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A sculpture, titled “Mother of the Martyr,” depicts a slender peasant woman, a traditional artistic representation of Egypt, with her arms outstretched with a helmeted soldier standing behind her. (AP) A provincial goveor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers, which used to have a helmeted soldier standing behind the woman. (AP) Previous Next CAIRO – A provincial goveor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers after many on social media said it appeared to depict an unwanted advance on a woman symbolizing the country. The concrete sculpture, titled "Mother of the Martyr," depicts a slender peasant woman, a traditional ...

The U.S. Navy lieutenant who apologized on video for “a mistake” while he and his crew were being held by Iranian captors in January is appealing his discipline for violating the service’s code of conduct, The Navy Times reported. Lt. David Nartker was given a non-judicial punishment last week by the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, two officials familiar with the proceeding told The Times. Narker appeared before Rear Adm. Frank Moeau on Aug. 4 to hear the charges against him, Stars and Stripes reported. The exact punishment given to Nartker and the charges leveled against him have not yet been revealed. Stars and Stripes reported the punishments could range from confinement to his...

The U.S. Navy lieutenant who apologized on video for “a mistake” while he and his crew were being held by Iranian captors in January is appealing his discipline for violating the service’s code of conduct, The Navy Times reported. Lt. David Nartker was given a non-judicial punishment last week by the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, two officials familiar with the proceeding told The Times. Narker appeared before Rear Adm. Frank Moeau on Aug. 4 to hear the charges against him, Stars and Stripes reported. The exact punishment given to Nartker and the charges leveled against him have not yet been revealed. Stars and Stripes reported the punishments could range from confinement to his...

An "arm in arm" decal is affixed to a Dallas Cowboys helmet at the NFL football team's training camp Saturday, July 30, 2016, in Oxnard, Calif. (AP) The NFL denied the Dallas Cowboys’ request to wear a decal on their helmets during the season that would have paid tribute to the five police officers killed last month in an ambush. The team had been wearing a decal with the words “Arm in Arm” since the first day of training camp this summer. Dallas police Chief David Brown and Mayor Mike Rawlings paid the team a visit on that day, according to Fox 4 News. The NFL’s strict rules on uniforms forced the league to deny the Cowboys’ request to wear the decal for the upcoming season. Dallas poli...

A manhunt was under way in Pesylvania Wednesday for a man police say threatened two nurses at gunpoint at a mental health care facility then took off with his girlfriend, who was a patient. Elliot Ravert, 18, allegedly demanded nurses at Philhaven unlock the housing unit were Alicia Buzzard, 21, was a patient and threatened to shoot them if they did not cooperate with his demands, police said. Authorities were unsure if Buzzard went willingly with Ravert, but they issued a missing-person alert for her and said she might be at risk of harm. She had been at the hospital for about a week and a half. None of the hospital staff were injured. Tiffany Buzzard, Alicia’s sister, told Lancaster ...

Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter looks on during a game against the Utah Jazz. (AP) Turkish politics spilled onto the basketball court Monday when an Oklahoma City Thunder player was disowned by his family in Turkey and responded by changing his last name to show devotion to a controversial U.S.-based cleric locked in a bitter feud with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Enes Kanter, a 6'11" cent...

Venus Williams retus a ball in the women's teis competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics Saturday. ((Associated Press)) When VenusWilliams pushed one last forehand long to lose in the first round for the first time in her record five Olympic singles touaments, her opponent celebrated as if having claimed a gold medal, dropping down on the green hard court to plant a kiss on the white five-ring logo. This was clearly a very big deal to Kirsten Flipkens, a Belgian ranked 62nd and only once as far as the semifinals at a Grand Slam event. Just two points away from wiing on four occasions while portions of the crowd tued hostile toward her, the 36-year-old Williams faded as Saturday night's ma...

Shahram Amiri holding his son at a news briefing in 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File) Iran confirmed on Sunday that it has executed an Iranian nuclear scientist who gave the U.S. intelligence about the country's contested nuclear program. The official IRNA news agency quoted a spokesman for Iran's judiciary, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi, confirming the execution of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist caught up in a real-life U.S. spy mystery who later retued to his home country and disappeared. He did say where or when the execution took place, but said Amiri's initial death sentence had been reviewed by an appeal court and that he had access to a lawyer. [embedded content] A...

A Michigan teen pleaded guilty to impersonating a policeman, a felony charge that carries a maximum four-year prison sentence.(Hooters) An 18-year-old Michigan man has pleaded no contest to impersonating a police officer in an effort to cozy up to Hooters waitresses on Facebook. On May 12, Nicholas M. Fuhst entered a Hooters in Kochville Township, Mich., aounced that he was an undercover cop and asked to see a list of all the people who worked there. After looking over the list, he asked for more information on some of the employees. But the Hooters servers were reportedly privy to Fuhst's unusual ask and a waitress called in the real police to investigate. "He indicated that he went to H...

(Grace Restaurant) After the deadlyterror attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, a restaurant owner in Portland (Maine not Oregon) wanted to do something “outside the box” in order to solve the problem of “gun violence” in America. So she wrote a post on Facebook. Ae Verrill, owner of twoPortland-area restaurants, wrote onFacebook that anyone who owns—or even supports an individual’sright to own—an AR-15semi-automatic rifle, may “no longer enter either of my restaurants, because the only thing I want to teach my children is love.” The post was deletedafter a bunch of people on the inteet who like guns found out about it and wrote mean things and threatenedto boycott. The New York Timespubl...

(Grace Restaurant) After the deadlyterror attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, a restaurant owner in Portland (Maine not Oregon) wanted to do something “outside the box” in order to solve the problem of “gun violence” in America. So she wrote a post on Facebook. Ae Verrill, owner of twoPortland-area restaurants, wrote onFacebook that anyone who owns—or even supports an individual’sright to own—an AR-15semi-automatic rifle, may “no longer enter either of my restaurants, because the only thing I want to teach my children is love.” The post was deletedafter a bunch of people on the inteet who like guns found out about it and wrote mean things and threatenedto boycott. The New York Timespubl...

(Grace Restaurant) After the deadlyterror attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, a restaurant owner in Portland (Maine not Oregon) wanted to do something “outside the box” in order to solve the problem of “gun violence” in America. So she wrote a post on Facebook. Ae Verrill, owner of twoPortland-area restaurants, wrote onFacebook that anyone who owns—or even supports an individual’sright to own—an AR-15semi-automatic rifle, may “no longer enter either of my restaurants, because the only thing I want to teach my children is love.” The post was deletedafter a bunch of people on the inteet who like guns found out about it and wrote mean things and threatenedto boycott. The New York Timespubl...

In the new edition of its full-color, glossy magazine, ISIS mocks those who claim Islam is a peaceful religion, and even wades into the controversy surrounding Donald Trump and the parents of a dead Muslim U.S. soldier. The 15th issue of Dabiq, published on July 31, is titled “Break The Cross” and appears to be primarily directed at those that ISIS considers its enemies, particularly Christians. One section is devoted to the words and actions of Pope Francis and is headlined “In The Words Of Our Enemies.” An editorial titled “Why We Hate You and Why We Fight You” takes aim at Westeers and “apostate ‘Imams’ in the West” who refuse to define ISIS’ motivation as being Islamic. ISIS calls ...

A Rhode Island ex-cop who killed himself after leading New Jersey troopers on a brief chase had his dead wife in the trunk, according to reports Sunday. The chase began when a trooper spotted Franklin Osgood, 61, on the New Jersey Tupike in Bergen County Saturday night and tried to pull him over, NJ.com reported. Osgood then shot himself, lost control of his 2007 Dodge Charger, struck a metal guardrail and then crashed into a trooper’s patrol car, according to the media outlet. The trooper involved in the crash sustained injuries that were not life-threatening. Osgood later died. A search of the Charger led to the discovery of his deceased wife Mary Jo Osgood, 55. Cops said Osgood put ...

July 30, 2016: Police cars gather at the scene of a deadly shooting in Mukilteo, Wash. (KCPQ-TV) An 19-year-old gunman who killed three people and injured another person at a house party outside Seattle early Saturday had recently broken up with one of the victims, witnesses and neighbors said. The Associated Press identified the shooting suspect as Allen Christopher Ivanov, who was booked into the Snohomish County Jail and held for investigation of three counts of murder, including one count of aggravated murder. He has not yet been charged, but is expected to be arraigned Monday. Victor Balta, a spokesman for the University of Washington, said a student matching that name and age has b...

Muslims have refused to bury one of the terrorists who murdered a French Catholic priest this week as he celebrated Mass. Community leaders in Saint-Etiee-du-Rouvray, Normandy said they did not want to "taint" Islam by having any association with Adel Kermiche, the 19-year-old jihadist who killed Father Jacques Hamel in his hometown in northe France. Mohammed Karabila, president of the local Muslim cultural association and imam of one of the town's mosques, told Le Parisien newspaper: "We're not going to taint Islam with this person. We won't participate in preparing the body or the burial." In a separate conversation with Sky News, Karabila reiterated there would be no involvement by ...

July 30, 2016: Police cars gather at the scene of a deadly shooting in Mukilteo, Wash. (KCPQ-TV) An 19-year-old gunman who killed three people and injured another person at a house party outside Seattle early Saturday had recently broken up with one of the victims, witnesses and neighbors said. The suspected shooter, who has not been identified, was pulled over and arrested by state troopers more than 100 miles away from the shooting site in Mukilteo. Authorities had not released the identity of the deceased victims. The injured victim was in intensive care at a Seattle hospital. Susan Gemmer, whose 18-year-old granddaughter Alexis survived the shooting, told the Associated Press the gun...

Feb. 24, 2016: The Sharp Family Singers, from Kansas, are led by their mother, Odalis Sharp, second from right, as they break into song in Portland, Ore., outside a court appearance for Ammon Bundy and others who took over a wildlife refuge in Oregon this winter. (AP) A judge ruled Wednesday that a Kansas woman’s children, who performed for armed militia members in Oregon, will remain in the custody of the state’s Department for Children and Families. Odalis Sharp’s children told the Shawnee County District Court how their mother had beaten them, yelled at them and berated them with name calling and how each one of them would scream in pain when their mother tried to “beat the fire” out ...

One of the two knife-wielding Islamist attackers who slit the throat of a Catholic priest during a moing Mass in northe France Tuesday was under judicial supervision after trying to travel to Syria twice under false names. Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters that 19-year-old Adel Kermiche's bail conditions allowed his electronic monitoring bracelet to be deactivated for a few hours every moing, a period that corresponded with the attack in the town of Saint-Etiee-du-Rouvray. Related Image Expand / Contract Priest Jacques Hamel was killed in a terror attack on a France church. The revelations are expected to intensify criticism of President Francois Hollande's govement ...

Coast Guard has spent $500,000 responding to hoaxer's 28 distress calls since 2014. (USCG) Twenty-eight calls for help in the past two years have sent the Coast Guard scrambling off the Maryland coast -- but in each case the call tued out to be a hoax that originated from the same person. The Coast Guard said in a press release Friday that it has spent $500,000 responding to the fake distress calls. “It could cause the potential loss of life for someone else who really is in harm’s way,” Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Sara Wallace told WJZ-TV. Each call involved the same male voice and used an emergency radio chael. The hoaxer has been making the calls since July 2014. The two most recent calls w...