Funeral

More than 100 Community members packed a small church in Taunton, Massachusetts, to honor a veteran who died without family November 22. 

A pallbearer refused to shake Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) hand during the memorial service for Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on Capitol Hill Thursday.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is the first African American lawmaker to lie in state inside the National Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill.

Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are expected to speak at the late Rep. Elijah Cummings’ funeral on Friday, according to reports.

A veteran with no surviving family members got a hero’s welcome when dozens of strangers banded together to hold a funeral for a fallen veteran.

A woman from the Bronx was charged Wednesday for allegedly burglarizing the homes of families attending the funerals of their deceased relatives. 

Socialist authorities in Venezuela held a “controlled burial” for Corvette Captain Rafael Acosta Arévalo on Wednesday, denying his family the right to access his body for an independent autopsy proving he was tortured to death.

Vice President Mike Pence honored Sen. Richard Lugar Wednesday in Indianapolis with some focus on his foreign relations work.

Thousands of strangers attended the Friday military funeral of a 77-year-old Vietnam War veteran from New Jersey who died alone and had no known relatives.

Former President George W. Bush will deliver the eulogy for his father as well as former Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, and presidential historian and Bush biographer Jon Meacham.

The nation’s capital bids its final farewell to the late former President George H.W. Bush in a service of prayer and praise.

“This is not a funeral, this is a day of celebration for a great man who has led a long and distinguished life,” Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday. “He will be missed!”

A Marine Corps veteran from Tennessee who had no apparent relatives when he died was not forgotten at his funeral last week when hundreds showed up to the ceremony.

The star of the Marvel series Luke Cage apologized Saturday for posting a tweet appearing to condone a bishop groping singer Ariana Grande during Aretha Franklin’s funeral on Friday.

The New York Post mocked Meghan McCain as “The Meg” on its Sunday cover after she used the opportunity of her father’s funeral to attack  President Trump.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) running mate in the 2008 presidential election, has not been invited to his funeral.

New York state lawmakers passed a bill at the end of the legislative session mandating that employees be entitled to three months of paid bereavement leave to mourn loved ones who passed away—including grandparents.

A huge funeral procession for a burglar killed by an elderly man he was robbing has ended in violence, arrests, and “terrifying scenes”.

JERUSALEM – Israel was built on the bodies of the Palestinian children it murdered, the host of a program recently aired on official Palestinian Authority TV declared, a claim that was echoed by a senior Palestinian official who was interviewed on the show and charged the Jewish state with the “summary executions” of children.

TEL AVIV — The Palestinian National Council will hold its first meeting in nearly a decade next month to elect new leaders — possibly paving the way for a successor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — and discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, officials said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is a mentally unstable racist Zionist, an official from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah faction claimed after the U.S. announced that its embassy in Jerusalem would open in May to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence. 

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party gave a fully furnished apartment to the family of the terrorist responsible for the murder of an Israeli rabbi last month, saying it was “fulfilling the national duty towards the families of martyrs.”

TEL AVIV- A new children’s program on official Palestinian Authority TV showcases arch-terrorist Abu Jihad, credited by the PA for the murders of at least 125 Israelis, as “a role model to be followed.”

JERUSALEM – The head of a Fatah women’s committee for Palestinian universities called “Sisters of Dalal” – named after the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi who was behind the death of 38 Israelis – explained on Palestinian Authority’s official TV network that the committee was named as such because Mugrhrabi was a feminist “role model” for Palestinian women.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority on Sunday honored two terrorists serving life sentences for the murder of an Israeli soldier, hailing them as “symbols of the Palestinian struggle.”

Hundreds of strangers gathered at a church in Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday to honor a Vietnam veteran with no known living relatives.

JERUSALEM – Official Palestinian Authority TV recently aired a music video featuring lyrics that include a vow to “break the Jews” and showing images of the one of the most lethal terrorists in Israel’s history.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority recently published a new school curriculum in which “radicalization” is more pervasive than ever before, with more pressure put on children to carry out acts of violence against Israelis, a watchdog group said.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper on Sunday ran an article claiming that Israel and the U.S. were behind Friday’s terror attack in a mosque in northern Sinai in which 305 were killed.

A Boston high school gave a deceased homeless veteran a military-style send-off after students learned the man died in the streets with no living family members or friends.