Three witnesses from the State Department told a House panel not enough was done to prevent the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans in the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
"None of us should ever again experience what we went through in Tripoli and Benghazi," Gregory Hicks, the former deputy of mission in Libya, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday.
"I got the ambassador on the other end, and he...
Saeed Abedini, an American pastor imprisoned for his faith in Iran, has been released from solitary confinement and returned to the general population of Evin Prison.
Pastor Saeed spent more than a week in what's described as a "small dark hole."
"This is a critical development and does raise hope after a very discouraging week," Jordan Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, wrote.
Saeed's wife, Nagmeh Abedini, called his release the "direct result of the multitudes praying."...
On a cold December night in 1975, a 17-year-old girl sobbed on the bedroom floor of a neighbor’s house. Her own home had just burned to the ground, destroying everything she had. But that wasn’t the only weight she carried that night. She had just discovered that she was a few weeks pregnant with her first child. In the dark, alone and terrified, she decided to find a way to Kalamazoo, Mich., 40 miles away, to “take care of her situation.”
That young girl was my mother, and if she had gone to Kalamazoo that night, you wouldn’t be reading this today. I would have been aborted.
Recently, after...
The House Republican leadership has scheduled a floor vote next week on a measure that would repeal the 2010 healthcare reform law that even the president now affectionately refers to as Obamacare.
The Republican-controlled House has voted more than 30 times to repeal all or parts of the law since it was passed. But many GOP members, especially freshmen, were pushing the leadership to get a vote on the record in 2013, reports Politico.
According to Politico, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of...
A House investigation of last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is getting underway Wednesday.
House Republicans insist the Obama administration is covering up what really happened during the attack on the diplomatic mission that left U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.
Currently, Republicans on five House committees are holding inquiries on the matter. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., believes the hearings will be as devastating a...
President Obama's inability to work with Republicans in Congress continues to be an issue in his second term in office, bringing up questions of his leadership.
Regent University professor Charles Dunn, author of the Book Seven Laws of Presidential Leadership, believes a president's leadership ability should be judged on history, rhetoric, theory, culture, morality, politics, and management.
"He gets a failing grade for presidential leadership," Dunn said of Obama, "Especially as related to the Congress."
President Obama is embarking on a multi-city tour to assure Americans he's still focused on the economy, while trying to pass sweeping gun control and immigration legislation.
This latest effort comes as a new poll shows that many Americans are pessimistic about the country's economic recovery and the president's ability to handle it.
Only one in four Americans expect his or her financial situation to improve over the next year, according to the latest AP-GFK poll.
The public's negative outlook is affecting...
MODI'IN, Israel -- The trauma from the Boston Marathon bombing will stay with America for a long time. Israelis can identify.
The frightening images from the bombing in Boston went global in a matter of hours. For many Israelis, it brought back memories of their own experiences with terrorism.
Take a walk around Jerusalem and you'll see memorials marking the many terror attacks that took place during the period known as the second intifada.
From September 2000 through the end of 2004, nearly 1,000 Israelis died in suicide bombings and other terror attacks, and thousands more were wounded.
A stone marker commemorates eight Israelis, including three 18-year-olds,...
The Pentagon says soldiers can be prosecuted for sharing their faith.
The Defense Department released the statement to Fox news, which reads, "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense" and punishments can include court-martial.
This comes after Pentagon officials met with Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, who said even the presence of a Bible on a desk can amount to proselytizing.
He added that even a Christian bumper sticker on an officer's car or a Bible on a desk...
A new poll by the National Right to Life Committee shows that more than half of all Americans, 55 percent, don't know that Planned Parenthood does abortions or that it's the biggest abortion provider in the country.
"The American people have been duped into thinking that Planned Parenthood is nothing more than a mainstream healthcare provider," Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, told Life News.
Tobias added that in reality, the organization performs 27 percent of all abortions in the United States annually...
A new Kaiser Family Foundation study shows that 42 percent of Americans do not know that the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as "Obamacare," is the law of the land.
Twelve percent believe the law has been repealed by Congress and another 7 percent think it's been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The remaining 23 percent say they don't know enough to say what the status of the law is.
The Kaiser poll shows greater awareness than indicated by last winter's Enroll America study. Enroll found that almost...
Some U.S. State Department and Central Intelligence Agency officials say they've been threatened by the Obama administration for being whistleblowers in the Benghazi investigation.
Fox News reports that at least four government employees are seeking legal counsel.
This comes as they preparing to give Congress information about the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
One attorney told Fox News, "It's frightening,...
The murder trial for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell moved into closing arguments Monday, and both sides of the nation's abortion debate are weighing in on the trial.
Abortion rights advocates say the testimony points to the need for procedures to be more accessible.
Pro-life supporters say the media has under-publicized the trial out of fear that it would weaken public support for abortion rights.
Washington Post politics writer Melinda Henneberger in a recent article said journalists "didn't write more...
President Obama became the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood in person on Friday. He spoke at the group's National Conference in Washington -- a fundraiser for the nation's number one abortion provider.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards set the stage in her introduction, "Because of President Obama, being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition in America."
As expected the president matched her words and the expectation of the crowd in his speech. He told them states across the country want to turn back the clock on...
The defense rested in Dr. Kermit Gosnell's murder trial without calling a single witness, including Gosnell himself.
Jack McMahon, the defendant's attorney, made the announcement to rest his case one day after presenting its side.
The jury is expected to hear closing arguments Monday.
Gosnell faces four first degree murder charges for killing four babies born alive in a clinic authorities have described as filthy.
And he's charged with third degree murder in the...
Congress is trying to end the air traffic controller furloughs that are blamed for widespread flight delays this week.
The Senate voted Thursday night to erase about $200 million in cuts to the Federal Aviation Administration. The House could decide on the measure Friday.
The cuts came as part of the sequester, designed to trim America's massive deficit spending. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says she would rather cancel all $85 billion of those budget cuts, but she's willing to back a bill just for the FAA if the details are...
Some of the same people who passed Obamacare don't want to be forced to obey the controversial law. Members of Congress are working to get exemptions for them and their staff.
Politico reports lawmakers from both parties have been involved in confidential negotiations on the matter for months.
Obamacare requires Americans to join insurance exchanges. But now congressmen like House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., don't like that idea.
That's because lawmakers and their aides would have...
The Rhode Island Senate is set to vote on gay marriage Wednesday.
Advocates say they expect the measure to pass, though traditional marriage supporters aren't giving up the fight.
"Culture may change, but God has an immutable character," state Sen. Harold Metts, D-Providence, said.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence says a religious exemption doesn't protect those who oppose gay marriage because of their faith.
The measure has the governor's support and has already been approved by the...
The judge in the trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has thrown out three of the eight charges of murder he faces.
Prosecutors charged Gosnell in the death of 41-year old patient Karnamaya Mongarand seven babies reportedly born alive. They told jurors the babies were killed by Gosnell and his staff by cutting their spines.
But Gosnell's attorney has argued that there was no "scientific" or "objective" evidence that they were born alive.
On Tuesday, common pleas court Judge Jeffrey...
Flight delays are piling up around the country because air traffic controllers are being forced to take days off due to budget cuts.
Those automatic cuts came as a result of the so-called sequester, when Congress could not reach a deal to trim deficit spending.
All Federal Aviation Administration employees are being required to take off one work day every other week as a result. In addition to the air traffic controllers, the FAA has also furloughed other critical employees, like airline and airport safety inspectors.
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