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Obama to deploy up to 3,000 military personnel to fight Ebola in West Africa
President Obama is expected to announce Tuesday that he’s sending up to 3,000 military personnel to combat the Ebola virus in West Africa. Obama will announce the stepped-up offensive against the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,200 people in five West African countries, in an appearance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
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[WATCH] US Navy nurse facing expulsion and losing career after refusing to force feed Gitmo detainees
A Navy nurse who refused to force feed hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees over the summer, once threatened with court-martial, could now lose his career. The nurse, a Navy lieutenant who has never been publicly identified, refused to force feed hunger strikers shortly before July 4 at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay prison complex. The decision reportedly followed months…
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US State Department orders 5,000 BODY BAGS and 160,000 hazmat suits
The U.S. Agency for International Development ordered 5,000 body bags from a Florida company last month as part of its planned response to an outbreak of the Ebola virus in western Africa. And as President Obama prepares to enlarge America’s aid to affected countries, a company that makes protective clothing says the State Department, which…
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Former Auschwitz guard, 93, charged with accessory to 300,000 murders in Germany
A 93-year-old man has been charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp, prosecutors said Monday. Oskar Groening is accused of helping operate the death camp in occupied Poland between May and June 1944, when some 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought there…
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SUPERBUG TIME BOMB: FDA only vets 10% of antibiotics that farm animals share with humans
The regular administration of antibiotics to US farm animals could have disastrous effects for humans, scientists fear. Many of the drugs are same as those given to humans and there are worries that the bacteria could become resistant due to overuse. Major US poultry firms have been carrying out this process for years. They give…
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FBI’s facial recognition program hits ‘full operational capability’
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Next Generation Identification System, a biometric database reliant on tens of millions of facial-recognition records, is now fully operational, the agency announced Monday. The NGI system, after three years of development, is billed by the FBI as a new breakthrough for criminal identification and data-sharing between law enforcement agencies. “This…
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[Watch] Benghazi Bombshell: Clinton State Department Official Reveals Details of Document Purge
Hillary Clinton testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on “Benghazi: The Attacks and the Lessons Learned” in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23, 2013. (Photo: Ron Sachs/Newscom) As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation:…
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Urban Outfitters marketing blood-stained Kent State sweatshirt
A sweatshirt being sold by Urban Outfitters featuring fake blood stains and tattered edges with the logo of Kent State University, where four students were killed in a 1970 incident that shocked America, is “beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss of life,” university officials said Monday. The $129 vintage Kent State University sweatshirt is…
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UP IN SMOKE: Proponents look to expand marijuana legalization in November
Even more states could vote to legalize marijuana this year, as pro-pot advocates look to capitalize on changing voter attitudes to replicate their recent successes in Colorado and Washington state. The legalization question is coming before voters in very different areas of the country, both politically and geographically — Alaska, Oregon and the District of…
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TX Sheriff Warns Fox of ISIS Threat: ‘Quran Books’ Found along Mexican Border
Gary Painter, Sheriff from Midland County, Texas, warned Fox & Friends’ Elisabeth Hasselbeck that not only was ISIS poised to sneak into the U.S through the porous Texas-Mexico border, but that based on evidence he’d heard of, “Muslims” were already being smuggled across. He presented no evidence that the alleged Muslims were connected to ISIS…
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Iranian commander: “The White House is the headquarters of the ISIL.”
From Red Flag (PressTV) – An Iranian military official says the United States has created the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in line with its plots to sow discord in the Middle East. Commander of Iran’s Basij volunteer force Mohammad Reza Naqdi said on Saturday, “The White House is the headquarters of the ISIL.” Washington itself created…
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Miss New York Chosen as Miss America 2015
Story by the Associated Press; curated by Dave Urbanski ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss New York Kira Kazantsev was named the new Miss America Sunday night, marking the third year in a row that a contestant from her state has walked away with the crown in the nationally televised pageant. Image source: YouTube Kazantsev…
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Black Actress Says She Was Simply ‘Showing Affection’ in Public to Her White Celebrity Chef Boyfriend — Then Police Made Their Entrance
The white celebrity chef boyfriend of a black actress said the couple was detained by Los Angeles police based on an assumption that she was a prostitute and he was her client. Daniele Watts, who played Coco in the Oscar-nominated “Django Unchained,” was handcuffed during the incident that her boyfriend Brian James Lucas — a.k.a.…
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An Official Plea to a Strip Club and a Church to End Their Headline-Grabbing Feud
COSHOCTON, Ohio (TheBlaze/AP) — Officials are pleading for a pastor and an Ohio strip club owner to stop weekly protesting of each other’s establishments over a years-long feud. The letter to New Beginnings Ministries Pastor Bill Dunfee and strip club owner Thomas George was signed by the city law director, the county prosecutor and the…
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Police: Pennsylvania State Trooper Injured in Fatal Ambush Is Conscious, Talking
BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. (TheBlaze/AP) — A Pennsylvania state trooper who was injured when a gunman ambushed him and killed another trooper outside a police barracks is conscious and talking for the first time since he underwent surgery, a spokesman said Sunday. State police spokesman Trooper Tom Kelly said investigators hope to soon interview Trooper Alex…
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Navy Identifies Pilot Presumed Dead After Midair Collision
LEMOORE, Calif. (TheBlaze/AP) — A Navy fighter pilot presumed dead after two jets crashed in the far western Pacific Ocean has been identified. The pilot was Lt. Nathan Poloski, a 26-year-old native of Lake Arrowhead, the Navy said Sunday. Image source: Facebook Poloski was the subject of a 36-hour search in the waters off the…
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‘Revival Is Happening’: Blaze Readers React to Last Thing Ted Cruz Tells Audience Before He’s Booed Off Stage at Middle Eastern Christians Event
TheBlaze posted a story earlier this week about a speech Republican Sen. Ted Cruz gave at a Middle Eastern Christians event in Washington, D.C. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. (Image source: AP/Tony Gutierrez) The crowd seemingly started to turn on Cruz when he suggested that “Christians have no greater ally than Israel.” Individuals in the…
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Iraqi President: ‘Not Necessary’ That Arab Powers Join Airstrkes Against Islamic State
PARIS (TheBlaze/AP) — Iraq’s president said it’s “not necessary” that Arab powers Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia participate in airstrikes against the Islamic State group. President Fouad Massoum also expressed regret that Iran was not invited to take part in the 26-nation conference in Paris on Monday to try to counter the…
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Six Hurt, One Critically, in Shooting Outside Bar in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (TheBlaze/AP) — Six people were injured, one critically, in a shooting outside a bar in Alaska, police said, adding that the suspects remain at large Family members and friends were outside the Kodiak Bar and Grill in Anchorage at 4:25 a.m. Sunday when one family member and the suspects began arguing. Moments later…
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ISIS identifies their next beheading victim as British taxi driver Alan Henning
A second British hostage ISIS fanatics are threatening to murder can today be revealed as a taxi driver who travelled to Syria to help refugees. Islamic militants warned in a chilling video that 47-year-old Alan Henning – who is originally from the Greater Manchester area – would be the next person to die after father-of-two…
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ISIS makes HOW MUCH per day?! Only $3 million…
Islamic State militants, who once relied on wealthy Persian Gulf donors for money, have become a self-sustaining financial juggernaut, earning more than $3 million a day from oil smuggling, human trafficking, theft and extortion, according to U.S. intelligence officials and private experts. The extremist group’s resources exceed that “of any other terrorist group in history,”…
