The hardest part about being an explorer isn’t always the exploration — it’s coming back home. That was evidently true for Merriweather Lewis. Between 1804 and 1806, Lewis and William Clark had undertaken the famous expedition to explore the United…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expelled a top Indian diplomat on Monday after making the startling allegation in Parliament that the Indian government was involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist on Canadian soil. India retaliated on Tuesday…
The women were expendable. They were sex workers, after all. When they disappeared between 2007 and 2010, Long Island law enforcement formed no task forces. There was no huge outcry from the public. Their killer had chosen victims who could…
We no longer live in the age of the serial killer. The serial killer yielded to the mass murderer by the time Columbine occurred in the late 1990s. “Nearly 770 serial killers operated in the U.S. throughout the 1980s, and…
In 1954, Warner Brothers released Dial M for Murder, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted by Frederick Knott from his own play, which had done well on the West End and Broadway. And boy, could you tell that this flick…
It turns out that if you spend your days sticking needles through heavily pregnant women’s abdomens to stop their unborn children’s beating hearts and then removing those deceased children, either whole or torn apart, you get nightmares. That was the…
Progressives are much more upset than conservatives over Jane Fonda’s suggestion last Friday on The View that abortion opponents should be murdered. Even conservative-bashing harridan Joy Behar nervously tried to pass off the comment as a joke, with no support…
Most people hate to speak ill of the dead. They look for something nice to say about even the not-so-dear departed. People’s natural imperfections usually seem to shrink when they leave this earth. Not so with Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, as…
A 70-year-old woman was walking her dog in one of Chicago’s most affluent neighborhoods Wednesday when she was confronted by a masked stranger who pointed a pistol in her face and shouted, “Give me your f***ing purse or I’ll kill you…
“Kill are be killed.” That’s what a spray-painted graffiti message reads on a metal wall a stone’s throw from the 1500 block of Government Street near downtown Baton Rouge. It’s a double testament — both to the scandalously dangerous character…