GOP vice presidential candidate Mike Pence on Sunday defended Donald Trump’s claims that President Obama is the founder of ISIS, while the mogul attacked the media. “He was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people’s attention, and it’s drawn attention to a very important issue,” Pence told “Fox News Sunday.” At the same time, Trump intensified his war on the media, blaming the press for his struggling national poll numbers. The GOP nominee spent the morning denouncing the New York Times after the paper published a story about an “exhausted, frustrated” and “bewildered” nominee who can’t be tamed by advisers. “Their reporting is fiction. The media protects Hillary!” Trump tweeted.(nypost.com)…[+]

MILWAUKEE — Police said one person was shot at a Milwaukee protest on Sunday and officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve the injured victim and rush the person to a hospital, as tense skirmishes erupted for a second night following the police shooting of a black man.

Some two dozen officers in riot gear confronted about 150 people who blocked an intersection near where the black man was fatally shot Saturday afternoon, and more arrived. Police moved in to try to disperse the crowd and warned of arrests after protesters threw bottles and rocks at police.(nypost.com)…[+]

ISIS wannabes are so ignorant about the culture they’re pledging their lives to that they are ordering books like “Islam for Dummies” before joining the terrorist organization.

About 70 percent of ISIS recruits only have “basic” knowledge of Shariah law, the Islamic legal system, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of more than 3,000 internal documents from the terror network.

Some jihadis-in-training admitted in court that they tried to beef up their knowledge about the religion before traveling to Syria by buying a few books from Amazon.(nypost.com)…[+]

Three suspects were in custody Saturday after investigators said one of them shot a New Mexico police officer in the neck during a traffic stop, killing him, before trying to speed away. Two of the suspects have criminal records and were wanted in a shooting last month that killed a 62-year-old man in Ohio, The Chillicothe Gazette reported.

After Friday’s shooting, crews airlifted Hatch, N.M. Police Officer Jose Chavez to a hospital in El Paso, Texas where he died, according to officials. The 33-year-old officer was a two-year veteran of the department. He had a wife and two children, KVIA reported. The officer had just arrived at the traffic stop in Dona Ana County Friday afternoon when a passenger got out of the vehicle and fired shots, police said.(nypost.com)…[+]

Bill Clinton is accusing the FBI director of serving up “the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard” — marking the first significant public comments from the husband of the Democratic nominee on the scandal that’s plagued his wife’s campaign for over a year.

“First of all, the FBI director said, when he testified before Congress, he had to amend his previous day’s statement that she had never received any emails marked classified,” Clinton told journalists at an Asian American Journalists Association meeting in Las Vegas on Friday, making a strong defense for Hillary Clinton.(nypost.com)…[+]

Pablo Escobar’s son says his father took his own life, but the drug kingpin’s last moments were covered up by Colombian authorities. Shot in the shoulder and leg and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Escobar, cornered on the roof of a Medellin safe house, put his own Sig Sauer pistol to the right side of his head and pulled the trigger, his son says.

Juan Pablo Escobar says his father took his own life, but the drug kingpin’s last moments were covered up by Colombian authorities.Shot in the shoulder and leg and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Escobar, cornered on the roof of a Medellin safe house, put his own Sig Sauer pistol to the right side of his head and pulled the trigger, his son says.(nypost.com)…[+]

Donald Trump said Friday he was being sarcastic when he accused President Obama of being the “founder” of ISIS.

“Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) ‘the founder’ of ISIS, & MVP,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?”. Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) “the founder” of ISIS, & MVP. THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?

Twenty-four people, including two crew members, were injured when their JetBlue Airways flight from Boston to Sacramento, California, experienced heavy turbulence, CNN reported on Friday.

Flight 0429 landed safely on Thursday night in Rapid City, South Dakota, where the 22 passengers and two crew members were taken to the hospital, the news network reported. “Flight attendant was in galley during incident. Hit her head on ceiling and completely dislodged the panel. Cuts, neck injury, and concussion,” passenger Derek Lindahl wrote on his Twitter account after the incident. The airline has sent a replacement aircraft to take the other passengers to Sacramento, CNN said.(nypost.com)…[+]

RIO DE JANEIRO — A police officer has died after being shot in the head when he and two others working security at the Rio Olympics got lost near a slum and encountered gunfire.Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes announced Helio Vieira’s death early Friday on his official Facebook page.

The officers from Brazil’s national security force were using a GPS device to navigate unfamiliar streets Wednesday afternoon when they took a wrong turn off a highway leading to Rio’s international airport. Their truck was sprayed with bullets, and officer Helio Vieira was shot. He died late Thursday. The other officers suffered minor injuries when the windows of their vehicle shattered.(nypost.com)…[+]

TORONTO — A Canadian man previously banned from associating with Islamic State extremists has been killed as Canada’s national police force thwarted what they believed was a suicide bomb plot, a senior police official said. The suspect allegedly planned to use a bomb to carry out a suicide bombing in a public area, a senior Canadian police official said late Wednesday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak ahead of a Thursday news conference, identified the suspect as Aaron Driver, a man in his mid-20s originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Driver had been under the spotlight for at least a year, as authorities believed he was a threat because he could help terror groups. The police operation involving Driver took place Wednesday night in the southern Ontario town of Strathroy, 140 miles southwest of Toronto.(nypost.com)…[+]