In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 photo, people walk on the University at Buffalo campus in Buffalo, N.Y. The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the University at Buffalo, the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday in an FBI sting operation near the U.S. Capitol Police officer Angel Morales, stands on guard on the West side of the Capitol in Washington Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. A 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday in an FBI sting operation near the U.S. Capitol [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is extending its decision to stop defending an anti-gay marriage law to provisions affecting same-sex couples in the military. The 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act requires the Pentagon to ignore same-sex marriages even if they were legally obtained in a state that allows them. A group of married [...]
A coffin holding the remains of singer Whitney Houston is carried into the New Hope Baptist Church before her funeral services in Newark, N.J. on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Clapping hands and swaying to gospel hymns in the church where Whitney Houston’s powerful voice once wowed her congregation, [...]
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and President Barack Obama at the White House on Feb. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (CNSNews.com) – There would be no consideration of cost effectiveness. That was the explicit condition that the Department of Health and Human Services imposed on the panel of health-care experts it commissioned to develop the “preventive [...]
(CNSNews.com) – On the third anniversary of President Barack Obama’s $787-billion stimulus spending program, the unemployment rate set a new record, staying above 8 percent for the longest period since the end of World War II – 36 months. President Barack Obama signed an economic stimulus law, now determined by the CBO to cost $821 [...]
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), served as the third president of the United States for two terms, 1801-1809. (CNSNews.com) – In an exhibition that runs through May at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Founding Father and U.S. President Thomas Jefferson is described as a “genius” and “revolutionary” who created his own Bible by cutting and [...]
Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. (Photo: Senator’s Web site) (CNSNews.com) – A senior Democratic senator Thursday shot down an attempt by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to call up an amendment cutting off all U.S. aid to Egypt unless the authorities allow Americans being detained there to leave the country. Paul delivered a strong-worded, five-and-a-half [...]
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama wants to use more taxpayer funds to encourage the purchase of green vehicles. The government currently offers up to a $7,500 tax credit for those that purchase natural gas or electric vehicles, but the president’s latest budget proposal wants to increase the amount to $10,000 and allow for consumers to [...]
House Speaker John Boehner (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (CNSNews.com) – House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives will consider President Barack Obama’s request, included in his new budget, to provide $79 million in U.S. aid to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Under U.S. law, the U.S. cannot fund [...]
The Most Reverend William E. Lori, Roman Catholic Bishop of Bridgeport, Conn. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – Would you go to jail–or even close down your hospitals and schools–rather than violate your religious faith, a Republican lawmaker asked religious leaders at a House hearing on Thursday. The answer, given under oath, was unanimous: They will disobey. [...]
The Palestinian flag is raised outside UNESCO headquarters in Paris during a formal ceremony on December 13, 2011, marking the full admission of “Palestine” into the organization. Among those present are UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. (Photo: UNESCO/Danica Bijeljac) (CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration’s attempt to circumvent U.S. law that [...]
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified at a House Appropriations Committee Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on Feb. 15, 2012. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) – A “small number” of illegal aliens who had “committed no other crime” apart from being in the United States unlawfully were deported in fiscal year 2011, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told [...]
March for Life. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – Pastor Luke Robinson, who leads The Voice of Truth and Life Ministries and is pastor of the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church in Frederick, Md., told CNSNews.com that the news media does not want people to know “how horrible abortion is.” Robinson was one of the featured speakers at [...]
(CNSNews.com) – U.S. lawmakers examining the troubled relationship with Egypt Wednesday heard experts debate the relative culpability of the military and holdovers from the Mubarak regime, but were also advised not to ignore the role of the rising Muslim Brotherhood in the dispute. Relations between Washington and Cairo are facing their worst crisis in decades [...]
President Obama meets with Suaid King Abdullah at a G-20 summit in London on Thursday, April 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (CNSNews.com) – The plight of a young Saudi journalist accused of blaspheming Islam’s prophet on the Internet is prompting growing concern around the world, although the Obama administration has been silent on the case [...]
Keith Paladino of Lodi, N.J., second from left, works with a 15 inch Beagle as they line up in the ring for competition at the 136th annual Westminster Kepp_img type= NEW YORK (AP) — Malachy the Pekingese, whose smushed-in face frames a mop of flyaway fur and whose pace rivals a snail’s, is the fairest [...]
Copies of President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget arrive at the House Budget Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s 2013 budget will spend 1.5 times as much money on health care as on Defense, including the cost of the continuing war in Afghanistan in 2013. According to the budget proposal, Obama will [...]
Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) (CNSNews.com) – In her remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) joked about how “educational” it was to be a presidential candidate, referring to gaffes she made about John Wayne’s birthplace and the date Elvis Presley was born. Bachmann said knowing those facts is “very important [...]
FILE – In this Oct. 26, 2009 file photo, primary care physician Dr. Don Klitgaard greets Muriel Bacon as her husband weighs in with a nurse, at the Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan, Iowa. Unless Congress acts before Jan. 1 doctors will again face steep Medicare cuts that threaten to undermine health care for millions [...]
The Obama administration has made deeper engagement with the United Nations a top foreign policy priority. Here Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Security Council in New York on September 30, 2009, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sitting to her right. (U.N. Photo by Marco Castro) (CNSNews.com) – The State Department budget request for fiscal [...]
President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius leave the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb., 10, 2012, after the president restated his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (CNSNews.com) – In an effort to frame the [...]
President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius leave the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb., 10, 2012, after the president restated his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (CNSNews.com) – In an effort to frame the [...]
President Barack Obama pauses while announcing the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (CNSNews.com) – The nation’s largest pro-life organization warned Friday that the new Obama administration [...]
President Barack Obama pauses while announcing the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (CNSNews.com) – The nation’s largest pro-life organization warned Friday that the new Obama administration [...]
Egyptian students shout anti-military slogans during a protest at Cairo University on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Egyptian authorities accuse U.S. and other foreign-funded non-governmental organizations of formenting protests in the country. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (CNSNews.com) – A top Muslim Brotherhood official has warned that any cuts in U.S. aid to Egypt could affect Cairo’s peace [...]
Egyptian students shout anti-military slogans during a protest at Cairo University on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Egyptian authorities accuse U.S. and other foreign-funded non-governmental organizations of formenting protests in the country. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (CNSNews.com) – A top Muslim Brotherhood official has warned that any cuts in U.S. aid to Egypt could affect Cairo’s peace [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Add another dance move to Michelle Obama’s repertoire. This one has to do with a certain celebrity platypus. First lady Michelle Obama dances the platypus dance with Perry the Platypus of the Phineas and Ferb show, left, and choreographer Rosero McCoy, right, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at [...]
President Barack Obama concludes his remarks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama announced today that “religious organizations” such as charities and hospitals will not be forced by the federal government to directly pay insurance premiums that cover [...]
Mother Angelica (CNSNews.com) – Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)–founded in 1981 by Mother M. Angelica, a cloistered Roman Catholic nun belonging to the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration–has filed suit against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other senior officials in the Obama administration arguing that a new regulation requiring health-care plans to cover [...]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that Republicans in Congress want “to use the excuse of religious freedom” to take an action that will harm women’s health–in rolling back the regulation that will compel all health-care plans to cover sterilizations [...]
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks on job creation to employees of Thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, in Hamilton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Al Behrman) (CNSNews.com) – House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told a conservative gathering in Washington on Thursday that conservative reform is achieved by persistent, methodical steps. In explaining what the [...]
Sen. Mike Lee (R.-Utah) (CNSNews.com) – Government spending made up 39 percent of the U.S. economy last year, compared to just five percent 100 years ago, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Thursday. For perspective, he cited Norway, where government spending makes up 40 percent of the economy, bankrupt Greece, where government spending is [...]
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. (AP Photo/File) (CNSNews.com) – The White House has “no opinion” on whether the Senate should pass a budget, White House press secretary Jay Carney told a press briefing Wednesday. ABC News’ Jake Tapper asked Carney whether President Obama agreed with comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at a [...]
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) – Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) did not pull any punches in his address to attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, telling them that Barack Obama is a “terrible president.” “The president of the United States looks like [...]
Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) hold a press conference in Jerusalem, Israel during a November 2009 visit. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (CNSNews.com) – A bipartisan trio of senators are preparing to introduce a resolution that would make it clear the U.S. Senate opposes any policy that would settle for, and seek to “contain,” [...]
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum leaves after speaking at the Bella Donna Chapel in McKinney, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Rex C. Curry) (CNSNews.com) – Following his clean sweep in Tuesday’s nominating contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum sent his supporters a letter, making [...]
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The smallest cattle herd since the 1950s likely will mean higher beef prices at the supermarket for the next two years. Experts said beef prices could climb as much as 10 percent a year in 2012 and 2013, and the increase could be even greater if demand from other countries increases. [...]
President Obama has nominated Nancy Powell as ambassador to India. (Photo: State Department) (CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration’s nominee to serve as ambassador to India assured lawmakers this week that concerns about India’s energy relationship with Iran will be among her “top priorities” if she’s confirmed. But after India’s foreign secretary held talks with senior [...]
(CNSNews.com) – One in five Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide have been cited for financial irregularities, according to a report by the Alliance Defense Fund, a religious liberty legal organization that based its findings on data from state and federal audits. The report was sent to Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Energy and [...]
Andrea Thomas, senior vice president of sustainability at Walmart, spoke on Feb. 7, 2012 in Washington, D.C. at an event to unveil the corporation’s new “Great for You” icon that will be used to identify “healthier” foods in its retail stores. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) – Shoppers in the grocery aisles of Walmart will soon see [...]
This frame grab from video shows a box of Plan B morning after pill.pp_img type= (AP) – Students at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania can get the “morning-after” pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine, an idea that has drawn the attention of federal regulators and raised questions about how accessible emergency contraception should be. [...]
Kelly Clarkson sings the national anthem before the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots,pp_img type= The NFL and a major television network are apologizing for another Super Bowl halftime show. There was no wardrobe malfunction, nothing like that glimpse of Janet Jackson’s nipple eight years [...]
FILE- In this April, 9, 2007, file photo Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms 186 (miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran. For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over the Iranian nuclear program, it appears that world leaders are genuinely [...]
National Democratic Institute staffers wait as Egyptian officials raid their offices in Cairo on Dec. 29, 2011. Investigating judges on Sunday referred 43 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, to trial for allegedly being involved in banned activities and illegally receiving foreign funds, security officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad, File) (CNSNews.com) – With more than a [...]
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) (Photo from congressman’s Web site) (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said Friday that he supports eliminating as soon as possible a new regulation that forces individuals to buy – and institutions to provide – health insurance plans that cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that induce abortions. Catholic bishops [...]
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice speaks to reporters after the Security Council voted on a resolution backing an Arab League peace plan that calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down , Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 at United Nations headquarters. Russia and China vetoed the resolution. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Beirut [...]
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said as a military veteran he found the demeaning of military commissions – especially for trying terror suspects – ‘offensive.’ (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) – The House approved a potentially sweeping budget reform Friday that would force federal agencies to justify an annual increase, as opposed to getting an automatic increase under [...]
Michael Braun, former Chief of Operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, testified at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Feb. 2, 2012 that Iran’s influence in the Western Hemisphere reaches all the way to the U.S. border with Mexico. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) – The Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah has spread its influence all [...]
Attorney General Eric Holder announces the formation of the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012, during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. President Barack Obama directed Holder to collaborate with several state attorneys general and other federal entities to investigate those responsible for misconduct contributing to the financial crisis [...]