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Isabel Laxamana, a 13-year-old girl in Tacoma, Washington died by suicide after jumping off a highway overpass on Friday, May 29. Days before, Laxamana’s father Jeff had reportedly punished her for an unspecified transgression by cutting off her hair and uploading a video to YouTube. There’s now a controversy brewing online and among the girl’s…
PRE-GAME SHOW: Welcome, readers, welcome. In just a few short minutes, I, Your Fearless News Editor, will be tuning into Fox News’ “The Kelly File” for the first time in my life. Once there, I will bear witness to the first big stop on the Duggar family’s Please Don’t Stop Loving Us and Cancel Our…
Megyn Kelly breaks the news Jim Bob: “After that third time he came to us is where we really felt like, we have done everything we can as parents…We need to get help.” — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 4, 2015 “Michelle and I both were keeping an eye on Josh all the time and watching…
Forget the White House’s doomsday talk about American intelligence going blind. Thanks to backdoor provisions and alternate collection schemes, U.S. spies will keep on snooping. President Obama and his top national security officials spent the past few days warning that once intelligence-gathering authorities in the Patriot Act expired just after midnight Sunday, the United States…
It was 10 o’clock on a Friday night in spring 2014 and I was sitting on the sofa in my one-bed Paris apartment when I received a message from a French terrorist based in Syria: “Salaam alaikum, sister. I see you watched my video. It’s gone viral – crazy! Are you Muslim? What do you…
The Transportation Security Administration found that “red teams” with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General were able to get banned items through the screening process in 67 out of 70 tests — 95% — it conducted across the nation. The test results were first reported by ABC News, and government officials…
After years of using delaying tactics and last minute deadlines to push last minute Senate votes, Mitch McConnell’s attempt to use building deadline pressure to extend, with some modification, three of the more controversial Patriot Act provisions failed late Sunday night. The bill to do so is the USA Freedom Act. It is still likely…
Need more proof of the role Facebook is playing in the distribution of news? Among Americans born between 1981 and 1996 — a.k.a millennials — 61 percent get political news from Facebook in a given week, versus 37 percent who get it from local TV. That’s according to a new Pew Research Center study released…
Photo Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, grudgingly approved debate on the House bill. Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times WASHINGTON — The government’s authority to sweep up vast quantities of phone records in the hunt for terrorists expired at 12:01 a.m. Monday after Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, blocked…
Controversial, key provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act have now expired. On Tuesday the Senate will vote on the revised Freedom Act. Video provided by Newsy Newslook Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., heads into the Senate’s rare Sunday session on May 31, 2015.(Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The Senate on Sunday let key sections…