Cheryl K. Chumley

N.Y. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s $250K project: Tell teens loud music hurts hearing

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has a new target for regulatory crackdown: teens who listen to loud music on their earbuds.

March 6, 2013

Hugo Chavez’s handpicked successor Nicolas Maduro takes helm, despite law

Former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's influence didn't completely wane in his death. His handpicked successor, Vice President Nicolas Maduro, will run Venezuela for the next 30 days.

March 6, 2013

Lebanon urges reinstatement of Syria to Arab League

Lebanon says Syria should get its seat back on the Arab League, even though President Bashar Assad hasn't fulfilled his promise to stop violence.

March 6, 2013

CDC says ‘nightmare bacteria’ CRE superbug killing half of those who are infected

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a new family of bacteria, called CRE, that is resistant to antibiotics is killing half of the patients who are infected.

March 6, 2013

Chinese couples use divorce to dodge new 20 percent tax

China's taxes are apparently so high that they're driving couples to divorce.

March 6, 2013

European Union fines Microsoft $731 million for broken promise over browsers

The European Union has fined Microsoft Corp. $731 million for breaking its promise to give buyers a choice of Web browser.

March 6, 2013

Domestic drones to hunt gun carriers in America for Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security has an unmanned drone fleet with technology that can root out civilians who are carrying guns, government documents show.

March 6, 2013

GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley hints at gun-control compromises with Dems

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, gave signs on Tuesday of supporting at least two of Democrats' gun-control bills that are set for panel debate this week.

March 6, 2013

Muslim Turkish teens on Jews: ‘Hitler should have killed all’

A Dutch researcher who interviewed a group of Muslim immigrant teenage boys from Turkey was shocked at their repeated response to questions about the Holocaust: Hitler should have finished the job, they suggested.

March 6, 2013

FAA announces closure of 189 control towers by Sept. 30

Blame the sequester — the Federal Aviation Administration is.

March 6, 2013

Liberty University, a Christian-based college in Va., now largest in nation for private schools

Liberty University, a Christian-based school in Virginia, is now the largest private institute of higher learning in the United States.

March 6, 2013

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly to liberal Alan Colmes: ‘You are lying’

Sparks flew on Fox News Tuesday evening, as "The O'Reilly Factor" host Bill O'Reilly repeatedly shut down liberal radio commentator Alan Colmes' characterization of the sequester debate, accusing the guest several times of outright lying.

March 6, 2013

GOP PAC to target Republicans who don’t walk pro-immigration line

Republicans who don't tow pro-immigration lines may face fire from within the ranks of their own political party.

March 6, 2013

U.S.-funded Fatah decries ‘loyal friend’ Hugo Chavez’s death

Fatah leaders, funded in part by the United States, characterized the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a great loss — the death of a "loyal friend who passionately defended our rights to freedom and self-determination," one said.

March 6, 2013

Democrat Steny Hoyer admits ‘we’re doing stupid things here’ with sequester

Key Democratic lawmakers aren't going to stop a Republican-led effort to keep government from shutting down because they agree: Closing down shop is "stupid policy," one congressman said.

March 6, 2013

IRS mum, but sequester isn’t likely to stall Obamacare taxes

The Internal Revenue Service may have warned about agency cutbacks due to sequestration, but in the end, taxes from Obamacare appear as if they're going forth, on target and on schedule.

March 6, 2013

White House gun control leads to soaring ‘patriot’ group memberships

The more the White House cracks down on Second Amendment freedoms, the more Americans are banding together and joining limited government — or even anti-government — organizations known as "patriot" groups.

March 5, 2013

U.N. warns America: Legalizing marijuana violates int’l law

The United Nations has issued the United States a stern warning against a state trend to legalize marijuana, for recreational or medical use: Doing so violates international law.

March 5, 2013

British envoy forced to flee protesting Palestinian students

Palestinian students physically barred the British consul general to Jerusalem from delivering a speech at Birzeit University and then charged his car as he tried to leave.

March 5, 2013

John Kerry confirms: U.S. now training Syrian rebels

U.S. forces are currently training rebel forces in Syria, said Secretary of State John Kerry. The goal of the training: To convince Syria President Bashar Assad to "change his current calculation," he said, to Fox News.

March 5, 2013