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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has opened a criminal investigation into one of the deadliest airstrikes of the last Gaza war. At least 24 members of the Abu Jamea family were killed in the July 20 strike

Majorities are not lasting long as they used to and as of Saturday night’s elections, Barack Obama has just surpassed Harry S. Truman as the U.S. president who presided over the most midterm election defeats in his own party over

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf banned public gatherings of any kind for the next 42 days to prevent the spread of Ebola. The country is in the middle of senatorial elections, but Sirleaf wants to prevent mass bodily contact as

It was the culmination of an intense burst of campaigning by left-wing pressure groups Avaaz, Change.org, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, BugLife and the Environmental Justice Foundation which erupted from nowhere last year. One minute, no one had heard of

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In Kenya, where the police have long been known to harbor death squads, evidence mounts that many ordinary cops on the beat have turned into killers — doling out death to terror suspects, civilians, even children.

AUSTIN, Texas — On Thursday, the Texas House Administration Committee adopted new rules for press credentialing at the Capitol that many are interpreting as a reaction to scrutiny from alternative and online conservative media. Under the new rules, credentialed members

A UN Official has attacked Britain’s concerns over uncontrolled immigration ahead of a “fact finding” mission to Italy and said its attitudes are “bulls**t”. In an

In September, the Highland Park Independent School District (ISD) in the Dallas metro area pulled seven books off its approved high school English literature shelves, then put six back on, and has been bickering over one in particular ever since

An independent forecaster has said Britain’s contributions to the EU coffers will rise by £100m a year for the next five years, The Telegraph reports. The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) has said the country will pay an extra half

Wednesday, in reacting to the news that a grand jury declined to indict the New York City Police Officer involved in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, so-called civil rights leader Al Sharpton held a press conference at the National

Wednesday, in reacting to the news that a grand jury declined to indict the New York City Police Officer involved in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a federal investigation. Transcript as follows: Good evening.

Government officials in Venezuela are condemning opposition voices asking for more accountability from the socialist regime as “Grinch” elements who “want to steal Christmas,” due to their demand that the collapsing economy not be pressured even more by weeks of

Former drummer for the alternative rock band Cake has been sentenced to 15-years-to-life in state prison after being convicted of molesting a three-year-old girl, reports the Los Angeles Times. Deputy Dist. Atty. Elena Abramson said McNeal molested the child during

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn’t take the reins of the Senate until January, but he is making an early move to consolidate his power. McConnell is pushing a rule change in the year-end spending deal currently under negotiation that would

New regulations that came into force this week have banned a comprehensive list of sexual acts from appearing in films produced and distributed by British companies, in a move that has introduced an “arbitrary” sense of morality into British pornography.

He said it was meant to be a joke but no one is laughing in Hooks Independent School District (ISD) where school board member Chris Harris posted a highly offensive meme of a hooded Ku Klux Klansman with the capitalized

Bollywood actress Gauhar Khan was slapped in the face during filming of the Raw Star reality television show in India Sunday evening by an irate audience member who claimed that the actresses’ clothing was too revealing for a Muslim woman

Communist leaders in China are looking to send members of their film industry on organized field trips to the countryside to “study and experience life.” The new move was proposed by the State General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and

A former double-agent who spent decades feeding information on Islamic extremists to Western intelligence agencies has blasted those same organisations for ignoring his warnings about Jihadis coming to the streets of Europe until it was too late.  Reda Hassaine, who

With the rise of the Texas grassroots conservative movement over the past six years and two legislative sessions, our common goal has been to make Texas strong so that her character, integrity, and pro-Liberty governance can lead a troubled nation

Jonathan Gruber’s testimony on December 9 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on health law deception could help determine who becomes the next governor of Vermont. Since incumbent Governor Peter Shumlin (D-VT) failed to obtain more than 50

The Queen has been accused of deliberately intervening in the Scottish independence referendum in September. In the days leading up to the poll, the Queen made a ‘gaffe’ by telling a member of the public she hoped ‘people will think

Quiet now. Can you hear that? Ukip members say their party is coming along quite nicely, thank you very much; trebles all round and take a gander at the scoreboard. They have a brace of seats at Westminster and a

Given that Edward Snowden‘s concerns that UK authorities operate a surveillance system where “anything goes”, it is not surprising that Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament this week that Internet firms are “being used to plot murder and mayhem.” Cameron’s

Common Core supporters have organized a coalition in Arizona to recall newly elected state school superintendent Diane Douglas, who ran primarily an anti-Common Core campaign. According to Capitol Media Services, the Coalition to Recall Diane Douglas has filed with the

Australia’s national broadcaster ABC has reportedly been staging brutal, Hunger-Games-style contests in order to decide which of its excess staff are for the chop. If this is the plan I don’t think it’s going to work. The people at ABC

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group of hackers believed to be loosely affiliated with the Syrian government, launched a Thanksgiving day widespread cyber attack on major news sites, including the Los Angeles Times, UK Daily Telegraph, Forbes, and others. The

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced an investigation into whether MI6 was complicit in the alleged torture of Michael Adebolajo whilst he was held in Kenya in 2010. Adebolajo, one of the two men who killed Fusilier Lee Rigby, claims

Nigel Farage has denied UKIP are homophobic by citing David Coburn MEP who describes himself as a “great big screaming poof”. Mr Farage made the comments in his weekly column in the Independent after a sacked UKIP spokesman made a

A new poll has revealed the overwhelming popularity of selective education of the type all but outlawed in the last century in the United Kingdom, news which will surely worry Tory and UKIP strategists alike.  The YouGov poll, which recorded

Ilya Somin of the Volokh Conspiracy, a blog hosted by the Washington Post, revisits the story of the Pilgrims at Plymouth and how instituting private property rights saved the community from ruin. There is much to be thankful for on

News websites critical of the Assad regime, and high-traffic websites including a popular computer game reviews site, and the National Hockey League have been hacked today by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). Newspapers the Independent, the Evening Standard, the Telegraph,

The Scottish Government is to be granted more powers following a report published today by Lord Smith of Kelvin. Under the plans a third of taxes will be controlled by Scotland and just a fifth of welfare spending, leading to

The impact of illegal immigration on US public schools is a topic largely broached from a dollars and cents perspective. Breitbart News quoted Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector projecting that with the President’s executive action, it will cost taxpayers nationwide upwards

To quote the cheery, lighted banner twinkling though the tear gas in Ferguson on Monday night, “Season’s Greetings, America.” It is so wonderful in these troubling times that town elders and the politicians who are running this show didn’t hang

Thanksgiving is upon us, meaning the media scolds are as eager to serve up propaganda as ever. “Don’t let right-wing lies ruin your Thanksgiving dinner,” Media Matters tells its readers. (Trigger warning.) “This year, be ready with the facts.” Media