Top conservative says Boehner’s job is safe
Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who chairs the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, said Sunday that Boehner’s decision to advance a one-week measure to keep the Department of Homeland Security…
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Top conservative says Boehner’s job is safe
Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who chairs the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, said Sunday that Boehner’s decision to advance a one-week measure to keep the Department of Homeland Security…
ISIS to release 29 Assyrian Christians, monitoring group says
ISIS captured at least 220 Assyrians, all Christians, on February 23 during an attack on the villages around the town of Tal Tamer in the northern Syrian province of al-Hasakah….
Brooklyn Arrests Highlight Challenges in Fighting of ISIS and ‘Known Wolves’
In Canada and Australia, young men inspired by the bloody, apocalyptic vision of the Islamic State were thwarted in their efforts to join the battle in Syria, so they took…
Brooklyn Arrests Highlight Challenges in Fighting of ISIS and ‘Known Wolves’
In Canada and Australia, young men inspired by the bloody, apocalyptic vision of the Islamic State were thwarted in their efforts to join the battle in Syria, so they took…
American writer hacked to death in Bangladesh spoke out against extremists
Extremists resented him for openly and regularly criticizing religion in his blog. They threatened to kill him if he came home from the United States to visit. On Thursday, someone…
American Blogger Avijit Roy Killed In Bangladesh; Wife Also Injured In Cleaver Attack
A prominent U.S. blogger, known for his writing against religious fundamentalism, has been hacked to death by unidentified attackers in Bangladesh’s capital, police said Friday. The attack on Avijit Roy,…
Kashif Parvaiz Guilty Of Setting Up Wife’s Death While On Walk With Son
A New York City man was convicted Thursday of setting up the fatal shooting of his wife while the couple was on a walk with one of their young sons…
Boehner to media: Pucker up
After batting away question after question about what the House will do if the Senate sends it a bill to fund Homeland Security, without including in it the attack on…
6 Surprising Heart Attack Triggers
Some heart attack risk factors are common knowledge. The average person knows, for example, that obesity, diabetes and hypertension can lead to an increased risk. And behaviors like smoking and…
FBI Arrests 3 Brooklyn Men Suspected Of Planning To Join ISIS
Three men who allegedly planned to join ISIS in Syria were arrested in Brooklyn on Wednesday. Law enforcement officials said that if the three suspects failed to join the Islamic…
Relax! The NSA failed to hack your phone
Plus, the company said that even if the encryption keys had been stolen, the spy agencies would only have the ability to spy on communications over 2G mobile networks, as…
Suspect in Pakistan school massacre arrested
Pakistani authorities have arrested a suspect in the December 16 attack on a public school in Peshawar that left more than 140 people dead, most of them children. – CNN’s…
5 Things to Know for Your New Day – Monday, February 23
AL-SHABAAB U.S. malls threatened: Remember the horrific 2013 attack an upscale Kenyan mall that left more than 60 people dead? Well the Somali-based terror group Al-Shabaab says it wants an…
Somalia’s Al-Shabab Extremists Urge Attacks On U.S. Shopping Malls
A video purported to be by Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries. In the video, released…
Somalia’s Al-Shabab Extremists Urge Attacks On U.S. Shopping Malls
A video purported to be by Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries. In the video, released…
Barca in shock defeat
The defeat left them in second place just a point behind behind Real but with their Madrid rivals still to play its one game in hand. Much of the talk…
Somalia Death Toll Rises to 25 In Suicide Bomb Attack at Hotel
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The death toll in an attack by suicide bombers at a hotel compound in Mogadishu on Friday rose to 25 people, with more than 40 people wounded,…
U.S. defense secretary: Mosul assault should be launched at right time to succeed
Carter spoke on his way to Afghanistan, where he is meeting Afghan leaders and U.S. troops in his first week in the post, having taken over as secretary of defense…
U.S. defense secretary: Mosul assault should be launched at right time to succeed
Carter spoke on his way to Afghanistan, where he is meeting Afghan leaders and U.S. troops in his first week in the post, having taken over as secretary of defense…
U.S. defense secretary: Mosul assault should be launched at right time to succeed
New U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Saturday that success is more important than timing in any attempt to retake Iraq’s second city, Mosul, from ISIS militants. Carter spoke…
Start here: The fight against ISIS on Friday
Here’s the latest on the jihadist group and the global efforts to stop it: THE MOSUL ATTACK PLAN Up to 25,000 Iraqi troops: An Iraqi ground offensive to push ISIS…
Amy Schumer Responds To ‘Trainwreck’ Critic Calling Her ‘Chubby’ In Review
Internet trolling is alive and well, but one up-and-coming actress, comedian and screenwriter refuses to let the nasty comments bring her down. Amy Schumer took an empowering stance against a…
Islamist Faction in Libya Now Strikes From the Sky
CAIRO — The Islamist-backed faction in Libya’s civil conflict said Tuesday that it had carried out its first airstrike, targeting opponents in the town of Zintan in an escalation of…
Europe confronts wave of anti-Semitism
Even if there’s the suspicion of an impending attack, classes can be canceled and people are told to stay away from noticeably Jewish institutions. After the recent attacks in Paris,…
ISIS launches major assault on Kurdish front in Iraq
A “big attack” is taking place some 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Irbil, the Kurdish capital, one Kurdish source told CNN, citing an assistant to Gen. Sirwan Barzani, commander of…
Report: Cherif Kouachi texted Coulibaly an hour before Paris attacks began
Le Monde also reported that the January 7 Charlie Hebdo massacre nearly was canceled the day before, because one of the attackers was sick. The newspaper cited unnamed French investigative…
Taliban Attack Kills at Least 20 Afghan Police Officers
KABUL, Afghanistan — Four Taliban suicide bombers disguised in Afghan police uniforms stormed a heavily fortified provincial Police Headquarters in central Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 officers and…
Attack in eastern Afghanistan kills 20 police officers, injures 8 others
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in Pole Alam, the provincial capital, group spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in an email. One suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the entrance…
Police cordon off cafe where Danish terror suspect struck
Heavily armed Danish police arrived on the scene and officers were searching the area with sniffer dogs. The suspect in Saturday’s attack has been named as Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein,…