Tampa police released additional video on Thursday that shows a “person of interest” running away from a location where the first in a string of murders took place in the neighborhood of Seminole Heights. Interim Police Chief Brian Dugan said during a Thursday press conference that the individual shown in the video is not considered […]
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Teacher In Hot Water For Making Students Speak American
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 […]
Three Men Charged With Planning ISIS-Inspired Attack In New York
Three men have been charged with plotting to carry out ISIS-inspired attacks on music concerts, landmarks and crowded subways in New York, authorities said. The FBI arrested Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 19, a Canadian citizen, while traveling to the United States from Canada in the summer of 2016 and he has pled guilty to terrorism offenses; […]
Three American Soldiers Killed By Ambush In Niger
Three U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers were killed and two were wounded in Niger on Wednesday, in an ambush by suspected Islamic militants operating from Mali, multiple sources with knowledge of the incident told NBC News. According to the sources, one soldier form Niger was also killed in the attack. The U.S. military did not […]
OJ Simpson Could Be Released On Sunday
O.J. Simpson’s time in prison could come to a close as early as Sunday. The former football star was granted parole in July and has been locked up in Nevada since 2008 following an armed robbery conviction. Simpson has said he’d like to return to Florida but that state’s attorney general is trying to block […]
Trump Threatens To ‘Totally Destroy’ North Korea
UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump, in his first address to the United Nations, derided Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, as a “rocket man” on Tuesday as the president warned that he may be forced to “totally destroy” the rogue nation. “If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will […]
Earthquakes Hits Los Angeles As Fault Line Continues Activity
LOS ANGELES — A small earthquake with an epicenter just outside Los Angeles has gotten people in southern California talking on social media. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-3.6 quake hit at about 11:20 Monday night. Its epicenter was about 3.6 miles northwest of Westwood. While the quake wasn’t big enough to cause much […]
Airstrikes Derail Isis Convoy Attempting To Travel Through Syria
WASHINGTON — Coalition airstrikes stopped hundreds of ISIS militants and civilians Wednesday from moving from one threatened ISIS enclave in Syria to another hundreds of miles east. ISIS had negotiated a ceasefire with Hezbollah, the Lebanese government and the Russian-backed Assad regime that included a deal to evacuate ISIS militants and their families from an […]
Hurricane Harvey Death Toll Reaches At Least 5 As Texas Suffers
Hurricane Harvey has killed at least five people, as the storm continues to batter Texas with rain and floods, according to new reports. But the true death toll remains unclear as rescuers struggle to reach many stranded in the state’s worst storm in more than 50 years, according to the Houston Chronicle. “It’s catastrophic, unprecedented, […]
White Nationalists Praise Trump as ‘Most Honest President’
Many white nationalists have been praising President Trump after he doubled-down on blaming “both sides” in the deadly Charlottesville protests. “What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?” Trump asked reporters in an explosive press conference Tuesday. “What about the fact they came […]
Trump Wants Facts Before Condemning White Nationalists
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that the counter-protesters demonstrating against white nationalism were also to blame for the violence at race-fueled riots in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. “There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for the country, but there are two sides […]
Mayor Blames Trump For Charlottesville White Supremacist Violence
The Charlottesville mayor on Sunday blamed the heated rhetoric of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for emboldening white supremacists who caused an explosion of violence during rallies in the Virginia city. “Look at the campaign he ran. Look at the intentional courting, both on the one hand all of these white supremacist, white nationalist groups like […]