Teen wanted for church hall murder was arrested days before
JERSEY CITY — An 18-year-old man wanted for gunning down a teen at a Communipaw Avenue church hall was arrested five days before the homicide after a shooting in Jersey City, officials confirmed. The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office announced last night that Daequan Jackson has been charged with murdering 17-year-old Leander Williams on Aug. 9, […]
Rapper Common: Trump Would Return U.S. to ‘Slave Days’
Rapper and actor Common believes that should Donald Trump be elected U.S. president in November, then America risks being transported back to a time when slavery was considered acceptable. “America wouldn’t be taking a step back… we’d be taking 12 steps back [if Trump becomes president],” the Chicago-born musician and activist tells Newsweek.
40 US rabbis condemn Trump’s ‘hateful rhetoric’
JTA – Forty American Orthodox clergy co-signed a letter condemning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for what they called his “hateful rhetoric and intolerant policy proposals.” The letter, whose signatories included Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, the founding president of Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York City — was published Friday on […]
Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread
(John Oliver on the suffering newspaper industry and why it’s bad for journalism.) Speaking of being bad for journalism… that’s perpetually true of these Sunday gab-fests passing themselves off as “news.” Once again, Meet the Press wins the house cup this weekend for best Sunday show, since it is once again being preempted for NBC’s […]
Mike Pompeo (R-KS) Pretends The Iran-Ransom $$ Lie Is True
The worn out, far-too-common claim that ‘both sides’ are equally to blame for everything can be disproved when we finally admit that one of those sides fabricates their own facts and propagates lies exclusively. When we hear of this “aisle” that has “two sides,” we think about what differentiates Liberals from Conservatives.
Germany Mulls Banning Face Veils
Germany may soon be following the footsteps of France, Belgium and Switzerland by banning women from wearing face veils. Conservatives in the country are calling for a law that will prohibit women from wearing a face veil in certain environments. According to Lorenz Caffier, interior minister for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, body veils inhibit integration.
Hassan Yazdani Grabs Gold Medal in 74-kg Freestyle Wrestling at Rio 2016
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s freestyle wrestler Hassan Yazdani won the gold medal in 74 kg weight category at Rio 2016 Olympic games in Brazil on Friday. The Iranian wrestler defeated Haitian wrestler Asnage Castelly by 10 points to 0, and then prevailed over his Turkish opponent Soner Demirtas 7-0 in the next challenge to march into […]
Photos show IS forces fleeing while using human shields
New photos released over the weekend show Islamic State forces fleeing the Syrian city of Manbij last week, as they surround themselves with human shields to prevent air strikes on the convoy. IS fighters had controlled the key city in northern Syria since early 2014, and the city had become a vital waypoint for the […]
22 killed, 94 injured in bomb attack at wedding in southern Turkey
Istanbul (dpa) – A bomb attack Saturday in southern Turkey killed 22 people and injured 94, the provincial governor’s office said in a statement, calling it a “terror attack.” The late night attack at an outdoor wedding ceremony in Gaziantep province was suspected to be a suicide bomber, officials said, with one member of parliament […]
Muslim extremists target world’s priceless treasures
From Mali to Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, extremist fighters have regularly turned their sights on the priceless vestiges of peoples’ cultural heritage – for being un-Islamic. The International Criminal Court on Monday will open the trial of Ahmad Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi, an extremist on a charge of war crimes for the destruction of shrines at the […]