MCALLEN, Texas — Two underage illegal aliens are in custody accused of breaking into ranch homes to steal firearms. The arrest came after deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office, who were working a separate case, ended up finding a
On September 10, Breitbart reported that several churches in Arizona drew national attention for sheltering illegal immigrants from authorities, but now up to 24 churches across the country have joined the first few Arizona churches in this movement. Earlier this
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani policeman on Thursday shot and wounded a 70-year-old British man with a history of mental illness in the jail where he is on death row for blasphemy, his lawyers said. Muhammad Asghar, from Edinburgh, was
LONDON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted Britain to join U.S.-led air strikes against the Islamic State militant group after the Iraqi government requested London’s help and he recalled parliament to secure its approval for military
(Reuters) – U.S. hospitals may be unprepared to safely dispose of the infectious waste generated by any Ebola virus disease patient to arrive unannounced in the country, potentially putting the wider community at risk, biosafety experts said. Waste management companies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States believes that a U.S. strike in Syria has killed Mohsin al-Fadhli, the leader of a group of al Qaeda militants known as Khorasan, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday. “We believe he is
(Reuters) – Air strikes overnight hit Islamic State-held territory inSyria near the Turkish border, near an area that tens of thousands of Kurds have fled as the militant group advanced, an organization that tracks the Syrian war said on Wednesday. Rami
(Reuters) – Al-Qaeda linked militants in the southern Philippines have threatened to kill two Germans hostages they have been holding since April unless Germany stops supporting U.S. action against Islamic State militants, the SITE monitoring service said. Philippine security officials said on
(Reuters) – Yemen’s Shi’ite Houthi fighters tightened their grip on the capital Sanaa on Monday after seizing much of the city in a lightning advance and signing an overnight deal to win a share of power, capping a decade-long guerrilla
MANCHESTER England (Reuters) – British opposition Labor party leader Ed Miliband confirmed on Wednesday he had forgotten vital parts of a pre-election speech the previous day, his last address to his party’s annual conference before a national election in May.
LONDON (Reuters) – British newspaper group Trinity Mirror said its subsidiary MGN had admitted liability to four individuals who had sued the company for phone hacking, and would pay them compensation. Britain’s newspaper industry was rocked in 2011 by the
A California man who worked as a janitor at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Salinas was arrested by police on Friday, and booked in Monterey County Jail, after it was discovered that he had been allegedly recording unsuspecting women with
An internal Canadian government report recently proposed a program to release illegal aliens and monitor them with electronic ankle monitors, rather than detain them in government detention facilities. The proposed program is viewed as a cost-saving measure, one where detained
Filmmaker Oliver Stone, who has gained fame and notoriety for iconic films based on real life persons and events, is reportedly in talks with the versatile actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in a new film. The
(Reuters) – Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza was sentenced on Tuesday to spend eight months in a community confinement center during five years of probation after pleading guilty to a campaign finance law violation. The defendant, a frequent critic
This story originally appeared at Vox. Before this year, Ebola was a disease relegated to remote villages in Africa. Even public health officials didn’t worry about it spreading very far. Until recently, they would probably tell you that the virus typically
The communist state of Laos has categorically banned any online criticism of the government in a new set of laws that criminalizes speaking ill of the government on the Internet and any outlet that facilitates the publication of such online
The Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard has threatened Israel with sanctions unless it agrees to concessions including ending the “blockade of Gaza” and stopping “illegal settlements”. Speaking to the Danish media, Lidegaard indicated that the EU would join in with
The Israeli Defense Forces shot down a Syrian fighter plane over the Israeli Golan Heights Tuesday morning using a Patriot missile, the Israeli army said. The Jerusalem Post reports that the Israel Air Force detected a Sukhoi-24 Syrian fighter jet
A debate is erupting among scientists as to how severe the problem of Ebola in West African countries such as Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia will become in the coming months. Scientists from the World Health Organization are trumpeting claims
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mohamed El-Erian, the chief economic adviser at Allianz SE, warned that global markets do not fully appreciate the risk posed by the Ukrainian crisis, a conflict which could push Europe into recession. He saw few options
Some 70% of Americans do not designate the Obama administration as friendly toward religion, according to a Pew poll released Monday. The share of Americans that sees the Obama administration as friendly toward religion took a dramatic drop to 30%
According to China’s state-media, two were killed and many more injured on Sunday when Uyghur Islamic radicals bombed an area in the country’s western region of Xinjiang, Reuters reports. The state-press report added that hundreds of innocent Chinese citizens have
Venezuela’s repressive socialist government announced a “disarmament campaign” this weekend, urging civilians to surrender their weapons to government officials in what they claim is an attempt at reducing the nation’s astronomical murder rate. The BBC reports that President Nicolás Maduro
Secretary of State John Kerry called Islamic State terrorists “one of the most dangerous groups that I have seen in my time in public life.” Kerry made his remarks during an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, reminding viewers that ISIS
CAIRO, Sept 21 (Reuters) – A bomb blast beside Egypt’s foreign ministry killed three policemen on Sunday, including a key witness in a trial of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. The blast, the worst attack in Cairo for months, killed
If an education summit convened Thursday by Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) is any indication of what’s top priority to many state lawmakers and education groups, the Common Core standards will be the central education battle during the upcoming legislative
A letter and petition accusing Bishop Frank Dewane of the Diocese of Venice, Florida, of authoritarian leadership will soon be on its way to Rome, asking Pope Francis to intervene. The campaign has been orchestrated by two liberal groups agitating
BAGHDAD (AP) — Bomb and mortar fire attacks killed ten people in Shiite areas in and around Baghdad on Sunday, as Iraqi security forces said they succeeded in breaking a siege on soldiers who had been surrounded by Islamic State
US spy planes are flying over South London in a bid to track down ‘Jihadi John’ via his associates still in the area. The planes are being flown by British pilots, are carrying FBI agents, and are equipped with state
The government of Turkey is reporting that between 45,000-60,000 Syrian refugees have crossed the border in the past 24 hours to escape the Islamic State. The majority are from the Kurdish town of Kobane and surrounding villages, which is considered
Russia detained a Lithuanian fishing vessel in international waters on September 17, then towed the vessel to Russia’ s Murmansk Port on September 19. According to Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said the ship is
(Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with Egyptian Defense Minister Colonel General Sedki Sobhy on Saturday to confirm the United States plans to deliver 10 Apache helicopters to Egypt to support Cairo’s counter-terrorism efforts, the Pentagon said. The United States
Nearly 25% of Americans, largely fueled by their anger toward the permanent political class in Washington, D.C., would consider secession. According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released a day after voters in Scotland rejected an “independence referendum” by nearly 10 points, “23.9
Pope Francis has named Bishop Blase J. Cupich of Spokane, Washington, to be the next archbishop of Chicago, dashing conservative hopes. The Holy See Press Office announced the move, which is Francis’ most important U.S. appointment to date. This nomination
This week, some seventy years after the Holocaust, a death camp was uncovered in Sobibor, Poland, where about 250,000 Jews were exterminated at the hands of the Nazis. Nazi Germany committed a great deal of resources attempting to cover up the atrocities they committed
(Reuters) – A man jumped over the White House fence and made it to the front doors of the executive mansion before being apprehended on Friday, sparking an evacuation within the complex shortly after President Barack Obama departed for the weekend. Omar
(Reuters) – Turkish intelligence agents brought 46 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq back to Turkeyon Saturday after more than three months in captivity, in what President Tayyip Erdogan described as a covert rescue operation. Security sources told
ISLAMABAD Sept 18 (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen on Thursday shot dead a professor of Islamic studies in Pakistan who had faced accusations of blasphemy and threats from colleagues over his moderate views, police said.Blasphemy is a crime carrying the death
PARIS (Reuters) – Britain and France have agreed to improve border controls and cooperate more closely in an effort to control a growing number of illegal immigrants trying to cross the English Channel from the French port city of Calais
