Cheryl K. Chumley

2 Americans killed in Gaza fighting for Israel: ‘We lost a gem’

Two Americans fighting for the Israel Defense Force were killed in the Gaza Strip, while battling Hamas terrorists.

July 21, 2014

Luis Gutierrez: Obama assured me he’ll ‘stop the deportation of our people’

Rep. Luis Gutierrez told a National Council of La Raza crowd in Los Angeles that President Obama has assured him in conversations that his intent is to stop the widespread deportation of illegal Hispanics.

July 21, 2014

Gov. Rick Perry to send 1,000 National Guards troops to border: memo

Gov. Rick Perry is set to announce Monday that he's going to activate and deploy about 1,000 troops with the National Guard to the Texas-Mexico border.

July 21, 2014

McDonald’s, KFC in China face food safety scare from expired meat

China-based McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants put a stop to using meat from the company, Husi Food Co., Ltd., after learning they were sold beef and chicken that had expired.

July 21, 2014

Obama ignored warnings of illegal child crossings on the border for 2 years: report

U.S. border patrol agents spent the last two years issuing warnings to the Obama administration about an uptick in the number of illegal minor-aged immigrants crossers, a new report from the University of Texas at El Paso found.

July 21, 2014

Hamas sends in bomb-covered donkey to hit Israeli troops

Hamas terrorists strapped explosives to the underbelly of a donkey and sent it toward a grouping of Israeli troops in the southern city of Rafah over the weekend, forcing soldiers to unleash fire and kill the beast.

July 21, 2014

Edward Snowden to work with Russia on anti-spy technology

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden announced plans to work with Russia, where he's now residing, to develop anti-surveillance technology aimed at shuttering government spy operations around the globe.

July 21, 2014

Curt Gentry, ‘Helter Skelter’ co-author, dies at 83

Curt Gentry, one of the authors of "Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders," died in San Francisco at the age of 83, his brother just confirmed.

July 21, 2014

Ukraine sends tanks to take back rebel-held city of Donestsk

Ukainian authorities sent in military tanks to try and take back the rebel-held stronghold of Donestsk from Russian separatists on Monday.

July 21, 2014

Wisconsin train derailment injures 2, evacuates 100

Two were injured and more than 100 evacuated from the site of a Wisconsin train derailment that spilled diesel fuel, authorities said.

July 21, 2014

Sean Hannity jabs Obama’s MIA: What’s next — golf flags ‘at half-mast?’

Fox News host Sean Hannity took a swipe at President Obama's perceived missing-in-action response to the Malaysia Airlines crash, and the Israeli ground invasion into Gaza, asking in a joking tone: Is his only reaction to put the golf flags at half-mast?

July 18, 2014

Edward Snowden says NSA treats nude file photos as ‘fringe benefit’

Edward Snowden's latest revelation about the National Security Agency's surveillance activities is to say that agents who stumble across photographs of naked individuals in their files don't exactly treat them as sensitive documents. Rather, they pass them around to their office pals, he said.

July 18, 2014

CNN reporter tweets Israelis as ‘scum,’ then hurries to delete post

A correspondent with CNN reporting from Gaza gave a rundown of the latest in rocket fire being traded between Israel and Hamas, then took to Twitter to give her opinion of Israelis who cheered about bomb hits: They're "scum," she wrote.

July 18, 2014

Benjamin Netanyahu preps ground troops: ‘Significant expansion’ coming

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Israeli ground troops on Friday to get ready for more missions into Gaza -- that a "significant expansion" of force is on the way.

July 18, 2014

Malaysia MH17 blame game: Haunting audio shows separatists shocked they shot down civilians

Audio intercepted by Ukrainian authorities in the hours after the downed Malaysian airplane indicates that Russian separatists at first cheered what they believed was the take-down of a transport plane -- and then expressed shock and anger, when they realized the craft contained civilians.

July 18, 2014

John McCain calls Obama’s White House ‘cowardly’ and ‘AWOL’

Sen. John McCain denounced the White House as "cowardly," characterizing President Obama as failing the nation by fundraising while the world stage erupts in violence and chaos.

July 18, 2014

Malaysia Flight MH17: Dozens of AIDS researchers among the dead

Investigators say that 100 or so AIDS researchers traveling to the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne may be among the dead in the aircraft that was shot down over Ukraine.

July 18, 2014

FedEx faces fines of $1.6B for shipping illegally sold drugs

The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into Federal Express, claiming the worldwide shipper is guilty of transporting prescription drugs that were illegally sold.

July 18, 2014

Chance to lunch with Bill, Hillary Clinton sells at auction for $500K

A Chinese business mogul shelled out $500,000 at auction for the privilege of eating lunch with President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — but when he asked for permission to bring along his kids, his reported answer was a bit shocking: Yes, if you round it up to a cool $1 million.

July 18, 2014

Hobby Lobby owners to build Bible museum near National Mall

Hobby Lobby — the company that just beat back Obamacare's mandate to provide all types of contraceptive coverage to employees, even those believed by Christians to be abortifacients — has a new venture: Owners are building a Bible museum in downtown Washington, D.C.

July 18, 2014