Tag: United Kingdom

White House press secretary Josh Earnest gestures during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, where he took questions on ISIS, Iraq, and Syria. He also received congratulations for his newborn baby. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

National Security

White House: U.S. unlikely to raise threat level

Susan Crabtree · August 29, 2014 5:07 pm

David Cameron.

U.K. raises terrorist threat level

Susan Crabtree · August 29, 2014 2:55 pm

A general view of the Police station in Rotherham, South Yorkshire Aug. 27, 2014 in Rotherham, England. A report released Aug. 26 claims at least 1,400 children as young as 11 were sexually abused from 1997- 2013 in Rotherham Care Homes but no council staff will face disciplinary action. (Photo by Nigel Roddis/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

Rotherham: The perils of tolerating intolerance

Michael Barone · August 28, 2014 5:37 pm

Alex Salmond (R) First Minister of Scotland and Alistair Darling, chairman of Better Together, took part in a debate Monday in Glasgow, Scotland. (Getty images/Jeff J Mitchell)

Scotland’s future hangs in balance

Cal Thomas · August 27, 2014 11:15 pm

ROTHERHAM UK

rruizr.ruiz · August 27, 2014 8:13 pm

Professor Alexis Jay during a press conference at the New York Stadium, Rotherham, England, Tuesday Aug. 26, 2014, following the publication of a report she wrote which found around 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the town over a 16-year period. Rotherham Council leader Roger Stone resigned Tuesday following the publication of the shocking report which detailed gang rapes, grooming, trafficking and other sexual exploitation on a wide scale in the South Yorkshire town. (AP Photo/PA, Dave Higgens) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

Report finds 1,400 children exploited in UK town

Danica Kirka · August 26, 2014 10:09 pm

A frame from a video released by Islamic State militants Tuesday that purports to show the killing of journalist James Foley by the militant group. Foley, from Rochester, N.H., went missing in 2012 in northern Syria while on assignment for Agence France-Press and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. (AP Photo)

National Security

British government close to identifying James Foley’s killer: Ambassador

Betsy Woodruff · August 24, 2014 10:18 pm

American Aid goods are offloaded from an airplane, to be used in the fight against the Ebola virus spreading in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. Two alarming new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria, widening the circle of people sickened beyond the immediate group of caregivers who treated a dying airline passenger in one of Africa's largest cities. The outbreak also continues to spread elsewhere in West Africa, with 142 more cases recorded, bringing the new total to 2,615 with 1,427 deaths, the World Health Organization said Friday. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Official: British Ebola patient to be evacuated

Clarence RoyMacaulay · August 24, 2014 7:54 pm

National Security

UK appoints security envoy to Iraqi Kurdistan

Washington Examiner · August 24, 2014 1:35 pm

The British Jihadists

Geoffrey Norman · August 21, 2014 2:36 pm

FILE - In this Friday, May 27, 2011, file photo, journalist James Foley responds to questions during an interview with The Associated Press, in Boston. A video by Islamic State militants that purports to show the killing of Foley by the militant group was released Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Foley, from Rochester, N.H., went missing in 2012 in northern Syria while on assignment for Agence France-Press and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

National Security

British fighter appears to have role in beheading

DANICA KIRKAJILL LAWLESS · August 20, 2014 12:28 pm

Global temperatures were 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average for January through July, according to the National Climatic Data Center. (iStock image)

Energy and Environment

2014 shaping up to be third-hottest year ever

Zack Colman · August 19, 2014 3:44 pm