Cheryl K. Chumley

Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai confirms CIA cash payments to continue

The CIA will continue paying cash to the Afghanistan government, President Hamid Karzai said over the weekend.

May 6, 2013

Islamic protests with police leave 15 dead in Bangladesh

Islamic hardliners in Bangladesh's capital city calling for a law against blasphemy have clashed with police, and at least 15 have been reported dead.

May 6, 2013

Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro: President Obama’s ‘the grand chief of devils’

Venezuela-U.S. relations took another hit over the weekend, after President Obama called "ridiculous" the notion of an American detained in the country as a spy and government heads lashed back, demanding the White House quit its meddling.

May 6, 2013

Vintage jet crashes, explodes in fireball at Madrid airshow

A pilot was killed when the vintage jet he was navigating at an air airshow near Madrid crashed and exploded into a dramatic fireball.

May 6, 2013

Rush Limbaugh mulls exit from Cumulus over dispute with CEO: Report

Rush Limbaugh just might pack his suitcases and leave Cumulus, a media shake-up that would leave 40 stations around the country without the voice of one of the nation's biggest names — and advertising draw — in radio history.

May 6, 2013

9/11 memorial fees called ‘slap in the face’

Charging admission fees to the National September 11 Memorial Museum is an outrage and a "slap in the face," said one group that represents the families of victims.

May 6, 2013

Israel returns to ‘business as usual’ after strikes on Syria

It's "business as usual" in Israel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left on Monday for a scheduled meeting in China — just a few hours after his country sent in two aircraft strikes against Syria.

May 6, 2013

Earthquake rattles near Iran’s nuclear reactor in Bushehr

A moderate earthquake hit near Iran's main nuclear reactor near Bushehr on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of damages or deaths.

May 6, 2013

Man electrocuted while scaling 200-foot power company tower in Seattle

A man who climbed at 200-foot power company tower was electrocuted and fell, apparently landing part of the way down. Seattle firefighters spent Friday morning trying to extricate the man's body from the tower, whose power had to be shut off during the recovery.

May 3, 2013

Google recognizes Palestinian territories as ‘Palestine’

Google has in effect declared a state of Palestine. The company on Friday announced it would change the name of all its products that cited Palestinian Territories to simply Palestine.

May 3, 2013

Catholic bishops decry Ireland’s abortion bill as ‘morally unacceptable’

Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland are calling on flock faithful to lobby lawmakers to vote down a bill allowing abortions in cases where the mother's life is at risk.

May 3, 2013

Sen. Sarah Palin? Tea party sees gains from ‘Obamacare’

Prominent tea party members are preparing for big wins in 2014 due to negative fallout from President Obama's signature health care reform.

May 3, 2013

Clarence Thomas: Obama’s star rose because he fit elites’ mold

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested to C-SPAN that the nation's first black president came by way of a compliant media that only embraced him because he fit the stereotypical mold.

May 3, 2013

California wildfires scorch thousands of acres as fearful residents flee

Raging wildfires tearing along the California coast have scorched thousands of acres and forced hundreds of fearful residents to flee as firefighters scrambled to contain the damage.

May 3, 2013

Jesus or jihad? FBI, police dispute Texas shooter’s shouts

Police and FBI agents can't agree on the shouts of a Texas man arrested after storming a security gate at a Dallas airport: Did he shout Jesus or jihad?

May 3, 2013

Egypt Islamic official: ‘Permissible to kill some Christians today’

The secretary-general of Egypt's Islamic Jihad Party said that it's OK to kill Christians because they threw the first punch.

May 3, 2013

Newark memorial service turns bloody, as 5 injured by gunfire

A makeshift memorial service set up by Newark, N.J., residents who were mourning a fatal car crash victim turned violent, as one of the attendees began firing into the crowd, injuring five.

May 3, 2013

Terror suspect Abdella Ahmad Tounisi ordered to home confinement

A federal judge ordered a teen who is charged with trying to join an al Qaeda terrorist group to fight in Syria to be released from jail and instead confined to his home — an unusually lax bail decision that outraged prosecutors, who quickly appealed.

May 3, 2013

Daughter to Pa. mother found after 11 years: Hope she ‘rots in hell’

The 20-year-old daughter of the Pennsylvania mom who walked away from her family to live the homeless lifestyle in Florida for 11 years had harsh words for her just-surfaced parent: Get lost again.

May 3, 2013

China makes waves as new force in drone warfare

China is emerging as a real force in the drone warfare market, with aerospace firms developing and showcasing unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, that rival what's produced in the United States.

May 3, 2013