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Animal Welfare League – Patch Rebuttal

On January 14th, Lorraine Swanson, a writer with the Oak Lawn Patch published an article containing a number of inaccuracies.  Fanning Communications contacted Lorraine and asked for corrections. While we noticed that the article has been removed from the original Patch website, we also noted that the Patch article has remained on their Facebook page and on other sites where…

Boko Haram purportedly pledges allegiance to ISIS

Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based Islamist terror group, has pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to an audio message purported to be from Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. In the audio, which was posted online Saturday, the speaker says Boko Ha...

Terrorists seeking to reach a deeper place than fear

Each day, the news is more and more sickening. We wake up and hear that the Islamic State has committed yet another atrocity. We come to work shaking our heads, nauseated to the core, carrying on with our normal lives as though all is normal in the wor...

Video purports to show ISIS militants beheading Christian hostages

A video released on Sunday by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State terror group purports to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages. The video, which appeared on the Twitter feed of a website that supports Islamic State...

Jordan pilot hostage Moaz al-Kasasbeh reportedly ‘burned alive’

A video published online by Islamic State (IS) militants claims to show Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive. The video, which could not immediately be verified, showed a man standing in a cage and engulfed in flames. Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh...

Gunmen kill at least 8, take hostages at Tripoli hotel

A Libyan security official says that gunmen have stormed on of the most exclusive hotels in Tripoli and have taken an unknown number of hostages after killing at least eight. Essam Al-Naas, a spokesman for a Tripoli security agency, told the Associated...

Secret Service investigating small drone on White House grounds

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating after a drone crashed on the White House grounds early Monday morning. The Secret Service locked down the White House shortly after 3 a.m. after an officer on the south grounds of the White House spotted the dro...

Plane from Phoenix evacuated on arrival at Seattle-Tacoma airport

Two planes have been evacuated on arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport due to what a spokesman called a “security concern.”A JetBlue flight from Long Beach, CA, and a regional Skywest jet from Phoenix were the planes involved. Th...

F-16s Scrambled to Escort Jets After Bomb Threat

Two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled today to escort two airliners enroute to Hartsfeld-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta for a possible bomb threat, NORAD said. The fighters from McEntire Joint National Guard Base in South Carolina were dispatc...

A knife in an enchilada was the oddest thing the TSA seized in 2014

2014 was a big year for people forgetting about guns in their luggage. In fact, according to information on contraband that the TSA just released in its year in review, the number of firearms confiscated by the TSA hit a record high of 2,212 — a 22% in...

Denver woman who tried to help terrorists receives 4 years

A 19-year-old suburban Denver woman who tried to go to Syria to help Islamic State militants was sentenced to four years in prison Friday, even as she tearfully told a judge that she never wanted to hurt anyone and has disavowed jihad. Shannon Conley t...

Sleeper Cells: The Immigration Component of the Threat

In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, France terror raids were carried out in Belgium and Greece to identify, locate and hunt down so-called “sleepers cells.” Journalists and politicians have finally raised the issue of the threats potentially po...

Spanish police arrest 4 suspected members of a jihadi cell

Spanish National Police arrested four suspected jihadis Saturday in the country’s North African enclave of Ceuta who allegedly had formed a terror cell and were ready to carry out an attack, the Interior Ministry said. Interior Minister Jorge Fer...

Drone loaded with meth crashes near US-Mexico border crossing

Police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a drone overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot. Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said authorities were alerted after the drone fell Tuesday night near the ...

UK warned of ‘very significant risk’ of ISIS-inspired terror attack

Britain is at ‘very significant risk’ from a terror attack by extremists inspired by ISIS jihadis, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned today. Speaking ahead of a counter-terror summit in London today, he warned against complacency in th...

Surprise! Magnets used to plant drugs under cars from Mexico

Drug smugglers are turning “trusted travelers” into unwitting mules by placing containers with powerful magnets under their cars in Mexico and then recovering the illegal cargo far from the view of border authorities in the United States. O...

How Al Qaeda’s Biggest Enemy Took Over Yemen

Yemeni President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, his prime minister and entire government cabinet resigned en masse today, just 24 hours after Houthi rebels occupied the presidential compound in Sanaa. The resignations give unprecedented power to the Houthis,...