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Shortly before noon on Friday, U.S. Navy Lt. Christopher Casey Short died and another pilot received minor injuries when their A-29 Super Tucano light attack plane crashed near Holloman Air Force Base within the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Short, who grew up in Canandaigua, New York, was hailed as a pioneer by […]

Human trafficking exists in virtually every country in some form or another. The easiest targets tend to be the most vulnerable ones — that could mean vulnerable in their life situation (for example, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported that 88% of their endangered runaways are missing from social services), or it could […]

Despite many seeing the very concept of UFO sightings as laughable, the past few months have ushered in a plethora of new reports of strange objects in the sky, often offered up by reputable, competent individuals with little to gain for their candor. Indeed, as a recent report released by Senator Harry Reid showed, U.S. […]

On Sunday morning, as families gathered throughout the United States to celebrate Father’s Day, the pastor of the Assembly of God Church in Oakville, Washington delivered a sermon tailored specifically for the holiday. As Pastor David George brought that sermon to a close, he used the holiday as an opportunity to call on the men […]

There’s a fair argument to be made that America has lost its passion for space flight. Long gone are the days of massive NASA budgets and school kids gathered around television sets to watch the latest launch, and as the agency itself struggles to find its place in an increasingly commercialized theater, some folks have […]

On June 18, 1983, Dr. Sally Ride was strapped into the Space Shuttle Challenger as it rocked and shook, blasting out of earth’s atmosphere and into the great, empty expanse of space. And in that moment, she became the first American woman to have ever left the planet earth. Sally Ride hailed from Encino, CA, […]

Twenty years ago on June 7, CNN aired a new a story entitled “Valley of Death,” which twisted one of the most heroic missions during the eight-year war during the Vietnam War into an erroneous story. The claims alleged that 16 Green Berets and 120 indigenous troops on that top-secret mission deep inside Laos had […]

The Department of Justice has announced that 2,300 people were arrested during a recent, nationwide and online operation that spanned over three months and every state in the United States. Operation “Broken Heart” sought out four types of people: Those who are involved, in any capacity, in the production and distribution of child pornography. Those […]

Last week, a number of videos emerged on social media showing an off-duty FBI agent dancing in Denver nightclub, punctuated with an impressively executed backflip and stomach wrenching display of poor weapons handling when his pistol fell from its friction retention holster onto the floor. To make matters worse, as the agent hurried to regain […]

When news broke about the theft of an M577 Armored Command Vehicle from Fort Picket in Blackstone, Virginia on Tuesday, many saw reports of the chase, complete with the lack of damage to private property or injuries, as nothing more than a case of a soldier going for a joy ride: foolish, likely drug fueled, […]

Human trafficking thrives within the borders of the United States, though it often goes unnoticed. It can include organized criminal syndicates forming prostitution rings, forcing labor on victims in various industries, or it can be a form of serious abuse within relationships. Every once in a while we see victims come forward and tell their […]

The CDC came out with a report recently, citing troubling results in regards to suicide. They said that, between the years of 1999 and 2016, suicides continuously rose in just about every state — “Suicide rates went up more than 30% in half of states since 1999.” They also made a clarification: “More than half […]