nation’s foremost immigration experts, said America must better screen legal immigrants to avoid another terrorist attack. Jenks pointed out that just this year alone, there have been “474
Estonian border guards have arrested two Russian fishermen for crossing the border. The two men, Russian news agency 47news.ru claims, are former KGB agents. The news agency claims Mihhail Suhoshin, 64, and Alexander Ladur, 54, held major ranks within the KGB and the
The threat posed by Khorasan was not as “imminent” as top US officials have suggested, and the Al Qaeda terror cell did not appear to be as “aspirational” as suggested, according to a senior American official. Bruce O. Riedel, a former
Just days prior to the ruthless beheading of an innocent woman at the hands of Oklahoma jihadist Alton Nolen, his Imam, Imad Enchassi, garnered international attention after claiming that Muslims–even Muslim children–who resided in Oklahoma were under constant threat of
