WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said the only way to end the gruesome beheadings by the Islamic State group is by degrading and destroying the insurgency, which has captured large swathes of Iraqi and Syrian territory. The latest beheading of a Japanese journalist by the Islamic State group has renewed a national debate on Japan’s ability […]
CAPITOL HILL—Despite a global oil glut, the U.S. Senate has voted 62-36 to approve construction of a controversial pipeline to transport Canadian crude to U.S. Gulf states. President Barack Obama has threatened to veto the project, which pits powerful business interests against environmentalists at a time when American motorists are celebrating a steep drop in […]
Former producer at Fox 7-Austin, Phillip Perea, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest after shooting himself outside the main Fox Corporation headquarters in New York after handing a security guard there a note on Monday morning. Perea, who had produced a series of YouTube videos laying out how he was bullied into […]
A Eunice, Louisiana man shoplifted several items from a Walmart store earlier this month and then made his getaway in a motorized wheelchair belonging to the store, according to police reports made after his arrest. The shoplifting and theft of the motorized wheelchair went unnoticed by store personnel, and the man who was later identified as […]