Cheryl K. Chumley

Jesse Jackson missteps again, calls Okla. shooting victim wrong name

The Rev. Jesse Jackson “frowned upon” the random shooting death of an Australian man attending an Oklahoma college on scholarship earlier this week via a Facebook post. That perceived cavalier reaction has been taken further with another faux pas — misspelling the name of the victim in subsequent Facebook and Twitter postings that have been since deleted.

August 22, 2013

Catholic Church set to launch mass immigration amnesty pitch

The Catholic Church has put the word out to the faithful: Come September, the papacy will be pushing for a widespread and comprehensive immigration reform package on Capitol Hill that will open the doors to citizenship to roughly 11 million illegals.

August 22, 2013

Al Qaeda in Syria warns Western aid workers: We’ll kill you

An affiliate of al Qaeda in Syria has sent a stark warning to aid workers from the West who try to enter the chaotic country: You risk kidnapping or killing.

August 22, 2013

Sarah Palin touts Ashton Kutcher’s pro-work speech: ‘Iowa roots’ showing

Once you go country, you can never go back — that was the essence of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's praise for Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher, who just delivered a pro-work speech that threw conservatives for a spin because of its traditional-core-values tone.

August 22, 2013

Michigan lawmaker: It would be ‘dream come true’ to impeach Obama

Believe me, said Rep. Kerry L. Bentivolio, to a crowd of Michigan constituents at this week’s town hall meeting: It would be a “dream come true” to be the lawmaker who writes the bill to impeach President Obama. But so far, there’s not enough proof of impeachable offenses, he said, as Politico reported.

August 22, 2013

Pope Emeritus Benedict: I resigned because ‘God told me to’

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said this week that he stepped away from the papacy on the orders of God.

August 22, 2013

Okla. teen arrested for shooting Australian man tweets: ‘White ppl are nasty’

One of the teenagers arrested in the random shooting death of an Australian man on a baseball scholarship at an Oklahoma college sent out a string of colorful Twitter messages in the days leading up to the gun crime: "White ppl are nasty," read one.

August 22, 2013

New Mexico clerk bucks state law, issues same-sex marriage licenses

Dona Ana County will go down in history as the first jurisdiction in New Mexico to issue same-sex marriage licenses — and the attorney general says he sees nothing in state law to prevent the unions from continuing, despite the absence of specific voter approval.

August 22, 2013

Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak ordered to house arrest after jail release

Egypt's jailed former leader Hosni Mubarak could be freed from one prison and confined to another of sorts, as the country's interim prime minister said Thursday that the deposed leader should be placed on immediate house arrest.

August 22, 2013

Beach bathers shocked as Russian navy hovercraft lands on sand

Hundreds of beach-goers at an undisclosed location were shocked when their sunbathing was interrupted by a gigantic Russian navy hovercraft sliding from the sea onto the sand.

August 22, 2013

Beau Biden set to fly home from hospital aboard Air Force Two with VP dad

Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, a son of Vice President Joseph R. Biden, is due to fly home from the hospital with his famous father aboard Air Force Two on Thursday.

August 22, 2013

French foreign minister calls for ‘force’ in Syria if poison gas used

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has tossed into the ring of international possibilities for action in Syria a stark warning: If chemical weapons really were used, the world should react with force.

August 22, 2013

Hannah Anderson hits TV circuit as dad says no to DNA test

Hannah Anderson, the 16-year-old California girl who was saved from her kidnapper, James DiMaggio, when authorities discovered them in a Idaho forest, said in her first television interview since her rescue that she was "a survivor," not a victim.

August 22, 2013

Satellite images show alterations at Iran’s Parchin nuclear site

A U.S. institute with a mission of tracking Iran's weaponry and military development claims new satellite images show the country is making nuclear gains.

August 22, 2013

ACLU sues Oklahoma over Ten Commandments monument at Capitol

The American Civil Liberties Union is waging judicial war on Oklahoma, suing the state over a Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol building that one attorney for the group decries as an unwelcome mat to visitors.

August 21, 2013

Eric Holder vows Wall Street prosecutions on the way — and soon

Just because it’s been five years since the nation suffered a dramatic economic hit from Wall Street corporate losses doesn’t mean prosecutions aren’t coming, said Attorney General Eric Holder, on Tuesday.

August 21, 2013

Atheists incensed after IRS grants them tax exemption as religious group

The leader of an atheist group reportedly is incensed that the U.S. government has granted it a tax exemption, citing allowances for religious organizations — and she's even angrier at learning that she's considered a minister under the Internal Revenue Service code.

August 21, 2013

Responders battle 5-alarm fire at Boston church

Firefighters are battling a five-alarm fire ravaging a historic church in downtown Boston on Wednesday.

August 21, 2013

Coptic Christians chant in Tennessee streets: ‘Obama, don’t you care?’

Hundreds of Coptic Christians took to downtown Nashville, Tenn., streets this week to protest the ongoing and escalating violence their faith is facing in Egypt.

August 21, 2013

Al-Jazeera is accused of pro-Muslim Brotherhood broadcast of fake street death

Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-owned news station that just launched in the United States, apparently was caught airing the death of a Muslim Brotherhood-backed protester in the streets of Egypt — but it was faked.

August 21, 2013