Intruder Jumps Fence And Gets Into White House!

The US Secret Service will carry out an investigation after a man jumped over the White House's north fence and made it through the front door of the presidential residence.

According to report, Barack Obama and his daughters had just left the mansion on board the Marine One helicopter bound for Camp David when the breach occurred.

Much of the presidential residence was evacuated following the security alert shortly after 7pm on Friday at one of the world's most highly protected buildings.

Video from the scene showed a man making it most of the way across the North Lawn and approaching the main entrance to the presidential residence. The Secret Service confirmed an intruder had jumped the fence and was apprehended just inside the North Portico doors.

White House staffers and some journalists inside the West Wing were led out by Secret Service officers, some with their weapons drawn.

Those evacuated were allowed back in about half an hour later.

First Lady Michelle Obama had travelled separately to the presidential retreat in Maryland and was not at home.

Although it is not uncommon for people to make it over the White House fence, they are typically stopped almost immediately and rarely get very far.

The Secret Service identified the suspect as 42-year-old Omar J Gonzalez from Copperas Cove, Texas.

He was charged with unlawful entry into the White House complex and was taken to a nearby hospital complaining of chest pain.

The Secret Service said the incident would be carefully reviewed to ensure proper protocols were followed.

Spokesman Ed Donovan said: "This situation was a little different than other incidents we have at the White House.

"There will be a thorough investigation into the incident."

The incident was the latest setback for an elite agency whose reputation has been hit in recent years.

In 2012, 13 Secret Service agents and officers were implicated in a prostitution scandal during preparations for Obama's trip to Cartagena, Colombia.

The next year, two officers were removed from the president's detail after another alleged incident of sexually-related misconduct.

And in March, an agent was found drunk by staff at a Dutch hotel the day before Obama was set to arrive in the Netherlands.

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US, Canadian Jets Intercept 8 Russian Aircraft!

Two F-22 fighter jets intercepted six Russian military airplanes that neared the western coast of Alaska, military officials said Friday.

Lt. Col. Michael Jazdyk, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, said the U.S. jets intercepted the planes about 55 nautical miles from the Alaskan coast at about 7 p.m. Pacific time Wednesday.

The Russian planes were identified as two IL-78 refueling tankers, two Mig-31 fighter jets and two Bear long-range bombers. They looped south and returned to their base in Russia after the U.S. jets were scrambled.

At about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets intercepted two of the long-range bombers about 40 nautical miles off the Canadian coastline in the Beaufort Sea.

In both cases, the Russian planes entered the Air Defense Identification Zone, which extends about 200 miles from the coastline. They did not enter sovereign airspace of the United States or Canada.

Jazdyk said the fighter jets were scrambled "basically to let those aircraft know that we see them, and in case of a threat, to let them know we are there to protect our sovereign airspace."

In the past five years, jets under NORAD's command have intercepted more than 50 Russian bombers approaching North American airspace.

NORAD is a binational American and Canadian command responsible for air defense in North America.

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Teen comes out to his mother and she surprises him with her own confession!

A teen boy, who secretly set up a camera to record the moment when he told his mother he was gay, received a big surprise when his mother revealed a secret of her own.

According to the story, Hayden Smith, who uploaded the video to YouTube, tucked his camera onto a shelf before yelling for his mother to come into his “messy” room.

After she enters and he asks her to close the door, he flatly states “I’m gay.”

"Are you? That’s OK,” she replies.

His voice trembling, he says, “I’ve known for awhile.”

Placing her hand on his knee, his mother says, “Honey? That’s very brave of you to tell me that. Thank you for telling me. Doesn’t make me love you any less, at all. OK? You choice is your choice. And I accept you however way you are. You’re still my boy, you’re still my son. It’s OK.”

After some discussion over how long he has known and the difficulties he has been having keeping it a secret, his mother asks him if he is worried what other people will say.

And I accept you however way you are. You’re still my boy, you’re still my son. It’s OK.”

After some discussion over how long he has known and the difficulties he has been having keeping it a secret, his mother asks him if he is worried what other people will say.

“No,” he replies, “I was worried what you were going to say.”

Then his mother surprises him.

“Can I tell you something too? Since you’ve opened up to me, I’ll tell you a little secret too,” she says. “I’ve had a girlfriend. Not since your dad passed away. It goes both ways. And I was always worried what you would think.”

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Prison Break at infamous Brazilian jail!

Reports says about a dozen inmates at an overcrowded Brazilian prison have tunnelled to freedom, and another group made a failed attempt to scale the wall.

A department spokesman said the high-security prisoners broke out of the infamous Pedrinhas prison in the northeastern city of Sao Luis de Maranhao, site of numerous attempts to escape conditions renowned as hellish.

Brazilian television reported from the site that at least 10 prisoners were believed to have escaped through the tunnel, but authorities could not confirm the figure.

The G1 web news portal showed images from the tunnel exit and a pile of earth which appeared to have escaped the authorities' notice ahead of the inmates' dawn exit.

It was unclear how many prisoners had escaped.

"There was no visit or inspection on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, allowing them to get on with digging out their tunnel," said Sebastiao Uchia, Maranhao secretary of state for justice told G1 before handing in his own resignation.

How come there were no checks for three days? Someone has to be held to account

Tunnelling is an age-old means of jailbreaking, and in Pedrinhas around 20 prisoners took advantage of the commotion caused by the first escape to break out of their cells and converge on the front gate.

There, some tried to jump a wall topped with barbed wire which they attacked with cutters before elite police nabbed them, Globo News reported.

Escape attempts have been on the rise in recent weeks in Brazil, which has 274 people in prison per 100,000 residents, according to the International Centre of Penitentiary Studies, causing facilities to burst at the seams.

Last week, 36 prisoners escaped from Pedrinhas after a stealing a dumper truck and using it to breach the rear wall of the facility. Just one was recaptured.

This month alone has now seen three escapes from the same facility.

On Monday, police arrested a prison director accused of taking bribes to look the other way.

Pedrinhas, with a capacity of 1,700 prisoners but currently crammed with 2,500, has been the scene of repeated riots and killings of inmates.

At least 15 have been killed this year, following on from 60 last year - three were decapitated and grisly footage was posted online.

Five prisoners were killed and 25 wounded in a riot at a prison in Cascavel in the southern state of Parana, where inmates took two guards hostage.

Kanye Responds to Wheelchair Incident: "I'm a Married, Christian Man"!

Following media publications  that reported he told a fan in a wheelchair to "stand up" at one of his concerts. Kanye West responded saying "I'm a married, Christian man... pick another target."

What I want you to do is I want you to run the video everyone's talking about where I so-called screamed at somebody and everything. I want you to run that, right, since this is such big media-press-news and everything that obviously they trying to demonize me for. It's like, "Welcome to today's news, ladies and gentlemen." We've got Americans getting killed on TV, kids getting killed every weekend in Chicago, unarmed people getting killed by police officers…

…It makes you just want to reflect on what are the things that are a little bit more sensationalized than others. ... Because they've got this thing where they want the masses—people who've never heard my albums—to somehow read a headline that reads negative, and think that I'm a bad person or something. I'm not judging, I'm just going to tell you who I am. I'm a married, Christian man.

Well......you heard him there, pick another target...'lol'...

Ebola Health Team Massacred in Guinean Village!

Three days after three Ebola health officials went missing in Guinea, eight of them, five health workers and three journalist were reportedly found dead in a village latrine in the Nzerekore region. 

A spokesman for Guinea's government, Damantang Camara, told Reuters, "Three of them had their throats slit." The health team went missing Tuesday after villagers threw rocks at them.

According to the Washington Post, a group of young people attacked the team when they were trying to distribute information about Ebola. 

The government sent a delegation to the village to try to find the team, when they suspected they would have been kidnapped, but the BBC reported that the delegation had trouble gaining access because a bridge was destroyed.

Throughout West Africa and in Guinea, specifically, some villagers have reacted negatively to health workers because they doubt Ebola is real.

BBC Journalists Attacked While Investigating Servicemen Deaths in Russia!

The British Broadcasting Corp. said unidentified men attacked a team of its journalists and destroyed their camera as it was investigating reports of Russian servicemen being killed near the border with Ukraine.

The public-funded broadcaster said its staff were badly beaten by at least three assailants in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan on Tuesday. After four hours of questioning at a local police station afterward, the journalists discovered that their recording equipment, which had been in their vehicle at the police station, had been electronically wiped, the BBC said in a statement.

"The attack on our staff, and the destruction of their equipment and recordings, were clearly part of a coordinated attempt to stop accredited news journalists reporting a legitimate news story," the BBC said.

The attack comes amid rising pressure on news media whose reporting has been at odds with the Kremlin's narrative of events in the region. Before the attack, BBC Moscow Correspondent Steven Rosenberg and two colleagues had interviewed the sister of a Russian serviceman who died in August after telling his family he was being sent to southeastern Ukraine, according to an article written by Mr. Rosenberg and published on the BBC website Thursday.

Moscow says its forces aren't involved in the conflict between pro-Russia rebels and government forces in eastern Ukraine. But officials in Moscow recently said some Russian volunteers, as well as army personnel on vacation, are fighting there.

Attacks on foreign journalists in Russia are rare, but beatings and killings of local reporters occur more frequently. Russian journalists investigating the presence of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine have faced attacks by unknown assailants recently.

Western and Ukrainian officials say Russian army units are fighting in eastern Ukraine. Russian journalists have published several investigations into the claims, which appear to show servicemen were there.

Lev Shlosberg, a local lawmaker and journalist in the western city of Pskov, was badly beaten in August after publishing a story about the funerals of paratroopers from a local regiment who were apparently killed in Ukraine. Television and newspaper reporters who went to the cemetery near Pskov were also attacked by unidentified men.

According to the BBC article on Thursday, as the BBC team was leaving the sister's village in southern Russia, their car was stopped by traffic police, who checked their trunk and identities, he wrote. After lunching in Astrakhan some 40 miles away, the journalists were confronted and attacked by at least three people.

The assailants knocked the cameraman to the ground and beat him, smashing the camera and taking it away in their car, Mr. Rosenberg wrote. The cameraman suffered a concussion, but all three are now safe and back in Moscow, a BBC spokesman said.

After four hours of questioning at a police station, the journalists discovered that their recording equipment, which was in their vehicle at the police station, had been wiped, the BBC said in a statement.

Russian police said it had opened a criminal case into the incident. Pyotr Rusanov, a spokesman for Astrakhan regional police, said a large police team was searching for the suspects and the camera. "We haven't managed to detain anyone yet. We're working on it," he said by telephone.

The BBC on Thursday submitted a complaint to the Russian Foreign Ministry about the attack, the BBC spokesman said. The Foreign Ministry didn't have an immediate comment.

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