Six years ago, the Obama administration set the ambitious goal of ending veteran homelessness in 2015 and ending the backlog in disability claims. Now it appears likely the Department of Veterans Affairs will miss both targets. The latest count available showed about 50,000 homeless veterans on a single night in January… Read More
Desperate, VW offers customers… cash!?
Volkswagen is offering $1,000 in gift cards and vouchers as a goodwill gesture to owners of small diesel-powered cars involved in an emissions cheating scandal. The offer announced Monday goes to owners of 482,000 cars in the U.S., many who are angry at the company because they paid extra for… Read More
After scandal, will Russia to be banned from Olympics?
Russian track and field athletes could be banned from next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after a devastatingly critical report accused the country’s government of complicity in widespread doping and cover-ups. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commission set up to investigate doping in Russia said even the country’s intelligence… Read More
Whoa mama! Half of pregnant moms overdoing it
Nearly half of U.S. moms gain too much weight during pregnancy, according to a government study released last week. Putting on too many extra pounds during pregnancy can harm the mom, and may cause a range of problems for the child, experts say. The study found only about a third… Read More
Thermal scan of Egypt’s pyramids finds strange “anomaly”
Two weeks of new thermal scanning in Egypt’s Giza pyramids have identified anomalies, including a major one in the largest pyramid, the Antiquities Ministry announced Monday. Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty and technical experts working on the project showed the thermal differences in the pyramid in a live camera presentation to… Read More
‘Godzilla’ gator terrorizes Houston shopping center
What a monster! An alligator dubbed “Godzilla” and tipping the scales at more than 800 pounds is being taken to a gator reserve to live out its days, after being found wandering outside a Houston-area shopping center. Godzilla was discovered Saturday by people arriving for work at the center in… Read More
American soldiers killed by terrorist coward
A Jordanian policeman opened fire this morning on foreign trainers at a police training compound, killing two American military personnel, as well as a South African trainer. The gunman was shot dead by responding forces, a government spokesman said. Jordan, a U.S. ally that has a peace treaty with Israel, has… Read More
Westboro Baptist Church to dishonor our veterans
The controversial Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), a so-called Christian denomination known more for protesting soldiers funerals than for preaching the gospel, is at it again. This time, their disgusting protest plans are taking them to our nation’s national cemetery, just in time for Veterans Day. According to the WBC’s website, the… Read More
1 dead, 2 wounded in NYC subway shooting
At press time police were continuing their desperate search for the gunman behind the shooting of three people, one fatally, in midtown Manhattan near Penn Station early Monday morning. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to publicly discuss an ongoing investigation said the… Read More
Racial unrest tears apart college football team
Breaking -The president of the University of Missouri System says he is resigning amid student criticism of his handling of racial issues. President Tim Wolfe said Monday that his resignation is effective immediately. The announcement came at a special meeting of the university system’s governing body, the Board of Curators…. Read More