The headlines make it look like corporate greed run amok: Two American businesses firing hundreds of hard-working employees because they want to pray while on the job. A Cargill meat processing plant fired some 150 workers last month, while Wisconsin lawnmower/snow blower manufacturer Ariens let 53 workers walk earlier this… Read More
22 Clinton emails declared top secret
Looks like there’s more trouble ahead for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The Obama administration confirmed for the first time today that Clinton’s unsecured home server contained closely guarded government secrets, censoring 22 emails with material requiring one of the highest levels of classification. The revelation comes just three days before the… Read More
Newest US Air Force “kill vehicle” aces test
A missile defense rocket successfully aced its test-launch from a military base in Central California, authorities say. The long-range interceptor blasted off Thursday from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The launch was testing thrusters on the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle, which is designed to crash into enemy missiles and destroy them. Officials… Read More
California prison break an inside job
The alleged mastermind in the brazen escape of three inmates from a California jail recruited a jail insider to help in their plot, authorities allege. The assistance, authorities say, came from an unlikely source — a woman whose English classes escapee Hussein Nayeri was taking while locked up. Nayeri, 37, came… Read More
FBI releases chilling video of Oregon standoff
FBI authorities released a video last evening in an apparent effort to counter claims that the man killed in the confrontation Tuesday on a remote Oregon high-country road — Robert “LaVoy” Finicum — did nothing to provoke officers. But even with this video, the issue remains muddier than ever. On… Read More
Oregon protester tells followers to kill police
Three more suspects linked to the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered Wednesday, hours after their jailed leader urged the handful of remaining militants to abandon the site they have occupied for more than three weeks. In response, at least one militiaman is calling for supporters… Read More
Did police murder Oregon militiaman?
It was long feared that the standoff at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge between law enforcement and armed protesters would end in bloodshed. And the first shots came last night. One man is dead and seven were arrested after the FBI and Oregon State Police performed a traffic stop involving a group… Read More
‘Affluenza’ teen to face the music
His lawyer said he was too rich to go to jail, and the court seemed to buy it. Now, the Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident has dropped an appeal against deportation from Mexico and will return to Texas to face charges in the… Read More
Fed stop terror attack in Milwaukee
A would-be terrorist in Milwaukee planned to storm a Masonic temple and kill at least 30 people to show the world that “nobody can play with Muslims.” Instead, he’s behind bars. Federal prosecutors charged 23-year-old Samy Mohamed Hamzeh with unlawfully possessing a machine gun and receiving and possessing firearms not… Read More
No evidence of gunfire at Naval Medical Center in San Diego
The Navy said Tuesday an initial inspection at Naval Medical Center San Diego found no sign of a gunman or a shooting. The disclosure came after military police had checked Building 26 after a person reported hearing three shots in the basement earlier in the day, Navy spokesman N. Scott… Read More