Russia and China have just signed a $270 billion energy agreement that quickly could lead to other lucrative energy projects, with the byproduct of strengthening not only economic but political ties between them.
While the merits of building a fence along the USA’s southern border are debated in Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his nation’s new border fence is working very well, thank you.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a federal initiative designed to homogenize diverse state educational curricula. What’s the real objective here?
The head of the self-styled Caucasus Emirates is backing Chechens fighting for “jihad” in Syria, so they can bring back their experiences to more effectively take on the Russian security services in their quest to set up an independent Islamic state subject to Shariah law.
The first IVF baby to be screened using a procedure that can read every letter of the human genome has been born in the US.
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was seconds away from landing when the passengers sensed something horribly amiss. The plane was approaching San Francisco International Airport under a beautifully clear sky, but it was flying low. Dangerously low.
In many classified rulings, US surveillance courts have created a secret body of law giving the NSA the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans, including metadata that tells pretty much everything about where you have been and who you have talked to. Learn about this as well as Europe’s increasingly hostile response to NSA spying.
At least one commentator has predicted that if the Mohamed Morsi regime and the Muslim Brotherhood chose the route of going to war by creating its own military and fighting Egyptian forces instead of seeking a peaceful solution, the Muslim Brotherhood will lose – badly. Read about this and the increasing violence in Egypt.
The Republican-led House could start working on immigration bills focused on border security on the floor in July, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said in a memo to colleagues sent Friday.
A New York Times profile of Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s top aide, glosses over her family’s radical history, including ties to a top communist activist and to former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.