Ukraine officials have called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council after Russian troops seized a coastal town and several villages just across the Russian border, reports the Wall Street Journal. Fox: Al-Qaeda Mag Hints of Looming Attack, Urges Bombing of Las Vegas WaPo: Who is ‘Lady Al-Qaeda’? And Why Will ISIS Trade […]

Congress? What’s that? The NY Times reports the Obama administration is moving forward with a “sweeping international climate change agreement” that would force country to cut carbon emissions – and bypass Congress. Negotiators have set a target date for the agreement of 2015 at a U.N. summit meeting in Paris. CBS: Cellmate Describes Torture of […]

The NSA secretly shares intercepted communications data it collects on foreign targets and Americans who have not been accused on any wrongdoing with nearly two dozen federal agencies, reveals The Intercept. It does so through a “Google-like” search engine which allows federal agents to search nearly 900 billion records on meta-data – phone calls, emails, […]

An al-Qaeda linked group in Syria released hostage Peter Theo Curtis, a journalist from Massachusetts, less than a week after the videotaped execution of journalist James Foley, Newsmax reports. WaPo: 1984 – Gov’t Can Track Nearly Anyone with Cellphone GPS Daily Mail: The Descent of Jihadi John Daily Mail: Jihadi John’s Father in US Awaiting […]

Daily Mail: ISIS Offered to Swap Foley for ‘Lady al Qaeda’ CBS: ISIS Emailed Family Before Executing Foley NBC: The Inside Story on the Race to Save James Foley WaPo: The Sadistic Brutality of Jihadi John Telegraph: Up to 20 More Westerners Held by ISIS FT: Raid on Syrian ISIS Camp May Have Been Rescue […]