
Gina Haspel confirmed as the new CIA director
President Trump’s new appointee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, has been confirmed by the Senate as several Democrats crossed party lines, giving Haspel a 54-45 vote. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) More...

Rand Paul casts key vote, Mike Pompeo moves towards confirmation as Secretary of State
CIA Director Mike Pompeo has been approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be secretary of state in a party line vote. Rand Paul switched his vote late in the day, enabling Pompeo’s nomination More...

President Trump confirms he’ll follow the law on torture, waterboarding, listen to Mike Pompeo, Gen Mattis to ‘fight fire with fire’
During an interview with ABC, President Trump discussed how he’d like to “fight fire with fire” when it comes to stopping terrorism, suggesting that he could be open to bringing back torture because More...

BLM kidnapping: Brittany Covington, Tanishia Covington, Jordan Hill arrested, police ‘not appear to be racially motivated’
The four black teenagers who assaulted and tortured a disabled young white man in an obvious hate crime have been arrested, but not be charged with a hate crime AND a CNN analyst actually blamed President-elect More...

New report: Girls, women captured by ISIS, commit suicide to escape torture, sexual violence
Women and girls captured by Islamic State militants in Iraq are committing suicide to avoid sexual violence and slavery, according to a report from Amnesty International. Many have been forced into marriage, sold More...

Margaret Kriek murder case: Craig Rugg, Paul Bannasch kidnapped, tortured her before murder
Prosecutors in the Margaret Kriek murder case are arguing for the judge to permit evidence which points to two suspects kidnapping and torturing the woman prior to her death. photo JRLibby Craig Rugg, 25, and Paul More...

Malaysia: Police arrest over a dozen men linked to ‘gang rape’ of teen, over 20 suspects remain
Malaysian police have detained 13 men and are looking for other suspects following allegations that a 15-year-old girl was raped by 38 men in an abandoned hut. The shocking story reportedly occured in Kelantan, More...

Florida man, David Benes, jailed after imprisoning 80-year-old girlfriend to exorcise ‘the devil’ out
Details have emerged surrounding a bizarre arrested in Holiday, Florida where a man held his girlfriend against her will to perform an exorcism. 54-year-old David Edward Benes was arrested after the physical altercation, More...

Police charge Michael Madison in connection to 3 dead bodies found in Ohio, more victims possible
It was the smell that led to the discovery of one body in a trash bag in a rundown neighborhood in Ohio. Then two more were found over the weekend, and police are charing a man who indicated he might have been More...

UN report proclaims nations not allowing abortion are allowing ‘torture and ill treatment’ of women
On International Women’s Day, the United Nations is coming under criticism for a report claiming that nations that fail to allow legalized abortion are allowing the “torture and ill treatment” of women. Forsaken: More...

Melissa Ketunuti murder case update: Jason Smith motive and her family’s statement
Melissa Ketunuti’s murder earlier this week was both shocking and brutal. Authorities are now revealing more details, including a motive for Jason T. Smith to kill the Philadelphia doctor. Jason T Smith An More...

Person of interest captured in Melissa Ketunuti murder case, police ‘confident’ arrest will be next
A Philadelphia doctor whose body was found bound and burned inside her home was apparently strangled with rope, police said Tuesday. Wednesday a person of interest, 37-year-old man from Levittown, has been taken More...

Melissa Ketunuti identified as woman found dead, bound and burned in Philly basement
Police have identified a woman whose body was found bound and burned inside a home in downtown Philadelphia. UPDATE: More details surface, an arrest is forecoming says police – more here Melissa Ketunuti Melissa More...

Egyptian preacher Hesham el-Ashry announces on TV that woman cover-up unless ‘they want to get raped’
Egyptian preacher Hisham el-Ashry may have shocked viewers with his latest appearance on TV this week, saying that women must cover up for their own protection and advocated the introduction of religious police. “I More...

Maria Santos Gorrostieta, Mexican mayor hauled from car, beaten, killed leaving daughter behind
The woman mayor who was kidnapped and murdered by a Mexican drug gang pleaded with her attackers for her young daughter’s life, Mexican sources revealed today. Maria Santos Gorrostieta Maria Santos Gorrostieta, More...

Mah Gul, Afghan woman, beheaded by family after refusing to become a prostitute
Four have been arrested after a young woman was beheaded after she refused to be forced into prostitution. Jihad flag photo/António Martins uploaded by Peter593022 via wikimedia commons Mah Gul, age 20, was beheaded More...

Pakistani man arrested for torturing wife with heated rod, will not be prosecuted
Pakistan man arrested for torturing wife iwth a heated rod for not bearing a child. Photo/Fast Track via wikimedia commons Police have not moved the case forward to prosecute the man claiming the injuries are “too More...

Dick Cheney: Obama has learned Bush policies were right
President Obama has “learned from experience” that some of the Bush administration’s decisions on terrorism issues were necessary, according to former Vice President Dick Cheney. In his first interview since More...