Cheryl K. Chumley

Dianne Feinstein: Terrorism is a greater threat today

Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Mike Rogers may hail from opposite political parties, but they struck agreement on at least one key issue in recent talk shows: America’s threat from terrorism is on the rise.

December 2, 2013

Israeli P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu sparks furor with $23K flower buys

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ignited a firestorm in his country among critics who say some of his purchases have been frivolous and wasteful.

December 2, 2013

Jesse Owens’ 1936 Olympic gold medal hits the auction block

One of track star Jesse Owens’ gold medals, won during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin at a time when Nazi propaganda was putting forth a message of Ayran supremacism, has been put up for online auction.

December 2, 2013

Gay couples flock to marry in Hawaii, as midnight chimes in new law

Monday dawned in Hawaii with dozens of gay couples forming lines at various venues to exchange vows and take advantage of the state’s same-sex marriage law that just went into effect.

December 2, 2013

Delivery by drone: Amazon chief predicts aerial package drops by 2015

The chief executive of Amazon.com says drones will be doing much of the company's product deliveries within the next five years — and that customers can expect some packages to arrive within 30 minutes of processing.

December 2, 2013

China’s $1B flop: New eco-friendly airport nobody wants to use

There's just one problem with China's newly minted, super-sized $1 billion high-tech airport, equipped with all the latest environmentally friendly features — nobody wants to use it.

November 29, 2013

Grinch steals 50 Christmas trees from Pensacola parking lot

Police in Pensacola, Fla., on Friday were seeking the identity of a Christmas tree-stealing perpetrator who cleared out a chunk of Fraser firs destined for sale at a parking lot near a local high school.

November 29, 2013

Iran’s ultimatum for new nuclear talks: No ‘Zionist’ Israelis allowed

In what’s sure to fuel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s angst over the American-forged nuclear development deal with Tehran, the foreign minister of Iran said Friday that all further discussions will have to leave out Israel.

November 29, 2013

Gun deals galore dot Black Friday landscape

Nothing like chiming in the Christmas season with a new gun. That's the message advertisers are blasting out, with deals that promise purchasers savings in the double-digit range.

November 29, 2013

Companies eye business prospects in Iran after nuke deal

Now that Tehran has forged a nuclear deal with six world powers, the doors to business with Iran have opened and Germany's head of Chamber of Commerce said Friday that the phones are ringing off the hook.

November 29, 2013

No Thanksgiving for you: Techies skip holiday to fix Obamacare site

It was a chicken and pasta kind of day for Northern Virginia technical geeks who were forced to go into overdrive and work their Thanksgiving meal hours to fix Obamacare’s website in time for the president’s stated deadline.

November 29, 2013

Silvio Berlusconi accused of paying off ‘bunga bunga’ witnesses

Disgraced former Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been accused by the Italian court hearing his underage prostitution charges of paying off witnesses who wanted to testify about his so-called “bunga bunga” parties

November 29, 2013

Obama to Netanyahu: Tone down Iran trash talk, please

President Obama has sent a query to Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, asking the fiery and blunt-talking prime minister to take a break from his criticism of the U.S.-forged deal with Iran.

November 29, 2013

WWII Purple Heart hero, 88, found strangled to death in Chicago-area home

John Poyer, an 88-year-old World War II veteran who was awarded the Purple Heart after he almost lost his legs in Germany, was just found strangled to death in his home, and a 55-year-old man who lived in the same Chicago-area apartment complex has been charged in his murder.

November 29, 2013

Jeb Bush on Holy See closure: ‘Hopefully, it is not retribution’ for Obamacare

Former Florida Gov. and presidential maybe Jeb Bush weighed in this week on President Obama’s call to shutter the freestanding U.S. Embassy to the Holy See and move it to America’s existing embassy property in Rome, pondering in a tweet: Is that retribution?

November 29, 2013

Missouri pipeline blows, sending fireballs skyward

Emergency workers in one Missouri town were working feverishly on Friday to contain the flames of a massive gas pipeline explosion that occurred in the early morning hours.

November 29, 2013

Hamid Karzai defiant on deal as NATO says sorry for civilian kills

NATO announced Friday it would kick off an investigation of an airstrike that killed a child and injured two women in Afghanistan, leading an angry President Hamid Karzai to threaten the United States with a halt to all security talks.

November 29, 2013

Furious Pakistanis out CIA spy, accuse John Brennan of murder

A furious Pakistani political party has revealed what members claim is the identity of a top U.S. spy — the station chief — who's inside the country, in apparent retribution for drone strikes that have killed several over the past few weeks.

November 29, 2013

N.J.’s Chris Christie gets golden nod for White House, with top poll numbers

In terms of polling, N.J. Gov. Chris Christie has grabbed all the GOP love for president in 2016.

November 29, 2013

Explosions hit outside U.S. air base in Tokyo

American and Japanese authorities on Friday were still trying to determine the source of two small explosions that hit just outside the U.S. air base near Tokyo.

November 29, 2013