Jay Carney

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela‘s memorial say he suffers from schizophrenia and hallucinated and saw angels while gesturing incoherently just 3 feet away from President Barack Obama and other world leaders, outraging deaf people worldwide who said his signs amounted to gibberish. South African officials scrambled Thursday to explain how […]

Oh, the sheer nerve! The gall! The chutzpah! And Gabe Finger has plenty of all three. Finger, all of 16 years old, is a summer intern for The Daily Caller, a conservative news and commentary web site. Yes, the web site being conservative is pertinent to this story. It should come as no surprise to […]

Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old Chicago teen who was gunned down in South Side Chicago’s Harsh Park on Tuesday afternoon after school, appeared in a 2008 anti-gang PSA when she was in the 6th grade. In the video, titled ‘THINK SMART,’ Hadiya and a classmate share statistics on gang violence and the importance of thinking smart. Other […]

With her husband by her side, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) gave a moving opening testimony before today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence. The couple then stopped by the White House for an Oval Office visit with President Barack Obama. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that President Obama was looking forward […]