Cheryl K. Chumley

Bill O’Reilly: ‘I’m not Rush Limbaugh … I’m a fact-based guy’

Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly issued a somewhat scathing assessment of his talking head competition, putting liberal Sen. Al Franken in the same boat as conservative Rush Limbaugh and dismissing them as partisan hacks or scaremongers.

June 20, 2014

Trey Gowdy lights up John Boehner and Lindsey Graham

Rep. Trey Gowdy took a time-out from the somber cause of politicking to tell a two-plus minute story of his recent dream that opened: Speaker John Boehner, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Maryland's Rep. Andy Harris all died and went to Heaven.

June 20, 2014

New York City to give free lunches to all middle-schoolers, no matter what income

Politicos just handed parents in New York City a huge entitlement at taxpayer expense — free lunches for all the school system's middle-schoolers — in what critics are sure to bill as a nanny government run amok.

June 20, 2014

John Boehner: President Obama’s ‘wheels are coming off’

Speaker John Boehner blasted the White House over a range of issues — from Iraq to the blooming scandals with Veterans Affairs and the Internal Revenue Service — saying the perception of a casual observer might be that the president doesn't really have a clue.

June 20, 2014

Conservative yanked off air for testing racial slur bounds in context of Redskins’ talk

Former Rep. Joe Walsh -- Illinois congressman-turned-conservative radio host -- learned the hard way that it's not acceptable to say certain racially charged words on air, even when trying to make a point about the attack of the Redskins' football team name.

June 20, 2014

White House reporters caught on tape mocking John McCain

Sen. John McCain was the unwitting target of a couple of White House reporters' jokes — and now the nation knows just what MSNBC's Chuck Todd and Fox News' Ed Henry think of the Arizona politico.

June 20, 2014

Pope Francis condemns ‘evil’ marijuana

Pope Francis waded into the legalized marijuana debate on Friday, putting out a statement that says, bluntly: Don't do it.

June 20, 2014

Republicans join Democrats to vote for curb to NSA spy powers

Republicans and Democrats found common ground on the secretive National Security Agency and passed a bill in the House aimed at scaling back the government's surveillance powers.

June 20, 2014

CDC warns 75 workers may have been exposed to anthrax

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 75 workers may have been exposed to anthrax, but that the likelihood was minimal and not to worry.

June 20, 2014

Nancy Pelosi: I pray for Republicans ‘every Sunday’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that when Sunday dawns, she is more a praying woman and far less a partisan politician.

June 20, 2014

Taliban fire mortar shell on Afghan home, killing child

An Afghan province spokesman said members of the Taliban fired a mortar shell at a home in the eastern region, killing a child who was inside at the time.

June 20, 2014

Colorado rap concert turns violent as 3 shot in parking lot

Police in Colorado went car-by-car, searching for the suspects who were responsible for gunning down three at a rap concert in the parking lot of Red Rocks Amphitheater in the wee hours of Friday morning.

June 20, 2014

Jailed Christian rock frontman: Me and most of my band were atheists

Tim Lambesis, the former frontman of a Christian heavy metal band who was just sentenced to six years in jail for hiring a hit man to kill his wife, dropped another shocker for fans of the group: he and most of his bandmates were atheists.

June 19, 2014

Bus driver who said Bible saved him from bullets outed as fake, police say

A bus driver in Ohio who claimed his pocket Bible saved him from the bullets of three gun-toting aggressors is now facing quizzing from police who say his story — while inspirational and stunning — doesn't match what they're finding as fact.

June 19, 2014

Pepper-spraying, crowd-controlling drones called ‘deeply disturbing’ by union

Members of an international trade union say they're shocked and disturbed by a mining company's order for 25 drones capable of shooting pepper spray to control crowds.

June 19, 2014

New York lawmakers ban tattoos, piercings on pets

New York lawmakers have passed a bill that bans pet owners from giving their animals tattoos or body piercings.

June 19, 2014

Rush Limbaugh blasts feds’ ‘tyranny’ over Redskins trademark spike

Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh didn't mince words in his assessment of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's severing of the Redskins name over perceptions its was "disparaging," calling the move akin to tyranny -- a pure power play on the part of the president.

June 19, 2014

School blocks NRA, GOP, Christian websites — but not Dem, Islam sites

A senior at one Connecticut high school has asked administrators to explain why he can access websites like Islam-guide.com, the State Democrat site and Planned Parenthood on the school's computers -- but not sites for the NRA, the State GOP or Christianity.com.

June 19, 2014

Joe Biden vows U.S. will ‘impose further costs’ on Russia for Crimea

Vice President Joseph R. Biden promised Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in a private conversation that the United State would not abandon its cause to clamp down on Russia for its recent aggressions into the region, leading to the annexation of Crimea.

June 19, 2014

China city kicks off summer solstice with dog-eating celebration

Summer solstice is gearing up in China — and for residents in one southern city, that means time to eat the dogs.

June 19, 2014