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Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt with Cheryl Chumley” video and audio show for The Washington Times, a Newsmax contributor, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths" and "Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom.” She's also the co-author with Allen West of the upcoming "America's Second Civil War: Rescuing the Republic From the Unholy Alliance of Marxists, Islamists and Democrats" (April 2027). Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 photo, a man looks at documents at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The graffiti reads, "no God but God," " God is great," and "Muhammad is the Prophet." (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri)

U.S. upgrades Benghazi mission to ‘capture or kill’

The U.S. military has a new set of orders in its pursuit of the terrorists who are guilty of killing four Americans in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi: Capture or kill.

May 17, 2013

** FILE ** Vladimir Putin has shown little interest in resetting Russian relations with the U.S. once again during his third term as president. (Ria Novosti via Associated Press)

Russia sends warships, missiles to Syria

Russia has sent more than a dozen war ships to patrol the waters near Syria, U.S. military spokesmen said on Friday.

May 17, 2013

**FILE** A woman smokes a cigarette at her home in Alabama on March 2, 2013. (Associated Press)

Cigarette-smuggling ring investigated for terror ties

A $55 million cigarette-smuggling ring that cheated several East Coast states out of sales tax dollars could be tied to terrorist groups, authorities said.

May 17, 2013

The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington is seen here on March 22, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

PETA accuses IRS of ‘Nixon’ and ‘totalitarian’ tactics

Add to the list of IRS targets: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

May 17, 2013

**FILE** John Brennan, then-nominee for CIA director, testifies Feb. 7, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. (Associated Press)

CIA chief John Brennan in Israel on mystery stop

The head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency made an unannounced visit to Israel on Friday to meet with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon.

May 17, 2013

**FILE** Guests wait in long lines for the Dumbo ride at the Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom theme park in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on May 17, 2007. (Associated Press)

NYC elite’s solution to long Disney lines: Hire disabled to cut to front

The wealthy and elite have found a way to combat long lines at Disney World: Hire disabled people to stand with them so they can cut to the front.

May 15, 2013

** FILE ** Vermont governor Peter Shumlin. (Associated Press)

Vermont on cusp of legalizing assisted suicide

Vermont lawmakers have voted in favor of a bill that would legalize doctor-assisted suicide, making it the third state in the nation to allow for the practice.

May 15, 2013

Exhibit: Manifold Greatness
The best-selling book of all time is said to be the Bible. The Folger Museum´s exhibit on The King James Bible seeks to put that claim in context with a history of the how the King James Bible in particular came to exist, and its cultural penetration. The astronauts on Apollo 8, for instance, read King James on Christmas Eve in 1968, while orbiting the moon, while Gonzo comic R. Crumb copied its verse word-for-word for his illustration of Genesis. To Jan. 16 at the Folger Museum, 201 East Capitol St. SE. Phone: 202/544-4600. Web: http://www.folger.edu/

Georgia parks personnel orders Bible out of state-run lodges

Georgia's Department of Natural Resources heads have ordered that all Bibles be taken out of the guest rooms at all state-run lodges and cabins.

May 15, 2013

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Zimbabwean in coffin, en route to ground, stuns with return to life

Good thing it wasn't a cremation. A Zimbabwean man on his way to being buried — in the coffin, about to be lowered into the cemetery burial plot — shocked family and friends when he suddenly came to life.

May 15, 2013

Luck of the draw: Virginian has won lottery 4 times since 2004

A retired postal worker from Woodbridge, Va., must be the luckiest man alive, winning the lottery four times in the past few years for a total pot of $2.025 million.

May 15, 2013

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev (FBI)

Free Dzhokhar: Pro-Tsarnaev leaflets fly in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan has become a ground zero of sorts for supporters of Boston bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

May 15, 2013

Columbia University vows to end its ‘whites only’ scholarship

Facing mounting criticism, Columbia University has called for an end to a scholarship program established at the school decades ago that selects recipients based on skin color — Caucasians only.

May 15, 2013

Nigeria busts another baby factory, saves 6 pregnant teens

For the second time in a week, Nigerian authorities on Wednesday discovered a baby factory and rescued pregnant teens from the forced selling of their newborns.

May 15, 2013

Jessica Kocian practices first-aid response for CPR during a Red Cross course in Chicago in May 2008. Two new studies conclude that "hands only" chest compression is enough to save a life in many cases, even without mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. (Associated Press)

New CPR technology breathes life into patients dead 40 to 60 minutes

New CPR technology put to the test at an Australian hospital has passed with flying colors after a man — clinically dead for 40 minutes — was brought back to life. And he later was discharged with a clean bill of health, absent any disability.

May 15, 2013

** FILE ** Attorney General Eric Holder is questioned about the Justice Department secretly obtaining two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press, during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

AP flap: 52 media outlets band against Eric Holder

At least 52 media outlets have signed on to a Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press letter of complaint against Attorney General Eric Holder, decrying his Justice Department's grab of phone records from 100 Associated Press reporters.

May 15, 2013

Rachel Sorrow (left), a transgender woman, attends a therapy session with Dr. Dan Karasic, a psychiatrist with the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco on July 20, 2012. (Associated Press)

Doctors warn new psychiatric guide could drug people who don’t need it

An estimated 3,000 doctors have signed a petition of protest against the psychiatric industry's latest bible for diagnosis and treatment, the DSM-5, charging its contents could lead patients to be prescribed unnecessary medications.

May 15, 2013

This image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian rebels preparing to fire a rocket at Mannagh air base in Aleppo province, Syria, Monday, May 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Syrian rebels pound Aleppo prison to free anti-Assad inmates

Syrian rebel fighters launched a massive attack Wednesday on the main prison in Aleppo, hoping to free hundreds of inmates who oppose President Bashar Assad's regime.

May 15, 2013

In this May 7, 2013, photo, Richard Swanson, of Seattle, walks along a road in Kelso, Wash. Swanson, who was trying to dribble a soccer ball to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup, died Tuesday, May 14, 2013, after being hit by a pickup truck on the Oregon Coast. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Bill Wagner)

Soccer fundraiser on 10,000-mile trek killed while dribbling ball on highway

A Seattle soccer player on a promotion kick for the One World Futbol Project was hit and killed by a truck as he dribbled his ball on a stretch of roadway on the Oregon Coast, as part of a 10,000 trek to Brazil.

May 15, 2013

**FILE** A man raises his hand at the Google offices on Oct. 17, 2012. (Associated Press)

Russia looks to topple Google in Vietnam with competing search site

Russia is hoping to topple Google as the search engine of choice in Vietnam with its rival "Coc Coc," called "Knock Knock" in English.

May 15, 2013

**FILE** This 1988 photo provided by Bobby Lee shows Kenneth Bae (right) and Mr. Lee together when they were freshmen at the University of Oregon. Bae, detained for nearly six months in North Korea, has been sentenced to 15 years of "compulsory labor" for unspecified crimes against the state, Pyongyang announced on May 2, 2013. (Associated Press/The Register-Guard)

American Kenneth Bae starts hard labor in North Korea ‘special prison’

Kenneth Bae, the American sentenced to hard labor in North Korea for supposed hostile acts against the state, headed off to prison on Wednesday, the start of his 15-year term.

May 15, 2013