A retired state trooper killed a turnpike toll collector and a security guard in a holdup attempt at a toll plaza and then was shot dead by troopers while trying to escape with the money, authorities said. Clarence Briggs, who retired four years ago, confronted two Pennsylvania Turnpike toll collectors… Read More
Trump’s son threatened by letter containing white powder
Police and the FBI are investigating a threatening letter sent to the Manhattan apartment of Donald Trump’s son Eric that contained a white powder, two law enforcement officials said Friday. Preliminary tests on the substance in the envelope sent to Eric Trump’s apartment Thursday indicated it was not hazardous, according… Read More
Obama busted in Clinton email cover-up
Did President Barack Obama’s administration intentionally help hide some of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aides emails from public record? Some critics are claiming that the Obama administration couldn’t have just misplaced nearly 100,000 emails and documents from a Clinton aide they claimed they couldn’t find — until a… Read More
The nerve! Obama asks taxpayers for raise
President Barack Obama, in his last year in office, seems to already be looking toward retirement — and he’s demanding that U.S. taxpayers give him a big pay raise moving forward. Since 1958, former presidents have been given a substantial pension by taxpayers, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars… Read More
Modern-day outlaw gang terrorizes Houston
It reads like a story straight out of the Wild West. A gang of masked robbers swapping out horses, robbing stores at gunpoint, the sheriff and his deputies hot on their trail. According to police in Houston, their department faced just such a scenario Thursday when officers tracked, confronted, and opened… Read More
Jurors reach verdict in ISIS attack
An Arizona man was convicted Thursday of a terror charge tied to an attack last spring on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas, marking the second conviction in the U.S. related to the Islamic State group. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an American-born Muslim convert, also was found guilty of… Read More
Report: Bowe Bergdahl had mental disorder when he deserted
Well before Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his Army post in Afghanistan, he washed out of the Coast Guard during boot camp when he suffered a panic attack. Two years later, though, he joined the Army, obtaining a waiver from rules that bar the enlistment of those with psychological… Read More
Drug kingpin El Chapo caught with “Fast & Furious” gun
The hits just keep coming for President Barack Obama’s administration. One of the guns that Mexican officials say was found at the hideout of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera is associated with Fast and Furious, a failed “gun-walking” operation, according to the Justice Department. The department said in… Read More
Clinton judge resigns in sex scandal
Did former President Bill Clinton appoint a judge who had committed a sexual assault? A Utah woman alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the federal judge appointed by Clinton had sexually assaulted her when he was a prosecutor and she was a teenage witness in a high-profile case 35… Read More
[Breaking] U.S. to admit Christian genocide
U.S. officials have announced today that President Barack Obama’s administration will formally acknowledge that ISIS is committing genocide against Christians in Iraq and Syria. But critics are outraged that the administration is set to use a legal loophole to avoid having to help stop the slaughter. And it’s all because Obama… Read More