Fame and Fortune: Actor Sean Penn secretly met with the notorious drug dealer “El Chapo” while he was on the lam and interviewed the fugitive for Rolling Stone Magazine. The craggy-faced actor is seen in a picture shaking El Chapo’s …

South of the Border: The elusive Mexican drug dealer Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as “El Chapo,” has been re-captured six months after his elaborately executed escape from Mexico’s most secure prison. Guzmán was taken after a ferocious gun battle in …

GunBeat: In a dramatic declaration, President Obama says in an opinion piece in the NY Times today that he will not support for election any politician who doesn’t advocate gun reform. He writes, “Even as I continue to take every …

The Hermit Kingdom: Both the US and South Korean governments say they doubt that North Korea conducted its first test of a hydrogen bomb as claimed by the North. Seismic experts say the shaking felt in South Korea near the …

Tremors: The earth shook in South Korea and the North claims that it has tested a hydrogen bomb. The US Geological Survey Reported a 5.1 magnitude quake 30 miles from the North’s nuclear testing site. If it was a successful …

GunBeat: President Obama is expected to announce today that he’s taking executive action to tighten gun-buying background checks and step up enforcement of the nation’s’ gun laws. The President will not be able to close the so-called “gun show loophole,” …

Middle East Mess: Saudi Arabia abruptly severed diplomatic ties with Iran yesterday after Iranian protesters attacked the Saudi embassy over the execution of an outspoken Shiite cleric in Saudi Arabia. Iran’s diplomatic staff was given 48 hours to get out …

The Middle East Mess: Iranian protesters massed in the streets of Tehran yesterday and set fire to a portion of the Saudi Arabian embassy in protest over the execution of a Saudi Shiite cleric who had criticized government treatment of Shiites. …

By the Sword: Saudi Arabia yesterday carried out its biggest mass execution in decades, putting to death 47 al Qaeda militants and critics of the government. One of those executed was Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, an outspoken campaigner for Shiite rights, …

New Year: Good morning. It’s 2016. Amid heightened security, celebrants rang in the New Year in major cities around the world without incident. A “concrete” terrorism threat in Munich failed to materialize. As many as a million people gathered in …