A founder of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards now admits that the Islamic Republic was seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. This is the first time any regime official has made such an admission, even as another report claims that one of Iran’s most radical clerics was the spiritual overseer of the nuclear weapons program.
On Friday, Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder emphatically supported comprehensive immigration reform and implied that enforcement of the current immigration laws were “dumb” at an event with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The US military launched a missile strike in Somalia on Sunday targeting a suspected Shebab militant leader, defense officials said.
The Hill’s Mike Lillis, reports that leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) plan to “publicly rebuke” President Obama because of the “lack of diversity’ in his federal judicial appointments.”
A man was found dead in a New York emergency room eight hours after he asked to see a doctor.
Dozens of couples will marry on air during Sunday night’s live broadcast of the music industry’s annual Grammy Awards as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform their nominated song “Same Love,” which has become an anthem in the campaign for legal gay marriage, the New York Times reported.
Trust in our government was a mere 19 percent in 2013, according to the Pew Research Center. Not surprisingly, 56 percent of Americans think it is not the government’s responsibility to provide a health-care system.
The Arizona Republican Party formally censured Sen. John McCain on Saturday, citing a voting record they say is insufficiently conservative.
The White House, Pentagon and especially the Department of State are actively frustrating the Senate’s investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack, according to the Senate’s recently released 88-page report.
In an era of shifting populations and values, the notion of America’s Bible Belt can be a slippery concept. But a new study gives us an idea of which cities can be considered to be part of that tradition — and which cities aren’t.