Perry pushes ground troops in ISIS fight
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he would send American troops to the Middle East to combat Islamic State fighters who he called “the face of evil.” – RELATED: CPAC…
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Amid killings and kidnappings, can Christianity survive in the Middle East?
But do Christians have a future there? Recent headlines provide ample evidence for skepticism. It’s hard to ignore the depravity of ISIS beheading 21 Egyptian Christians on a beach in…
Elizabeth Warren To The GOP: ‘Put Up Or Shut Up’ About Aid For Middle Class
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has made it her mission to highlight and ameliorate the challenges middle-class Americans face, recently seized on the new Republican rhetoric being used to acknowledge…
Dori Maynard, journalism diversity advocate, dies at 56
Maynard was once asked what her middle initial, “J,” stood for. “Journalism,” she responded, and in a long career in the field she worked as a reporter for such papers…
How Many Americans Have Traveled To Syria To Join ISIS?
U.S. officials said on Wednesday they have thwarted the plans of three New Yorkers to join the Islamic State militant group in Syria, once again highlighting the risks posed by…
Elizabeth Warren Pushes Republicans To Focus On America’s Working Class
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said the GOP-controlled Congress isn’t helping the middle class by fighting over issues like the Keystone pipeline and funding for the Department of Homeland Security. –…
Health Care Opens Stable Career Path, Taken Mainly by Women
A surge in spending on health care is translating into well-paying jobs, but opportunities are only available to those willing to put in the time and money to retrain. HUNTINGTON,…
Health Care Opens Middle-Class Path, Taken Mainly by Women
A surge in spending on health care is translating into well-paying jobs, but opportunities are only available to those willing to put in the time and money to retrain. HUNTINGTON,…
Bulgarian bones could be John the Baptist’s, scientists say
The most famous of them all, the Turin Shroud, is widely regarded as a Middle Ages forgery, and even the Catholic Church does not insist the shroud was actually used…
Bulgarian bones could be John the Baptist’s, scientists say
The most famous of them all, the Turin Shroud, is widely regarded as a Middle Ages forgery, and even the Catholic Church does not insist the shroud was actually used…
Bulgarian bones could be John the Baptist’s, scientists say
The most famous of them all, the Turin Shroud, is widely regarded as a Middle Ages forgery, and even the Catholic Church does not insist the shroud was actually used…
Bulgarian bones could be John the Baptist’s, scientists say
The most famous of them all, the Turin Shroud, is widely regarded as a Middle Ages forgery, and even the Catholic Church does not insist the shroud was actually used…
Magical Scenes As Snowstorm Blankets Middle East
A heavy winter storm descended on parts of the Middle East on Friday, with snow forcing the closure of all roads leading in and out of Jerusalem and sprinkling Israel’s…
Massive Poop Spill Shuts Down Highway Exit In Indiana
An Indiana highway ramp was shut down for hours on Thursday afternoon due to a large and possibly accidental dump in the middle of the road. – Police told the…
Signs Of Tension Emerge Among ISIS Militants
As the Islamic State group tries to expand and take root across the Middle East, it is struggling in Syria — part of its heartland — where it has stalled…
Can Jeb Bush escape his brother’s legacy in Iraq?
Nearly 25 years after his father launched the first Gulf War and almost 12 years after his brother began a much more contentious sequel, it’s Jeb Bush’s turn to articulate…
Arnaud de Borchgrave, a Journalist Whose Life Was a Tale Itself, Dies at 88
Arnaud de Borchgrave, the son of a Belgian count and a storied foreign correspondent who cabled back bell-ringing scoops throughout the Cold War decades, often from the battlefield, died on…
What 2016 presidential candidates can’t avoid
History has a cruel sense of humor. Just watch President Barack Obama struggle with a war in Iraq and Syria during his final years in office; watch him discuss what…
#CopticLivesMatter Mourns Christians ISIS Killed In Libya
After ISIS released a video on Sunday purporting to show the horrific execution of 21 Coptic Christians on the Libyan coast, prayers and condolences have poured in for the victims,…
How to get ahead in China’s dating scene
In fact, the Chinese are so committed to the day they celebrate it twice. There’s qixi, China’s equivalent to Valentine’s Day, which takes place in August, as well as the…
Obama to Seek War Power Bill From Congress, to Fight ISIS
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has informed lawmakers that the president will seek a formal authorization to fight the Islamic State that would prohibit the use of “enduring offensive ground…
18 Incredible Feats That Prove Anything Is Possible (PHOTOS) – Weather.com
www.weather.com: In mid-January, climbers Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy Caldwell summited Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan right in the middle of an unpredictable time of year for weather, meteorologist for The…
Jeb Bush to release emails, e-book chapter
READ: 5 takeaways from Jeb Bush emails – He held his first public speech this year when he spoke last week at the Detroit Economic Club, attempting to deliver a…
Bubonic Plague in the Subway System? Don’t Worry About It
No human being has caught it in New York City for at least a century, but still, there it was, researchers said, in places touched by hundreds, maybe thousands, of…
William S. Burroughs At 100: Rebel, Junkie, Exile, Genius
after an improbably long life, considering the self-inflicted abuse he endured through the years — at 83 in Lawrence, Kansas. It’s somehow perversely appropriate that an iconoclast of Burroughs’ power…
HUFFPOLLSTER: Why Americans Support Tax Hikes On The Wealthy
Voters in three key battlegrounds support tax hikes on the rich. The share of adults living in middle income households has narrowed. And Hillary Clinton’s support is greater now than…
The GOP battle for the middle class
The potential 2016 candidates are working to prove that Democrats aren’t the only ones sensitive to the nation’s growing economic inequality. The GOP is also trying to move past serious…
The Techies Who Are Hacking Education By Homeschooling Their Kids
A couple of weeks ago, I wandered into the hills north of the UC Berkeley campus and showed up at the door of a shambling Tudor that was filled with…
The problem with Obama’s budget
The $4 trillion budget President Barack Obama sent Congress on Monday is his blueprint for reviving “middle class opportunity.” Liberals are thrilled by the redistributive thrust of the president’s budgetit…
Opinion: Why ISIS is so brutal
Just when you think ISIS cannot horrify any more than it has, the group sends us to a new level of disbelief. The latest news from the Middle East —…