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
Horrific car accident kills 42 in France
A truck and a bus transporting retirees on a day trip collided and caught fire Friday in wine country in southwest France, killing 42 people and badly injuring four others, authorities said. It was the nation’s deadliest road accident in more than 30 years. An image released by BFM television… Read More
One Philadelphia voter will win THIS incredible prize
Philadelphia voters now have extra incentive to go to the polls: They could win $10,000. The editor of The Philadelphia Citizen on Thursday announced an election lottery. Larry Platt says one random voter will win the money November 3, when residents vote for mayor. The prize aims to reverse abysmal… Read More
One dead, three wounded over college dice game?!
One man was killed and three women were wounded in an on-campus shooting stemming from a fight over a dice game on the campus of Tennessee State University, police said Friday. The 19-year-old who died in the Thursday night shooting was not enrolled at the school, police spokesman Don Aaron… Read More
[Must See] Wild beavers parachuting into Idaho!
Furs away! More than half a century after a group of beavers parachuted into the Idaho backcountry, officials have uncovered footage of the quirky wildlife management moment. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game was struggling with an overpopulation of beavers in some regions in the 1940s when wildlife managers… Read More
Organ recipients meet donors who saved their lives
For the surgeons, it was just a donation chain linking three patients from three Michigan hospitals to three strangers willing to give them working kidneys. For the people involved, though, it meant a second chance for three lives. Thursday, they got a chance to meet their life-saving donor swap partners…. Read More
Thrusters fired! The next step in deep space exploration
The spacecraft that gave us the first close-up views of Pluto now has a much smaller object in its sights. NASA’s New Horizons was programmed to fire its thrusters Thursday afternoon, putting it on track to fly past a recently discovered, less than 30-mile-wide object out on the solar system… Read More