Cheryl K. Chumley

U.S. troops get OK to use Turkey bases to fight Islamic State

Turkey has given the go-ahead to the United States to use its military bases as a jumping point to launch operations against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, Department of Defense officials said.

October 13, 2014

Nancy Pelosi: Americans ‘deserve’ minimum wage of $10.10

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi hammered away at the minimum wage issue Friday, chiding Republicans into getting on board with a hike from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 an hour.

October 10, 2014

Utah Republican suggests new term for gay unions: ‘Pairages,’ not marriages

A Utah Republican frustrated by the Supreme Court's failure to act on several states' appeals of gay marriage said one way to address the confusion is to create a new term for the same-sex unions: Call them "pairages."

October 10, 2014

Make-A-Wish backyard playground for disabled girl ticketed by city

A 10-year-old California girl with a seizure disorder so intense she can't play in public parks was given her own playground by the Make-A-Wish Foundation — but city officials have deemed it an ordinance violation that must go.

October 10, 2014

Koreas trade fire as South Korea tries to fly balloon messages across the border

North and South Korea traded gunfire on Friday, the day of Pyongyang's celebrated Workers' Party anniversary, after military stationed at the northern border shot down balloons containing freedom literature being sent from the south.

October 10, 2014

St. Louis protesters burn American flags post-police shootings

Protesters in St. Louis, angry at a police officer's return fatal gunfire on an 18-year-old black man, took to burning the American flag in the streets, chanting "no justice, no peace," The Blaze reported.

October 10, 2014

‘Idiot’ flier brings on hazmat, passenger delays for joking ‘I have Ebola’

An unidentified man flying from Philadelphia to the Dominican Republic caused a massive stir aboard his plane after he shouted in Spanish that he had Ebola, while sneezing and continuing to cough.

October 10, 2014

Jane Fonda drops bombshell, citing mother’s 9 abortions

Pro-choice Hollywood icon Jane Honda — and the liberal activist whose name still draws a hiss from Vietnam veterans and military supporters — dropped a bombshell during a speech before a Beverly Hills rape victims' charity crowd, referring to a recent report she read about her mother and her mother's many abortions.

October 10, 2014

Nidal Hasan, self-described ‘Soldier of Allah,’ touts jihad in letter to pope

Former Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan — who was guilty in the eyes of the Department of Defense of workplace violence for the 2009 shooting massacre at Fort Hood, despite his claim to be a "Soldier of Allah" — has now penned a letter to the pope, expressing his embrace of jihad.

October 10, 2014

South Korean coast guardsman shoots, kills Chinese fishing ship captain

A South Korean coast guardsman shot and killed the captain of a Chinese fishing ship of Friday, after an altercation over the inspection of the man's vessel.

October 10, 2014

Mike Huckabee: ‘I’ll become an independent’ if GOP caves on gay marriage

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — and potential Republican candidate for president in 2016 — said enough is enough, that if the GOP doesn't stand up and fight against gay marriage, he'll go his separate way.

October 10, 2014

St. Louis, Ferguson police prep for ‘bad things’ in ‘weekend of resistance’

Angry activists in the areas of St. Louis and Ferguson say they're planning a "weekend of resistance" in response to police shootings of two black men, both 18, in recent weeks, hoping the rallies will draw more attention to how law enforcement treats black people.

October 10, 2014

Kim Jong-un misses key ceremony, fueling mystery of whereabouts

North Korea's missing-in-action dictator, Kim Jong-un, didn't show for a key ceremony on Friday that was staged in part to pay tribute to his dead father and grandfather — a mysterious absence that only fuels talk that he's no longer in charge.

October 10, 2014

IMF managing director says she’ll belly dance for Congress to bring on banking reforms

The International Monetary Fund managing director said Thursday that she'll do whatever it takes to convince lawmakers to pass banking operation reforms — even if that means belly dancing before Congress.

October 9, 2014

Red Bull settles class-action suit over false advertising

Red Bull has agreed to pay $13 million to put an end to a class-action lawsuit for false advertising, and now has to dole out settlement dollars to anyone who bought one of its beverages between the dates of Jan. 1, 2002, and Oct. 3, 2014.

October 9, 2014

Russian sentenced to 18 months in prison for plot to export U.S. military equipment

A Russian who pleaded guilty to trying to export high-tech U.S. military equipment was sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Court.

October 9, 2014

Michelle Obama on Spanx shapewear: ‘We all wear them with pride’

First lady Michelle Obama had nothing but praise for the billion dollar Spanx industry during her White House fashion forum, calling the secretly slimming material that's taken the shapewear field by storm a source of "pride" for women to wear.

October 9, 2014

Marijuana-infused soda pulled from stores after bottles explode

A brand of marijuana-infused soda was pulled from three different Washington state pot stores after the bottles began exploding.

October 9, 2014

Rand Paul says student-teacher ratio ‘should go to a million to one’

Sen. Rand Paul completely dismissed the idea that low student-to-teacher ratios were precursors to academic success, saying at a recent New Establishment Summit that a much higher ratio is okay by him -- even if it's a million students to one teacher.

October 9, 2014

Bostonian Society to unveil time capsule contents in Old State House lion

The Bostonian Society is poised to reveal the contents of a copper box hidden in the head of a lion statue at the Old State House — contents that were placed there in 1901 and believed to be various letters, newspaper clips and political documents from the period.

October 9, 2014