Cheryl K. Chumley

Eyes on Iran: President-elect Hasan Rouhani touts direct nuclear talks with U.S.

Iran's President-elect Hasan Rouhani said the only way to break the nation's nuclear standoff with the world, and bring about an end to economic sanctions, is to engage in one-on-one talks with the United States.

June 26, 2013

Smith & Wesson gun maker doubles earnings over past months

Smith & Wesson Holding Corp., one of the nation's foremost gun manufacturers, has more than doubled its earnings in the past few months.

June 26, 2013

ACLJ suit against IRS grows to 41 groups

The American Center for Law and Justice amended its lawsuit in federal court against the Internal Revenue Service to add another 16 tea party and conservative groups on its plaintiff list — bringing the total of aggrieved to 41.

June 26, 2013

Palin: Voters won’t forget Sens. Rubio’s, Ayotte’s immigration betrayal

Former Alaska governor and tea party darling Sarah Palin said Sens. Marco Rubio and Kelly Ayotte better watch out come election time: Voters angry with their support of an immigration bill seen as a cave on amnesty will likely voice their displeasure at the polls.

June 26, 2013

White House doors opened for pro-Hamas Islamic scholar: report

President Obama heads met with a top Islamic scholar with ties to the terrorist group Hamas inside the White House earlier this month.

June 26, 2013

Marc Rich dies: ‘King of Commodities’ known for President Bill Clinton pardon

Marc Rich, the "King of Commodities" trader who fled to Switzerland in 1983 to avoid federal prosecution on more than 50 fraud and racketeering charges — and who was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001 — died Wednesday at the age of 78.

June 26, 2013

Prayers for Nelson Mandela turn to pleas for ‘peaceful end’

The tone of prayers for South Africa's former president, Nelson Mandela, who is hospitalized has changed over the last few days from entreaties of comfort and healing to pleas for a "peaceful end."

June 26, 2013

Paula Deen’s sons rally, call racism charges ‘extortion’

Paula Deen, the celebrity chef who's fending off a public relations disaster that finds her guilty of racism, now has a couple staunch defenders coming forward — her two sons.

June 25, 2013

Monica Lewinski lingerie heads to auction

A Portland, Ore., teacher who had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky at the same time she was engaging in illicit acts with President Bill Clinton is now auctioning off several artifacts tied to the rendezvous — including, at least one sample of her lingerie.

June 25, 2013

Justice Department blocks sale of $11.5 million Picasso artwork

The U.S. Department of Justice blocked the sale of a Pablo Picasso painting worth about $11.5 million as a concession to Italian authorities who are investigating a couple on fraud and embezzlement.

June 25, 2013

Gunman ambushes 2 Los Angeles detectives returning to the police station

A gunman dressed completely in black surprised two detectives who were returning to their Los Angeles police station on Tuesday, ambushing them and firing shots.

June 25, 2013

NAACP takes a stand at George Zimmerman trial: ‘No one tells us … what to do’

Members of the NAACP rallying around the Trayvon Martin family at George Zimmerman's trial for second-degree murder, which continued Tuesday, said they wouldn't stay within the marked protest area set up by law enforcement.

June 25, 2013

Tax-bill debate sparks lawmaker brawl in Taiwan

A brawl broke out Tuesday in a parliamentary session in Taiwan as angry lawmakers scuffled over a tax bill — belying the remarks of a visiting Chinese activist who was hailing the island's democracy in the very next room.

June 25, 2013

Men’s Wearhouse breaks silence: George Zimmer fired over power-hungry push

Men's Wearhouse directors caved to public pressures to explain last week's sudden firing of George Zimmer, the company's founder and former executive chairman, painting him as a power-hungry leader who was straying from company principles.

June 25, 2013

Iran commander: Syria conflict will end when Israel falls

A commander in one of Iran's volunteer military units said that the world will know when the conflict in Syria ends — it will be marked by the fall of Israel.

June 25, 2013

Delta CEO gives up seat, wins big PR points with desperate mom

Delta Air Lines just got a huge public relations boost after a woman took to Facebook to thank the CEO for ceding his seat on an overbooked flight so she could pick up her child, who suffers from diabetes, from camp.

June 25, 2013

Navy SEAL Chris Kyle’s widow: PTSD doesn’t justify murder

The wife of killed Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who was shot by a Marine reservist he was trying to help, said that she does not forgive her husband's killer and that she rejects arguments that post-traumatic stress disorder was the reason for the murder.

June 25, 2013

W.Va. radio station to give away rifle to show Second Amendment support

A radio station in West Virginia is sending a pro-Second Amendment message with a rifle giveaway contest, with the winner to be announced on the Fourth of July.

June 25, 2013

German police uproot suspected student terror plot

Police in Germany have rooted out what they believe is an Islamist plot by aeronautics students at the University of Stuttgart to carry out a terrorist attack using remote-control model airplanes equipped with bombs.

June 25, 2013

U.S. union head praises Brazil violence, warns of same transit protest here

The leader of the global Amalgamated Transit Union, headquartered in Washington, D.C., said the violence that's spreading through the streets of Brazil is a good example of solidarity and citizens' action, and that the United States might soon see the same.

June 25, 2013