Vivienne Scott

Woman’s Bra Stops Hunter’s Stray Bullet

[Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images] The would-be victim of a stray bullet was spared from serious injury by an unlikely source: a woman’s bra. Earlier this week, a German woman having a day out in the countryside was on a bike ride with her husband when they decided to stop for a rest on the […]

9y ago

United States

United States Tightens Visa Program Amid Fears Of Foreign Fighter Infiltration

Concerned that foreign militants could easily enter the United States, security is being increased on a program that allows visitors from 38 countries to enter the country without a visa. The visa waiver program, run by the United States Department of Homeland Security, makes it simple for people from these countries to enter the U.S. […]

9y ago

Hillary Clinton Email: ‘Gaps Of Months And Months’

Hillary Clinton and her quest for the 2016 presidential nomination may have hit another speed bump as revelations about her use of a personal email account continue to surface. According to the Weekly Standard, Rep. Trey Gowdy, who chairs the committee investigating the case of Benghazi, Hillary has significant gaps in her email account. Clinton […]

9y ago

Madison Shooting Angers Some Community Members

Following the Madison shooting of an unarmed teenager in his home by a veteran police officer, scores of city residents spent Saturday and Sunday protesting. Nineteen-year-old Tony Robinson was shot in his home on Friday night after police said they responded to complaints of Robinson causing a disturbance in the street, including jumping in front […]

9y ago

California Town Raises Thousands For Newborn After Mom’s Death

A town in California went to bat for one of its smallest residents last week, when they started to work on a fund to raise money for a newborn baby who just lost her mother. The baby, Chelsea Marie, was born to 45-year-old Melinda Rodriguez on February 8. But Rodriguez tragically died just a few […]

9y ago

Class Teaches Moms To Carry Baby And Gun At Same Time

A community class in Iowa is offering gun-carrying moms lessons on how to safely tote their bundle of joy and a loaded gun simultaneously. The class for moms (and dads) is run by a mom and gun owner Melody Laurer, who told her local ABC affiliate in an interview that she saw the need and […]

9y ago

Texas Town Fires Police, Hires Private Security

The small Texas town of Sharpstown fired their police department and replaced them with a privately-run security team, with surprising results. Sharpstown let their police force contract lapse back in 2012, and then hired S.E.A.L. Security, according to Guns. The town calls the security force the Sharpstown Patrol, and their work has resulted in a […]

9y ago

Eric Garner|nypd

NYPD Officers Say Post-Eric Garner Training ‘Boring’

An exclusive, inside look at the NYPD’s post-Eric Garner policing training by the New York Post has revealed that the cops required to go through the mandatory, three-day training have found it a total “waste of time.” In a unidentified interview with the Post, a high-up police source said that about 80 percent of those […]

9y ago

texas

Roughly 2,800 Texas Prisoners To Be Relocated After Riot

A prison riot in Texas that broke out over the weekend will lead to at least 2,800 federal prisoners being relocated to other facilities. The prison riot broke out in South Texas over the weekend, and there has been so much damage that much of the facility has been deemed uninhabitable. Though the inmate riot […]

9y ago

Gun Control|michael bloomberg

Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Says Minorities Shouldn’t Have Guns

A speech at the Aspen Institute earlier this month about gun control has landed former New York City mayor and media magnate Michael Bloomberg in hot water. When taken out of context, the speech, which was made in front of a crowd of about 400 people on February 5, negatively pegs minorities as gun-toting criminals […]

9y ago

pope francis

Pope Denounces Mafia Members, Says They’re ‘Not Christians’

During a brief visit to Calabria in southern Italy on Sunday, the pope again publicly denounced mafia members, saying that they are not members of the Christian faith. It was the second time in less than one year that the pope has denounced the mafia, saying in a public speech on Sunday that if you […]

9y ago

Dubai|middle east

Dubai Police Showcase Fleet Of Flashy Sports Cars

The Dubai police have taken luxury to a new level as they continue to add more vehicles to their fleet of fancy sports cars that they use for local patrols and police work. A slickly-produced informational video that looks more like a music video was released recently by the Dubai police, showcasing some of their […]

9y ago

Reporter Walks Through Paris As A Jew, Gets Cursed At And Spat On [Video]

A reporter for the Israeli news website NRG documented an entire day walking through Paris wearing the religious symbols of a tzitzit and a kippa (yarmulke) and the negative, threatening reactions of some Parisians. The reporter, Zvika Klein, did nothing but walk silently through the streets of Paris as a colleague filmed him. The reaction […]

9y ago

FAA Rules For Drones Finally Proposed

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has at last issued proposed rules for drones. The list of proposed regulations for drones, which wouldn’t go into effect for a couple of years, includes things like not flying at night, not going out of the operator’s sight, and not buzzing around near airports. There are also different categories […]

9y ago

Jewish Graves Desecrated By Vandals In France

Hundreds of Jewish graves in Sarre-Union, a town in eastern France, were seriously vandalized over the weekend. Photographs of the aftermath show hundreds of tombstones and catacombs spray-painted with red swastikas, and other tombstones toppled over. Police are investigating the vandalism of the graves and have been staying in touch with leaders in the Jewish […]

9y ago

Over 2,000 U.S. Government Torture Photos Could be Released Soon

More than 2,000 photos of torture and prisoner abuse at U.S. government detention facilities in the Middle East could soon be made public. A judge has ordered that a public records request for the photos made by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 10 years ago be honored by the Obama administration, but there is […]

9y ago

New Video Shows Pasco Police Handcuffed Man Without Checking Pulse After Shooting Him

A second amateur video of Pasco police shooting an unarmed man who was throwing rocks shows that police didn’t check him for vital signs. Instead, they handcuffed him as he lay dead, face down on the sidewalk. The man who Pasco police shot and killed was a Mexican apple picker, 35-year-old Antonio Zambrano-Montes. The police […]

9y ago

Philippines

Philippines Emerges As New Call Center Capital of the World

Americans placing a call to a customer service representatives are now more likely to get routed to someone in the Philippines, rather than India. That’s because the Philippines have overtaken India as the call center capital of the world, according to the Los Angeles Times. The call center industry was just a fledgling venture less […]

9y ago

Bobbi Kristina Brown|tyler perry|whitney houston

Tyler Perry Visits Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Bedside

Tyler Perry is just one of the many friends and family of Bobbi Kristina Brown who continue to flock to her hospital bedside at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The 21-year-old daughter of R&B singer Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston was found in a bathtub at her home on January 31. She […]

9y ago

Facebook|mark zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg And Wife Give $75 Million To San Francisco Hospital

Mark Zuckerberg is set to give the largest single private gift from individuals to a public hospital in the United States, with a $75 million donation to San Francisco General Hospital. The gift from Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, is partly tied to and inspired by the time Chan worked at the hospital […]

9y ago