Cheryl K. Chumley

Lawmaker denied entry to immigrant detention site: ‘What are they trying to hide?’

Oklahoma Rep. Jim Bridenstine fired off an angry letter to the Department of Health and Human Services after he was denied entry to an illegal immigration facility in his own state.

July 3, 2014

Thad Cochran campaign accused in bizarre press call of ‘harvesting black votes’

A conference call set up by Sen. Thad Cochran's campaign camp took a turn to the bizarre, after a caller who identified on Twitter as a freelance journalist broke in to repeatedly ask: Why was the candidate's camp "harvesting black votes?"

July 3, 2014

Chase bank surveys workers to see if they’re ‘ally of the LGBT community’

A JP Morgan Chase bank employee says he's not only puzzled by an internal company survey that asked workers if they considered themselves friend of the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender community — he's fearful of losing his job.

July 3, 2014

Israeli summer camp for kids hit by Hamas rockets from Gaza

Hamas radicals in the Gaza Strip shot off more than a dozen rockets toward Israel in the overnight hours, scoring a direct hit on a house that's serving as a summer camp for youth.

July 3, 2014

New York insurers seek 12- to 20-percent hike in Obamacare premiums

Insurance companies that feed into New York's health exchange system for Obamacare are requesting hikes to patient premiums that are in the double-digits, a New York Post investigation found.

July 3, 2014

Germany poised to pass first minimum wage law at $11.61 an hour

Germany is about to approve the nation's first-ever minimum wage law — and converted from euros to dollars, it comes out to $11.61 per hour.

July 3, 2014

University of Utah’s football fight song deemed sexist: ‘Man’ changed to ‘fan’

Come fall, fans of the University of Utah's football program will no longer necessarily sing the word "man" in their traditional, century-old athletic event fight song.

July 3, 2014

Costumed ‘Star Wars’ stormtrooper sends Kansas business into lockdown mode

A man dressed in a "Star Wars"-type stormtrooper costume, complete with fake weaponry, so scared a business owner in one Kansas community that he locked his shop and called police.

July 2, 2014

‘Clinton Inc.’ going strong, as Bill, Hillary raise $1B in political bucks over 20 years

Former President Bill Clinton and his former Secretary of State wife, Hillary, are big money-making machines, it seems, having raised a total of $1 billion-plus from various political causes over the last two decades.

July 2, 2014

Ken Cuccinelli calls for states to dispatch the National Guard to border

Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia attorney general, said states along the Southern border not only have the legal right to secure their properties by dispatching the National Guard — but they pretty much also have a constitutionally based responsibility.

July 2, 2014

Burger King in San Francisco releases pro-gay ‘Proud Whopper’

A Burger King in San Francisco has taken its support of LGBT pride week to a new level and released a special sandwich — the Proud Whopper.

July 2, 2014

White House’s $172K club: Jay Carney pulled top pay in press secretary gig

A newly released White House report shows that three of President Obama's closest — adviser Valerie Jarrett, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and personal counselor John Podesta — top the salary scale for White House aides, drawing in $172,200 each.

July 2, 2014

North Korea bans ‘Choco Pies’ as factory pay, says use sausages instead

North Korean authorities have issued a decree to factory workers who were used to receiving beloved "Choco Pies" snack cakes as a form of payment and bonus: No more pies. You'll get sausages instead.

July 2, 2014

Nearly 200 arrested in massive democracy rally in Hong Kong

Almost 200 protesters were arrested Wednesday in a Hong Kong rally for democracy that drew tens of thousands of participants.

July 2, 2014

ISIL mocks Obama: ‘Did you prepare enough diapers for your soldiers?’

Jihad fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant sent a mocking video aimed directly at President Obama — a YouTube spot called "The End of Sykes-Picot" that wraps with a smiling terrorist taunting the White House head for his failing military prowess.

July 2, 2014

Ben Carson likens abortion in America to ‘human sacrifice’ of paganists

Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon-turned-conservative rock star — and an open follower of the Christian faith — likely ruffled liberal feathers with his most recent comment on abortion, during which he likened it to the biblical act of sacrificing humans.

July 2, 2014

World Trade Center flag stolen from fallen firefighter family’s yard

The family of a New York City firefighter who was killed during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, said a flag presented to them in his honor was stolen from their yard, and they're begging the thief to give it back.

July 2, 2014

Obama shrugs at GOP: ‘So sue me’

President Obama shrugged at Republicans who threatened to launch a lawsuit against him to rein in his executive actions, telling them simply that he doesn't care — go ahead and sue.

July 2, 2014

ISIL chief calls terrorism honorable and orders Muslims to rush to ‘your state’

The head of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant sent out a new battle cry to Muslim followers, ordering them to rush to "your state" and take control, characterizing terrorism as an honorable endeavor.

July 2, 2014

Black student president who mocked ‘rich white classmates’ forced to resign

A black student body president who attended a high school in one of the wealthiest areas of the nation was pressed to resign from her leadership role after she posted a picture of herself in a Yale University sweatshirt on Instagram, mocking her rich, white classmates. A black student body president in New Jersey who attended a high school in one of the nation's wealthiest areas was pressured to resign after posting a picture on Instagram of herself in a Yale sweatshirt, mocking her rich, white classmates.

July 1, 2014