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An investigation into possible mishandling of classified information on Hillary Clinton's private email server has expanded to consider whether Clinton's work as Secretary overlapped with her work for the Clinton Foundation run by her family. Fox News' Catherine Herridge published the report, citing unnamed FBI sources, Monday morning. The report indicates the initial security referral looking into whether or not classified information was mishandled has expanded to look at possible public corruption involving the Clinton Foundation.

Myrtle Beach police arrested a woman for biting off part of a Walmart Employee's finger during an altercation early Sunday morning. About 2:10 a.m., loss prevention officers at the Walmart at 541 Seaboard Street witnessed Carolynn Wright, 23, allegedly concealing merchandise. Two employees tried to stop Wright as she was leaving the store. However, a physical altercation ensued. According to the police report, Wright punched one of the employees in the head causing bleeding. Wright then bit down on another employee's finger, biting a portion of it off. A customer witnessed the incident and attempted to call 911. While calling,...

Folks are furious at actor Sean Penn and Mexican-American actress Kate del Castillo because they got chummy with El Chapo, the notorious drug kingpin rearrested last Friday. Why exactly is that? Penn was not "acting" as a journalist, he was one when he and the soap star bravely entered the jungle and risked physical and financial harm to pursue the huge exclusive interview with the fugitive who was the most wanted man in the world. I would have done it. And I would have kept my mouth shut if I promised the source that I would keep my mouth shut...

Five fiends took turns raping a terrified teenage girl in a Brooklyn playground Thursday evening, police said on Saturday. The 18-year-old and her dad were inside Osborn Playground, near Hegeman Avenue and Osborn Street in Brownsville, at 9:10 p.m. when the perverts, all strangers, accosted them. One had a gun and pointed it at the pair, demanding that the father leave. The father ran out of the park, desperately looking for help. When he left, each of the men, who ranged in age from 20 to 30, raped his daughter, cops said. By then the father had encountered two cops,...

Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal has been a difficult one for the public to understand and for journalists to explain. But Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter who helped uncover Watergate 40 years ago, clarified things a lot on Fox News Sunday today when he said that an e-mail in the most recently released batch shows Hillary trying to "subvert the rules" that she expected others to follow. A few days earlier, Joe DiGenova, a well-respected former district attorney for the District of Columbia, told The Laura Ingraham Show that "there is vitriol of an intense amount developing" in the intelligence...

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(THE UNITED WEST) Tom Trento, executive producer of the new movie “Fallen Angel – The Cover-up of the Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six” which investigates the deaths of 30 U.S. special forces units in Afghanistan (the largest single day loss of life of SEALs in U.S. History), interviews retired U.S. Navy Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, the former commander-in-chief U.S. Pacific Fleet. Lyons states the shoot-down of SEAL Team SIX was a “dereliction of duty” and further states that the Obama-Clinton restrictive rules of engagement also directly led to the deaths of 30 of our nations finest warriors. According to Don...

DES MOINES, Iowa --A Des Moines man who beat an elderly neighbor to death was sentenced Monday in a Polk County court. Last month, a judge found Ngor Makuey, 20, guilty of first-degree murder. Makuey broke into the home of Rupert and Harriet Anderson and attacked the couple, killing Rupert with a metal spatula....

In its latest dump of 3,000-plus Hillary Clinton e-mails, the State Department found another 66 to be classified, pushing the total over 1,300. But two of the non-classified messages were eye-openers. One tacitly admits her own wrongdoing. The other orders a flunky to break the law on handling classified info. First, there's the e-mail where she expresses shock that a State employee is using a private account for official business. [Snip] But the bigger bomb was her order to Sullivan that June to mishandle a classified memo - but to first remove the label. She wanted some talking points faxed...

German officials want the world to know the 1000 African and Arab men who assaulted, robbed, rampaged and raped 100 or more German women had nothing to do with refugees. And the Germans will not be talking about it any more, thank you, said German Justice Minister Heiko Maas. “What happened at the main station in Cologne and other areas on New Year’s Eve is not acceptable,” Maas pronounced. “It must not happen again and these perpetrators must be held to account.” Which is what they said last time -- and the time before that. “Making this an issue...

Two weeks ago the New York Times ran a story about the need to host classes in Norway and Denmark for Muslim men new to the country. The topic? Rape is wrong and unacceptable. A course manual sets out a simple rule that all asylum seekers need to learn and follow: “To force someone into sex is not permitted in Norway, even when you are married to that person.” In Denmark, lawmakers are pushing to have such sex education included in mandatory language classes for refugees. The German region of Bavaria, the main entry point to Germany for asylum seekers,...

The Los Angeles County district attorney has declined to bring criminal charges against comedian Bill Cosby stemming from sexual assault allegations by two women over separate incidents, one dating back to 1965 and the other to 2008, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The district attorney, Jackie Lacey, determined prosecution was barred in the earlier case by the statute of limitations and in the latter case by insufficient evidence for a felony charge and the statute of limitations for misdemeanors, her office said in a statement.

Maybe it’s time we revived that phrase "question authority." "The president's ironclad confidence in the conclusiveness of the science, and therefore the desirability of 'common-sense gun safety laws,' is echoed widely with every new mass shooting, from academia to the popular press to that guy you knew from high school on Facebook," Brian Doherty writes in the latest issue of Reason magazine. Doherty actually examined that premise, and found it wanting. "Still, we have reason to believe gun prevalence likely surpassed the one-gun-per-adult mark early in President Barack Obama's first term, according to a 2012 Congressional Research Service report that...

House Bill 4713, a measure to prevent people from being convicted for unknowingly violating the law — something that has become increasingly likely as the number of regulations has increased — has been signed by Gov. Rick Snyder. The bill was passed unanimously by both chambers of the Michigan Legislature. The new law restores a key standard used to define criminal liability. That standard is "mens rea," which is Latin for “the guilty mind.” The bill requires that unless a law specifically states otherwise, prosecutors must show that a defendant intended to break the law in order to get a...

Authorities in Cologne, Germany, could have responded to the attacks of an estimated 80 women at the hands of a gang of roughly 1,000 men in the city on New Year's Eve in a myriad of ways. Mayor Henriette Reker, however, opted to join an illustrious historical club: victim blamers. Though the incident went largely unreported for days, the scale of attacks -- which occurred near a major railway station in the city -- were a "completely new dimension of crime," the city's police chief, Wolfgang Albers, told the BBC on Tuesday. Many women were robbed, at least one woman...

A new study is questioning long-held government claims that background checks on private gun transfers could help stop mass public shootings. The report, published by the Crime Prevention Research Center on Jan. 2, argues that not only are background checks expensive, but that they have failed to thwart mass public shootings. The findings come as President Obama on Tuesday formally announced plans to expand background checks and make other changes to America’s gun rules through executive action. The White House has aggressively pushed for background checks following mass public shootings. After the December murders by a husband and wife terror...

Abstract: Persistent claims have been made that expanding background checks to include any private transfers of guns would reduce mass public shootings. Yet, this is the first study to systematically look to see if that is true. In fact there is no evidence that these laws reduce the risk of these attacks. Examining all the mass public shootings in the US from 2000 through 2015, we find that states adopting additional background checks on private transfers they see a statistically significant increase in rates of killings (80% higher) and injuries (101%) from mass public shootings. There is not one mass...

A man has been charged with murdering a 20-year-old sorority sister in an apparent road rage fight on New Year's Eve. Eric Jamal Johnson was arrested in Yuma, Arizona, on Tuesday morning - five days after University of North Texas student Sara Mutschlechner was fatally shot in the head as she drove friends home from a party. According to police, shots were fired from a black SUV that pulled up beside her as she was driving through Denton, Texas, in the early hours of New Year's Day. Johnson will be detained in Yuma County Jail until he is extradited to...

A former top aide to Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state arranged for crucial access to Chinese officials so a top aide to former President Bill Clinton could promote his private car dealership business to China, a new report says. Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff at the State Department, arranged the visit between a Chinese delegation and Thomas 'Mack' McLarty, who was chief of staff in her husband's White House, at a dinner at the State Department. McLarty had asked for an invitation to the dinner, which occurred in the spring of 2011, because of 'our substantial...

Blood was shed in Baltimore at an unprecedented pace in 2015, with mostly young, black men shot to death in a near-daily crush of violence. On a per-capita basis, the year was the deadliest ever in the city. The year's tally of 344 homicides was second only to the record 353 in 1993, when Baltimore had about 100,000 more residents. The killings were on pace with recent years in the early months of 2015 but skyrocketed after the unrest and rioting of late April. In five of the next eight months, killings topped 30 or 40 a month. Nearly 90...