President Barack Obama has insisted that the United States citizens are safe and there is no need to fear Islamic extremists here in the United States. In fact, in an interview with CBS News as recently as December, Obama said, “Our homeland has never been more protected.” But he’s dead… Read More
Notorious “Harry Potter” villain passes away
British actor Alan Rickman, whose career ranged from Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company to the “Harry Potter” films, has died. He was 69. Rickman’s family said Thursday that the actor had died after a battle with cancer. His breakout role was as the scheming Vicomte de Valmont in an acclaimed 1985… Read More
Savage terror attack by ISIS leaves 7 dead
Attackers set off suicide bombs and exchanged gunfire outside a Starbucks cafe in Indonesia’s capital in a brazen assault Thursday that police said “imitated” the recent Paris attacks and was probably linked to the Islamic State group. All five attackers and a Canadian and an Indonesian died in the midmorning… Read More
Showdown: Sparks set to fly in GOP debate tonight
It’s a brawl that has been weeks in the making. Now, Texas senator Ted Cruz and brash billionaire Donald Trump are set to lock horns on national television in Thursday’s GOP debate. The two are in a fierce battle for primacy in Iowa, the first state to vote on the… Read More
Thousands more foreign refugees to be admitted into US
President Obama’s plan to allow 10,000 Syrian migrants into America has already drawn fire after two were recently caught trying to join – or rejoin – ISIS. Now, conservatives are in an uproar after the the Obama administration has announced plans to expand the United States refugee program again and… Read More
Jackpot! And the winner is…
It wasn’t us. But we know where the winning tickets were sold. The unprecedented Powerball jackpot, whose rise to more than $1.5 billion became a national fascination, will be split three ways. The winners’ identities remain a mystery for the time being, but they bought their tickets in Florida, Tennessee… Read More
Sudden avalanche kills three in high school ski group
An avalanche in the French Alps struck a high school ski group Wednesday afternoon, killing at least three people, according to French officials. France’s National Gendarmerie said a search-and-rescue operation was launched in the Deux Alpes ski resort using sniffer dogs and a helicopter. French authorities in the Alps region… Read More
Search for Malaysia flight 370 leads to fascinating discovery
The undersea search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished almost two years ago has found a second 19th century shipwreck deep in the Indian Ocean off the west Australian coast, officials said Wednesday. A sonar search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 found what appeared to be a… Read More
Whale of a disaster! 80 pilot whales beach themselves in India
More than 80 whales have washed ashore on India’s southern coast, officials said Tuesday. The short-finned pilot whales began washing up on beaches Monday evening, said M. Ravi Kumar, the top government official in the southeastern port town of Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu state. Rescuers took at least 36 of… Read More
South Korea fires shots at North Korea after drone crosses border
South Korea on Wednesday fired 20 machine gun warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals’ border, officials said, the first shots fired in a Cold War-style standoff between the Koreas in the wake of the North’s nuclear test last week. The North Korean drone was flying… Read More