This is a rush transcript from “Glenn Beck,” June 17, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GLENN BECK, HOST: By the way, I told you to remember the moral equivalent of war. I said Obama’s speech was nothing like Jimmy Carter’s “crisis …
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Read More »India Family Beheaded in Apprent Revenge for Forbidden Wedding
The bodies of a poverty-ridden Indian man and eight members of his family were found shot, beheaded and floating in a river after an alleged revenge killing for his having married a wealthy woman, Reuters reported. Police from Bihar, in eastern India, said they have charged 15 people, most of …
Read More »Al Qaeda Claims to Have Taken 2 U.N. Diplomats, 4 Tourists Hostage
ALGIERS, Algeria – Al Qaeda’s North Africa branch claimed Wednesday it is holding hostage a senior U.N. peace envoy, his aide and four tourists kidnapped in the Sahara Desert in recent weeks. United Nations special envoy for Niger, Robert Fowler, and his aide Louis Guay, both Canadian diplomats, were kidnapped …
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SYDNEY – A skydiving, mountain-climbing interpreter from Taiwan has scored herself a shot at what’s been dubbed the “Best Job in the World” — getting paid to serve as the caretaker of a tropical Australian paradise island. Officials with the tourism department of Australia’s Queensland state on Wednesday announced that …
Read More »NASA Moves Discovery Launch Date
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA is now targeting next Wednesday for the launch of space shuttle Discovery. The mission has been delayed repeatedly over the past month for tests on critical engine valves. Shuttle managers decided Wednesday to move up liftoff by one day. They say they are confident that …
Read More »Democrats' New Push for Immigration Reform
This is a rush transcript from “Hannity,” December 16, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Now, as we’ve been reporting tonight, congressional Democrats are laying the groundwork for their latest attempt at pushing an amnesty bill through Congress. And …
Read More »Violence Erupts on Anniversary of Greek Riots
ATHENS, Greece – Masked youths hurled firebombs and jagged chunks of marble at police as violence erupted during a march in Athens Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager whose death sparked massive riots. Police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse the youths …
Read More »Crews Attempt to Rescue Pennsylvania Man Trapped in Silo
HOUSTON, Pa. – Emergency crews are trying to rescue an injured man trapped in a grain silo on a southwestern Pennsylvania farm. A Washington County 911 supervisor says the call came in shortly after noon that the man was trapped some 35 feet above ground in the silo. Dispatchers don’t …
Read More »Judge Allows Sale of Madoff's Mets Season Tickets on eBay
NEW YORK – A federal bankruptcy judge signed off Tuesday on a plan to raise tens of thousands of dollars for victims of the Bernard Madoff fraud by auctioning off pricey New York Mets season tickets owned by the disgraced financier’s investment firm. Click here for photos of what Madoff’s …
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