Cheryl K. Chumley

Steve King, Iowa, slams Obama’s ‘deportable’ guest: This ‘perverts’ justice

Rep. Steve King from Iowa went on a Twitter rant against President Obama and his wife, characterizing their reach-out to "a deportable" to attend the State of the Union as a travesty of justice.

January 21, 2015

Yemen’s president held captive; U.S. sends Navy warships to Red Sea

Yemen President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi is being held captive by rebels who have attacked his compound, just as the U.S. military has moved the USS Iwo Jima and the USS Fort McHenry into the Red Sea, in position to take aboard evacuees from the U.S. Embassy in Yemen if tensions and violence continue to escalate.

January 21, 2015

France to spend $490M to hire 2,600 new counter-terrorism police

France — reeling from the Paris terror attacks that left 17 dead — is now spending $490 million to bolster its counter-terrorism fighting unit and hire 2,600 officers.

January 21, 2015

Iran Guard to Israel: You’ll ‘certainly pay’ for killing our general

A commander with Iran's Revolutionary Guard sent a blunt warning to Israel, telling the Jewish nation that it will "certainly pay" for killing one of Tehran's top generals during an airstrike in Syria — an airstrike that Israeli forces don't even admit they conducted.

January 21, 2015

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s sleepy SOTU photo goes viral: ‘We are all … Ginsburg now’

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was caught on camera looking sleepy with her head dropped and eyes closed during President Obama's State of the Union speech — and social media was quick to notice.

January 21, 2015

Michael Davidson, Boston heart surgeon, dies after gun attack at hospital

Michael Davidson, a prominent heart surgeon at one of the nation's best-known hospitals — Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston — was shot by a gunman while at work.

January 21, 2015

Fox News diss? White House omits ‘News’ from cable place card at media luncheon

Was Fox News dissed at the media luncheon with President Obama that's held in the lead-up to the State of the Union? Shepard Smith with Fox News says: Quite possibly.

January 21, 2015

Gregory Holt, Muslim prisoner, wins Supreme Court OK to wear beard behind bars

Gregory Holt, a Muslim prisoner in Arkansas, won the Supreme Court's stamp of approval to grow and maintain a beard behind bars, in accordance with his religious beliefs.

January 20, 2015

Northern Virginia on edge as mystery poisonings send dogs to hospital

A neighborhood in Northern Virginia is a bit on edge after two dogs were mysteriously poisoned within 24 hours of each other.

January 20, 2015

China dad hires virtual ‘hitman’ to take out unemployed, video-gaming son

A Chinese father fed up with his son's unemployed ways — which he blamed on his daily feed of video games — hired a virtual "hit man" to knock off the 23-year-old and hopefully give him the motivation to get off the couch and seek a job.

January 20, 2015

Sarah Palin: Hollywood leftists ‘not fit to shine Chris Kyle’s combat boots’

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin issued a scathing statement to critics of U.S. sniper Chris Kyle and the movie made about him, calling them disrespectful to all the "freedom fighters" who've protected this nation.

January 20, 2015

John McCain calls for ‘boots on the ground’ to fight Islamic State

Sen. John McCain called for more ground troops to battle Islamic State terrorists, saying the bombing campaign hasn't worked.

January 20, 2015

Joe Biden on police relations: ‘Black male on the corner’ could be ‘a great artist one day’

Vice President Joseph R. Biden said the "breach" that exists between police and minority communities could be resolved, if all Americans agreed that "all life matters" equally and if law enforcement realized the "black male on the corner" might be the next Vincent van Gogh.

January 20, 2015

Pope Francis says good Catholics don’t have to breed ‘like rabbits’

Pope Francis had a message to followers of the faith, as passed along to reporters aboard his flight back from the Philippines: You don't have to breed "like rabbits" in order to be good Catholics, he said.

January 20, 2015

Al Sharpton, at National Action Network, insists: ‘We are not anti-police’

The Rev. Al Sharpton insisted during a Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration that neither he nor his organization, the National Action Network, were "anti-police" but rather they were simply watchdogs for the community.

January 20, 2015

Michael Moore backtracks on sniper diss: ‘I never tweeted 1word bout’ Chris Kyle

Left-leaning Hollywood moviemaker Michael Moore backed off critical comments he tweeted shortly after "American Sniper" hit the theaters, saying that his snipe about snipers being "cowards" was not aimed at Chris Kyle — and that, in fact, he never mentioned the U.S. shooter by name.

January 20, 2015

MI5 refuses agents with tattoos: ‘Make you unsuitable for this role’

Britain's counter-terrorism and domestic intelligence agency, MI5, has banned new recruits from having tattoos.

January 20, 2015

Jon Stewart mocks John Kerry’s France trip: ‘Are you trying to get us in a war?’

Jon Stewart sent a mocking message John Kerry's way, poking fun at the secretary of state's recent trip to France and bemoaning the Kumbaya atmosphere he created with crooner James Taylor.

January 20, 2015

Harry Reid labeled ‘most vulnerable Democrat incumbent’ in upcoming Senate race

The tallies are in, and Sen. Harry Reid has pulled the short end of the stick: He's been rated the "most vulnerable" of all Democrats by Larry Sabato, the political scientist who oversees the University of Virginia's Crystal Ball polling site.

January 20, 2015

Obama mocked for MLK photo that features him: ‘It’s always about the Big O!’

The White House is facing backlash for a photo it sent out in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day that featured President Obama in a more prominent pose than critics thought proper.

January 20, 2015