An Egyptian court convicted nine men of “inciting debauchery” after they appeared in a YouTube video of an alleged fake gay wedding on the Nile. Authorities arrested the men in September after the video went viral. One man said the
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Chancellor on Monday shrugged off a report which said German Chancellor Angela Merkel would abandon her attempts to keep Britain inside the European Union if it pressed ahead with plans to curb immigration from other EU
Republicans seem to be besting Democrats when it comes to effective political technology that gets their base out this election cycle. RNC spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski told Yahoo News that 70 percent of its volunteers are using smartphone apps as opposed
Four days of brutal fighting in and around Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city, between reinforced elements of the Sunni terror army ISIS and the Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese army has reignited fears that Lebanon could be descending once again into civil war.
Just in time to co-exist with yet one more drubbing of Mark ‘Uterus’ Udall on women’s issues, this one from liberal female Margaret Carlson … Barack Obama is busy today and tomorrow confirming the Democrats need to super-motivate women to vote
On Thursday, 75 year-old Bill Snyder, the legendary Kansas State football coach who took the school’s once moribund program from laughing stock to perennial powerhouse, endorsed incumbent 78-year old Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) in the state’s hotly contested U.S. Senate
Saudi Arabia’s health ministry announced this week that it has detected a surge in cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), after medical facilities confirmed six new cases of the disease within a 24 hour time frame. Reuters reports that
This story originally appeared at Yahoo News: President Barack Obama’s fondness for rewarding big donors with plum diplomatic postsoverseas made international headlines earlier this year when a few of them embarrassed themselves in confirmation hearings. Now, the association that represents career U.S.
Israel’s closure of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount, following an assassination attempt on Wednesday, is tantamount to a “declaration of war,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday morning. Only one day
Mitch Stewart, Obama’s “field general” who was in charge of 2012 turnout operations, thinks Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has the best chance on the right to win battleground states in 2016. When asked which potential candidate was organized well and positioned
Multiple reports appear to confirm that the FBI has closed in on a second NSA leaker who is suspected of having fed information to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, as well as Edward Snowden. The FBI reportedly raided his
DALLAS, Texas — FrackNation filmmaker Phelim McAleer came to Texas to take on Calvin Tillman, the former mayor of the Denton County town of Dish, a not so vocal anti-fracking activist these days. It was billed as the Great Fracking
Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple, announced today in BusinessWeek that he is gay. The news surprised no one: Cook’s sexuality has been an open secret in the tech industry for years. But perhaps now he’s revealed himself, we’ll see
Russia launched a cargo vessel filled with food and supplies from Kazakhstan early Wednesday morning for the International Space Station (ISS). The launch occurred only hours after America’s attempt to refuel the station exploded on takeoff Tuesday evening. The Soyuz-2.1a
Here’s a lovely companion piece to the story about how ObamaCare’s servers remain vulnerable to hacker attack: the White House itself appears to have been penetrated by online hooligans. Reuters reports assurances from the Administration that no sensitive data was
The New York Times reports that former “Meet the Press” host David Gregory will move online to Yahoo for election night coverage. This is a one-time deal but it’s not unreasonable to assume it’s a testing of the waters for
HOUSTON, Texas — A Houston-based sex offender was recently arrested for allegedly raping two girls — ages 14 and 2 — and infecting the with HIV. 33-year-old David Wilson admitted to police that he had raped the 14-year-old victim numerous times, Reuters reported.
Texas is using a secret ingredient to fight any future Ebola cases. Here are a few clues: it is red, probably in many kitchens in the South, and spicy. The ingredient is Tabasco sauce. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Yesterday, a Palestinian Muslim terrorist drove a car over a 3-month-old baby in Jerusalem. The baby was an American citizen. Hamas promptly praised the attack as a “daring operation.” So did the “moderate” Palestinian Authority wing Fatah, which pledged “loyalty”
Not long ago, House Democrats argued, somewhat rationally, that they were in position to win back control of the House this election. At the very least, the party reasoned it could claw back several vulnerable Republican seats and position itself
This past weekend, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Jews who dared to visit one of the religion’s most holy sites, known as the Temple Mount, a “herd of cattle.” Israeli authorities, on the other hand, allow free passage for Muslims
An active duty Marine entered voluntary Ebola quarantine upon finding out he was on Frontier Flight 1143 with from Cleveland to Dallas with an infected nurse. The Marine is stationed at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. He
Despite being cashiered out of the Navy Reserve for testing positive for cocaine, Vice President Joe Biden’s son is still being allowed to practice law and won’t lose his Connecticut law license. Late last week the Wall Street Journal reported
A Dubai man has been granted a divorce from a wife who, he alleges, refuses to engage in sexual activity with him. The difference keeping them apart, he argued, is impossible to settle, because her parents told him his wife
Colombia, Jamaica, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago have all announced travel bans as Ebola concerns grow. Colombian authorities announced that anyone entering their country from Ebola-stricken countries will face heavy scrutiny. Colombia’s National Health Institutes have said they developed a
On Thursday morning at 10:16 a.m., over ten million Californians dropped, sought cover, and held on to something to prepare for the next major earthquake that will hit some Golden State community probably sooner than later. The simulated earthquake drill,
Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said during a news conference Wednesday that a Texas nurse should not have taken a flight the day before she was diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus. The CDC acknowledged on October
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that as many as 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week may arrive within the next two months, which is ten times the current rate of infection. Officials also noted that the
A Sudanese national who was employed as a UN medical worker in Liberia has died of Ebola at a hospital in Germany. Despite receiving multiple experimental drugs to help combat the deadly virus, the UN aid worker died of hemorrhagic
HOUSTON, Texas — Following a health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital being diagnosed with Ebola, reports circulated that the hospital’s Emergency Room (ER) had “stopped accepting new ER patients.” Such statements have caused a flurry of confusion; a spokeswoman at the hospital’s
A 47-year-old man has been hospitalized in Brazil and quarantined, suspected of having brought the Ebola virus from Guinea into South America. He is the first suspected case of the Ebola virus surfacing on the continent. According to the Wall
The doctor who treated Spanish Ebola patient Teresa Romero during the time she had not yet been confirmed to be carrying Ebola sent a scathing internal letter to superiors at his hospital, alleging that he only found out about her
An entire French family has packed up and left for Syria, where they are likely to take part in the fighting on the side of the Sunni Islamist opposition forces. A legal source told AFP Wednesday that the family in
The bodies of dead Ebola victims can still pose a significant threat, which will prevent families from having traditional funeral services. On Wednesday, health officials decided that Thomas Eric Duncan’s body should be cremated after the first person to be diagnosed with
A North Korean diplomat speaking before reporters insisted that North Korea does not have prisons or “things like that,” but confirmed publicly for the first time the existence of “re-education through labor” camps in the isolated communist nation. The Associated
The radical Islamic group Boko Haram destroyed at least 185 churches after it captured towns in the states of Borno and Adamawa. Over 190,000 people were displaced due to the terrorists. “It is over 30 days now that our Church
Some Democrats don’t want anyone named Obama anywhere near their races, according to the New York Times. “She’s awesome, but it just brings in the name Obama,” said a Democratic strategist in a state with a close Senate race, who,
Curtis Dvorak, who has been costumed for the last 18 seasons as Jaxson De Ville, the mascot for the Jacksonville Jaguars, is in big trouble for making an Ebola joke during Sunday’s game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Mocking the Steelers
In the midst of the reform of its communications operation, the Vatican has launched its first modern YouTube video, titled What is a Synod? The video, a media “weather balloon” of sorts for Vatican media, reveals that the age-old institution
The Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX), one which has seen over 8,000 Russian students come to the United States since 1992 in order to experience what life is like in America, has been cancelled by the Kremlin. United States Ambassador to Russia
