WICHITA, Kan. – Fears that the man accused of killing abortion provider George Tiller could plan new attacks are behind a judge’s decision last week to raise his bail to $20 million, up from $5 million. A transcript released Tuesday of a telephone call between attorneys and the judge makes …
Read More »Impressionist Fred Travalena Dies From Cancer at 66
The man of a 1,000 faces and voices Fred Travalena died Sunday of a recurrence of an aggressive form of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to a release from his publicist. He was 66 years old. Travalena was a regular on talks shows for several decades, including “The Tonight Show with Johnny …
Read More »NATO Seizes Tons of Bomb Material in Afghan Raid
KABUL – International troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer — enough to make up to a couple hundred roadside bombs, the Taliban’s most lethal weapon in what has been the deadliest year of the war, NATO announced Tuesday. Separately, video footage emerged of insurgents brandishing …
Read More »Is Our Freedom in Danger?
Some Tea Party people, along with commentators like Glenn Beck and some other radio guys, believe the Obama administration and progressives in general want to curtail individual freedom. And you know what? That might be true. Right now there is a case before the Supreme Court, McDonald v. Chicago, where …
Read More »White House Stonewalling Investigation Into Security Breach
The news that is not White House approved… Stonewall Jarrett White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is refusing to testify on Capitol Hill about the party crashing incident, and according to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, it’s entirely consistent with Obama’s administration’s commitment to transparency. Take a look at what she …
Read More »Obama Alienating U.S. Allies?
This is a rush transcript from “Hannity,” June 5, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, HOST: And tonight in “Your America,” President Obama extended an olive branch to Iran and Hamas in his Egypt speech, but today there are reports …
Read More »Suspect's Family Expresses Shock at Abortion Doctor's Death
TOPEKA, Kan. – A brother of the man suspected of fatally shooting abortion doctor George Tiller told a Kansas newspaper that the family never foresaw him capable of killing. Scott Roeder was in jail Monday while investigators sought to learn more about his background. He has not been charged in …
Read More »U.S. Immigration Officials Nab Mexican Fugitive on Charges of Heroin Trafficking
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Federal immigration officials say they’ve arrested a Mexican fugitive who is nicknamed the Ghost and is accused of trafficking high-potency heroin throughout the Midwest. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Khaalid Walls says Jose “Carlos” Hernandez Salazar was taken into custody Tuesday in central Ohio. He says …
Read More »Victoria Gotti Goes on Profanity-Laced Tirade at Son's Trial
NEW YORK – John “Junior” Gotti’s mother unleashed a profanity-laced tirade Wednesday after a judge dismissed two anonymous jurors at her son’s racketeering trial, saying he was being cheated of a fair trial as his father had been. “They’re railroading you!” Victoria Gotti shouted as she stood in the spectator …
Read More »Iran Reportedly Lifts Ban on Popular Newspaper
TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian news agency reports that the judiciary has after just a day lifted its ban on a popular newspaper which ran a photo of a Baha’i temple. The spokesman for Tehran’s justice department, Zahed Bashirirad, said the ban on the daily Hamshahri had been lifted, the …
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