Cheryl K. Chumley

Iowa partiers outraged as police bust house party, brandish guns

Iowa City police have been forced to issue a statement defending its officers' actions after a YouTube video that's generated thousands of hits seems to show them pushing their way — without any warrant — into a house party and arresting three.

September 11, 2014

Anthony Weiner resurfaces to rebuke Elizabeth Warren

The long-lost voice of former Rep. Anthony Weiner — a failed New York mayoral candidate whose political star fell over a sexting scandal — came to life this week, right after he sent out a very public rebuttal of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's rebuke of former Minority Leader Eric Cantor.

September 11, 2014

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s district office hit by Molotov cocktail

Law enforcement agents are investigating the Thursday morning tossing of a Molotov cocktail into Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's district office.

September 11, 2014

Socialist Francois Hollande falls from grace: 62 percent want him gone

Almost two-thirds in France want their Socialist leader, Francois Hollande, to step down from his presidential role before his term ends in 2017, new poll numbers show.

September 11, 2014

Feds want 16 months in prison for Dinesh D’Souza

Federal authorities are seeking between 10 and 16 months of prison time for conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, saying his guilty plea to a campaign law violation warrants such punishment.

September 11, 2014

Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson says AIDS, syphilis God’s penalty for gays

Duck Dynasty's outspoken patriarch, Phil Robertson, said during a recent Christian radio show with Family Research Council head Tony Perkins that AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases are God's way of imposing consequences for sin on gays.

September 11, 2014

Sen. Ted Cruz booed off stage at event for Mideast Christians

Sen. Ted Cruz was booed off the stage Wednesday at a sold-out conference for Middle Eastern Christians after claiming that Christians are Israel's best friends.

September 11, 2014

Arnold Schwarzenegger scrubs Maria Shriver’s face from gubernatorial portrait

Former Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was apparently so anxious to leave behind the memory of his wife, Maria Shriver — who was revealed in recent reports to have committed adultery even before he did — that he erased her face from his just-revealed gubernatorial portrait.

September 11, 2014

China set to launch second space lab into orbit by 2016

China is moving another step closer toward landing a man on the moon, announcing its latest space endeavor includes the launching of a second orbiting lab within the next two years.

September 11, 2014

Michael Moore on Obama: ‘He’s been a huge disappointment’

Michael Moore, the left-leaning, anti-capitalistic millionaire filmmaker who nonetheless tries to maintain a man-of-the-people image, has issued a scathing assessment of President Obama — simply that he's a big letdown.

September 11, 2014

9/11 anniversary sends Capitol Police to high alert mode

Law enforcement on Capitol Hill on Thursday were preparing for the 13th anniversary year of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States while hoping for a peaceful, uneventful day.

September 11, 2014

Sarah Palin to Obama: ‘War is hell, so go big or go home’

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin penned a reaction to President Obama's speech on the Islamic State on her Facebook page, telling the commander-in-chief that if he can't lead with boldness, then he's better off stepping aside.

September 11, 2014

India police suspended for charging toddler, 1, with ‘coercion’

Two police officers in Uttar Pradesh in India were suspended after they charged a 1-year-old boy and the toddler's father with "coercion" in the lead-up to an election.

September 11, 2014

Honolulu council poised to scoot homeless from tourist streets

Hawaiian vacationers don't want to see homeless on the streets — and that's the driving logic behind a handful of Honolulu City Council measures approved this week that would make it nearly impossible for those without fixed addresses to loiter in public.

September 11, 2014

Dozens arrested as Ferguson protesters try to shut down highway

Police arrested dozens of protesters in Ferguson who had assembled near the entry and exit ramps of Interstate 70, with apparent plans to shut down travel on the highway.

September 11, 2014

Millions of Gmail addresses, passwords leaked online

Millions of Gmail addresses and passwords were leaked online — but Google company officials are saying not to worry.

September 11, 2014

Missouri lawmakers pass 3-day waiting period for abortions

Missouri lawmakers overruled Gov. Jay Nixon's veto and passed legislation requiring women to wait three days before obtaining abortions.

September 11, 2014

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford enters hospital with tumor in abdomen

Mayor Rob Ford, the Toronto politico who rocked international headlines for his admitted use of crack cocaine, has now entered a hospital for treatment of a tumor in his abdomen.

September 11, 2014

Adolf Hitler birth home to be museum, dubbed ‘House of Responsibility’

The home where Adolf Hitler was born could be turned into a museum, dubbed the "House of Responsibility," Austrian officials say.

September 10, 2014

HIllary Clinton ‘most effective’ secretary of state: Henry Kissinger

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had nothing but praise for Hillary Rodham Clinton on her own leadership of the department, even going so far as to say she did a better job than he did.

September 10, 2014