NYC woman charged with getting ISIS training in Syria says her father forced her to join A Brooklyn woman who was repatriated from Syria with her family faces criminal charges for getting AK-47 training from ISIS — though she maintains through her lawyer that she was drummed into ... 05/8/2024 - 10:52 am | View Link
U.S. Repatriates 11 American Citizens From ISIS War Camps in Syria The group — the largest set of Americans retrieved from the war zone — was joined by a 9-year-old noncitizen whose brother is an American. 05/7/2024 - 12:14 am | View Link
Prisons holding ISIS members in Syria a breeding ground for radicalization, officials say It’s been five years since the Islamic State was defeated by a U.S.-led military campaign in Syria. But today some 10,000 ISIS fighters remain jailed inside Syrian detention centers. Human rights ... 05/3/2024 - 11:35 am | View Link
A mother's hopes to free her son from a Syrian prison is revitalized by a new human rights report Just days before the seventh anniversary of the day Jack Letts was thrown in prison with thousands of suspected ISIS fighters, his mother delivered a small stack of envelopes to the headquarters of ... 05/1/2024 - 11:12 pm | View Link
‘Guantanamo on an epic scale’: Life inside ISIS detention camps in Syria ISIS still conducts large-scale attacks like the one in Russia last month that killed about 130 people. In Syria, where the group originated, it continues to be active. One strategy to contain ISIS ... 04/24/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Stephen Colbert tests some new tech advances in robotics and AI. I'm not sure how I feel about the AI priest taking confession, but Sparkles the dog might be a good choice for Kristi Noem.
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The unlikable and simply terrible Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took to the House demanding a vote to remove Speaker Mike Johnson.
Her chaos did not go over well as members from both party's catcalled and booed her.
"For what purpose does the gentlewoman from Georgia seek recognition?"
"Rule 9, I seek recognition to give notice to my intent to raise motion of the privileges of the House," Marge probably did not understanding the rules she's reading.
"The form of the resolution is as follows.
It’s become increasingly obvious that Donald Trump wants to stop being questioned on abortion. During a recent interview on local Fox 2 Detroit, when asked about his flip-flopping positions over the years on abortion, Trump generated a word-salad answer, revealing his desperation to change the subject.
Trump started with his standard “everything is great” response, citing states’ right to choose what rights women do or do not have.
(LOS ANGELES) — The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to bank and tax fraud in a sports betting case in which prosecutors allege he stole nearly $17 million from the Japanese baseball player to pay off debts, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The scandal surrounding Ippei Mizuhara shocked baseball fans from the U.
More than 321,000 children in the U. S. lost a parent to a drug overdose from 2011 to 2021, an alarming figure that shows the nation’s obligation to “comprehensively address the needs of individuals, families and communities” when tackling the growing overdose crisis, experts say.
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A new study published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry found that the rate of children who lost a parent to an overdose more than doubled in that decade span, jumping from 27 to 63 children per 100,000.
WASHINGTON — Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greenetried and failed in sudden action Wednesday to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans tired of the political chaos.
One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, Greene stood on the House floor and read a long list of “transgressions” she said Johnson had committed as speaker.