Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock reportedly travelled to Middle Eastern countries Jordan and United Arab Emirates on cruises. The news comes amid ISIS tripling down on being responsible for the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history. CNN reports: In addition to his frequent forays into casinos and gun shops, Las Vegas strip killer Stephen Paddock took 20 cruises, many of them in Europe and the... 

Sexting minors is illegal, but having sex with them is okay, an Indiana Supreme Court has ruled. Indiana high school teacher Sameer Thakar faces three years in prison for sending nude photographs to a 16-year old girl after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this week to reverse a lower court’s decision to throw out the case. Thakar began texting the teenager in 2014, when he was 38. After a short... 

With the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics having been awarded to three US scientists for the detection of gravitational waves, one of them, Barry Barish, a professor emeritus at California’s Institute of Technology (Caltech), said that the discovery was bound to change mankind’s traditional view of the universe. Researchers Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish who will share the 9 million... 

Sadiq Khan was right, Jihadi terror has truly become “part and parcel of living in European cities”, even though he said it as a good and normal thing. A knife-wielding man threatening to kill passengers caused panic on a train in the Belgian capital, Brussels earlier this week, local media reported on Friday, citing officials. The man shouted “Allahu Akbar” (‘God is great’ in... 

The Israeli police are set to interrogate the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over multiple abuses of power charges. He is accused of bribery and media manipulation. Israeli analyst Avraham Diskin told Sputnik what the consequences of such an investigation could be for the leader and his country. “This to me looks like a new phase of an old investigation. A number of times before,... 

Inspired by the separatist vote in Catalonia, secessionists in three wealthy southern Brazilian states are redoubling their efforts to break away from the crisis-battered nation. Residents of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Parana states are being called to vote in an informal plebiscite on Oct. 7 on whether they want independence. Organizers are also urging residents of the three states to... 

The move by Google to expunge RT from its premium advertising service without any prior notice is “absolutely unacceptable” but will not have an adverse effect on the channel’s outreach or its profits, RT Deputy Editor-in-Chief Kirill Karnovich-Valua said. RT, with millions of subscribers across its channels, has for years been ahead of the competition as the most viewed TV news network on YouTube,... 

Over the past several years, more than 6,000 items together worth $1.3 million are believed to be missing or stolen from several of UK’s most prominent museums, including the Science Museum group, the British Museum and the Natural History Museum. Since 2010, a total of 947 artifacts have been reported lost or missing and $106,000 have been officially reported as stolen. The other missing pieces... 

Investigative reporter Laura Loomer posted room service receipts from the Mandalay Bay for room service to killer Stephen Paddock’s room. The Mandalay Bay server Tony Hernandez Armenta posted the receipts on Facebook. An employee of the Mandalay Bay told Loomer that Paddock had the room since September 25th not the 28th as was previously reported. The Mandalay Bay employee says Paddock had the vista... 

Bryant Johnson was arrested for public intoxication on Monday night after he allegedly told police that he came from the future to warn of an alien invasion. Police were called to a street in Casper where Johnson reportedly told them he traveled from the year 2048 and was trying to warn the town that aliens would be arriving next year, KCWY reported. Johnson said that everyone needed to leave as quickly... 

A House panel has approved legislation to provide a total of $15 billion for construction of President Donald Trump’s wall along the US-Mexico border and improve ports of entry into the US. The Border Security for America Act, proposed by Chairman of the the House Homeland Security Committee Michael McCaul (R-Texas), was approved by the committee in an 18-12 vote along party lines Wednesday. The... 

Protesters showed up outside a Michigan courtroom Wednesday as a mom was jailed for refusing to obey court orders mandating she vaccinate her nine-year-old son. Detroit resident Rebecca Bredow will spend a week in jail for disobeying an Oakland County circuit court judge’s decree to get her son up-to-date on vaccinations. Judge Karen McDonald wrote that Bredow had signed an agreement to immunize... 

OJ Simpson was oddly released Saturday night, which kept the mainstream media in Las Vegas right before the mass shooting on Sunday. Prison officials even admitted it was “out of the ordinary for a prisoner to be released on a weekend” without notice, claiming it was to keep a media circus out of Northern Nevada where Simpson was incarcerated. This secrecy effectively kept the mainstream media... 

Egyptian port authorities seized a North Korean ship stuffed with rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) that was part of an illegal weapons smuggling scheme in August 2016, the Washington Post reported on Monday. The incident is the apparent root of tensions between Egypt and the US, allies who have been at odds in recent months for ambiguous reasons. The North Korean ship, Jie Shun, was travelling through... 

Migrants from Somalia and North Africa have been identified as the likely perpetrators of terrorist attacks in Canada and France, which were carried out just after the European Union Commission announced plans to import 50,000 more African migrants in the coming months. Additionally, both suspects – one of whom is now deceased – were ‘known’ to local authorities after run-ins with the law. In...