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Criminals, NEVER Turn Your Back on a Guy in a Cowboy Hat Who Just Took Off His Sunglasses

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D., Fla.) said that facilities used to detain illegal immigrant children separated from their parents are run entirely by "white men." Wilson's comments came in response to a question from CNN host Alisyn Camerota about the condition adolescent girls in these centers, during a Wednesday appearance on New Day. "Every day they're bringing in new children from the border, so there's no real plan to exit these children out of this facility, but there's a real plan to bring them there because they said to us, ‘We're going to add permanent structures.' Now they're in tents, and...

A secret Pakistani report leaked online on Monday provides a series of stunning revelations about the life and death of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, the long-time Al-Qaeda leader responsible for the 9/11 attacks against the United States in 2001.

After Years of Struggle, South Sudan Becomes a New Nation By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN JUBA, South Sudan — The celebrations erupted at midnight. Thousands of revelers poured into Juba’s steamy streets in the predawn hours on Saturday, hoisting enormous flags, singing, dancing and leaping on the back of cars. “Freedom!” they screamed. A new nation was being born in what used to be a forlorn, war-racked patch of Africa, and to many it seemed nothing short of miraculous. After more than five decades of an underdog, guerrilla struggle and two million lives lost, the Republic of South Sudan, Africa’s 54th state,...

ATLANTA (AP) - Photojournalist Michael Evans, who captured an iconic image of a grinning Ronald Reagan wearing a worn cowboy hat, has died. He was 61. Evans died Thursday at his Atlanta home after having cancer for four years, the National Press Photographers Association said. In 1975, while covering Reagan's unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he took the famous picture of the future president, which ran on the covers of Time, Newsweek and People magazines after the president's death last year. After Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980, Evans became the new president's personal photographer. For the next...