Jessica Chasmar

Rep. Hank Johnson’s sequester jester: ‘Imagine a world without balloons’

Rep. Hank Johnson took to the House floor "like a kid at a carnival" Thursday to defend Americans' right to helium in light of federal sequester cuts.

April 25, 2013

Penn. mom goes undercover in Egypt, takes back kidnapped son who was forced into Islam

A Pennsylvania mother dressed in a burka, flew to Egypt and took back her son that had been kidnapped by his father two years ago and forced to live as a Muslim.

April 25, 2013

U.S. female sailor beats Dubai rapist bus driver into submission

An off-duty U.S. navy sailor wrestled a Dubai bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he tried to rape her at knifepoint on Jan. 19, a courtroom heard Wednesday.

April 25, 2013

Fed Reserve: Redesigned $100 bill to hit circulation in October

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it will introduce a redesigned $100 bill into circulation beginning this October, more than two years later than expected.

April 25, 2013

Bill Clinton joins Twitter, tweets without Colbert’s help

Former President Bill Clinton decided to officially join the Twitterverse Wednesday night, posting his own tweets a couple weeks after Comedy Central funny man Stephen Colbert set the account up for him.

April 25, 2013

Rep. Cotton: ‘Five jihadists have reached their targets’ under Obama

Rep. Tom Cotton took to the House floor Wednesday afternoon "to express grave doubts about the Obama Administration's counterterrorism policies and programs."

April 25, 2013

Belgian archbishop prays while topless activists douse him with water

The head of the Catholic Church in Belgium kept his head bowed calmly in prayer as topless female activists hurled insults and doused him with water Tuesday at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels.

April 25, 2013

Girls instructed to role-play lesbian relationship in workshop at N.Y. middle school

Parents are outraged after an anti-bullying presentation for teenage girls at Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, N.Y., required students to role-play a lesbian relationship.

April 25, 2013

Anthony Weiner doesn’t rule out additional photos

A whirl of speculation is surrounding former representative Anthony Weiner who resigned from Congress in 2011 after he accidentally sent a private photo to a woman publicly over Twitter.

April 24, 2013

Susan Rice slams U.N. official for saying U.S. foreign policy to blame for bombing

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice took to Twitter Tuesday night to express her disdain for comments made by a UN human rights official, who suggested the Boston Marathon bombings were a result of U.S. foreign policy.

April 24, 2013

Gosnell judge reinstates murder charge for baby tossed in shoe box alive

Americans were outraged to hear the news that three murder charges against Dr. Kermit Gosnell were dismissed Tuesday, but Judge Jeffrey Minehart had a change of heart Wednesday, reinstating a charge against the doctor for the murder of "Baby C."

April 24, 2013

Virgin America launches in-flight flirting

In an age where airlines are scrambling to find any way to make an additional buck, Virgin America has found a way to make their passengers' in-flight experience, perhaps, a bit more fun.

April 24, 2013

New bird flu strand jumps to Taiwan

Taiwan confirmed Wednesday the first case of the H7N9 bird flu outside of mainland China.

April 24, 2013

Florida county school board reinstates paddling

Three years after banning the practice, the Marion County school board in central Florida voted Tuesday to resume paddling its misbehaving elementary school students.

April 24, 2013

Biden laments Tsarnaev brothers, ‘perverted jihadis’ at slain MIT officer’s funeral

Vice President Joseph R. Biden had some choice words for Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, calling them "perverted jihadis" while speaking at a memorial service for slain MIT police officer Sean Collier Wednesday afternoon.

April 24, 2013

New Yorker editor: Gun control would have made bombing harder to pull off

Editor of The New Yorker and former Washington Post reporter David Remnick suggested Monday night that the Senate gun control legislation would have made the Boston Marathon bombing "a hell of a lot more difficult to pull off."

April 24, 2013

Bob Beckel doubles down: Halt Muslim student visas

"The Five's" liberal co-host Bob Beckel doubled down on his statements Tuesday that the federal government should temporarily suspend student visas for foreign Muslims.

April 24, 2013

Krauthammer: Obama’s reluctance to use ‘jihadist,’ ‘Islamist’ embarrassing

Charles Krauthammer slammed President Obama on Fox News Tuesday night, saying the president's reluctance to use words like "jihadist" and "Islamist" to describe the threat of radical Islam to the country is "embarrassing."

April 24, 2013

Northernmost emirate bans bikinis, briefs

Authorities in Ras al-Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates, have began posting signs on its public beaches warning of fines for those dressed in revealing swimwear, such as two-piece bikinis for women and brief trunks for men.

April 23, 2013

Chesapeake Bay Foundation on Maryland Rain Tax: Time to own up

Maryland lawmakers created quite a stir earlier this month once they passed the "Impervious Surfaces" tax, or Rain Tax that basically charges residents for rainwater. Now, the group in favor of the push is explaining why the tax is needed.

April 23, 2013