“Jihadi John,” horrified the world with his brutal beheadings of hostages. His videos, with sneering taunts of the West, served as a recruiting tool for those drawn to the dark, bloody world of ISIS extremism… but if reports are correct, he’s filmed his last. U.S. officials have “99% certainty” that… Read More
Students demand YOU pay their tuition, debt
Emboldened by the victory of protesters at the University of Missouri, college students around the country are beginning to organize nationwide behind a set of outrageous demands. Students at the University of California, Berkeley and more than a hundred other colleges and universities staged marches Thursday. They want tax payers… Read More
Government expanding its oversight over America’s farms
New produce safety rules from the government today are intended to help prevent the kind of large-scale outbreaks of food-borne illness that occurred over the past decade linked to fresh spinach, cantaloupes, cucumbers and other foods. Under the rules, the government soon will have new oversight of the farms that grow… Read More
Republican feud heats up – Cruz vs. Rubio
Republican presidential rivals Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are working furiously to outmaneuver each other on immigration… and it could be just what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants. Rubio co-wrote a massive 2013 immigration bill that passed the Senate. He disavows it now, but Cruz won’t stop… Read More
Deported illegal tries to kill cop
In October, Sheriff Lupe Valdez announced – as part of her re-election campaign – that she would immediately be moving Dallas into line with an estimated 300 other sanctuary cities in the United States. Valdez ordered her officers not cooperate with immigration officials and release illegal immigrants caught committing so-called… Read More
Ohio ISIS sympathizer leads officials in cyber-chase
An Ohio man accused of using social media to promote violence against U.S. service members opened at least eight anonymous online accounts in quick succession to make threats, even as Twitter kept suspending them and federal agents raced to find him, court documents say. The unusual case illustrates the deadly… Read More
Peas, or green beans? The strange new way to pay parking tickets
Parking tickets can be paid with donations of canned food instead of cash during a monthlong “Food for Fines” program in Lexington, Kentucky. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the city’s parking authority will accept cans for citations from Nov. 16 to Dec. 18. Those who donate 10 canned food items… Read More
Drug mix-up causes 94 babies?
94 moms who had babies blamed errant birth control packaging and have joined other formerly-pregnant women in a huge negligence lawsuit filed in Philadelphia against several drug companies. The lawsuit follows a 2011 recall of more than 500,000 blister packs after an Iowa customer found the pills packaged out of… Read More
US stocks PLUMMET after…
Stocks are heading lower in early trading, weighed down by weakness in mining and energy companies. Prices for copper, oil and other commodities were falling early Thursday. Freeport-McMoRan sank 6 percent and Chesapeake Energy fell 4 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up 145 points, or 0.8 percent, to… Read More
“Goodfellas” mobster goes free
An aging mobster threw his hands into the air and shouted “Free,” grinning as he walked out of a courthouse following his surprising acquittal on charges he helped plan the legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist retold in the hit Mafia film “Goodfellas.” A federal jury reached the verdict Thursday at a… Read More