(Reuters) – A Chicago police commander who had been praised for his crime fighting in some of the city’s roughest neighborhoods appeared in court on Thursday to face charges he put a gun in a suspect’s mouth, officials said. Commander
A new Israeli poll shows that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s job approval rating has suffered dramatically in the wake of the Gaza ceasefire, which many Israelis felt was premature. At the same time, another poll shows that Israel’s right-wing parties
LONDON, United Kingdom – Standing outside the Westminster Arms pub following Nigel Farage and Douglas Carswell’s seismic announcement over the Tory MP’s defection away from the Conservative Party and to UKIP, the leader of UKIP was mobbed by admirers, including
PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande has ruled out an international partnership with Syria’s leader to fight against the Islamic State group, saying any alliance with Bashar Assad would play into the militants’ hands. In a wide-ranging speech Thursday
Former NATO Supreme Commander General Sir Richard Shirreff said the West must wake itself up and re-arm if it wants any real chance of stopping “Russian adventurism.” He said the West is making a mistake by talking big but not
Fifty days. If the current ceasefire holds, that is how long intense, cross-border rocket fire into Israel by Gaza terrorists was met with retaliatory attacks on Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Air Force. Here is a look
Nigeria closed all schools until October 13 due to Ebola. The measure is to prevent the deadly disease from spreading. Students were due back on Monday. “All primary and secondary schools in private and public sectors are to remain closed
On August 23, an 89-year-old World War II veteran grabbed an armed robber’s gun, then pulled out his own gun and wrestled with the suspect before shooting him six times. The veteran, Arthur M. Lewis, was working at his Lake
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have executed Syrian army soldiers and are holding a group of them hostage after capturing an air base in northeast Syria at the weekend, pictures posted on the Internet and on Twitter by supporters
As Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto travels across California and declares America to be “the other Mexico,” a Pew Research survey has found that 60% of Mexicans disapprove of Peña Nieto on the economy. Perhaps as a result, a plurality of
(Reuters) – Unidentified, heavily-armed strangers with Russian accents have appeared in an eastern Ukrainian village, arousing residents’ suspicions despite Moscow’s denials that its troops have deliberately infiltrated the frontier. Two witnesses told Reuters on Tuesday that the dozens of men,
Kirsten Powers, the great moderate liberal commentator to who actually has the courage and honesty to practice the tolerance and compassion she preaches, has asked her Twitter followers to contribute to Catholic Knights of Columbus fund to assist Iraqi Christians
As the November elections draw closer, public contribution disclosures show that Bill and Melinda Gates have given a total of $1 million to support the passage of Washington state’s Initiative 594 – a gun control initiative expanding background checks over private
On August 25, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said the Islamic State (IS) militants “killed up to 670 prisoners in Mosul” and “ruthlessly” targeted religious minorities for “religious cleansing.” Pillay also said IS was carrying out “ethnic…cleansing
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a page from a seized Hamas training manual that supports its case that Palestinian militants deliberately use the cover of residential areas for combat operations, reports Reuters. Hamas “dismissed the document as a forgery
SAN DIEGO — “Got Unwanted Guns? Get a Gift Card,” reads the header for a San Diego County Sheriff’s Department program offering grocery store gift cards for anyone who wants to turn in guns, “no questions asked.” Two events will
The French cabinet was dissolved this weekend thanks to increasing signs of rebellion from ministers on the left who are angry over “German austerity”. French President François Hollande has ordered his Prime Minister Manuel Valls to convene a new cabinet.
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s prime minister will scramble to put together a new pro-reform government on Tuesday, a day after the surprise eviction of rebel ministers who had opposed budgetary rigor. Manuel Valls will seek as wide a basis as
U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii ruled California’s 10-day waiting period on firearm purchases was unconstitutional on Monday. The ruling was the result of Sylvester v. Harris, a case in which Plaintiffs Brandon Combs and Jeff Sylvester filed suit against CA
After a four-day battle, jihadi fighters from the Islamic State (IS) terror group overtook a Syrian military airport in Raqqa on Sunday, securing the last piece of their accumulation of the entire province. President Bashar al-Assad’s state-run Syrian news agency
As President Barack Obama considers enacting executive amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants, USA Today urged him not to do it, saying it would “set a dangerous precedent” for future presidents to act unilaterally on a host of “significant matters
President Barack Obama is reportedly set to give temporary amnesty to nearly 5 million illegal immigrants, and White House officials reportedly believe that is not “huge.” On MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart, Chris Jansing, the network’s senior White House correspondent, said that Obama is
From the BBC: Militant group Boko Haram has said it has set up an Islamic state in the towns and villages it has seized in north-eastern Nigeria. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was speaking in a video released to congratulate
FREETOWN/LONDON (Reuters) – A British medical worker was flown home from West Africa on Sunday after becoming the first Briton infected in an Ebola epidemic, and a separate new outbreak of the disease was detected in Democratic Republic of Congo.
NAPA, Calif., Aug 24 (Reuters) – Prized collections and wooden casks crashed to cellar floors when a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck Napa Valley on Sunday, but damage to the famous wine region at the start of harvest time might be
According to scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, an earthquake early warning system operated successfully and was able to detect the quake ten seconds before the 6.0 quake hit on Sunday morning in Napa Valley. Although ten seconds
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed Friday that over 1000 businesses across the U.S. have been targeted by a cyber attack that allows hackers to steal personal data from customers’ debit and credit cards. Some of the biggest names that
On Saturday, President Barack Obama reportedly ordered a federal review of the increasing militarization of local police forces after Ferguson, Missouri erupted in rioting and looting after Michael Brown’s death. According to Reuters, Obama called for a review of “federal programs
Sectarian violence continues to rise in Iraq as suicide bombs and gunfire killed over 85 people in areas around Baghdad in the Diyala province. On early Friday, a bomber attempted to murder a leader of a local Shi’ite tribe. He
HOUSTON, Texas — The fracking boom may prove to be twice as lucrative as investors initially thought–many U.S. gas and oil producers are starting re-fracking efforts on wells that sunk at least three years ago. Refracking has been made possible thanks
China’s senior security official met Indonesian anti-terrorism chief in Beijing on Friday, with the pair vowing more cooperation in fighting terrorism, reported Chinese news agency (Xinhua). Meng Jianzhu told Ansyaad Mbai, head of the Indonesian National Counter Terrorism Agency, that
Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News is reporting that a famous Jewish couple were stabbed to death in their home in Istanbul. The bodies of Jak Karako, 77, and his wife, Georgia Karako, 69, were discovered by police in their apartment in Istanbul’s
The problem with ObamaCare isn’t just that it’s the so called law of the land, said law seems to keep changing in reaction to events and court rulings until not even “we have to pass it to see what’s in
(Reuters) – Authorities suspect around 130 people resident in Austria – most of them foreign nationals – have allied themselves with Islamist militants fighting abroad, officials in Vienna said on Friday, raising their estimate by nearly a third. Public safety
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Hamas says it didn’t intend to start the Gaza War Tunisia and Egypt cancel passenger flights to Libya Hamas says it didn’t intend to start the Gaza War The current Gaza war was triggered
On Thursday, a music video titled “F*** tha Police” called for revenge for the fatal police shooting of Ezell Ford in South Los Angeles on August 11. The video has prompted the LAPD’s union to issue a warning to officers to be
Democrat House candidate Ann Callis, a former Illinois circuit judge, is running against GOP Rep. Rodney Davis in the state’s 13th Congressional District. The 13th is a politically competitive district, unlike the neighboring 15th District, where Callis has long called
Hamas killed 11 Gazans suspected of informing for Israel on Friday, a Gaza security official said. The killings of the 11 were also reported by al-Rai and al-Majd, two websites linked to Hamas. The execution spree followed Thursday’s assassinations of
Senegal has become the latest African country to restrict travel as a result of the Ebola outbreak, closing its borders to neighbouring Guinea, the Senegalese Press Agency reported Friday. “This measure also applies to air and maritime borders, to planes
PARIS (AP) — Two girls, aged 15 and 17, are under investigation in France for allegedly making plans to join jihadis in Syria. The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Friday that the girls, one from Tarbes in the southwest, the
