By Kyle Drennen | February 25, 2016 | 12:18 PM EST Displaying a stunning double standard on Thursday’s NBC Today, host Savannah Guthrie immediately dismissed 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney calling for the release of Donald Trump’s tax returns: “Donald Trump has been very clear, I mean when he was sitting right here, he said, […]
North Korea has again successfully put a satellite into orbit, demonstrating the same technology needed to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and showing that its long-range missile program is becoming increasingly reliable. In 2015, the U.S. commanders of U.S. Forces Korea, Pacific Command, and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) publicly assessed that North Korea […]
While Hollywood and The Boston Globe would want you to believe that the new movie Spotlight is an impartial dramatization of the paper’s 2002 reporting on sex abuse in the Catholic Church in Boston, the truth is something else entirely. As Spotlight slowly makes its way to theaters across the country, mainstream media movie reviewers […]
(CNSNews.com) – More than two weeks after Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel detained 10 U.S. Navy sailors overnight in the Persian Gulf supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday awarded medals to the men involved. Khamenei awarded the Fath (“Victory” or “Conquest”) medals to IRGC Navy commander Sardar Fadavi and four others “for their […]
(CNSNews.com) – During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday on opening all ground combat units to women, U.S. military leaders said it is time to require women to register for the Selective Service. “Senator, it’s my personal view that based on this lifting of restrictions for assignment to unit MOS that every American who’s […]
(CNSNews.com) – Things are going from bad to worse in Afghanistan, according to a report released Friday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the the largest U.S. oversight organization in Afghanistan. “[I]n this reporting period (October through December 2015), Afghanistan proved even more dangerous than it was a year ago, the report […]
A dismal start for the stock market this year has pushed the Standard Poor’s 500 index into what is known as a “correction,” or decline of 10 percent or more from a recent peak. Here are some common questions asked about corrections and what they mean to investors: ___ WHAT IS A STOCK MARKET CORRECTION? […]
BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The latest on armed protesters who have taken over a federal building at an Oregon wildlife refuge (all times local): 1:45 p.m. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden says “outsiders” are to blame for the situation in a rural part of the state where protesters are occupying a national wildlife refuge to object […]
TORONTO (AP) — An Alberta man faces multiple charges following a disturbance on an Air Canada flight from Calgary to Toronto, police said Thursday. Air Canada said flight AC1312 was carrying 199 passengers when a customer became disruptive. Police said officers met the plane at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Thursday morning after the flight […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators announced Wednesday that they have reached agreement on bipartisan legislation to make permanent a moratorium that prevents states from taxing access to the Internet. The moratorium was first enacted in 1998. State and local governments that already had Internet taxes were allowed to keep them under the current […]
