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Anonymous, a loose-knit international network of activist hackers, is preparing to unleash waves of cyber attacks on Islamic State following the attacks in Paris last week that killed 129 people, a self-described member said in a video. A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask appeared on a video posted to YouTube and said the Islamic State militants who claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks were "vermin" and Anonymous would hunt them down. "These attacks cannot remain unpunished," the man said, speaking in French. "We are going to launch the biggest operation ever against you. Expect many cyberattacks. War has been...

EXCERPT "There will be an intensification of the strategy that we put forward but the strategy they we put forward is the strategy that ultimately is going to work," Obama told reporters at a news conference at the close of a Group of 20 summit.

Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington. The video, which appeared on a site used by Islamic State to post its messages, begins with news footage of the aftermath of Friday's Paris shootings in which at least 129 people were killed.

President Obama is vowing to redouble efforts to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) after the terror group claimed credit for attacks in Paris that killed 129. "The skies have been darkened by the horrific attacks that took place in Paris just a day and a half ago," Obama Sunday said in Antayla, Turkey at the start of the G20 Summit. Obama said during brief comments with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the killing of innocent people is an attack "on the civilized world." "We stand in solidarity with" France, Obama said, according to a reporter...

Angela Merkel said in her first speech to the Paris attacks, the answer of the West to terror must be that "we live our values ​​confidently" One of the values ​​is "the right of everyone to seek his fortune and live" - ​​apparently as a throwback to the refugees. The declaration of the Chancellor in the wording: (snip) "And then we also give a clear answer as a citizen. The other words, we live by the compassion, of charity, of the joy of the community We believe in the right of everyone to the right of everyone to seek his...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) corrected a woman who called President Obama a "traitor" during an event on Friday. "He's a traitor," the woman called out during Graham's appearance at the Sunshine Summit in Orlando, accusing the president of betraying the U.S. with the Iran nuclear deal. "No, ma'am, he's not a traitor," Graham responded. "He just doesn't know what he's doing."

A painful exchange with a young student who's organizing for free public colleges, cancellation of all student debt and $15/hour minimum wage for all campus employees. She doesn't really know how to pay for it, unfortunately.

Students at Claremont McKenna College in California who are demanding a racially segregated "safe space" for "marginalized identities," silenced and embarrassed an Asian woman when she described how she had been racially harassed by an African-American man.

At a televised Democratic candidate forum Friday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow showed Bernie Sanders a black-and-white photo of a man with his face turned away from the camera speaking before a civil rights protest. 'This is you in 1962,' Maddow said to the Vermont senator. 'Who is that handsome young guy with the dark hair?' joked Sanders. The audience laughed. There was just one problem: Four University of Chicago alumni who went to school with Sanders tell TIME they believe that the dramatic photo of Sanders, which his campaign has featured on its website and in a promotional video, is...

EXCERPT Matthews thought that was amusing. But when he tried to articulate why, he seemed to seriously not know whether Cruz and Rubio should be classified as Hispanic, referring to them awkwardly instead as "Cuban nationals" and "Spanish surnames." "So you're trying to insinuate that Marco Rubio, a fellow, uh, Spanish surname, I'm not sure the right word is Hispanic for them," he said. "Because they are Cuban nationals or whatever, or come from Cuba. But, uh, is he going to insinuate that he is still basically for what he calls amnesty?"

The team behind the world’s largest anonymous online network is accusing the FBI of paying security researchers at least $1 million to uncover the identities of its users as part of a sweeping criminal investigation. If true, the payment would represent a concerning collaboration that may be illegal if the FBI didn’t obtain a warrant, according to the Tor Project, which oversees the online anonymity software Tor. In a late Wednesday blog post, Tor Project Director Roger Dingledine said the FBI directed researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to find out the personal details of a wide swath of Tor users....

EXCERPT He gave hugs and kisses to older women, including one who asked about his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, and urged him to eat more M&M's and gain back some of the weight he's lost in recent months. Then reporters shared a "Did he really just do that?!" moment when Bush suddenly gave a man a chest bump. Yes, a chest bump.

Melissa Click shut herself in her university office on Tuesday afternoon and could be heard sobbing through the door. A day earlier, the communications professor at the University of Missouri had helped lead a multitude of activists form a circle hundreds of yards long to block reporters from a tent encampment on Mizzou's Carnahan Quadrangle, following the resignation of University of Missouri President Timothy M. Wolfe. A video that went viral Monday evening showed Click calling out for "muscle" to help remove a student journalist from the area. Click emerged from her office around 5 p.m. Tuesday and released a...

(snip) In 2006, Rubio released a book called "100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future." In the book's section on healthcare, Rubio decried the fact that "more than 3 million Floridians lack health insurance and may face barriers in accessing needed health services." As a solution, Rubio pressed to expand government-run healthcare programs and create an insurance exchange -- both core tenets of Obamacare. (snip) The Florida GOP spent roughly $575,000 to promote Rubio's book, according to the Palm Beach Post. Rubio also set up a nonprofit to promote it. The book's promotion of themes echoed by Obama could intensify recent...

(CNN)There's a new Jeb Bush on the campaign trail: More combative with his rivals, fired up in his speeches, looser and candid with reporters. The full-scale reboot -- on display last week in New Hampshire and expected in Tuesday night's debate in Wisconsin -- is meant to transform a self-described introvert not naturally inclined to dramatic flair into a candidate who can compete with outsized personalities like Donald Trump and political up-and-comers like Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Aides and supporters describe Bush as a tough and determined campaigner, whose civil demeanor shouldn't be mistaken for a lack of...

Hampered, trumped, infringed and violated. Even Roget doesn’t have enough words to describe the assault on First Amendment rights that I, along with thousands of others, suffered during the Republican National Convention in New York City in late August. In this era when doomsday scenarios constantly emanate from the lips of the Bushies, when Jefferson, Washington and Adams have taken a back seat to fearing the Axis of Evil, we can ill-afford to forget for even a moment the vision of liberty and freedom of expression that our forefathers mapped out for us in the Constitution. Yet, it seems the...

Yes, you read the headline correctly: mild-mannered presidential candidate Ben Carson got very combative and angry during an interview with CNN's Alisyn Camerota. The confrontation began when Camerota played a clip of Carson joking that "many" Americans were stupid, and asked who he thought were stupid. Carson responded that those who wanted to keep Americans dependent on federal programs were the "stupid" ones as far as he was concerned.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Governor Mike Huckabee missed their chance to debate on the main stage in the Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate scheduled for next Tuesday. The two low-rated candidates will join former Rick Santorum and Gov. Bobby Jindal in the undercard debate, which will begin early, at 6 p.m. The news is far worse for candidates Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)43% and former Governor George Pataki, who were eliminated entirely from the debates.

Jeb Bush has started attacking Marco Rubio for skipping Senate votes this year - something that has come under scrutiny in recent weeks. (snip) In October 2003, though, when he was majority leader in the Florida House, Rubio faced similar criticism. He missed a key vote for a "family issue" -but also attended game five of the World Series in Miami. (snip) But Rubio wasn't the only lawmaker who missed the vote! In fact, a number of lawmakers flew from Tallahassee to Miami - on Jeb Bush's state plane. That's right: Lawmakers skipped a vote, because they were on a...