CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A Cleveland man was identified Monday as one of 49 killed in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20, who went by Omar, is originally from Cleveland and his mother still lives here. His sister tells Cleveland 19 reporter Lydia Esparra, “Omar was a baby.” A GoFundMe account […]
Government shutdowns have become a regular topic of conversation in Washington D.C. for the last few years. While many thought the talk of shutting down the government would have ended with Speaker of the House John Boehner’s retirement, politicians are still continuing to use it as a threat, and congressional gridlock is becoming rather normal. The […]
It was the president's toughest talk yet about the threat of terrorism in America.
The suspected gunman in the tragic Umpqua Community College shooting that left nine dead and nine injured has been identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer, NBC…
Al-Shabab gunmen ambushed a college campus in Garissa in northeast Kenya early Thursday, slaughtering 15, wounding 65, and taking an untold number of hostages on…
A group of girls narrowly escaped when Boko Haram attacked their school in the Nigerian town of Chibok last year, abducting more than 200 of their classmates. Now,…
It has been confirmed that 8-year-old Martin Richard was one of 3 people killed in the Boston Marathon bombing that is being called a “potential…
A 17-year-old Alabama high school student, Derek Shrout, who was arrested last week for allegedly plotting to kill 6 Black students by blowing them up…
via BBC News Canada is closing its embassy in Iran and expelling the remaining Iranian diplomats in Canada, Foreign Minister John Baird has said in a statement. The Canadian government cited Iran’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and failure to comply with UN inspectors as the reason for the move. Iranian diplomats have […]
Terrorism is hard to define, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Any attack that targets innocent civilians may be called terrorism. These attacks are non-government sponsored attacks on innocent civilians. Due to the large amounts of terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, I have left attacks from those places off the list. 2002 […]
Popular among Muslim youth and Al Qaeda supporters in Europe and elsewhere, former rapper Denis Mamadou Cuspert is now heralded by fans as one of the best known singers of nasheed, Islamic devotional music. At the same time, German authorities are keeping a close eye on Mr. Cuspert as they consider him a top security risk who […]
The trial of a man charged with planting a bomb at a Martin Luther King parade in Spokane Wash. has been moved due to the unveiling of the new MLK memorial in Washington D.C. Kevin Harpham was originally set to face the court Aug. 22, but a federal judge insisted on moving the trial date […]
