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A retired Venezuelan army general indicted alongside Nicolás Maduro has surrendered in Colombia and is being taken by Drug Enforcement Administration agents to New York for arraignment, four people familiar with the situation said Friday. Cliver Alcalá has been an outspoken critic of Maduro for years. But he was charged Thursday with allegedly running with Maduro, socialist party boss Diosdado Cabello and another retired army general a narcoterrorist conspiracy that U.S. prosecutors say sent 250 metric tons of cocaine a year to the U.S. and turned the Venezuelan state into a platform for violent cartels and Colombia rebels. The Justice...

Every time an American community suffers a tragedy involving a firearm, the anti-gun crowd unveils itself in full tribal dress. Wednesday night, a 21-year-old sandy blonde-haired white man with blue jeans and Timberland boots walked into a historically black church in Charleston, S.C. and killed 9 people. That’s a horrible, murderous act, made worse by the fact that the man is still at large. The New York Times reported S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s statement about the tragedy. “While we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we’ll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one...

President Obama on National News now, mourning the Charleston killings and then immediately turning it into a gun control moment.Shameless but typical!

FU Obama!! Obama says America has such a 'Dark Past' and this reminds us of that. He also says at some point this country needs to come to grips and do something about guns. And that 'more advanced countries' don't have mass violence like America does. Well why don't you go live there then Huessein???

Washington, April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Two House Democrats called for an investigation into the contracts being awarded to rebuild Iraq, including how the Pentagon selected Halliburton Co.'s Kellogg, Brown & Root unit to extinguish oil well fires. Representatives Henry Waxman, of California, and John Dingell, of Michigan, asked the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, to review the U.S. Agency for International Development's bidding process for a $1.7 billion rebuilding effort in post-war Iraq. The two lawmakers, in letters to the GAO, say they want a separate probe into whether Halliburton ``received special treatment'' from the Pentagon over...