Cheryl K. Chumley

David Clarke, Wisconsin sheriff, on Eric Holder: ‘Can’t get this guy out the door soon enough’

David Clarke, the Milwaukee County sheriff who's made a name for himself with blunt-talk and common-sense opining, told "Fox & Friends" on Friday that the nation will be better able to breathe easy when Attorney General Eric Holder departs — that the country can't get him out the door quickly enough.

February 20, 2015

Alaskans happiest; West Virginians most miserable: well-being index

As far as happiness goes, Alaskans lead. The latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index gives top billing to former Gov. Sarah Palin's state of record — and dead last ranking to West Virginia.

February 20, 2015

Wal-Mart agrees to $1B wage hike that sets minimum at $10 an hour

Wal-Mart, a frequent target of unions and protesters who decry the retail giant's wage system, has now agreed to give some of its lowest-paid employees a substantial raise.

February 20, 2015

Democrats to Obama: Go ahead and ignore the court, 43 percent say: poll

Nearly half of Democrats have a strong and clear message for President Obama, especially as it pertains to a recent judicial rein-in on his immigration aspirations: Go ahead and ignore the federal courts.

February 20, 2015

Bill O’Reilly to liberal Christian: Islamic State ‘would behead you’

Bill O'Reilly of Fox News took to task a liberal Christian leader who used his television time to suggest that promoting peace via diplomatic discussion could go far in curbing the types of terrorism furthered by the likes of the Islamic State, telling him outright: You're wrong.

February 20, 2015

New York police told to pop breath mints to keep from cursing

Michael Julian, the former deputy commissioner of training for the New York Police Department — who only lasted two months on the job — offered up so many "wacky ideas," like sucking mints to quell cursing, that underlings said they started giving him the nod-and-smile treatment.

February 20, 2015

Benjamin Netanyahu on Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran: ‘This is a bad agreement’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit hard at the Obama administration, saying that a nuclear deal that's being forged between the United States and Iran — a deal that's been largely discussed behind closed doors — is no good.

February 20, 2015

Tea Party News Network staffers quit, cite ‘despicable practices’

Several Tea Party News Network staffers resigned at once in protest of what they described as the company's "despicable practices," aimed at what they perceived as more for making money that advancing the principles of freedom.

February 20, 2015

Atheists rile with threat to sue over beloved teacher’s angel memorial

A school in West Virginia that put up a memorial for a much-loved teacher who died in a car wreck in 2004 told atheists OK, the Christian crosses can go — but the angel statue is staying, despite your threat to sue.

February 20, 2015

Turkey’s Parliamentarians break into brawl; five sent for medical treatment

Chairs were waved, gavels were flung, and at least five lawmakers were sent for medical treatment for injuries sustained during a recent brawl in Turkey's Parliament.

February 20, 2015

Texas issues gay marriage license to Sarah Goodfriend, Suzanne Bryant

A county in Texas issued the state's first marriage license to a gay couple since voters approved a referendum that defined marriage as a union of only man and woman.

February 20, 2015

Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, ordered to stop screaming at John Kerry

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told his top foreign minister, Javad Zarif: Stop yelling at U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

February 20, 2015

Rudy Giuliani doubles down: I’m not racist — but Obama doesn’t ‘love America’

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani doubled down on his view that President Obama does not "love America" and said that while some people thought his remark was racist, it was not.

February 20, 2015

Jerusalem boxed in as heavy snow closes all entrance and exit roads

A massive snowstorm coursing through Jerusalem has boxed in the ancient city, leaving vehicles unable to enter or exit because all of the roads are closed.

February 20, 2015

Labor Department cafeteria shut down due to rodent feces, flies

Michelle Obama would not be happy. The Labor Department was just forced to shut down its internal cafeteria due to unhealthy standards — specifically, the rodent feces that was found along the floor in one storage room.

February 19, 2015

Mike Honda: I’m the ‘proud grandpa’ of a transgender granddaughter

Rep. Mike Honda took to Twitter to express the pride he feels for his granddaughter, a transgender whom he hopes can attend school without fear of bullies.

February 19, 2015

Tony Avella, New York senator: We need to ban the sales of machetes

A New York senator alarmed by recent blade attacks in the city says the way to combat this form of violence is to ban machetes, and he's introduced a bill to do just that.

February 19, 2015

Guantanamo Bay detainees sent to Uruguay turn down job offers

Six men detained for more than 12 years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and then sent to Montevideo have upset Uruguay's government after officials offered them jobs — and they said no.

February 19, 2015

Duncan Hunter: Obama better suited for role of mayor than president

Rep. Duncan Hunter told a Fox News television audience that President Obama — with his reluctance to name radical Islam as the root of recent acts of terror and his warning against profiling of American Muslims — sounds more like he's leading a local law enforcement department than the U.S. military and populace.

February 19, 2015

NRA, gun groups tout federal concealed carry bill: ‘This would enhance’ 2nd Amendment

The National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups are rallying behind a bill currently in both sides of Congress, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, saying the measure — if passed into law — would only bolster Second Amendment rights.

February 19, 2015