Last month, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) kidnapped more than 140 Kurdish schoolboys to use for terrorist operations including suicide bombings, according to Human Rights Watch.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Barack Obama went too far in making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.
The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a Massachusetts law that created buffer zones around abortion clinics violated the First Amendment.
The Shiite-Sunni sectarian war breaking out in Iraq is threatening a widespread regional war. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is on the move as it threatens to cut off ‘supply routes to Baghdad.’ ISIS forces are within miles of the Haditha Dam, Iraq’s second largest dam, located on the Euphrates River. Meanwhile, Syria bombed ISIS targets inside of Iraq. The NY Times reported Iran is sending military aid including drones to Iraq. Those are just a few of the headlines we cover in today’s Full Coverage Report.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued Operation Brother’s Keeper in search for the three abducted teenagers Wednesday night with the arrest of ten suspected Palestinians.
An economic trade agreement between Ukraine and the European Union that served as a catalyst for months of protests, the exile of former Ukrainian president, and the death of scores of Ukrainians, is set to be signed on Friday.
Microsoft’s top lawyer called on Congress and the White House to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and stop the “unfettered collection of bulk data” by the government, Cnet reported.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved $351 million for the Iron Dome, and $270 million for the Arrow 3 and David’s Sling missile defense systems.
Four bombs exploded at three metro stations in Cairo during Wednesday’s morning rush hour. The explosions wounded at least five people, Egyptian officials said.
Pope Francis has 14 million Twitter followers, nearly a third of U.S. President Barack Obama, however according to a study; the pontiff is considered the most influential on the social networking platform.
Late Wednesday, Congressional investigators published emails from ex-IRS official Lois Lerner, which detailed her targeting a Republican Senator in 2012 for an internal audit based on an email she accidentally received.
Since October, over 52,000 illegal immigrant children have been apprehended by Border Patrol agents. While all children face deportation, it will take years before any action will be taken since federal immigration courts face a backlog of more than 360,000 cases, the Associated Press reported.
In North Carolina, Republican Governor Pat McCrory signed into law, a bill allowing student-led prayer and the ability to organize prayer groups in public school.
In a historic decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that a state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, setting up a possible Supreme Court battle over the issue.
In an unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of privacy rights stating that police cannot search through data on a person’s cellphone without a warrant.
The Gross Domestic Product fell at a 2.9 percent annual rate, the economy’s worst performance in five years. Growth has been revised down 3.0 percent since the government’s first estimate was published in April, worse than economists’ expectations.
More than 60 women and children have been abducted in northern Nigeria by militant Muslims, according to the BBC.
A Christian in southern Egypt has been sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and fined the equivalent of $840 on charges of blasphemy and contempt of Islam for simply “liking” a Facebook page, according to International Christian Concern.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) surrounded a former U.S. base known as Camp Anaconda, striking it with mortars, just 54 miles north of Baghdad. Meanwhile, nearly half of the promised 300 special operations troops arrived in Iraq, the Pentagon said.
In a study compiling data from 3,137 of a possible 3,144 counties in the United States, the underlying cost of individually-purchased health care jumped 41 percent in 2014, Forbes reported.