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(AP) Priest gives used car to pope, who wants to driveVATICAN CITYPope Francis now has his own mini popemobile after getting a good deal on a used car that he plans to drive himself. Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Ciro Benedettini,

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki did not directly deny to reporters Wednesday that Benghazi survivors were being withheld from testifying before Congress, suggesting instead that House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is mistaken to assume any of the survivors do

WASHINGTON — When it comes to reckless stupidity in Syria, Republican leaders in Congress sure are giving President Obama a run for his money. So they are in favor of launching war on Syria, but they do not feel strongly enough

A Syrian regime air strike on a field hospital in the northern province of Aleppo killed at least 11 people on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 10 (UPI) — Russia’s ploy to defuse the Syrian crisis–persuading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to turn over his chemical weapons to avert a U.S. attack–will likely end in an embarrassment for U.S. President Barack Obama and

When the dust settles, the concrete result of the Syria debacle is that dictator Bashar al-Assad was able to use chemical weapons, both literally and diplomatically, to retain power. Assad succeeded because President Barack Obama was never really serious about

A new poll has found a majority of Americans believe that President Barack Obama’s handling of foreign policy is worse than or no better than President George W. Bush.  The poll also found that 74% of Americans believe military strikes

On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed that President Obama’s massive backtrack on action against Syria pending attempted negotiation with allies of the Assad regime Russia and China had made the Syrian rebels feel “abandoned.” “I was very disappointed that

In the Coptic Christian village of Dalga in Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood members and their backers have instituted Islamic law, complete with the Koran’s mandated jizya tax on unbelievers, according to author Raymond Ibrahim. The jizya tax, according to Ibrahim, was

As President Obama makes the case for supporting the al Qaeda backed rebels in Syria, maintains quasi-support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, pushes Israel to release more Palestinian terrorists, and negotiates with the Taliban in Afghanistan, a new poll

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Pakistan’s attempts at peace with Taliban seem doomed to failure Bird flu and MERS virus show new potential for spreading Pakistan’s attempts at peace with Taliban seem doomed to failure Nawaz Sharif, the new

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pushed out out of power, telling Breitbart News at his weekly press conference, “Well I know there’s a lot of talk about–you want to be careful–you don’t want to

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), delivering a prepared rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on the Syria crisis Tuesday night, said that only opposition to war had made a diplomatic solution possible.  It was the mirror image of

Around 280 trained hunters, firefighters and municipal officials fanned out across a Japanese city this week to catch a single bad-tempered monkey that was menacing locals. The male macaque had been terrorising the people of Hyuga in the far south

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, in 2012, 8,233 women were killed in India last year over dowry payments. That means one woman dies every hour in the country. This is the latest in a country that is in

(AP) Libya: Blast hits Foreign Ministry in BenghaziBy ESAM MOHAMEDAssociated PressTRIPOLI, LibyaSecurity officials say a powerful explosion has caused serious damage to Libya’s Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the coastal city of Benghazi. The early Wednesday morning blast

(AP) Suicide bomb at Egypt military HQ in Sinai kills 3By ASHRAF SWEILAMAssociated PressEL-ARISH, EgyptA suicide bomber on Wednesday rammed his explosives-laden car into the military intelligence headquarters in a border town in Egypt’s volatile Sinai, killing at least three

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said America would be supporting the terrorist group that attacked the United States on 9/11 if President Barack Obama uses military force against Syria.  In an interview with CBS News’s Charlie Rose on Sunday that PBS

On Tuesday night, President Obama delivered a hastily-cobbled-together speech, first making the aggressive case for action against Syria based on Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons, then careening to the case against action in favor of more diplomacy, before concluding

There was nothing more to say, and indeed President Barack Obama said nothing new to the nation on Syria on Tuesday night. What had once been billed as the closing argument for war on the eve of congressional votes to

McClatchy chief correspondent Mark Seibel reports on Tuesday evening that President Obama’s speech on Syria will last just 15 minutes. That is a massive downgrade from most addresses to the nation. The theme of the address has also reportedly shifted

In light of Syria’s willingness to give control of their chemical weapons to a Russian-led international body, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) say the time to authorize a strike is now. According to Business Insider, on September

On September 23, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is scheduled to release the first portion of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), which will conclude once again that mankind is causing dangerous climate change. However, on September 17, the Nongovernmental International Panel on

On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) came out swinging against President Obama’s proposal for Congressional authorization of military force against Syria and the Bashar Assad regime. McConnell said that President Obama’s chaotic rollout of his case for military