The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said Wednesday. The three-member western New York-based team said it discovered the shipwreck earlier this summer in deep water off… Read More
Russia: Striking from Iran doesn’t violate sanctions
The Russian foreign minister on Wednesday rejected allegations that its use of Iranian military bases for airstrikes in Syria violates United Nations sanctions on Iran. Russia on Tuesday announced that it had launched the strikes from near the Iranian city of Hamedan and struck targets in three provinces in northern… Read More
Raging CA wildfires prompt state of emergency
It tore through canyons and flew over ridges in every direction with astonishing speed, sending flames 80 feet skyward and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. The Southern California wildfire that began as a small midmorning patch of flame next to Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass had… Read More
Gang war! El Chapo’s son kidnapped by rival cartel
One of the sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is among the half-dozen men abducted by gunmen at a restaurant in the Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, authorities said Tuesday. Jalisco state Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer said 29-year-old Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar had been determined to… Read More
Clinton pal resigns after corruption conviction
Pennsylvania’s first elected female attorney general announced her resignation Tuesday, a day after being convicted of abusing the powers of the state’s top law enforcement office to smear a rival and lying under oath to cover it up. Democrat Kathleen Kane’s exit completes a spectacular fall for the former county… Read More
American runner’s selfless gesture lifts Olympic spirit
New Zealand runner Nikki Hamblin was lying on the track, dazed after a heavy fall and with her hopes of an Olympic medal seemingly over. Suddenly, there was a hand on her shoulder and a voice in her ear: “Get up. We have to finish this.” It was American Abbey… Read More
Beloved TV conservative dies
John McLaughlin, the conservative political commentator and host of the namesake long-running television show that pioneered hollering-heads discussions of Washington politics, has died. He was 89. McLaughlin died Tuesday morning, according to an announcement on the Facebook page of “The McLaughlin Group” series. No cause of death was mentioned, but… Read More
Obama linked to NY bribe scheme?
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been claiming for years that the litigation against Trump University is a politically motivated witch hunt. Now it looks like he’s found the trail of shady campaign cash to prove it — and the conspiracy may lead right back to President Barack Obama and… Read More
Justice! Clinton facing perjury charges
Hillary Clinton’s opponents have often accused her of having a flippant attitude toward the rule of law — and legal controversy has followed the Democratic presidential candidate during her entire 30-year political career. But does Clinton have such disregard for our country’s laws that she would intentionally lie under oath?… Read More
Exposed! Soros linked to Islamic radicals
The latest leak to rock political circles may reveal exactly why the liberal left is so afraid of uttering the phrase “radical Islam” — because they’re working to protect it! In what may have once been dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory, 2,500 pages of documents leaked over the weekend… Read More