LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen called for the expulsion of all terrorist suspects from France Friday, in the wake of Thursday’s Islamic State attack. Le Pen, the leader of France’s right-wing National Front party, has been the most hawkish candidate on security issues and is a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that, “unlike most politicians,” President Donald Trump’s lack of political ideology makes him open to changing his mind. “I’ve learned that he listens,” Trudeau told reporters about Trump’s managing style. “He is a little bit unlike many politicians,” he added,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai claimed Wednesday that the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) was a tool of the U.S. Karzai, a former ally to Washington who has become increasingly critical of U.S. foreign policy, said America’s’ two-year fight against ISIS has been “weak,” reports Newsweek. Speaking to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Ideologically inspired leakers inside the intelligence community are the biggest threat to U.S. secrets, Michael Hayden, former Air Force general and NSA head, said to McClatchy. The CIA is in the midst of a manhunt to find a leaker who distributed classified cyber hacking tools to Wikileaks. Hayden’s comments highlight that…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The ISIS terrorist responsible for Thursday’s shooting in Paris, France had an extremely violent criminal history and radical past. It is difficult to tell when a radical believer will turn to violence, but in the case of Karim Cheurfi, also known as Abu Yusuf al-Beljiki, violence and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The girlfriend of the Cleveland gunman who killed an elderly man on Facebook earlier this week spoke out for the first time Thursday, placing blame on the social media company for enabling the homicide. “I’m a clinician,” the woman, who remains anonymous due to ongoing investigations, told NBC News. “I’m…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock Three students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison filed bias reports after taking a statistics test in the spring semester that contained a question describing kangaroos jumping a border wall into the U.S. Esmeralda Tovar, Alan Meza, and Cesar Andrez Aguilar, who are described as Mexican-American students,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a clear warning Thursday to anyone thinking about illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. “When you are caught, you will be detained, adjudicated and deported,” Sessions said at a stop in El Paso, Texas with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. “Do not come…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton created “loyalty scores” to measure how loyal other members of Congress were to her, according to a new book on her failed 2016 campaign. Clinton enacted the “loyalty scores” after she lost the 2008 presidential election to former President Barack Obama,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield There is a bit more to the apparent suicide of ex-superstar athlete Aaron Hernandez. Reports now explain that it appears he had been planning the suicide for weeks, and inside the cell authorities found three handwritten notes next to a Bible that was open to John 3:16, and…