Cheryl K. Chumley

Marie Harf doubles down on jobs-for-terrorists: Maybe view ‘too nuanced’ for some

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf doubled down on her claim that the long-term solution for dealing with Islamic State terrorists was to help them with economic opportunities — help them get jobs — saying that those who criticized that notion were perhaps not smart enough to understand.

February 18, 2015

Eric Holder slams Fox for pressing radical Islam label: Nothing ‘gained by saying that’

Attorney General Eric Holder turned a critical eye to Fox News for pressing the administration to refer to ongoing terrorism attacks with the Islam label, saying that nothing could be "gained by saying that" and that the media outlet was simply stirring a pot that didn't need to be stirred.

February 18, 2015

Carnegie Mellon sends out 800 false acceptance letters: ‘This was an error’

Carnegie Mellon University's Master of Science in Computer Science Program mistakenly sent out 800 false letters of acceptance, telling prospective students "you're in," and then shortly after yanking that message — "no, we're sorry, you're out."

February 18, 2015

Sarah Palin on Tina Fey: ‘Have I helped her career, or has she helped mine?’

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said comedian Tina Fey may mock her endlessly on "Saturday Night Live," but that doesn't mean the two aren't friends.

February 17, 2015

St. Paul Pioneer Press criticizes Obama with expletive, then tones it down

A Minnesota newspaper that slammed President Obama with an expletive for shooting a self-mocking video to promote Obamacare — and using a "selfie stick" to encourage enrollments — has now backtracked, admitting it went too far.

February 17, 2015

California teen, 17, dies during game of Russian roulette

A 17-year-old California teen shot and killed himself Monday during a game of Russian roulette.

February 17, 2015

Osama bin Laden operatives forced to sign Mafia oath of loyalty: documents

Osama bin Laden required his followers to sign an oath of allegiance — Mafia-style — to him and his terror network, according to documents found in his hideout house and recently released in court.

February 17, 2015

Islamic State terrorists burn to death 45 people in Iraqi town

Terrorists with the Islamic State have burned to death 45 people from the town of al-Baghdadi in the western portion of Iraq, a local police official said Tuesday.

February 17, 2015

Chris Matthews: U.S. is being ‘morally humiliated’ by Islamic State

Chris Matthews, host of "Hardball" on MSNBC, said the recent Islamic State beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt is the latest in a line of terrorist assaults that have left America in a state of humiliation.

February 17, 2015

Apple gives green light to marijuana app, Massroots

Apple has reversed course and decided to allow a marijuana app to be included among its store offerings.

February 17, 2015

Glenn Beck: World War III coming — ‘we must humble ourselves’ to God

Glenn Beck, a favorite of the tea party movement, warned fans and followers that the beheading of the 21 Coptic Christians by Islamic State terrorists was just the biblical "beginnings of sorrows" and that the solution to the coming troubles was to adopt a "humble" attitude and turn back to God.

February 17, 2015

Michael Bloomberg: More police patrol minority areas? Yes, ‘that’s where the real crime is’

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was captured on audio admitting that police by and large focus their patrols on minority neighborhoods because "that's where all the crime is," he said during a recent address at the Aspen Institute.

February 17, 2015

Philadelphia fights fire, ice as Boston battles snow: ‘This is historic’

Snowy conditions and sub-zero wind chill factors hit spots north hard in the last 24 hours, leaving firefighters in Philadelphia battling a three-story blaze on a building that houses the Locust Medical Center — that was then encased in ice — while residents in Boston dug out from yet another double-digit-inch dump of snow.

February 17, 2015

Tony Perkins, Family Research Council: Let’s give targeted Christians a ‘safe haven’

Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, said the United States ought to give refugee status to the thousands of Christians who are being targeted by Islamic State terrorists.

February 17, 2015

Marie Harf, State Department, on Islamic State: ‘Can’t win by killing them’

Marie Harf, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said America can't win against the Islamic State "by killing them" and ought instead to focus on addressing what she claimed was the root problem — their poor economy — and help them get jobs.

February 17, 2015

Copenhagen police evacuate cafe over suspicious envelope

Police in Copenhagen on Tuesday ordered citizens in and near a downtown cafe to leave the area after finding a suspicious envelope.

February 17, 2015

Ben Carson: ‘No such thing as a politically correct war’

Former neurosurgeon and noted conservative activist Ben Carson took to Fox News airwaves to suggest that President Obama ought to take stronger reins in the war against terrorism and particularly, in the battle against the Islamic State.

February 16, 2015

Saudi Arabia condemns kills of Chapel Hill Muslims as ‘heinous terrorist’ act

Saudi Arabia's government-run press issued a scathing statement about the three Muslims who were killed, execution style, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, saying the act was tantamount to terrorism and that violence against those of the Islam faith needed to come to an immediate halt.

February 16, 2015

Obama not the ‘Antichrist,’ North Carolina newspaper notes in correction

A newspaper in North Carolina issued what's being described as the "nuttiest" correction of the year — a clarification for a headline that mistakenly summarized a letter-writer's characterization of President Obama as "the Antichrist."

February 16, 2015

Colt Canada unveils futuristic ‘Halo’-style smart rifle for armed forces

Colt Canada has unveiled a futuristic rifle for the country's soldiers that's being touted as a smart system that can automatically engage targets.

February 16, 2015