The wildfire threatening Yosemite National Park is still burning its way into the huge US tourist attraction despite dogged efforts by thousands of firefighters using planes and bulldozers. Ash is gathering on the surface of a reservoir serving San Francisco,
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Firefighters battled on Friday to check a fast-moving wildfire raging near the Sun Valley ski resort in Idaho, where more than 1,000 people were evacuated as flames menaced multimillion-dollar homes in the area, authorities said.The so-called
(AP) Kenya fire: Airport reopens for domestic, cargoBy TOM ODULA and JASON STRAZIUSOAssociated PressNAIROBI, Kenya A small fire that an under-resourced fire brigade reacted slowly to swelled into a raging inferno that engulfed the arrival hall at Kenya’s main international
DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. – July 15, 2013 (WPVI) — Police in Chester County, Pennsylvania are investigating an act of vandalism with racial overtones, possibly connected to the fallout from the verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial. Photographs obtained by Action
(AP) Arizona wildfire kills 19 members of elite crewBy JOHN MARSHALL and JACQUES BILLEAUDAssociated PressYARNELL, Ariz.An elite crew of firefighters trained to battle the nation’s fiercest wildfires was overtaken by an out-of-control blaze in Arizona, killing 19 members as they
Derek Lowe, a doctor of organic chemistry with decades of pharmaceutical research experience, has published a takedown of a BuzzFeed post that went super-viral over the weekend: “Eight Foods That We Eat in The US That Are Banned in Other
(AP) – Sixteen schoolchildren and a teacher burned to death in eastern Pakistan early Saturday when a short-circuit near a leaking gas tank caused their minibus to be engulfed in flames, police said. Police officer Ijaz Ahmad said five children
By NOMAAN MERCHANTAssociated PressWEST, TexasInvestigators working in the remnants of an exploded Texas fertilizer plant sifted by hand through untold kernels of corn, moved tons of debris and conducted more than 400 interviews, while searching for the missing piece to
(AP) 38 die in mental hospital fire outside MoscowNATALIYA VASILYEVAAssociated PressMOSCOWA fire swept quickly through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, most of them sedated and in their beds, officials said. The one-story brick-and-wood hospital building
Although the MSM has dropped the story, several conservative news outlets continue to report news about the Saudi national who was briefly considered a “person of interest” and was later cleared after the Boston bombing, last week. Here, at Breitbart,
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and JOHN L. MONEAssociated PressWEST, TexasRescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris while
In response to Judgment Withheld: Although I hate to give any credence to Infowars, their story does contain links to other sites. I don’t know if these other sites are credible or not. They’re just completely new to me. Maybe
In Naperville, IL, two mothers were arrested last week for refusing to allow utility workers to install controversial smart meters on their homes. The city’s new Naperville Smart Grid Initiative requires new controversial smart meters to be installed in every
(AP) – Japan’s two biggest airlines grounded all their Boeing 787 aircraft for safety checks Wednesday after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet. All Nippon Airways said a cockpit message
A revealing look at the mindset of the Left, including the man who came this close to the presidency in 2000: Glenn Beck’s The Blaze approached Current about buying the channel last year, but was told that ‘the legacy of
(AP) Officials: NY gunman set ‘trap’ for firefightersBy JOHN KEKISAssociated PressWEBSTER, N.Y.A man who set his house on fire then lured firefighters to their deaths in a blaze of flames and bullets had attracted little attention since he got out
David Maraniss is an associate editor at the Washington Post and a high-powered biographer. Below is a jaw-dropping look at Mr. Maraniss’ seeming inability to put history into some kind of context when it comes to one of his own
Special Assistant to the President Kareem Dale spoke to volunteers at the Democratic National Convention headquarters on Thursday and told them that if Mitt Romney won the election, those with disabilities would get “absolutely killed.” Dale, pictured above with Vice President
GOP candidate Mitt Romney just earned Lindsay Lohan’s vote. Scoff if you like, but Business Insider contends Lohan represents the “low information” voter who might play a major role in selecting the next president. Lohan said that the reason she
Free speech in America is under assault from the “tolerant” left, nowhere more so than in New York City, where the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been fighting an effort to run subway ads reading, “IN ANY WAR BETWEEN THE CIVILIZED
Mother Jones, the left-wing magazine that released a controversial video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remarks to a fundraiser in May, now admits that it has no full tape of what Romney said, and that its video is missing
Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, the Sinaloa Cartel’s logistics coordinator, is making some serious allegations against the US government. He says Operation Fast & Furious is not what it appears to be. Fast & Furious was a gunwalking scheme set up by
Related: The Blaze
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANAssociated PressALBUQUERQUE, N.M.More than 1,200 firefighters are battling the nation’s largest wildfire that has charred acre after acre of timber and brush in rugged mountains and canyons of southwestern New Mexico, shrouding parts of the region in
Two years after the worst marine oil spill in history, former WhiteHouse adviser Van Jones now admits that he and other progressives satquietly on the sidelines to avoid making President Obama look bad, as The Blaze notes: You’ve never seen
The Chevy Volt fire denials are getting harder and harder to maintain: Last week, a fire badly damaged the home of a new Fisker Karma owner, and authorities are saying that the electric car was the source of the blaze. According
A fire at an empty Occupy encampment at the Illinois State University, Normal campus has been determined to be arson. Nobody was injured in the blaze that happened early Sunday morning and no further details are currently available about how
Sanford, FL police have denied a rumor that neo-Nazis are sending armed patrols through the city to prepare for potential racial violence following the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The story, first published in a blog post from the Miami
A US Navy F-18 jet crashed into a low-rise apartment building in Virginia on Friday triggering an inferno, US media reported, with emergency responders rushing to the scene. The two crew members successfully ejected from the jet which crashed into
Imagine a nation threatened by the potential of a great fire. This is no small fir–rather, one biblical in nature set off by a criminal mind controlling a tiny ember. What happens when that ideology controlling the criminal mind sets
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Riots engulfed central Athens and at least 10 buildings went up in flames in mass protests late Sunday as lawmakers prepared for a historic parliamentary vote on harsh austerity measures demanded to keep the country solvent
Tuesday, we published this story about a bizarre attack launched against Governor Sarah Palin at, of all places, Glenn Beck’s site The Blaze. It was an attack made up of whole cloth, the kind of thing we’re used to seeing from the mainstream
RACINE, Wis. – Left-wing Wisconsin teacher Al Levie believes his mission in the classroom is to help students “become engines of positive change in our society.” Some of his former students, however, describe their experience in his class a little bit differently. “This man
***ADDED: Something else the Blaze didn’t bother to share was this. You have to wonder what’s going on with Glenn Beck. Beck’s fall from grace started when his site, The Blaze, falsely attacked James O’Keefe — to the delight of the very people who used to
Whydid only Americans of Cuban heritage get miffed at Mercedes Benz for their Che promotional flap? From USA Today to Forbes and from the Miami Herald to The Blaze, it was the same story “Cuban-Americans angered.” Then “Mercedes apologizes to
Glenn Beck’s The Blaze has joined the “progressive” left’s all-out attack on James O’Keefe after his Project Veritas successfully demonstrated that dead people could vote in the New Hampshire primary due to the state’s lack of voter ID requirements at
“… freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice… Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin There is more to the disheveled crowd that has been entertaining Americans for the past three weeks than meets the eye. Don’t
On October 6, 2011, Medea Benjamin, head of radical anti-war group Code Pink, told MRCTV’s Joe Schoffstall at ‘Occupy DC’ in Freedom Plaza that unions are not behind the formation of the recent demonstrations, despite the SEIU’s Stephen Lerner being
Jon Seidl at The Blaze has video and a transcript of New Jersey governor Chris Christie self-righteously defending his most recent judicial appointment, Sohail Mohammed, a Muslim lawyer with ties to open supporters of both the Muslim Brotherhood and its
Here is a message I sent out to my list via email yesterday: Incredibly, all the items below are talking about the same Newsweek poll! Even more incredibly, to buttress his Pollyannaish fantasy, the Atlantic guy links to the Newsweek