Phone and Internet service provider Talk Talk said Friday that it has received a ransom demand after a “significant and sustained” cyberattack that may have compromised customers’ credit card and banking details. Chief Executive Dido Harding said the company did not know how much data was stolen in the attack… Read More
Honor him – Hostage rescue hero identified
The first US soldier to die ind irect combat against the Islamic State group in Iraq has been identified as Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler, coalition officials said Friday. Army Col. Steve Warren told The Associated Press that Wheeler, 39, was killed a day earlier when he and dozens of… Read More
BUSTED! Sue-happy welfare cheat caught
A Pennsylvania man who has filed more than 30 lawsuits claiming to be severely disabled has pleaded guilty to felony perjury after prosecutors say he was found doing maintenance on his house. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports 60-year-old James George Douris entered the plea Wednesday in Bucks County. The charge stemmed… Read More
Violent protests erupt in South Africa
Thousands of South African university students protesting planned tuition hikes flocked to the country’s main government complex on Friday, with some setting fires and throwing stones as police responded with stun grenades, tear gas and a water cannon. President Jacob Zuma met with student leaders and university managers and his… Read More
Trick or treat: How liberals celebrate Halloween
Now that’s what we call frightening!
Perjury? Hillary caught lying on Benghazi
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent much of her time testifying at Thursday’s Benghazi committee hearing deflecting blame and dodging tough questions. But Clinton twisted some of these facts so badly, she may have even lied under oath. Here are some of the biggest fabrications Clinton told Thursday: Lie #1… Read More
Deadliest storm ever bears down on Americas
Today’s anticipated arrival of Hurricane Patricia, a monster Category 5 storm, has residents of Mexico scrambling to brace for what forecasters say is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western hemisphere. The Hurricane Center in Miami warned that preparations should be rushed to completion, saying the storm could cause coastal… Read More
Hundreds turn out to support cop killer
“Rise up!” was the message a mass of anti-cop protesters wanted to send to New Yorkers yesterday, just two days after the tragic slaying of New York Police Department Officer Randolph Holder by a career criminal. Activists and family members of those killed by police rallied Thursday in Times Square,… Read More
Tea Party backs down! Ryan to be speaker
The House Freedom Caucus, a bloc of Tea Party members that typically votes together to advance conservative causes, has signaled its surrender and has backed Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan for the Speaker of the House position. The news was greeted warmly by the Obama administration, which immediately raised some eyebrows among GOP… Read More
Heroic US special forces save 70 from massacre
Believing that Islamic State captives held on a compound in northern Iraq faced “imminent mass execution,” dozens of U.S. special operations troops and Iraqi forces raided the site Thursday, freeing approximately 70 Iraqi prisoners. It was an operation that saw the first American killed in combat in the country since the… Read More