UNITED NATIONS – A new United Nations report says Gaza could be “uninhabitable” in less than five years if current economic trends continue. The report released Tuesday by the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development points to the eight years of economic blockade of Gaza as well as the three …
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First the Republican National Committee (RNC) tried to shut Donald Trump up. Or at the very least they asked him to tone it down. Thursday, the RNC — acknowledging that Trump isn’t going away — met with him to try to get him to sign the GOP’s “loyalty pledge.” So, …
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LISBON, Portugal – A Portuguese judge has released former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates from jail where he spent over nine months on suspicion of corruption, money-laundering and tax fraud. Socrates’ lawyers said Saturday that the decision to release him now to house detention was an indication the public prosecutor …
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SYDNEY – A surfer says he’s lucky not to have lost an arm when a shark bit his board off Australia’s most populous state. Justin Daniels received a single tooth puncture wound to the back of his left hand on Tuesday when the shark clamped its jaws around the board’s …
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Will the public ever know why a government agency charged with protecting the environment instead dumped deadly chemicals into one of the largest sources of drinking water in the West? The answer is: No. Not as long as Barack Obama’s rogue bureaucracies are permitted to operate as though they are …
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Dutch foreign minister says an aid worker kidnapped in June in Afghanistan has been released after 81 days and is in good health. Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said Thursday night that Anja de Beer, who was seized June 22 by armed men in Kabul, was …
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VOORHEES, N.J. — The Flyers had goalies Sergei Bobrovsky, Michael Leighton and Brian Boucher on the ice here at Virtua Health Flyers Skate Zone for Saturday’s skate, but coach Peter Laviolette wasn’t announcing any decision regarding who might start for his team in Game 6. Laviolette said following Game 5 …
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. – While Brett Favre isn’t sure what he’ll be doing next year, he does know what he’ll be doing on Friday: Trying to win a Mississippi high school state championship. The three-time NFL Most Valuable Player is the offensive coordinator for Oak Grove High School near his home …
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With four Game 7s in a 30-hour span, the first round of the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs went out with a bang, and given the win-or-go-home nature of each of those games, the chances that postseason brackets in office pools across North America would stay intact were tenuous at best. …
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Nick Saban and his Alabama players kept saying that being just outside the top four in the College Football Playoff rankings didn’t really matter with big games remaining. The second-ranked Crimson Tide took care of that situation on the field with a 25-20 win over then-No. 1 …
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