Jessica Chasmar

Report: CNN tapping Newt Gingrich, Stephanie Cutter for ‘Crossfire’ relaunch

After news broke earlier this month that CNN was looking to relaunch "Crossfire," several sources told Politico that the network was looking to tap former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter to fill the dueling roles.

April 23, 2013

Napolitano: Saudi student briefly put on watch list

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said during a Senate hearing Tuesday that the Saudi student who was once a person of interest in the Boston Marathon bombings was, at one point, on a watch list.

April 23, 2013

10-year-old boy unable to speak after being shot 5 times at birthday party

A 10-year-old California boy is clinging to life after being shot five times while in the front yard at a family member's birthday party late Saturday night.

April 23, 2013

N.Y.: Homework asks students to argue against dropping bomb during WWII

Parents of a New York student are outraged after finding their daughter's homework that instructed her to formulate an argument against dropping the atomic bomb during World War II.

April 23, 2013

Bill Gates rattles S. Korean media after ‘disrespectful’ handshake with president

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is facing tough scrutiny from the South Korean press after a photo was released of him shaking President Park Geun-hye's hand with his other hand in his pocket.

April 23, 2013

Indonesia: Students expelled for ‘tainting religion’ with Maroon 5 dance

Five high school students in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, were expelled and threatened with juvenile detention after they "tainted religion" by recording themselves praying and dancing to a Maroon 5 song.

April 23, 2013

Georgetown professor on Tsarnaev’s radicalism: He liked a lot of rap, too

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow featured a Georgetown University professor on her show Monday night, who suggested that rap may have influenced Tamerlan Tsarnaev just as much as Islam did.

April 23, 2013

Tennessee school textbooks classifies Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO as ‘political parties’

Several Tennessee parents are outraged over a textbook distributed in their children's high school "human geography" class that suggest Hamas, Hezbollah and the PLO are political parties.

April 23, 2013

West Virginia teen returns to school with NRA shirt, classmates’ support

A West Virginia teen who was arrested and suspended for wearing a National Rifle Association T-shirt to school returned to class Monday wearing the same shirt that got him into trouble.

April 22, 2013

Saudi Arabia opens first luxury rehab center for al Qaeda militants

Saudi Arabia is hoping to rehabilitate jihadists with a little rest and relaxation at its luxury spa for reformed al Qaeda militants in Riyadh.

April 22, 2013

Vegan celeb trainer: Poor diets contribute to gun violence

Vegan celebrity trainer John Pierre told Capitol Hill staffers Monday that poor diets can lead to gun violence on campus.

April 22, 2013

2 arrested in Canada terror plot: police

Two men were arrested Monday in Canada after a cross-border operation thwarted a major terrorist attack, authorities said.

April 22, 2013

Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner creates new Twitter account

Former Rep. Anthony D. Weiner sent out a peculiar tweet at noon Monday — a link to his new account — in perhaps a way to distance himself from past transgressions with his old username.

April 22, 2013

Boston bombing suspects did not have valid gun licenses

The two brothers suspected in bombing the Boston Marathon were not permitted to own handguns in the area they lived, authorities said Sunday.

April 22, 2013

Tamerlan Tsarnaev brother kicked out of mosque prayer service 3 months ago

The 26-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings who was killed Friday was kicked out of a Cambridge, Mass., mosque prayer service three months ago for an outburst against the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., two worshippers told the Los Angeles Times Saturday.

April 22, 2013