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John Kerry must be joking. Fresh off his role as chief scrivener for Barack Obama Chamberlain, the secretary of state called it “very disturbing” that Iran’s supreme leader vowed to continue opposing the United States despite the nuclear deal. Did Kerry sleepwalk through the last 18 months? Iran’s leaders continually …

OnThursday, Aug. 6, the 2016 presidential race will enter a new and important phase. Ten Republican presidential candidates will step on stage in a prime-time debate in Cleveland sponsored by Fox News and Facebook. The remaining GOP candidates will debate earlier that day. Viewership will be large, giving contenders their …

France has a big problem. So does Great Britain. So does the rest of Europe. And so does America. The problem is the several thousand young, native-born Islamist extremists who travel abroad to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq, or Al Qaeda in Yemen and Pakistan, and come home …

Being a local news reporter and photographer can be a grueling job of long hours and little pay. It’s all about paying your dues and gaining experience. sometimes, Doing the job also involves danger … Whether reporters are reporting from dangerous areas like war zones or just dangerous areas throughout …

First the Republican National Committee (RNC) tried to shut Donald Trump up. Or at the very least they asked him to tone it down. Thursday, the RNC — acknowledging that Trump isn’t going away — met with him to try to get him to sign the GOP’s “loyalty pledge.” So, …

Will the public ever know why a government agency charged with protecting the environment instead dumped deadly chemicals into one of the largest sources of drinking water in the West? The answer is: No. Not as long as Barack Obama’s rogue bureaucracies are permitted to operate as though they are …

Let’s get one thing straight: pop music superstar Taylor Swift is not a conservative role model. For years, she has happily played the poster child for the cultural left, endorsing Democrats, attacking conservatives and using her massive platform to lecture millions of Americans about politics she doesn’t fully understand. But …

On Monday morning, a horrific terror attack happened in Jerusalem. At this writing six innocent people were murdered by machine-gun wielding fanatics at a bus stop. Another six were wounded, with two of those victims fighting for their lives as this is written. Two “ultra-Orthodox” Israelis, from a community which …

As someone whose life’s work is helping small businesses navigate our nation’s complex tax system, I have witnessed firsthand how the Internal Revenue Service has become an outsized force that too often targets those least equipped to fight back. While the agency has long maintained that its enforcement efforts are …

“God ain’t got no power over this hit. God got no power here.” The man gestured like a royal but the scene he revealed was the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia. The man then sat down on an overturned milk crate, …