“This is a pop quiz with guns…” Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com WINTER HAVEN, FL – Government agents wearing blue costumes and calling themselves “police” terrified middle schoolers when they burst into Jewett Middle Academy with their guns drawn for an unannounced drill. Students, parents and teachers at the middle school were not told that the…
By Peter Fricke Baltimore may soon become one of the first East Coast cities to adopt the West Coast trend of banning plastic shopping bags. The City Council voted to approve the ban Monday night, the Baltimore Sun reports, at a hearing during which it was supposed to be considering a 5-cent fee, which has…
By Michael Bastasch The United States recently announced it was spending nearly $500 million to modernize Ghana’s electrical grid and reform the country’s struggling energy sector, adding to the billions already pledged by President Obama to increase electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa. Obama’s Power Africa program has already pledged $7 billion in government funds and leveraged loans…
The town of Shenzhen in China is starting a new program to punish drivers who leave their brights on in people’s faces. Traffic police are threatening to force citizens who do so into staring into the high beams for five minutes. A posting on the official social media page of Shenzhen police reads, “You still dare…
Officer Aaron Huntsman pleaded guilty to theft of jewelry and cash from a victim of a motorcycle crash in Connecticut. The state police trooper was convicted of felony charges and will spend a little over a year in prison. Huntsman reportedly stole over $3,000 in cash and a gold chain from John Scalesse who died…
Operation Choke Point Hearing Reveals DOJ Threats And Strong-Arming By Jonah Bennett A Justice Department fraud prevention program came under fire Thursday for allegedly morphing into actively pressuring banks to deny financial services to businesses for political reasons. Operation Choke Point functions as a partnership between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and various other federal agencies…
By Jonah Bennett A family’s livestock enterprise in New Mexico is in danger of being completely shut down now that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has declared the meadow jumping mouse to be an endangered species, Watchdog reports. The new regulations came into effect from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last month, and as…
More than fifty people are currently on trial in Peru for homicide and rebellion following an environmental protest five years ago. The conflict occurred while the indigenous Awajúns and Wampis were peacefully protesting a pact between the U.S. and Peru that made it easier for natural resources to be exploited. A crowd gathered to blockade…
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Another case of police corruption has rocked our nation’s capital. Linwood Barnhill Jr., 48, had been an officer for 24 years, working in Southeast’s 7th District station. He admitted in federal court last week that he forced teenage girls, some as young as 15, to work as prostitutes out of his apartment. Marc Washington,…
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive Legislators in the state of New York passed a bill that would ban residents from taking photos of themselves with tigers. The law is a reaction to people taking photos of themselves with the tigers and posting it on dating websites. The…