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 […]
Category: Domestic
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, […]
Georgia Police Seize $7 Million Worth Of Marijuana In Major Drug Bust
Georgia police discovered a “highly” sophisticated indoor pot operation in a Gainesville home, where a basement was converted into a greenhouse holding more than 500 marijuana plants, officials told Fox News. “The photos really don’t do it justice,” Lt. Dan Scalia, who is in charge of the Hall County Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad, told Fox News […]
Boy Scouts Of America To Allow Girls To Join
The Boy Scouts of America will now allow girls to join the organization, the group announced Wednesday. The organization’s board of directors unanimously voted to let girls into the Cub Scout program and create a program for older girls to allow them to become Eagle Scouts, their highest rank, the group said in a release. Girls […]
FBI Says That Black Extremists Are Domestic Terror Threat
Celebration of free speech at William & Mary College in Virginia took an unexpected turn last week when protesters from Black Lives Matter swarmed the stage and forced the event to end. And some critics blame this behavior on Trump. #Tucker The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., has spawned a violent domestic […]
Trump Claims He Has Higher IQ Than Rex Tillerson
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested he’s smarter than Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, saying in an interview published Tuesday that if Tillerson did call him a moron, as reported, the two should “compare IQ tests.” “And I can tell you who is going to win,” Trump said to Forbes magazine. Trump’s tense relationship with […]