WASHINGTON – Rep. Mike Rogers (search), R-Ala., says opponents can engage in a lively debate about stretching the military too thin without criticizing the war in Iraq. “I don’t think it’s political at all. It’s a real problem,”Rogers told Foxnews.com in a recent interview. He said the current state of …

Contestants on country music talent show”Nashville Star” (search) might sing about having “friends in low places.” And that’s exactly why the cable program is attracting a different kind of talent than the mainstream pop star-making machine over on network TV. Fox’s “American Idol” (search)manufactures pretty young pop singers — aged …

I’m was at this event Thursday and I overheard a discussion between two obvious liberals about thetax cuts (search). “We didn’t need them,” said one. “And we’ve gotten all we can expect out of them,” said the other. Well, this pushy Irish-Italian anchor had to butt in: “So let me …

NEW YORK – Pop superstar Michael Jackson (search) decried rapper Eminem and music channel MTV in an exclusive interview with FOX News over a music video that makes Jackson look guilty of child molestation. Jackson told FOX’s Geraldo Rivera Thursday that he supports fans who protested MTV (search)because of the …

WASHINGTON – Sometimes a little history helps us understand the present. On Jan. 16, 1991, two days after a U.N.-mandated deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait had expired, the United States and our allies initiated hostilities against Saddam Hussein. The attack began with a massive bombardment of Saddam’s military …

They say generals are always fighting the last war. A lot of civilians are attempting to do the same thing — or worse — with their calls for a Marshall Plan for Iraq. The Marshall Plan (search), widely considered the most successful foreign policy initiative in U.S. history, has become …

Plimpton Remembered |Parties All Over George Plimpton’s Send-Off: Lots of Indoor Fireworks It wasn’t supposed to be a memorial service when it was planned weeks ago, but last night’s gala50th anniversary dinner for The Paris Review turned out to be a rollicking, moving farewell for the magazine’s founder, George Plimpton …

And now some fresh pickings from the grapevine: Professor’s Past Problem Remember Gao Zhan, the American University sociology and human rights professor who two years ago was convicted in China of spying for the U.S. government? She was sentenced to 10 years in a Chinese prison, but after five months …

And now the most captivating two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Watch it in the Screening Room! Explosion Explanation? A British news report says some of the explosions seen and heard in Baghdad over the past few days were not due …

CANBERRA, Australia – The Iraqi city of Mosul, which is held by Islamic State movement fighters, has become the second terrorist hot-spot to be declared off-limits to Australians under a new counterterrorism law aimed at deterring foreign fighters. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Monday that the Mosul district in northern …