Iraqi Kurdish authorities said Tuesday their troops rescued a Swedish teenager from the Islamic State group near the extremist-controlled city of Mosul earlier this month, while a local TV station broadcast an interview with the girl in which she described how she came with her boyfriend to Iraq last year…. Read More
Zika outbreak! Over a dozen more cases found in US
U.S. health officials are investigating more than a dozen possible Zika infections that may have been spread through sex. The 14 cases all involve men who visited areas with Zika outbreaks, and who may have infected their female sex partners, who had not traveled to those areas. Zika virus is… Read More
Tweeter-in-chief? Obama wants to fight ISIS with social media
The Obama administration is convening a meeting this week to discuss efforts to counter the propaganda of the Islamic State and its recruitment of Westerners to become terrorists. The meeting scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at the Justice Department involves government officials as well as dozens of representatives from advertising and… Read More
Feds hammer polygamist sect with fraud charges
Investigators say they noticed something strange when they began tracking food stamp transactions coming out of two small convenience stores in a polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border. The volume of food stamp purchases was so large that it rivaled big-box stores like Wal-Mart and Costco. They said they later… Read More
Investigators announce official cause of Scalia’s death
Antonin Scalia suffered from coronary artery disease, obesity and diabetes, among other ailments that probably contributed to the justice’s sudden death, according to a letter from the Supreme Court’s doctor. Presidio County District Attorney Rod Ponton cited the letter Tuesday when he told The Associated Press there was nothing suspicious… Read More
[Going viral] New, hilarious Trump fan video
Someone put Republican frontrunner Donald Trump into the HBO show Game of Thrones, and the results are too hilarious to keep to ourselves. Check out the video everyone is talking about —
[Breaking] Obama closes Gitmo, bringing terrorists to America
President Barack Obama appeared at a press conference this morning to detail his administration’s controversial plan to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo), and transfer the remaining detainees to facilities in the United States. And he may want half-a-billion dollars in taxpayer funds to implement the plan…. Read More
Supreme hypocrites! 5 Dems who flip-flopped on SCOTUS fight
Democrats seem willing to say anything to help President Barack Obama appoint a new Supreme Court justice during his last year in office. Even if it’s hypocritical. Many members of Congress, and all the current GOP candidates for president, want Obama to hold off on naming a replacement for former… Read More
Bible screw-up costs Cruz big
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is facing increasing criticism regarding his honesty and campaign tactics, and his campaign’s latest screw-up could deal another blow to his White House hopes. Monday, Cruz’s communications director resigned for tweeting a story that falsely alleged Florida Sen. Marco Rubio insulted the Bible, and the timing —… Read More
Trump set to CRUSH rivals in Nevada
Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman from New York turned Republican presidential frontrunner, has seen his campaign become the subject of withering attacks from both the GOP party establishment and the mainstream media for months. On Tuesday night, it looks like none of that will matter. Trump is expected to win… Read More