The medical community is outraged by a 5,500 percent price hike for Daraprim, after a big NY-based pharmaceutical company purchased the patent for it. The drug has been on the market for over 60 years, and can be essential to certain AIDS and cancer treatments. The New York-based Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 per pill in just over a month after buying the... 

New Zealand has released a final selection of four flag designs, picked from thousands of creative drawings presented over the past few months. Three “ferns” and one “hypnoflag” featuring a koru will now compete to potentially become the new national symbol. A government-appointed panel has selected the four designs from a long list of 40, itself from an initial pool of more than 10,000. Ferns... 

A senior judge has ruled a child molester was rightly given a tougher than normal sentence because his victims were Asian and so suffered more from his crimes than if they were white. Jamal Muhammed Raheem-ul-Nasir was jailed for 7 years at Leeds Crown Court last year for sex attacks on two girls, aged nine and 14. What is the normal sentence in Britain for raping a 9-year-old? 1 year?? Obviously,... 

Never ones to shy away from controversy, the Oath Keepers, a heavily armed group of right-wing constitutionalists, are offering to step in to defend Kentucky’s Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, as she refuses to do her job and issue same-sex marriage certificates. Group founder Stewart Rhodes and members comprised of former military, police and first responders, released a video on Wednesday discussing... 

Israeli police stand guard during a protest of Arab Israeli Christian students on September 6, 2015. Thousands of people have held a massive rally in Jerusalem to protest against the slashing of funds for Christian schools by the Tel Aviv regime. The demonstrators gathered outside the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday and were later joined by a dozen Arab Israeli members... 

“Threatening me with ruinous fines even though I’ve done nothing wrong is extortionate”. A Wyoming rancher facing more than $16 million in fines from the Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to take his case to federal court. The incident began in 2012 when Fort Bridger resident and rancher Andy Johnson built a small stock pond in order to provide water to his livestock. Shortly... 

The words “the people” in the Second Amendment, apply to everyone in the US, including illegal aliens. When Mario Meza-Rodriguez was five years old, his parents brought him into the United States illegally. By the time he was an adult, he managed to get in trouble with the police after getting into a bar fight two years ago. When the police arrested him, they discovered a .22 caliber pistol in... 

Mortality statistics for people on out-of-work benefits released by DWP. A new data from the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions reveals the death of more than 2,000 benefit claimants between 2011 and 2014. The DWP figures disclosed that most of the claimants were reported dead within weeks of being declared “fit for work” and taken off sickness benefits. The data has been compiled in response... 

France’s far-right party National Front (FN) has decided to expel Jean-Marie Le Pen, its founder and honorary president, over his sharp criticisms of his daughter’s measures as the current party leader. On Thursday, the FN’s executive committee removed the octogenarian politician from his position and annulled his membership in the party. The decision was made after the committee questioned... 

The death of Eric Garner, unarmed African American man, by a white police officer last July led to protests across the US. The civil liberties situation in the United States has worsened due to the erosion of economic freedom, civil rights and other measures of personal liberty, according to a new comprehensive study. The United States fell from 17th in 2008 to 20th place in 2012, the most recent year... 

A junior Australian defense staffer is on trial after he allegedly downloaded and leaked a “highly sensitive” intelligence report to an online forum. The intelligence service says there is no way of knowing now who may have seen the document. The classified Defense Intelligence Organization (DIO) assessment report, allegedly meant for Australia’s allies, was reportedly obtained by a 21-year-old... 

The picture of a heroic Chinese cop rescuing a newborn baby girl, who was dumped in the pipe of a public toilet in Beijing, has captured a lot of hearts. The baby survived and is now recovering in a local hospital thanks to her guardian angel. A police station in western Beijing received a call from locals who said they heard baby crying in the public toilet. The officer Qian Feng immediately rushed... 

A female Australian artist was arrested and jailed in Abu Dhabi for “writing bad words on social media,” after reportedly posting a picture of a car parked across two disabled parking spots on Facebook. Jodi Magi, 39, was arrested by United Arab Emirates police and put into prison, after being found guilty of “writing bad words on social media about a person,” ABC reported. “No one is talking... 

Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. The United States is grating parole to Jonathan Pollard after three decades of imprisonment on charges of spying for Israel. Pollard, a former US Naval intelligence analyst who spied for the Tel Aviv regime, will be freed from life sentence, his lawyers announced on Tuesday. The decision, made unanimously by the three members of the Parole Commission, was later confirmed... 

The scale of the Defense Department’s mishandling of the deadly anthrax virus, which has seen live spores shipped to dozens of labs across eight countries, highlighted a “major problem” with the protocols for dealing with such dangerous materials, the Pentagon said. A month-long DoD probe into the root cause behind Utah’s army lab blundering shipments of live anthrax has revealed major lapses...