Doctors Try To Explain How Kidnapped Newborn Survived Cold (+video)

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Photo Credit: WKOW/CNNNothing short of a miracle, that’s how family and doctors are describing the health of a newborn who survived more than a day sheltered in a duffel bag.

Kayden vanished from his home early Thursday and was found safe by police at an Iowa gas station a day later.

“I would expect to have found a dead baby, to be honest with you,” said Dr. Jeffrey Segar, who first examined baby Kayden after he spent more than 28 hours in the freezing cold, sheltered only by a plastic tote and a blanket.

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GOP Grows Confident of Senate Takeover

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Photo Credit: APAt an annual gathering of Republican bigwigs in Florida a year ago, a top GOP strategist was chided after he gave a presentation about how his party would win the Senate in 2014, including a handout that blared “MAJORITY” in red.

“Stop saying majority,” donors, consultants and even some senators told National Republican Senatorial Committee Executive Director Rob Collins, he recalled in an interview. “Just say you’re going to be able to pick up a few seats.”

Fast forward to early this month, when the annual event took place again at the same posh Palm Beach resort. Far from preaching caution, many of the 400 donors in attendance openly mused about what a Republican Senate would bring, and Collins was the one trying to keep expectations in check.

After 15 months in the doldrums, Republicans feel like they’re finally getting their mojo back.

Emboldened by the president’s weak poll numbers, the botched Obamacare rollout and a still-sputtering economy, GOP donors and operatives are increasingly bullish about their prospects in the midterm election — most of all capturing the Senate. Seats that a year ago looked like sure bets for Democrats now have the makings of real races — in states such as Michigan, Virginia, and, if former Republican Sen. Scott Brown runs, New Hampshire.

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Report: China Will Deploy Subs that Could Nuke Alaska or Hawaii This Year

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Photo Credit: PLAN China is set to deploy submarines sometime this year armed with nuclear tipped missiles capable of striking Alaska or Hawaii, according to a January assessment from the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI).

The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Jin-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine is set to begin patrols in 2014 — armed with the PLAN’s new Ju Lang 2 (JL2), ONI Senior Intelligence Officer Jesse Karotkin told the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission in late January.

“With a range in excess of 4000 [nautical miles], the JL-2 submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM), will enable the JIN to strike Hawaii, Alaska and possibly western portions of CONUS from East Asian waters,” Karotkin said in written testimony to the commission.

The Jin, or Type 94, submarines are a developmental leap over the older Type 92 Xia-class submarines armed with the much less capable JL-1 SLBM.

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Apple’s iPhone, the New International Currency

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Photo Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty ImagesI’ve been paying my bills with iPhones. Not with apps or on bank sites—I’ve been using the Apple (AAPL) hardware as currency.

It started by accident in December, during a business trip to New York. I live in Rome, where domestic work comes cheap and technology is expensive. An unlocked, gold, 32-gigabyte iPhone 5s that costs about $815 with tax in the U.S. goes for €839 (about $1,130) in Italy, roughly a month’s wages for workers who do laundry, pick up kids from school, or provide care for the elderly. When one worker heard I was visiting the States, she asked me to pick her up an iPhone in lieu of the equivalent cash for work she’d done. Lining up inside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, I was surrounded by shoppers speaking languages from around the world. The salesman looked stunned when I said I wanted an unlocked iPhone. Just one?

A new shipment of unlocked 5s phones had just come in, he said, adding that the gold model I asked for was the most popular in Europe and the easiest to resell. To my right, a man with a credit card from a Saudi bank was trying to buy his third and fourth phones of the day. “Make it two,” I said. There was one more step: The salesman grabbed a landline from behind the counter to connect me with my bank’s antifraud department. Purchases from this store, he said, are red flags.

Do the math, and that’s no surprise. Exiting the store with my plastic Apple shopping bag secured by a rope drawstring, I no longer thought of the phones inside as appliances. They were more like gold bars.

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Iran Test-Fires Long-Range Missile

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Photo Credit: REUTERS/Denis BalibouseIran’s military has successfully test-fired two new domestically made missiles, the defense minister said on Monday according to state television, ahead of talks with world powers to try to reach an agreement on curbing Tehran’s nuclear program.

Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said one of them was a long-range ballistic missile with radar-evading capabilities.

“The new generation of long-range ground-to-ground ballistic missile with a fragmentation warhead and the laser-guided air-to-surface and surface-to-surface missile dubbed Bina (Insightful) have been successfully test-fired,” state television quoted him as saying.

“The Bina missile is capable of striking important targets such as bridges, tanks and enemy command centers with great precision.”

Iran already has long-range surface-to-surface Shahab missiles with a range of about 2,000 km (1,250 miles) that are capable of reaching Israel and U.S. military bases in the Middle East. However, analysts have challenged some of Iran’s military assertions, saying it often exaggerates its capabilities.

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Viral Video: Surprise Rendition of National Anthem From 18 Floors

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Photo Credit: Fox News On America’s Newsroom this morning we got a look at a very cool, and now viral, moment involving some high school choir performers. A hotel guest in Louisville recorded the Kentucky All-State Choir singing the national anthem on their hotel room balconies.

The video on YouTube has garnered more than a million views in less than a week. The sound of the anthem cascading down the 18 floors from the indoor balconies is truly something to behold.

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O’Reilly Destroys Geraldo For Calling Obama “Majesty”

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Photo Credit: futureatlas.comGeraldo Rivera is nothing more than a typical liberal media hack desperately committed to keeping Obama safe from any tough questions about his record, and he showed it again with his most recent appearance on The O’Reilly Factor.

Geraldo voiced his pleasure with Bill O’Reilly’s recent interview with the president that aired on Super Bowl Sunday because of the tone O’Reilly took in grilling Obama on his scandals.

He thought that O’Reilly didn’t respect Obama enough as president, going so far to say that O’Reilly’s referring to Obama as a “community organizer,” along with his tough questioning, stripped Obama of his “majesty.” Amazing.

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During a tense exchange on Friday’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Geraldo Rivera accused Bill O’Reilly of stripping President Barack Obama of his “majesty” during his highly-watched Super Bowl interview.

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Allen West: Obama Asylum Plan is ‘Threat to National Security’ (+video)

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Photo Credit: Alex Wong/Getty ImagesFormer Florida Congressman Allen West is joining the chorus of those slamming President Barack Obama’s move to ease the rules for asylum seekers and refugees who gave “limited” material support to terrorists or terrorist groups.

“When you understand the situation with national security, this is not the type of decision you should be making. And think about this: We’re not even a year away from the Boston Marathon bombing, where you have the Tsarnaev brothers, and they were going back into Chechnya, and they were meeting with these individuals, and now we’re going to relax the standards,” West said in an exclusive interview with John Bachman on “America’s Forum” on Newsmax TV.

“But this is the wrong path to take because this is a threat to the sovereignty, this is a threat to our national security, and no one wants to think that we’re allowing more terrorists to come into our country right now,” he cautioned.

West, a former soldier and defense contractor, took office in January 2011 as the first black Republican congressman from Florida since 1876, when Josiah T. Walls left office near the end of Reconstruction. West served on the Armed Services and Small Business Committees.

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US Government Reportedly Ordering Drone Strikes Based on Cell Phone Location

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Photo Credit: Fox News The U.S. government reportedly is ordering some drone strikes based on the location of terror suspects’ cell phones — without necessarily confirming the location of the suspects themselves — raising concerns about missiles hitting unintended targets.

The details were included in a report published Monday by journalist Glenn Greenwald’s newest venture, The Intercept. Though it previously has been reported that National Security Agency data-tracking is used in locating and targeting terror suspects, the Intercept article raised new questions about the accuracy of that data.

The report, citing an unnamed former drone operator and other sources, said the NSA uses a “complex analysis of electronic surveillance” to pinpoint drone strike targets. However, the report said, the CIA and U.S. military don’t always confirm who the target is with informants on the ground. This raises the concern that the flagged phone could be in the hands of someone else — a friend, a family member, someone who’s holding the wrong phone at the wrong time — when the missile is fired.

“It’s really like we’re targeting a cell phone,” the former drone operator was quoted as saying. “We’re not going after people — we’re going after their phones.”

The Intercept report also detailed how some Taliban leaders have caught onto the NSA’s methods, and have tried to evade tracking by purchasing multiple SIM cards and mixing them up.

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Watch Bill O’Reilly’s Interview with Ted Nugent

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Photo Credit: TellMeNowBill O’Reilly has had quite a month so far. After an interview with the President that revealed absolutely nothing, Bill sat down with Ted Nugent.

The two talked about Paul McCartney and his criticism of Nugent’s love for hunting. Nugent says that years ago, an interviewer was talking to Paul McCartney and asked him what he thought of Nugent who is known as the motor city madman.

According to the story, McCartney ”went into a tirade” about Nugent being a coward because he shoots innocent animals that can’t shoot back.

O’Reilly points out that McCartney is, of course, an avowed vegan.

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