BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Two suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents have been charged with attempting to kill an off-duty police officer near the province’s border with the Republic of Ireland last week, police said Tuesday. The pair, 26 and 32, were among three suspects arrested after gunmen tried to ambush …
Read More »Tear Gas, Arrests Used to Stop Violent Protesters at World Trade Officials Meeting in Geneva
GENEVA – Police with water cannon fired tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday to separate violent demonstrators from a protest opposing a meeting of top world trade officials, but the hooded “black bloc” activists were able to cause damage before 14 were arrested, spokesmen said. The protesters set fire to …
Read More »Sarah's Saga Starts Today
As Sarah Palin embarks on her much anticipated book tour she needs to think about more than just settling scores and image rehabilitation, she needs to get serious. That means, during her promotion tour kicking off this week, she needs to discuss more than moose chili and teen pregnancy. With …
Read More »Radicals Are Following a Playbook From Europe
We saw pictures this weekend of May Day protests, but has anyone asked: Who organized these rallies? Who put these marchers on the street so fast? We’ll give you that answer in a second, but first I want to show you a book I read this weekend. Last year we …
Read More »Evidence is Piling Up Against Dermatologist to the Stars in Jackson Death
The heat is on for Michael Jackson’s longtime friend and dermatologist Arnold Klein who investigators believe facilitated the years-long drug abuse that could have caused the death of the King of Pop. According to the warrant and affidavit for last Friday’s raid on Mickey Fine Pharmacy in Beverly Hills, Calif. …
Read More »Colorado woman sustained horrific puncture wound to her leg after mule deer buck gored her
WARNING: This story contains graphic photos. A Colorado woman was gored by a mule deer buck outside her home and suffered a puncture wound to her leg, according to officials. The 67-year-old woman was outside the door of her home in the town of Silver Cliff when she was attacked …
Read More »Catholic Church's teaching on marriage 'has not changed' after Vatican document, US bishops say
A document from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith that approved blessings for people in same-sex relationships caused waves as prelates in the U.S. attempt to clarify the document. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) published guidance for the U.S. faithful on Monday after the …
Read More »The sad truth about America and Iraq
In the end, Iraq will break our hearts. We invaded the country to destroy weapons of mass destruction. We stayed to nation build. And we failed at both. After one of the longest wars in American history we have little to show for the thousands of American deaths, tens of …
Read More »The Latest on Texas jail death: Sandra Bland expresses disbelief in voicemail from jail
HEMPSTEAD, Texas – The latest on the investigation into the death of a woman in a Texas jail cell (all times local): 8:30 a.m. A Texas TV station says it has obtained a voicemail from a call Sandra Bland made from jail in which she told a friend that she …
Read More »William R. White, former member of famed Tuskegee Airmen squadron, dies at 88 in Virginia
SMITHFIELD, Va. – William R. White, a former member of the famed squadron of African-American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 88. White’s son, Brandon White, says White died July 24 at his home in Smithfield. Brandon and his sister, Inetha Holmes, say their father was …
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