Kyle Schmidlin

Jesse “The Body” Ventura announced yesterday that if Bernie Sanders fails to secure the Democratic nomination for president, he will mount a third-party campaign to run against Hillary Clinton and likely GOP nominee Donald Trump. “They’re setting the groundwork for me because if Bernie loses, by the time we get to June, how sick are […]

Saudi Arabia has offered to deploy thousands of special forces in Syria to combat ISIS, according to The Guardian. The kingdom has faced international criticism, including from leading U.S. politicians, for supporting terror financially and ideologically. A decision to land ground troops in Syria would be intended to counter the narrative that Saudi Arabia has […]

Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, was in a federal court Wednesday and is set to appear before a congressional hearing today. Perhaps owing to Shkreli’s flippant, enemy-making tongue, his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, has encouraged his client to heed some sage advice during the legal proceedings: quit talking. According to the New York […]

Two mafia bosses who had been fugitives from the law for years were captured by Italian police on Friday. They were discovered holed up in an underground bunker in the southern region of Calabria. According to Reuters, the bunker was dug deep into the ground and camouflaged by vines and shrubbery. Italian police donned flak […]

“Go home and hug your families,” was the message Ammon Bundy had for the five people continuing to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. After a spate of arrests and one fatality Tuesday and Wednesday, Bundy — along with most of the rest of the occupiers – are in federal custody. Despite the instructions from […]

Kwame Kilpatrick, who was once the mayor of Detroit, has joined a growing list of politicians, media personalities, and celebrities calling out Michigan Governor Rick Snyder over Flint’s poisoned water crisis. Unlike most of Snyder’s other critics, however, Kilpatrick’s criticism came in the form of a letter written from prison, where Kilpatrick is serving a […]

Two Guantánamo Bay detainees were released on Wednesday, destined for new homes in the Balkans. A third man was also slated to leave the controversial prison for suspected terrorists, operated by the United States at a naval base in Guantánamo Province, Cuba, since 2002, but he chose to remain rather than be relocated to a […]

Security at Super Bowl 50 is being looked at closely by law enforcement as agencies share information on potential attacks, according to The Daily Mail. Following a series of attacks on fiber optic cables in the San Francisco area, authorities at the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the potential for terror […]

Former FOX News host and conservative personality Glenn Beck made a conservative case against Donald Trump during an appearance Friday night on The O’Reilly Factor. In the interview, Beck accused Trump of voting for Barack Obama in 2008, a claim which appears to be based on a fake tweet from the website faketrumptweet.com, according to […]

Ted Cruz, a frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination and a Tea Party darling, is under fire for allegedly failing to disclose a bank loan made out to him for his 2012 Senate campaign. According to the New York Times, Cruz claimed to have liquidated his assets in order to fund the campaign, but actually […]

Convoys of aid trucks arrived in three Syrian towns Monday, delivering much-needed food, medicine, and clothing to regions that are besieged by competing forces in the Syrian Civil War. The towns of Madaya, Fuaa, and Kefraya all received relief from groups backed by the UN, including the Red Cross and the Syrian Red Crescent. The […]

Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST, President Obama will deliver the eighth and final State of the Union address of his presidency. It will air on all major networks, as well as being streamed through whitehouse.gov and other sources. The State of the Union address will include an empty chair next to First Lady Michelle Obama, […]

Donald Trump made a campaign stop in Bernie Sanders’s home state of Vermont Thursday and told the crowd that running against Sanders in the general election would be a “dream come true.” Sanders quickly agreed that such a match-up would be a dream come true — for him. Trump made the statement at a rally […]

Ammon Bundy, the son of notorious Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and leader of the ongoing Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation near Burns, Oregon, has had enough of being pushed around by the feds. But as Mother Jones reported Monday, in 2010 Bundy had no qualms taking a $530,000 loan from that very same tyrannical government. […]

While the Republican presidential candidates continue to dominate cable news coverage, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both posted big fundraising totals for the final quarter of 2015. Clinton raised $37 million over the last three months to Sanders’s $33 million, bringing her 2015 total to $112 million and Sanders’s to $73 million, according to […]

Seymour Hersh, a veteran investigative journalist and contributor to the New Yorker, has published a shocking new report in the London Review of Books. In the piece, Hersh argues that some Pentagon leaders on the Joint Chiefs of Staff undermined President Obama in Syria, where the official administration stance has been that Syrian President Bashar […]

Police and soldiers in Brussels allegedly engaged in a 10-person orgy while the Belgian capital was under lockdown following the November 13 terrorist attack in Paris. According to the BBC, the orgy involved eight soldiers and two policewomen. While their colleagues hunted for terrorists in Brussels, police claim, the orgy went on at a police […]

Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an ISIS supporter born and raised in Philadelphia, has been indicted on charges of plotting to bomb last season’s Super Bowl in Phoenix, according to the Daily Mail. Kareem allegedly planned to make and use explosives like pipe bombs to kill as many of Super Bowl XLIX’s 70,000 attendees as possible […]

Plutonium-238, a particularly useful plutonium isotope that has been used to power, among other things, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, is being produced in America for the first time since 1988, according to Popular Science. NASA plans to use plutonium-238 to power future space missions, including their planned 2020 rover mission to Mars. NASA will use […]

Last week, Saudi Arabia announced plans to form a 34-member anti-terrorism bloc composed of Muslim nations, including Egypt, Afghanistan, and Syria, to combat extremists such as the Islamic State. But Saudi Arabia’s own terror-spreading activities, its exclusion of Shia states from the coalition, and its unlawful military actions in Yemen are compromising the integrity of […]

On Friday, Bernie Sanders campaign volunteers and activists all across the country formed the Bernie Light Brigade, holding light-up signs for passersby in heavy traffic areas of Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Norfolk, and many other cities. Light brigades have previously been used by movements like March Against Monsanto and Occupy Wall Street. Ben and Jerry, […]

Last month, rapper Killer Mike lit up social media by introducing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a rally with a passionate, fiery speech. Yesterday, Killer Mike published an hour-long conversation between himself and Senator Sanders, held before that rally at Killer Mike’s own barbershop. In the discussion, broken up on YouTube into six parts, […]

Two mosques in Hawthorne, California, were vandalized over the weekend with the name Jesus spray-painted on walls and fences, according to the San Bernardino Sun. Hawthorne is near Los Angeles, about 70 miles away from San Bernardino where suspected Islamic extremists murdered 14 people and wounded 22 on December 2. The vandalism is suspected to […]

Swiss authorities detained two Syrian men in Geneva on Friday. They are accused of manufacturing and transporting explosives, which were found in their car during a traffic stop on a road leading into the city. Police are also looking into any possible ties with Islamic terror. Earlier reports that the men were also carrying toxic […]

Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator who rules his country like an iron-fisted cult leader, announced on December 10 that his country has developed a hydrogen bomb. Jong-un made the statement during an arms industry inspection at a weapons manufacturing site in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, as well as through state-run media, according […]

Beate Zschaepe, believed to be the last surviving member of the National Social Underground and nicknamed the “Nazi bride” of Germany, broke her two-year silence at her trial in Munich. Zschaepe denied having any role in the NSU’s 2000 to 2007 crime spree, which included bank robberies, bombings, and 10 murders. “I was involved neither […]

At the latest meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $60 billion in developmental aid for African nations. The money will help fund infrastructure, agriculture and training, according to Forbes. FOCAC has been held once every three years, beginning in 2000. This year, it was in Johannesburg, South Africa, […]

In the months since his headline-grabbing escape from Mexico’s hyper-maximum security prison Altiplano, Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera has been one of the world’s most wanted men. Now, the governments of both Mexico and the United States are intensifying their war against the drug kingpin. On Monday, Forbes reported that the U.S. […]

On Friday, November 27, 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear opened fire at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, killing three people and wounding a dozen others. In interviews after the shooting, Dear revealed to investigators his likely motivation for the attack. According to New York Magazine, he said, “No more baby parts.” Because of the potential […]