CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. — Students staged a walkout on Monday after a cellphone video appeared to show a New Jersey high school English teacher reprimanding three students for speaking Spanish and telling them to speak “American.” The teacher told the students that U.S. soldiers are “not fighting for your right to speak Spanish — they’re […]
Category: Domestic
Trump Warns McCain That “I Fight Back”
President Trump threatened Arizona Sen. John McCain, a former POW with a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, over his comments at an awards ceremony Monday night which were critical of U.S. leadership. Mr. Trump was asked whether he had heard McCain’s remarks. “People have to be careful because at some point I fight back,” Mr. Trump […]
Coordinated Taliban Attacks Across Afghanistan Kill 74
The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday, targeting police compounds and government facilities with suicide bombers in the country’s south, east and west, and killing at least 74 people, officials said. Among those killed in one of the attacks was a provincial police chief. Scores were also wounded, both policemen and […]
Trump Says He Hopes ‘Crooked” Hillary Runs In 2020
President Trump and Hillary Clinton are still going at it, and if Trump has his way, they’ll square off again in 2020. President Trump tweeted Monday that he hopes “Crooked” Hillary Clinton runs for president again, even as the former secretary of state was telling an Australian media outlet that former FBI Director James Comey […]
Bowe Bergdahl Pleads Guilty To Deserting Post
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty Monday at Fort Bragg to charges he endangered comrades by walking away from his post in Afghanistan in 2009 — the court case wrapping up three years after a stunning Rose Garden spectacle in which former President Barack Obama, flanked by Bergdahl’s parents, triumphantly announced the soldier’s release from […]
Clinton Criticizes Trump’s Relations With Iran And North Korea
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton says President Donald Trump’s threat to pull out of the Iran nuclear accord is “dangerous,” and she suggests her former campaign opponent is undermining the validity of the United States’ promises to other nations. Trump on Friday accused Iran of violating the landmark 2015 accord, blaming the Iranians for a litany […]
Dog Rescues Family Farm Animals From California Wildfire
Odin, a Great Pyrenees, protected eight bottle-fed rescue goats during the wildfires in Sonoma County. A guard dog is on the mend Sunday after heroically protecting eight rescue goats and several small deer from the wildfires raging through California’s Sonoma County. Roland Hendel said he thought he’d never see Odin, a Great Pyrenees, ever again. […]
Whataburger Refused Police Officers Service In Texas
A Texas police chief is speaking out after he says an employee at a local restaurant refused to serve two of his officers early Saturday. Denison Police Chief Jay Burch wrote about what happened in a lengthy post on the Department’s Facebook page. He said the officers were cursed at by the female employee who […]
Terrorist Attack Kills At Least 30 As Scene Still Burns
A massive bomb attack in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu has killed at least 30 people, police say. Dozens more were wounded when a lorry packed with explosives detonated near the entrance of a hotel. Police say two people were killed in a second bomb attack in the Madina district of the […]
New Orleans Police Officer Murdered In Ambush
NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans police officer was fatally shot on Friday, ambushed as he and his patrol team stepped out of their car to investigate something suspicious shortly after midnight. Other officers returned fire, wounding a suspect who eventually surrendered to a SWAT team, police said. “Our officer collapsed right there on the […]
Trump Signs Executive Order Putting Obamacare On Life Support
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that is intended to provide more options for people shopping for health insurance. The president invoked his power of the pen after repeated Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, have failed. “The competition will be staggering,” Trump said. “Insurance companies will be […]
Trump Tells Puerto Rico Aid Won’t Be There Forever Via Twitter
US President Donald Trump has griped about emergency relief efforts in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, saying federal aid cannot continue “forever”. In tweets, he accused Puerto Rico of a “total lack of accountability”, adding that “electric and all infrastructure was disaster before hurricanes”. The island, whose 3.4 million residents are US citizens, is 90% without power, […]