Gov.-Elect Abbott: Texas Suing Obama Because of Constitution, Not Immigration

(CNSNews.com) – Texas has incurred economic harm — and expects to suffer additional economic harm — because of President Obama’s past and current executive action on immigration, but that’s not why the state is suing the Obama administration, says Texas Attorney General and soon-to-be-governor Greg Abbott: “What we’re suing for is actually the greater harm, […]

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Variations on ‘Muhammad’ 3rd Most-Popular Boy’s Name in England

(CNSNews.com) – When its variations are combined into a single count, the name Muhammad –along Mohammed and Mohammad—was the third most popular boy’s name in England and Wales in 2013, according to data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The ONS compiles data on boy’s and girl’s names from the birth registration records for […]

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Gay Rights Group: Immigration Deal ‘Leaves Out Too Many LGBT Immigrant Families’

(CNSNews.com) – The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) welcomed President Barack Obama’s amnesty deal, but criticized it for excluding too many LGBT immigrant families. “We applaud the vision and courage of our President in making good on his promise to act on immigration reform. We know that this is a first step and we […]

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ISIS’ Latest Threat to Kurdish Female Fighters: We Will Marry You

(CNSNews.com) – ISIS jihadis are threatening to marry any female Kurdish soldiers they capture in battle, says Colonel Nahida Ahmad Rashid, commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga Female. “The message said that whenever they catch any peshmerga woman, they will marry them,” Col. Rashid told The Daily Mail during an interview on […]

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3 NBC Stations in Nevada Didn’t Disclose $10K Donations to Democratic Candidate

(CNSNews.com) — Three local NBC affiliates and their corporate parent company gave a total of $40,000 to Ross Miller, the Democratic candidate for state attorney general in Nevada, but reportedly failed to mention that fact to viewers during their coverage of the hotly contested race. On Tuesday, Miller – who is currently Nevada’s secretary of state […]

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British Intel: Terrorists Use Twitter, Facebook As ‘Command-and-Control Networks’

(CNSNews.com) – Amid concern about terrorists’ increasingly effective use of the Internet to spread their message and attract recruits around the world, the head of a key British security agency is appealing for major Internet companies to cooperate more closely with the intelligence community to tackle the challenge. Some of the big U.S. tech companies […]

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