Where do we go to get our reputations back? A review of the hyperpoliticized reactions of the left to criticism of and well-founded questions about Benghazi on the right demonstrates, once again, that They accuse us of Their Own sins.
Helen Mirren, who earned an Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth II in 2006, knows how to play the part on and off the stage. Mirren, currently reprising her most famous role for the stage production The Audience in London, lost her
(AP) Could immigration bill set off another backlash?By ERICA WERNERAssociated PressWASHINGTONAs a Senate committee prepares to begin voting this week on far-reaching immigration legislation, advocates are watching warily to see whether relatively tame opposition balloons into the kind of fierce
An almost 20-year-old case of a Beijing student left paralysed after allegedly being poisoned was back in the spotlight in Chinese state media Monday after a petition was posted on the White House website. Zhu Ling suffered severe brain damage
A major neo-Nazi murder trial opened Monday in Germany in a case that has embarrassed authorities and shed a spotlight on the country’s murky far-right scene. Under a heavy police presence, Beate Zschaepe, 38, entered the court in the southern
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A senior Israeli official accused Google on Monday of setting back Middle East peace hopes by putting the name “Palestine” under the banner of its search page for the Palestinian territories. (www.google.ps) Palestinians hailed Google’s move as
China on Monday implicitly criticised Israel’s air strikes in Syria as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas both visited the country to meet top leaders. The raids on military sites outside Damascus a day earlier raised fears
Pop superstar Justin Bieber has been alienating fans and curiosity seekers alike with his behavior of late, including a selfish message left at the Anne Frank Museum. This week, Bieber made some new Muslim fans when he stopped his performance
By DAVID GERMAINAP Movie WriterLOS ANGELESIron Man reigns as the standard-bearer of Hollywood superheroes with a $175.3 million domestic opening weekend for his latest sequel and an overseas haul of a half-billion dollars in less than two weeks. According to
CNN Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz, who this week parted ways with Tina Brown’s Daily Beast, featured a full-on show trial of himself. The journalistic mea culpa came after Kurtz made the mistake of writing a column about NBA player
Last week via Twitter, Masters-winning golfer Bubba Watson expressed his support for beleaguered ESPN commentator Chris Broussard after Broussard expressed his traditional Christian worldview on homosexuality with regard to NBA player Jason Collins’ coming out of the closet. Now, Watson
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (D-NJ) is in hot water with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals after he had the bad taste to squash a spider during a class with fourth-graders. The video of the swatting was
Nevada is pushing for a new bill that could implement highly detailed K-12 sex education promoting abortion and sexual activity. The bill, AB230, is set for a Senate Education Committee hearing on Monday. The bill states: The course of instruction
Katy Perry’s father isn’t sold on his daughter’s pop star status. Preacher Keith Perry considers his daughter’s come hither wardrobe and sexually charged song book an affront to the Lord. And he wants people to pray for his “devil child.”
A deputy speaker of the House of Commons was arrested on suspicion of raping one man and sexually assaulting another, according to media reports. Media said Conservative MP Nigel Evans, was questioned over alleged attacks on two men in their
President Barack Obama dismissed as “ridiculous” Venezuela’s allegations that an American filmmaker in the country during last month’s elections was a US spy sent by Washington to stir up trouble. His remarks came several days after Caracas lodged formal criminal
(AP) PARISA French mayor says Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley has said “oui” to rocker James Righton in a small wedding ceremony in southern France. Aime Navello said Sunday the couple followed French tradition when he married them at the Mazan town
Hundreds of thousands of hardline Islamists demanding a new blasphemy law on Sunday blocked highways and fought running battles with police, leaving four people dead and hundreds injured in the Bangladeshi capital. Chanting “Allahu Akbar!” (“God is greatest!”) and “One
(AP) Bangladesh building-collapse toll tops 600By FARID HOSSAINAssociated PressDHAKA, BangladeshMore than 600 bodies have been recovered from the garment-factory building that collapsed well over a week ago, police said Sunday as the grim recovery work continued in one of the
By REBECCA SANTANAAssociated PressMATEELA, PakistanFor decades, not a single woman in this dusty Pakistani village surrounded by wheat fields and orange trees has voted. And they aren’t likely to in next week’s parliamentary election either. The village’s men have spoken.
By RYAN J. FOLEYAssociated PressCOLUMBUS JUNCTION, IowaThe first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked on his progress. The school had long been accustomed to educating the
By TAMMY WEBBERAssociated PressVIENNA, Ill.This is the Illinois that many people never see _ the sparsely populated southern tip where flat farmland gives way to rolling hills, rocky outcrops, thick forests and cypress swamps. Blacktopped county roads wend through no-stoplight
By JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is returning to Ohio to give his first commencement address of 2013 at Ohio State University in Columbus. Ohio was at the center of last year’s presidential election, and Obama’s victory there was critical
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMANAssociated PressMcALLEN, TexasThe Texas fertilizer plant that exploded last month, killing 14 people, injuring more than 200 others and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to the surrounding area had only $1 million in liability coverage,
By RUSS BYNUMAssociated PressSAVANNAH, Ga.Less than two months after British forces captured Savannah in December 1778, patriot militiamen scored a rare Revolutionary War victory in Georgia after a short but violent gunbattle forced British loyalists to abandon a small fort
