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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

cchumley@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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A military police fires tear gas at protestors during an anti-government demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Brazil in chaos as 1 million swarm into streets

An estimated 1 million protesters took to the streets of Brazil early Friday, clashing with police and swarming through more than 80 cities in the biggest anti-government demonstration the nation has seen in years.

June 21, 2013
** FILE ** In this image released by Spanish police on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, two men are on the ground after they were arrested by police officers in Barcelona. Spain’s Interior Ministry says authorities have arrested five Tunisian men living in Barcelona after they were discovered spreading terror propaganda on social media networks. (AP Photo/Spanish Police)

Spain police arrest 8 with al Qaeda links

Spanish police said on Friday that they've arrested eight suspects who are accused of recruiting jihadists to fight with groups linked to al Qaeda in Syria.

June 21, 2013
** FILE ** Protesters opposed to abortion hold placards outside a Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Ireland’s top health minister advocates for abortion bill

Ireland's minister of health came out in full support of the nation's hotly contested abortion bill on Thursday, assuring that hospitals would not be allowed to perform the procedure at will, but only to save the lives of at-risk women.

June 21, 2013
** FILE ** Former President Jimmy Carter speaks Oct. 22, 2012, in the West Bank city of Ramallah to the media following a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (Associated Press)

Jimmy Carter to John Kerry: Ease sanctions on terror groups

Former President Jimmy Carter has signed on to a petition to Secretary of State John Kerry urging the United States to back off certain sanctions on groups that are deemed terrorist organizations, so that peace workers can go in and work.

June 20, 2013
** FILE ** Hezbollah supporters fire weapons as they celebrate the fall of the Syrian town of Qusair to forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah fighters, in Bazzalieh village, Lebanon, near the Lebanese-Syrian border, on Wednesday, June 5, 2013. (Associated Press)

Saudis set to expel Lebanese who support Hezbollah

Saudi Arabia is poised to send packing any Lebanese citizens who support the militant group Hezbollah, a show of solidarity with rebel fighters in Syria who are battling to oust President Bashar Assad.

June 20, 2013
** FILE ** Fountains operate in front of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2010. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Dubai plans $7 million theme park to honor Koran

Dubai's director of government projects said that nation was constructing a new theme park to honor the Muslim holy text, the Koran, to be ready for tourists and visitors by September 2014.

June 20, 2013
Rep. James P. McGovern, Massachusetts Democrat (Associated Press)

House votes to cut $2 billion in food stamp funding from farm bill

The House voted 234-188 against a Democrat amendment to a farm bill that would have kept food stamp spending at its current level — and in so doing, gave the thumbs up to go forward with cuts to the program to the tune of $2 billion in one year.

June 20, 2013
Deidre Hansen wipes away a tear after pinning the Bronze Star on the chest of her son Joshua Hansen, a former Army sergeant, in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Mr. Hansen's son, Jesse James, 6, reaches up to touch the medal as his daughter, Trinity Rose, 9, puts her arm around her dad. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Paul Fraughton)

Utah soldier hit 9 times by IEDs finally gets Bronze Star

It took six years, but a former Utah sergeant who was hit by IEDs nine different times while serving two tours of duty in Iraq and who now suffers permanent brain damage finally was awarded the military's fifth-highest combat medal, the Bronze Star.

June 20, 2013