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Why was this 'admired and gentle' father-of-two brutally gunned down in cold blood? Accountant Curtis Cheng, 58, was shot by Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad, 15 Detectives said Iranian-born teenager's actions were linked to terrorism Police are now probing why Curtis Cheng, 58, was targeted by lone gunman Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad in a 'brutal' and 'callous murder' on Friday. He was 'just leaving work' at the police headquarters in Parramatta, Sydney, when he was shot in the back of the head by the Iranian-born youth - who was then gunned down by officers. Mr Cheng, who worked in the Finance...

Planned Parenthood’s chief executive officer Cecile Richards told Congressional investigators that she had never heard of such a thing as an “abortion survivor,” calling the concept “totally nonsensical.” “When a woman comes to us to terminate her pregnancy it would be a gross dereliction of duty if we were to permit a fetus to survive the procedure,” she said. “We take every conceivable precaution to ensure that this doesn’t happen.” One precaution that Richards touted as fool proof was the harvesting of organs from the fetus. “Once the fetus has been dismembered and the organs extracted there is no chance...

College gunman shot a woman in her wheelchair after demanding that she climb back into it off the ground A survivor of the attack said Chris Harper-Mercer shot a woman in a wheelchair who was accompanied by a service dog The survivor, how did want to be identified, was shot in the hand The 26-year-old killer reportedly ordered his Christian classmates to crawl into the middle of the room to be shot dead By Kelly Mclaughlin and Mia De Graaf For Dailymail.com and Martin Gould In Roseburg, Oregon For Dailymail.com Published: 18:48 EST, 4 October 2015 | Updated: 07:14 EST,...

A gunman singled out Christians, telling them they would see God in “one second,” during a rampage at an Oregon college Thursday that left at least nine innocent people dead and several more wounded, survivors and authorities said. “[He started] asking people one by one what their religion was. ‘Are you a Christian?’ he would ask them, and if you’re a Christian, stand up. And they would stand up and he said, ‘Good, because you’re a Christian, you are going to see God in just about one second.’ And then he shot and killed them,” Stacy Boylen, whose daughter was...

The heavily armed gunman who slaughtered nine people at an Oregon college left a hate-filled note at the scene of his rampage and "felt the world was against him," law enforcement officials confirmed Friday. Two officials familiar with the contents of the note say 26-year-old Christopher Harper Mercer, who was killed in a firefight Thursday with police at Umpqua Community College, wrote that he would be "welcomed in Hell and embraced by the devil."

Stalinist dictator Raul Castro was a busy man this week during his whirlwind tour of the city he craved to nuke. “My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City,” sighed Raul Castro to a colleague in November of 1960. But in between speeches at the UN and meetings with Governor Cuomo and Bill de Blasio (the mayor of the city Castro longed to incinerate) the Communist mass-murderer was also buttonholed by Bill Clinton for a friendly chat. Reporting on these meetings, Cuba’s KGB-mentored media included an affectionate mention of Hillary Clinton, former senator with an especially...

Firefighters found Andrea DelVesco's body in a burning Westwood apartment a block from the campus, where she was a fourth-year psychology student. As details about her life emerged, Los Angeles police detectives delved into whether the killing was tied to her recent prosecution on charges of possessing a cocktail of party drugs, including Ecstasy and meth. But on Tuesday, prosecutors charged Alberto Hinojosa Medina and Eric Marquez — both 22-year-old students — with murder in DelVesco's death, saying Medina stabbed her after burglarizing a nearby apartment and then breaking into her home. Medina is also accused of setting fire to...

Four people were killed and 52 wounded during shootings across Chicago over the weekend. After multiple weekends in a row of increased violence in the city, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is urging a fresh and more proactive approach to gun control. [Snip] At least 2,300 people have been shot in Chicago this year alone, according to the Chicago Tribune. According to their analysis, that's roughly 400 more incidents than during the same period in 2014.

Rep. Gerry Connolly -- who represents Virginia suburbs that rank among the wealthiest communities in America because they are populated with Washington bureaucrats, lobbyists and federal contractors -- is a classic example of the modern American elitist. Or to put it another way: He is a leftist ideologue on the public payroll. When Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards testified in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this week, Connolly fervently attempted to present himself as a champion of women. He did this by forcefully advocating their literal destruction. And, yes, he seemed unaware of the irony. In its latest...

The head of the House Oversight Committee is accusing Planned Parenthood of misspending more than $40 million of federal dollars on “lavish” travel, theme parties and a costly Manhattan office. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Tuesday accused the organization of racking up “exorbitant travel expenses,” including first-class flights, charter travel and entertainment costs that included $622,706 on “blowout parties” with celebrity guests. Some of the themed parties had names such as “Gathering of Goddesses and Gods,” “Chocolate Champagne,” and “Murder Mystery,” according to a report released by the committee during the hearing Tuesday. The findings were the results of a...

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI)- St. Louis homicide detectives busy again after a young man was shot and killed in north St. Louis. It happened around 9a.m. on Marcus Avenue near Northland. Investigators say people in the area heard several shots fired. They came out to see a young man in his early 20`s shot in the street. He was pronounced dead at the scene... This was St. Louis 151st murder of this year. We are fast approaching the homicide total for all of 2014 which was 159.

ON THE JEWISH calendar, Wednesday is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It marks the culmination of the Days of Awe, the solemn period of introspection that began 10 days ago on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Like many Jews, I have been thinking about the themes of this season — repentance and forgiveness, wrongdoing and reconciliation. I have also been thinking about Johnny Depp.More precisely, I've been thinking about some things Depp said at the Boston premiere of "Black Mass," the new film in which he plays the gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Speaking to reporters before the screening...

In a tequila-fueled rage, a Sunrise man is accused of killing and disemboweling his girlfriend because she uttered her ex-husband's name twice during sex. lRelated Fidel Lopez called 911 about 3:39 a.m. Sunday and told the operator his girlfriend Maria Nemeth was having trouble breathing and was going to die, according to the arrest report filed in the case.

According to court documents, (Officer Don) Allen created a posting on Craigslist under the personal ads. “The suspects responded to the ad and arranged to meet with the victim,” a Texas Ranger stated in the affidavit. The documents go on to reveal “the suspects insisted the victim used an alias during their contact with him.” KTXS viewed the ad before its removal from the site on Monday and deemed it to be too explicit for publication... "Electronic evidence, which we believe will more definitively reveal the nature of the relationship, is still being processed at the Department of Public Safety...

Hillary Clinton’s right-hand aide Huma Abedin exposed the travel schedules and locations of top State Department staffers — including Clinton herself — on Clinton’s unsecure private email network. Abedin used her clintonemail.com server – a non-secure server that shared an email network with Bill Clinton and Clinton Foundation staff – to discuss specifics about the hotel room accommodations and travel details of Clinton and other State Department officials, sometimes well in advance of the trips in question, according to new records obtained by Judicial Watch. Abedin’s conversations raise further national security concerns in the wake of revelations that Clinton discussed...

A man already in jail on murder charges also has been charged in the 2014 shooting death of Timothy "Asti" Davison, according to news and social media reports. Davison, 28, of Poland was traveling north on Interstate 81 at about 2:10 a.m. Jan. 4, 2014, when he reported to police that he was being chased and shot at by someone in a Ford Ranger-style truck, according to Pennsylvania State Police. On Monday, the District Attorney in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, announced John Wayne Strawser, 38 who is being held on charges related to the slaying of a woman earlier this year,...

Three people were killed and at least 18 were wounded by gunfire from Saturday morning through Sunday morning, police said. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, a 14-year-old boy was killed and a 15-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting in Kenwood two blocks from where Hadiya Pendleton was killed in January 2013. The 14-year-old, whom his mother identified as Tyjuan Poindexter, was dead on the scene after being shot in the head in the 4400 block of South Greenwood Avenue in the North Kenwood neighborhood, according to police.

Complete Headline: The tragic life of 'Baby Doe' Bella Bond laid bare: Conceived in a tent at Occupy Boston, kept secret from her addict mom's family and 'punched until she died by a step-dad convinced she was possessed' Bella Bond was punched in the stomach by her mother's boyfriend until she died, her mother has told investigators, claiming the man thought the two-year-old was 'possessed by demons'. Rachelle Bond, 40, of the Boston neighborhood Mattapan made the allegations against 35-year-old Michael McCarthy as she spoke to investigators about the murder case involving her daughter who became known as 'Baby Doe'...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) maintains that she abhors abortion and defended federal funding for Planned Parenthood as "the surest path toward reducing its frequency in the future." "Each birth raises the population total," Pelosi said. "The more babies that are aborted today, the fewer we will have to abort in the future. By holding down the population now, we avert the burden of having to fund even more abortions in the next generation." The Congresswoman contrasted "my long view with the short-sightedness of today's knee-jerk opponents of sensible population control. I mean, isn't it obvious that a future...

Obama has already chosen 190 American cities to dump the "poor Syrian refugees"* in. *AKA Radical Islamic Jihadists. I read this on several websites earlier, the Tea Party has it for one, 'um I haven't figured how to post a link yet :( Don't shout at me please. What are you going to do, if it gets crazy, where are you going to flee to? What if all air flights are stopped? You can't go to Canada, because they're determined to import them as well, you can't flee to Mexico. You'll be stuck :( We've already decided our escape route...