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In their campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, thousands of fast-food workers walked off their jobs yesterday. The nationwide protest took place in more than 150 cities, organized and supported by local community coalitions, Fight for 15, and labor unions, including the SEIU. Photos and videos of protests flooded social media,…

Facing criticism from opponents of the Iraq War after ordering a troop surge in 2007, President George W. Bush issued a warning of what would happen in the future should the United States withdraw armed forces from Iraq. Now, seven years later, the president’s admonition mimics what’s happening in Iraq today. >>> Q&A: How the…

DULUTH, Minn.—All one needs to do to get a clue about the scope of this city’s street repair problem is log on to the local government website. In recent days, people who clicked on the “Duluth Progress” tab to view a list of street-improvement projects ran into a “404” error message on the face of a…

Residents of Mississippi with backyard bird feeders could run afoul of new state regulations that prohibit the “supplementary feeding” of wild animals. The new rules appear to have been intended to limit the use of outdoor salt licks and other types of feeders designed for deer, but would apply to all animals, including birds. “Feeding…

“Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson’s appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity” last night earned him headlines across a host of media outlets from The Washington Post to Time for a comment he made about the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. But it’s the zinger he delivered at the end of the interview that is worth watching.

The Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, claims to have beheaded a second American journalist, Steven Joel Sotloff. A video of the execution was made public by jihadist monitoring organization SITE Intel Group. ISIS also threatened the execution of British hostage David Cawthorne Haines, sending a tweet today that read: #IS…

More than 6,000 foreign nationals in the United States on student visas have vanished after overstaying their time here, raising alarm at the Department of Homeland Security. The federal agency is now working to find them after losing track of their whereabouts. Officials at the federal agency told ABC News there are more than 58,000…

Top officials for the United Nations last week announced the terrorist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, committed crimes against humanity “on an unimaginable scale.” On Monday, the international organization followed up by sending a fact-finding team to Iraq to investigate these claims. Whether the U.N. will act on its findings is yet to be…