Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel ignited a thunderous applause on Thursday night when he became the first openly gay man to address the Republican National Convention and tout his sexuality onstage. “I am proud to be gay,” Thiel declared. “I am proud to be Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.” The line prompted the crowd at the GOP convention in Cleveland to roar with applause... 

A French woman and her three daughters have been stabbed in a French resort for being ‘scantily dressed’ by a Muslim Moroccan immigrant. An eight-year-old girl was left fighting for her life after the attack in the Garde-Colombe in the Hautes-Alpes region of Southern France. The man is believed to have attacked the three girls outside the family’s apartment before entering the building and attacking... 

IMF chief Christine Lagarde must stand trial for her role in a €400 million payout case while she was French finance minister back in 2008, France’s highest appeals court has ruled. Lagarde is accused of “negligence” which “resulted in a misuse of public funds by a third party,” the Cour de Cassation, one of France’s courts of last resort, said in a statement on Friday. The IMF... 

The reason why Donald Trump’s campaign slogan has so strongly resonated with the American people is because deep inside most of us realize that America is not as great as it used to be. America is in decline. There are some that still attempt to deny this, but the reason why Donald Trump’s campaign slogan has so strongly resonated with the American people is because deep inside most of us realize... 

A Brazilian extremist group has become the first orgainsation in South America to pledge allegiance to ISIS, sparking further fears for a terror attack at the Rio Olympics. The pledge was spotted by SITE Intelligence, a jihadi monitoring group, on ISIS’s messaging app of choice – Telegram. In the Telgram channel titled Ansar al-Khilafah #Brazil, the Brazilian jihadis announced their dedication... 

Seemingly doubling down on his comments in April (following what he called Europe’s “flawed asylum policy”), George Soros has expanded his demands from four to seven fundamental pillars on how to prevent the collapse of the European Union. In an article penned for Foreign Policy titled “This Is Europe’s Last Chance to Fix Its Refugee Policy,” Soros details his plan (over-riding the current... 

The country worst affected by the global financial crisis eight years ago has made a miraculous turnaround. Iceland saw an unexpected GDP surge of 4.2 percent in the first three months of the year. The growth is explained by a significant rise in tourism. Tourism has been steadily growing since the beginning of the decade, and is currently a larger source of revenue than exports of fish and aluminum.... 

Ohio Gov. and former Republican presidential candidate John Kasich (R-Ohio) told an audience in Cleveland that he looks at immigration as an opportunity because Ohio has a “stagnant growth of population – we want people to come to Ohio.” “When I look at immigration I look at a new level of energy,” Kasich told an International Republican Institute gathering on Tuesday. “I look at immigration... 

The Goblin strikes again! Ted Cruz reneged on his promise to endorse the Republican nominee Donald Trump. The RNC booed Ted Cruz at the end of his speech after he failed to endorse Donald Trump. Republican officials said Ted Cruz’s stunt was “classless.” The crowd was furious and started to chant “Endorse Trump!”. Even his own delegates booed Ted Cruz when he said “Vote your... 

A grim Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Federal Agency for Air Transport (Rosaviatsiya) was authorized today to ban all Russian citizens from traveling to the Republic of Turkey after the Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported that two US-NATO naval armadas currently operating in the Black Sea have combined and set sail towards Turkey territorial waters and... 

There appears to be a coup going down at Fox News seeking to oust Roger Ailes. Form the New York Times: Roger Ailes’s tenure as the head of Fox News appears to be over. Mr. Ailes and 21st Century Fox, Fox News’s parent company, are in the advanced stages of discussions that would lead to his departure as chairman, Susan Estrich, one of Mr. Ailes’s lawyers, said in an interview on Tuesday. The... 

Turkey has revoked the licenses of 21,000 teachers working in private institutions, an Education Ministry official told Reuters. It’s the latest in a string of crackdowns on workers allegedly tied to the exiled cleric blamed for last week’s coup attempt. “The licenses of 21,000 teachers working in privately-run institutions have been cancelled. Tip-offs that these [people] are mostly... 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s approach to restoring law and order in the United States will make him a more effective leader in mending US racial tensions than current President Barack Obama, Congressman Steve King told Sputnik. He added that much of the division between citizens and law enforcement, that has turned violent in recent weeks, “is inspired out of the White... 

Despite a massive cyberattack on its website, WikiLeaks has published the first batch of nearly 300,000 emails from the Turkish ruling AKP party’s internal server and thousands of attached files in response to the Ankara government’s widespread post-coup purges. Some 294,548 emails pertaining to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice & Development Party (AKP) were made public on... 

The pilots linked to the downing of the Russian Su-24 jet in November are among those who were arrested for plotting Friday’s attempted military coup in Turkey, Turkey’s Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag confirmed Tuesday. “Among those arrested for plotting the military coup are the pilots who shot down the Russian jet,” CNN Turki cited Bosdag as saying. Earlier, mayor of the...