The job market boomed in October. Employers added 271,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate fell to 5 percent, the lowest level in seven years. The flurry of hiring is likely to give the Federal Reserve confidence to go ahead with a long-anticipated increase in short-term interest rates in December. Here’s… Read More
It’s official: Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline
The Obama administration rejected a Canadian energy giant’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, three individuals familiar with the decision said, capping a seven-year saga that became an environmental flashpoint in Barack Obama’s presidency. Obama was to announce the decision at the White House after meeting with… Read More
Cops release serial stabber’s insane manifesto
The 18-year-old California university freshman who went on rampage with a hunting knife this week had a disturbing master plan. He was going to capture hostages, ambush and brutually murder cops, and then use their weapons to start shooting — all because he was barred from a study group, authorities said. Merced… Read More
Liar-in-Chief: Obamacare costs to EXPLODE
Conservatives warned time and again that government interference in healthcare would be bad for the market and drive up prices. Despite these protests from the right, Obamacare was pushed into law. Now, President Obama is desperate to cover-up the truth, and recently claimed in a press release that health care… Read More
War on religion! Schools cancel Christmas plays
Anti-religion activists never seem to rest, and their newest target is an annual tradition celebrated across the country at thousands of schools. But if the notorious Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has its way, Christmas plays will be banned for good. In response, thousands of angry parents are gathering up… Read More
Revealed: Suicide cop tried to hire hitman
Was Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz the most corrupt cop in America? Months before this Illinois police officer staged his suicide to make it seem like he died in the line of duty, subjecting his community to an expensive and fruitless manhunt, he apparently sought a hit man to kill a village… Read More
Groundbreaking fossil find in New Mexico
Paleontologists with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science on Thursday unveiled the first baby Pentaceratops skull ever discovered as hundreds of people lined up to get a look. Scientists had cut open the giant plaster jacket that protected the skull as it was airlifted out of the… Read More
A priest, the pope, a good Samaritan… and an assault
Durango, Colorado police are investigating an assault that involved a priest, a pope and a good Samaritan. Sgt. Deck Shaline tells The Durango Herald the suspect, who was dressed as a priest for Halloween, punched the victim and knocked him unconscious, then kicked him in the head several times early Sunday… Read More
Tragic bus accident in Arkansas kills 6
A charter bus ran off Interstate 40 and hit a bridge abutment on a foggy night in Arkansas, killing as many as six people and injuring many others who were taken from the scene in ambulances. Arkansas State Police said the crash occurred about 1 a.m. Friday. A heavy storm… Read More
Chicago – Drug gang lures 9-year-old boy into alley for murder
A 9-year-old Chicago boy who was fatally shot this week was “lured” from a park into an alley and executed because of his father’s alleged gang connections, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Thursday in a crime he described as among the most “unfathomable” of his 35 years in policing. Tyshawn… Read More