(No Ratings Yet)A man believed to be a British solider was murdered in public Wednesday afternoon in a horrific and gruesome attack that left eyewitnesses stunned. Investigators suspect the attack is religiously motivated and could be classified as a terror attack. Read More
(No Ratings Yet)The Senate Judiciary Committee approved major immigration reform legislature on Tuesday and will send the bill to the Senate floor for debate. Political pundits say this move marks the first major victory for comprehensive immigration reform, but the uphill climb to President Obama’s desk is just warming up. Read More
(No Ratings Yet)The country seems to be living a severe weather recurring nightmare as of late. The nightmare took a drastic turn for the worse when a massive two-mile deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. The terrifying twister killed dozens, with the count unclear so far. The toll may increase as authorities continue to clear out the disaster zone. Many of those killed were children who attended Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore. The school had the unfortunate fate of being positioned in the direct path of the storm. Hundreds more people were injured, sent to nearby hospitals in the area, and countless homes and businesses were literally swooped off the ground and destroyed. First responders, including police and firefighters, worked through the night on Monday in hopes of uncovering more survivors as they scavenged through the debris and rubble. The storm, however, made their efforts difficult, having downed so many power lines
Read More (No Ratings Yet)Jodi Arias' court date for tomorrow was suddenly canceled today with no reason given. The judge presiding over the trial adjourned today's proceedings with no explanation, stating that they were simply "unable to proceed." It is speculated that Arias' team likely asked for more time so she could prepare her official statement for the jury. Surely a statement of this caliber takes time to prepare, of course. Her statement will be a direct plea for her life, veritably begging the jurors to spare her life after she was charged with the first-degree murder of her former boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Perhaps she should have thought of that a little earlier. In addition to being convicted of murder, a second verdict was reached in the case last week, convicting Arias as guilty of murdering her late boyfriend in a "cruel manner." And this week could see the ultimate conclusion to her fate. This week
Read More (No Ratings Yet)IRS commissioner Steven Miller underwent a tough round of questioning Friday morning as he faced a Congressional hearing on the recent nonprofit scandal. An aggressive panel of Republican and Democratic leaders seemed unsatisfied with Miller’s responses to most of their questions — and even went so far as to insinuate Miller was lying during his testimony.
Steven Miller is the disgraced — and fired — head of the IRS, who claims the IRS did not engage in partisan behavior when it delayed and denied tax-exempt applications from conservative political groups. Read More
(No Ratings Yet)A series of powerful tornadoes hit Granbury, a town in northern Texas, overnight on Wednesday. One of the nearly 16 tornadoes, however, trumped the others in intensity, making it the deadliest severe weather storm in the United States to date this year. The storm reached wind gusts ranging from 166 to 200 miles per hour and was rated an EF4 by the National Weather Service. That rating indicates the second-most powerful level on the spectrum of tornado strength. Six people were confirmed dead, seven others as missing and up to 45 others injured. In addition to the tragedy of lives lost, the town itself is also in near shreds from the monstrous storm. Of the roughly 110 homes in the community, 97 were completely massacred, leaving it a veritable ghost town. Authorities are still working through the overwhelming mass of remains and keeping up hope they will locate survivors among the
Read More (No Ratings Yet)Are you feeling lucky? The Powerball jackpot for Thursday soared to $550 million, almost catching up to its all time high of $587 million from November 2012. Despite several million in cash prizes from Wednesday’s drawing, no tickets contained all six lottery numbers for the major jackpot win. Read More
(No Ratings Yet)Boston terrorist suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev confirmed theories that the Boston Marathon bombings were a violent response toward the U.S. involvement and occupation of Muslim nations. In a shocking find, law enforcement officials say Tsarnaev wrote a note while he hid in a Watertown, Massachusetts, boat, which explained the motivation behind the terrorist attacks carried out by him and his older brother, Tamerlan. Read More
(No Ratings Yet)Jodi Arias faces a very real possibility that she will be sentenced to death for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Jurors decided today after deliberating three hours that Arias' actions constituted "especially cruel" behavior. Death penalty cases require the jury to first determine if the crime was deliberately cruel and then to unanimously agree on life or death. CNN reports the Arias jury heard testimony from the medical examiner that performed the autopsy on Travis Alexander as well as remarks from both the defense and prosecution. The prosecution was clear to mention not only the length of time Arias stabbed Alexander — about two minutes — but also that he believed Arias was aware of Alexander's suffering. Jodi Arias spoke last week after she was found guilty of first-degree murder and commented that she prefers to die. "I said years ago that I'd rather get death than life, and that
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Kermit Gosnell received three life sentences for the murders he committed while he operated his gruesome abortion clinic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Despite emotional statements from his victims' relatives and friends, Gosnell remained unemotional and offered no apology. Gosnell is already 72 years old and was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in the death of three infants who were murdered during late-term abortion procedures. Gosnell often attempted to terminate pregnancies at six months or later (24 weeks). While physicians disagree on the exact definition of late-term abortions, most consider anything after 16 to 20 weeks late-term. Almost all fetuses are viable — able to survive outside the womb — after 27 weeks. The AP reports that Gosnell's clinic was not certified in obstetrics or gynecology and offered no trained nurses or medical staff. Moreover, federal law enforcement uncovered "deplorable and unsanitary" conditions — we will not mention the details here. Victims'
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