Cheryl K. Chumley

Rep. Paul Ryan: ‘Concept’ of Internet tax is solid

Rep. Paul Ryan said that an Internet tax isn't a bad idea but that the devil was in the details.

May 6, 2013

Giffords gets courage award for gun control efforts

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords received the 2013 Profiles in Courage award at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston on Sunday for her efforts to enact new gun control laws.

May 6, 2013

Bomb blast at pro-Taliban election rally kills 14 in Pakistan

A Pakistani government spokesman said a bomb exploded and killed at least 14 at a pro-Taliban campaign rally on Monday.

May 6, 2013

Massachusetts police take Iraq counterinsurgency tactics to streets to fight gangs

Massachusetts police are taking a page from the U.S. military's playbook and bringing counterinsurgency tactics used in Iraq to Springfield streets to fight gangs.

May 6, 2013

President Obama back on tour to tout jobs

President Obama is back on the jobs trail, heading to Austin, Texas, on Thursday to kick off a new series of stops aimed at promoting his new economic plan.

May 6, 2013

Jason Chaffetz: Benghazi witnesses ‘scared to death’ of State Department

Rep. Jason Chaffetz said the witnesses who are due to testify on Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday have been intimidated by the Obama administration to such degree that they're terrified.

May 6, 2013

Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai confirms CIA cash payments to continue

The CIA will continue paying cash to the Afghanistan government, President Hamid Karzai said over the weekend.

May 6, 2013

Islamic protests with police leave 15 dead in Bangladesh

Islamic hardliners in Bangladesh's capital city calling for a law against blasphemy have clashed with police, and at least 15 have been reported dead.

May 6, 2013

Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro: President Obama’s ‘the grand chief of devils’

Venezuela-U.S. relations took another hit over the weekend, after President Obama called "ridiculous" the notion of an American detained in the country as a spy and government heads lashed back, demanding the White House quit its meddling.

May 6, 2013

Vintage jet crashes, explodes in fireball at Madrid airshow

A pilot was killed when the vintage jet he was navigating at an air airshow near Madrid crashed and exploded into a dramatic fireball.

May 6, 2013

Rush Limbaugh mulls exit from Cumulus over dispute with CEO: Report

Rush Limbaugh just might pack his suitcases and leave Cumulus, a media shake-up that would leave 40 stations around the country without the voice of one of the nation's biggest names — and advertising draw — in radio history.

May 6, 2013

9/11 memorial fees called ‘slap in the face’

Charging admission fees to the National September 11 Memorial Museum is an outrage and a "slap in the face," said one group that represents the families of victims.

May 6, 2013

Israel returns to ‘business as usual’ after strikes on Syria

It's "business as usual" in Israel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left on Monday for a scheduled meeting in China — just a few hours after his country sent in two aircraft strikes against Syria.

May 6, 2013

Earthquake rattles near Iran’s nuclear reactor in Bushehr

A moderate earthquake hit near Iran's main nuclear reactor near Bushehr on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of damages or deaths.

May 6, 2013

Man electrocuted while scaling 200-foot power company tower in Seattle

A man who climbed at 200-foot power company tower was electrocuted and fell, apparently landing part of the way down. Seattle firefighters spent Friday morning trying to extricate the man's body from the tower, whose power had to be shut off during the recovery.

May 3, 2013

Google recognizes Palestinian territories as ‘Palestine’

Google has in effect declared a state of Palestine. The company on Friday announced it would change the name of all its products that cited Palestinian Territories to simply Palestine.

May 3, 2013

Catholic bishops decry Ireland’s abortion bill as ‘morally unacceptable’

Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland are calling on flock faithful to lobby lawmakers to vote down a bill allowing abortions in cases where the mother's life is at risk.

May 3, 2013

Sen. Sarah Palin? Tea party sees gains from ‘Obamacare’

Prominent tea party members are preparing for big wins in 2014 due to negative fallout from President Obama's signature health care reform.

May 3, 2013

Clarence Thomas: Obama’s star rose because he fit elites’ mold

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested to C-SPAN that the nation's first black president came by way of a compliant media that only embraced him because he fit the stereotypical mold.

May 3, 2013

California wildfires scorch thousands of acres as fearful residents flee

Raging wildfires tearing along the California coast have scorched thousands of acres and forced hundreds of fearful residents to flee as firefighters scrambled to contain the damage.

May 3, 2013