Cheryl K. Chumley

Walgreens pulls wrapping paper woven with Nazi swastikas

Walgreens in Southern California has pulled from its store shelves Hanukkah wrapping paper in gold that contained blue weavings in the shape of Nazi swastikas.

December 9, 2014

Heather Cho, Korean Air executive, resigns over airplane macadamia nut row

Heather Cho, an executive with Korean Air who also uses the native name of Cho Hyun-ah, resigned Tuesday from the airline's catering and in-flight sales division after facing fire for halting the flight of a plane because crew served her macadamia nuts in a bag and not on a plate.

December 9, 2014

Facial recognition technology put on vending machines to help dieters diet

Those with little to no self-control — take heart. The Luce X2 Touch TV vending machine, complete with facial identification technology, just made its debut to industry insiders in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom with the promise of helping dieters everywhere keep on track with professed plans to quit the junk food and lose weight.

December 9, 2014

Jonathan Gruber admits Obama fudged Obamacare costs: podcast

Jonathan Gruber — the now-famous Obamacare architect who credited the bill's passage to the "stupidity" of the American people — heads into a congressional hearing on Tuesday against a backdrop of one of his most shocking claims: that the president outright lied to the American people about his health care reform.

December 9, 2014

Eric Garner, Michael Brown protesters fill streets, halt traffic

Protests in California over the police-fueled deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have taken decided turns to the violent, with hundreds of angry individuals hurling objects, setting fires, breaking store windows and blocking off major travel routes in the last 24 hours.

December 9, 2014

Charles Angeletti, Denver professor, pushes students to take anti-American pledge

Metropolitan State University of Denver professor Charles Angeletti, who teaches a class on American Civilization, has a rule for students wishing to take his course: that they recite a new version of the Pledge of Allegiance that denounces the nation as unjust.

December 9, 2014

Dick Cheney on CIA report: It’s ‘all a bunch of hooey’

Former Vice President Dick Cheney took preemptive action on the looming release of a report that takes a look at President George W. Bush-era interrogation tactics of suspected terrorists, calling the Democratic-fueled discussion little more than political theatrics.

December 9, 2014

Calvin Peters, synagogue stabbing suspect, killed by New York police

Police in New York shot and killed a man inside synagogue after he reportedly asked for a Bible, stabbed a man and then lunged at police.

December 9, 2014

Indiana town fights atheists on nativity scene: ‘They can look the other way’

Atheists are demanding Brookville, Indiana, governing authorities tear down a nativity display that's nearby the Franklin County Courthouse — where it's been placed every Christmas for nearly five decades — but the townspeople are fighting back, saying simply if you don't like it, don't look.

December 8, 2014

Linda Sanchez, Congressional Hispanic Caucus head, grades Obama B+ on immigration

Linda Sanchez, the incoming chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said President Obama has done OK on immigration so far — but hardly great.

December 8, 2014

USDA tells Americans: Stay off the cookie dough

Just in time for the holidays: The U.S. Department of Agriculture sent out a warning that foods containing raw or partially cooked eggs should not be consumed — and that includes cookie dough.

December 8, 2014

Anna Chapman, Russian spy, tried seducing Edward Snowden: report

Anna Chapman, the sexy Russian spy who was arrested in New York City in 2010 and walked the Moscow catwalk during Fashion Week in 2011, was reportedly ordered by superiors to seduce NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and keep him in Russia for questioning and scrutiny.

December 8, 2014

Walgreens under fire for Nazi swastika weave in Hanukkah wrapping paper

A Walgreens in Northridge, California, is in hot water for some wrapping paper it was selling for the Hanukkah market that seemed, on closer scrutiny, to include a blue-and-gold weave of Nazi swastikas.

December 8, 2014

British police mocked for cruiser misspelling: ‘POLCE’

Social media is tweeting about the latest British police buys — a new fleet of patrol cars, clearly marked with the misspelled identification moniker, "POLCE."

December 8, 2014

Obama: Sting is better name than POTUS

President Obama cracked at the Kennedy Center Honorees gala that he liked his title — President of the United States, or POTUS — well enough, but that if he had his choice, he'd go by another: Sting.

December 8, 2014

Dave Brat, tea party darling, blasts Obama as ‘morally vacuous’ on amnesty

Virginia's just-elected Dave Brat — who won his congressional seat thanks in part to a swell of tea party support from voters — called President Obama's executive action on immigration a "morally vacuous" move that bypasses America's rule of law.

December 8, 2014

Berkeley protests leave trail of damage to stores, police cars

Berkeley protesters in the streets for a second night of rallies against police killings of black suspects left a trail of damage in their wake, including damaged stores, vandalized law enforcement vehicles and a chaotic commuting scene on both roads and train depots.

December 8, 2014

Rush Limbaugh to Chris Wallace on shutdown fears: GOP won — they should fight

Rush Limbaugh, in a rare appearance on Fox News, told host Chris Wallace in no uncertain terms that the Republican Party ought to shake up the White House and stand strong against President Obama's amnesty plan.

December 8, 2014

PlayStation Network hacked, leaving millions without gaming connection

The PlayStation Network and PlayStation Store were hacked, leaving millions of users without access to aspects of the game's systems.

December 8, 2014

Obama’s sore throat sends him to Walter Reed for CT scan

President Obama's sore throat sent him to doctors for a CT scan — but turns out, he simply had acid reflux.

December 8, 2014