DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Online videos appeared to show Iranian security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protests as popular anger swelled Monday over the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner and Iran's failed attempt to conceal its role in the tragedy. The unrest comes amid...
San Diego Man Simulated Mass Shooting. Pleads Not Guilty to Charges.
SAN DIEGO — A 30-year old man from the San Diego area pleaded not guilty Monday to weapons and child abuse charges after online videos appeared to show him pointing an assault rifle and rehearsing a mass shooting from a downtown hotel room. Steve Homoki was arrested Thursday with 14...
Stick the Bullard Blackface Story on Your Kid's Door
There really isn’t an excuse for donning blackface and dropping N-bombs anymore. We’ve established clearly as a culture that we no longer accept that as valid humor. The day after 9/11, Joan Rivers invited a friend to dinner at “Windows on the Ground.” If I had told that joke I...
Madera County Woman Pleads Guilty in Child Porn Case
A Madera County woman faces a minimum of 15 years in federal prison after she pleaded guilty Friday to the sexual exploitation of children. Ashley Maddox, 32, entered a guilty plea to one count of aiding and abetting the production of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd in...
Attorneys for Patriots Owner Set to Challenge Sex Video
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's high-profile attorneys normally don't handle second-degree misdemeanors like soliciting a prostitute, but that's only part of what he needs them to do. Their main job is to make sure the public never sees videos that police say show Kraft...
YouTube Suspends Comments on Videos of Kids
SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube said Thursday it will turn off comments on nearly all videos featuring kids — potentially affecting millions of posts on the site — after reports last week that pedophiles were leaving inappropriate comments on innocuous videos of children. The change comes as YouTube grapples with moderating...
Who Makes a Better Case for Voting: Obama or Shapiro?
As of Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama was slightly ahead of "The Daily Wire" editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro in the battle of most watched "Why You Should Vote this November" videos. Each was nearing 300,000 views as of 10:30 a.m. At GV Wire, we believe in the power of the ballot...
See Record-Breaking Fire Tornado That Killed CA Firefighter
SAN FRANCISCO — In the history of California wildfires, there has never been anything like it: A churning tornado filled with fire, the size of three football fields. An official report describes in chilling detail the intensity of the rare fire phenomenon and how quickly it took the life of...
FBI Arrests Man Suspected of Plotting July 4 Parade Attack
An American-born citizen who federal authorities say recently scouted locations in Cleveland to attack people watching Fourth of July fireworks and talked of carrying out additional bombings has been charged with trying to support terrorism. Federal authorities said Monday that Demetrius Pitts, 48, had repeatedly expressed his support for al-Qaida...
Want To Understand Gun Owners? Watch Their Videos.
It was an ordinary day in 2011, when I found myself watching a YouTube video of a gun owner making a semi-automatic rifle discharge bullets rapidly, as if it were an automatic weapon. My husband, a gun owner, watched firearms videos like this one. But I had never seen one....