Several people were killed and others injured when at least one gunman opened fire at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington D.C. on Monday, authorities said.
One Navy official said that four people had died and eight others were injured, but other officials suggested caution over those numbers saying the situation was in flux. Continue reading
The U.S. State Department released a statement Sunday that said peace talks between Israel and Palestine will renew starting Monday in Washington.
The talks had been stalled since 2010. Continue reading
The pro-life group Live Action has released a series of videos that show abortion clinics in the Bronx, New York and Washington, D.C. are engaging in late-term abortion procedures and are openly ignoring laws concerning babies born alive.
The videos were released as the Philadelphia Abortion House of Horrors trial moves to the jury in an attempt to get more news outlets to cover the undercover world of late-term and illegal abortions. Live Action also wants to show that Planned Parenthood’s claims that Dr. Kermit Gosnell was an “outlier” is a lie. Continue reading
Shortly after several explosions occurred at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Secret Service shut down Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House, cordoning off the area with yellow police tape. Continue reading
Cities around the world have stepped up security in the wake of two explosions that rocked the Boston Marathon..
“We’ve stepping up security at hotels and other prominent locations in the city through deployment of the NYPD’s critical response vehicles until is more about the explosion is learned,” Deputy Commissioner of the New York Police Department Paul J Browne told CNBC. Continue reading
Large parts of the upper Midwest are without power as a massive snowstorm dumps up to a foot of snow in some areas. The storm seems to not be weakening as it bears down on the east coast, putting cities like Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. in danger of outages.
Heavy, wet snow knocked out power across parts of Indiana that reported a significant increase in car accidents in places that received as little as two inches of the thick snow. Tippecanoe County, Indiana reported 25 accidents in the first 5 hours of the storm Tuesday. Continue reading
Despite an overwhelming majority of Representatives voting in favor, a bill to curtail abortions in the nation’s capital failed because special rules were demanded that forced a 2/3 vote to pass. The bill’s 220 votes were well short of 2/3 of the chamber.
