WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Thursday reacted angrily after Australia’s attorney-general said he should be “man enough” to face Swedish sexual assault allegations. The Australian, who has been holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London for more than two years, lost
A new report that compared May 2014 to May 2013 reveals that despite warnings from the state to conserve water, overall consumption by Californians increased 1% during the drought. The report, which corrected an earlier estimate that said consumption had
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A typhoon left at least 12 people dead, knocked out power in many areas, damaged a parked plane but spared the Philippine capital on Wednesday when its fierce wind shifted, officials said. Still, Typhoon Rammasun’s winds
The prosecution in a case peripheral to the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two men accused of committing the April 15, 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon, have released video showing the younger Tsarnaev returning to a college dorm
On July 16, comic character Archie Andrews, of Life With Archie, will die after being shot while protecting gay friend Kevin Keller. Keller is “Archie Comics’ first openly gay character.” According to the Associated Press, Keller is “a married military
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s deadlocked parliament failed Sunday to overcome the deep divisions hampering the formation of a new government, making no progress on choosing new leaders who could help hold the nation together and confront the Sunni militant blitz
The third consecutive year of drought plaguing California has encouraged unprecedented legislative and regulatory efforts to conserve what limited water the state has in its supply. Come Tuesday, state officials from the State Water Resources Control Board will meet to
From Valentina Colombo at the Gatestone Institute: “God is not fanatic; the ulema [religious scholars]… are.” — Mohammed Charfi, Muslim intellectual.Saudi Arabia’s behavior comes with the bought consent of the West, which would rather constantly reprimand and punish Israel than
Ukraine took over Slaviansk from pro-Russians and now there are fights between the rebels as they continue a downward spiral in the east. One man in a battalion told the Associated Press he would not listen to the leader of
BAGHDAD (AP) — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s already testy relationship with Iraq’s Kurdish minority further frayed Thursday, as the Kurds declared their politicians will boycott Cabinet meetings and authorities in Baghdad suspended all cargo flights to the largely autonomous northern
BAGHDAD (AP) — Kurdish security forces took over two major oil fields outside the disputed northern city of Kirkuk before dawn Friday, the Oil Ministry said, the latest move in a deepening a dispute with the government of Prime Minister
MUMBAI, India (AP) — India’s new government introduced a reform-minded budget Thursday, telegraphing a contentious overhaul of populist subsidies and vowing to lift economic growth to rates of 7-8 percent by spending billions of dollars on infrastructure. The budget for
At least 17 people are now reported dead after Islamist rebels seized a Catholic cathedral compound that was housing between 4,000 and 6,000 civilians who had been driven from their homes by the fighting in the Central African Republic. According
MOSCOW (AP) — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has applied to extend his stay in Russia, his lawyer said Wednesday. Anatoly Kucherena told The Associated Press that Snowden applied to Russia’s migration authorities “a long time ago” since
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States
What Dark Lord Sauron snatched Jim Brown’s NFL championship ring? Lelands auction house lists the three-time Associated Press NFL MVP’s 1964 Cleveland Browns championship ring on its website. But the football and lacrosse Hall of Famer maintains he never sold
As Republicans get more conservative, 25% of those affiliated with the GOP dislike their own party, according to a new Associated Press-GFK poll. The poll also found that “13 percent of Democrats say they dislike their own party.” According to
TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon pummeled the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa on Tuesday, paralyzing transport and prompting U.S. forces based there to cancel all outdoor activity. The Okinawan government said 10 people were injured, one seriously. Separately, a
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday striking nearly 100 sites in Gaza and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion aimed at stopping a heavy barrage
Two weeks ago in a visit to southern Italy, Pope Francis said that members of organized crime are excommunicated. In response, mobsters in Calabria have struck back in an unusual and insulting way. The Italian press and the Catholic news
The Associated Press is reporting that lawsuits brought by the Department of Justice, the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and the American Civil Liberties Union against a North Carolina voter ID law will go to trial in 2015. The
The Associated Press reports that an appeals court has blocked the state of Arizona ‘s ban on offering drivers licenses to immigrants shielded by an executive order issued by President Obama in June of 2012. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court
Last week, we heard about an epidemic of lice and scabies running through the population of young illegal aliens surging across the border and piling up in refugee camps for temporary storage, before they can be dispersed across the United
On July 7, CNN’s John King told the Associated Press’s Julie Pace that Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety has demonstrated “no influence” in the coming November elections. Pace concurred, saying Bloomberg’s gun control efforts have yet to garner results.
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Kuwait police fired tear gas and stun grenades Sunday in a busy historic market to disperse several thousand protesters calling for the release of an opposition activist and a purge of corrupt judges. Defying government orders
(Associated Press) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Even after seven decades, Wilfred “Spike” Mailloux won’t talk about surviving a bloody World War II battle unless longtime friend John Sidur is by his side. It was Sidur who found the severely wounded
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon of Illinois has died. His son Jeffrey Dixon tells The Associated Press that the 86-year-old died Sunday at his home in Fairview Heights. He had recently been hospitalized for heart problems,
A swimmer was bitten by a great white shark on Saturday morning off Manhattan Beach in Southern California. The attack happened around 9:30 a.m., according to the Associated Press. L.A. County Fire Department spokesman Rick Flores said the shark became
NZACKO, Central African Republic (AP) — The African troops hoped the latest defector from the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group would have fresh insight into the location of infamous warlord Joseph Kony. But Sam Opio, a senior rebel commander who
FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) — With tears streaming down his face after being kneed in the back, Neymar was carried off the field on a stretcher. He won’t be coming back. Not to this World Cup, anyway. The 22-year-old Brazil striker,
A chemical engineer in northern Nigeria, recently released from a mental hospital to which he was interned after declaring himself an atheist, warns that serious death threats have come his way, making it impossible to live a normal life. Mubarak
Terrorists bombed a cafe in Lebanon this week, reportedly for being open during the month of Ramadan, a Muslim holiday in which observers are expected to fast during daylight hours. Some residents explain that the cafe remains open as a
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a tentative step toward improved relations with North Korea on Thursday by announcing his government will lift some of its sanctions in response to the North’s decision to re-open a probe
HOUSTON, Texas–The grieving mother of a 15-year-old boy who was found dead near the Rio Grande River said her son should have stayed in Guatemala. The boy, Gilberto Ramos, left his mountainside village in Guatemala to travel to the United
JERUSALEM (AP) — The suspected abduction of an Arab teen followed by the discovery of a body in Jerusalem on Wednesday ignited clashes between Israeli police and stone-throwing Palestinians, who saw it as a revenge attack for the killing of
As Breitbart News reported Monday, on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision was released in the case of Hobby Lobby, the Eleventh Federal Circuit Appeals Court issued an injunction providing EWTN Global Catholic Network with a reprieve from
Virginia’s voter ID law will go into effect on July 1. Election officials held 13 regional training sessions in May for registrars and their staffs, the Associated Press reported. The new law now requires that registered voters who come to
The Israeli government has confirmed reports initially surfacing at the Associated Press and the New York Times that the bodies of three Israeli teenagers reported missing earlier this month have been found. The Israeli cabinet is conducting an emergency meeting on the
After Holland won a controversial come-from-behind Round of 16 match against Mexico on Sunday, Dutch airline KLM celebrated the win on Twitter by Tweeting, “Adios Amigos.” The Tweet, as the Associated Press noted (see photo), had an image “of a man
On Saturday, disgraced Uruguayan superstar and serial biter Luis Suarez claimed he did not bite Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini last week. He claimed he just lost his balance. “In no way [did] it happen how you have described, as a bite or
