A Louisiana state district judge rejected a request from 17 state lawmakers to block the continuing implementation of the Common Core standards. Referring to the Common Core standards as a “political hot button,” Judge Tim Kelley said Friday, during the
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — There is evidence the numbers of dead and sickened by Ebola in West Africa may “vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak,” the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health agency said it was prepared
The United Nations declared a “Level Three Emergency,” the highest possible, for Iraq on Thursday, as the advances of the Islamic State terror group remain largely unchecked. A UN representative said the new designation would “facilitate mobilisation of additional resources
President Barack Obama claimed that he “had Israel’s back,” and his supporters defended his record in 2012 by claiming: “No president in history has done more for Israel’s security than Obama.” Yet the supposedly “most pro-Israel president” even has clamped
A new Wall Street Journal report reveals that President Barack Obama’s administration blocked a shipment of missiles to Israel in late July and tightened additional weapons shipment procedures to Israel, revealing increasing tensions between the two governments. The U.S. decision
More than 2,800 unaccompanied undocumented immigrant minors have been placed with sponsors in Maryland this year, and school districts in the Old Line State have been advised of their responsibilities to encourage the new immigrants to register for classes. In
A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that the Keystone XL pipeline, if approved, would cut global oil prices. For many on the left, that’s the bad news. The official U.S. State Department estimate of carbon
Secretary of State John Kerry offered a tribute to actor Robin Williams Tuesday morning. “There wasn’t anybody Robin Williams couldn’t touch. His humor was just that expansive,” Kerry said in a statement dispatched by the State Department. Williams died in
JERUSALEM — On Monday, the UN announced its appointees to a special 3-person Human Rights Council (HRC) panel that will look into allegations of human rights abuses and violations of international law in the Israel-Gaza war. Leading the panel will
Reached for comment during his fifteen-day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, President Barack Obama said that he sees Iraq’s nomination of Haider al-Abadi as its next Prime Minister as a “promising step forward.” Obama in Martha’s Vineyard (Credit: White House) Incumbent
Editors Note: The Daily Mail’s U.S. Political Editor nails the former First Lady. We reprint here. Hillary Clinton left her post at the top of the U.S. State Department on Feb. 1, 2013, but the federal government spent more than
On August 7, the U.S. ordered diplomats’ families, not the diplomats themselves, to leave Liberia in light of the current Ebola outbreak. The families are expected to return to the United States via commercial airline travel, the State Department tells
There are no hard numbers, yet – but at least “some of the tens of thousands” of Yazidis who have been stranded in the mountains of Northwestern Iraq have been rescued, the U.N. said Thursday. At Breibart London, James Delingpole
With Ebola claiming more than 900 lives and a handful people in America receiving tests for the deadly virus, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa is convening a hearing Thursday to examine the threat. “Around the country there is a
More than $200 million was committed to programs for Africa at a forum for spouses of African leaders held in conjunction with this week’s U.S.-Africa Summit Wednesday. The forum, titled “Investing in Our Future at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit” was
First Lady Michelle Obama had high praise for her predecessor, former First Lady Laura Bush Wednesday at a U.S.-Africa Summit forum hosted by the State Department, Bush Institute, and Office of the First Lady. “It is now my pleasure to
An official from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said that its homemade Fajr-5 warheads are in the hands of Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, according to the Associated Press. It has long been known that Hamas has Fajr-5s in its
A review of relevant U.S. laws and regulations has deepened questions about the marriage between the US Ambassador to a multilateral organization located in Austria and his same-sex partner over the weekend in Vienna. Daniel Baer, U.S. Ambassador to the
At a gathering of African and business leaders convened by the Obama administration, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim highlighted former President George W. Bush’s work on AIDS in Africa. “I think back just to 2000 when a small
After several minutes of watching State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki attempt to explain the Obama administration’s condemnation of Israeli responses to attacks by Palestinian terrorists, and bizarre insistence that Israel obey a “high standard” (as if it did not), one
CNN’s senior international correspondent Arwa Damon allegedly bit two EMTs on July 19 in a drunken rage at the U.S Embassy in Baghdad. On Monday, the two EMTs who were trying to help Damon that night sued CNN and Damon
Officials from three of the African countries facing an outbreak of Ebola met with Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden during the U.S.-Africa Summit Monday. According to
National Review columnist Lee Habeeb appeared on CNN’s dreadful morning program “New Day” Monday to lay out an articulate, intellectual, and ethical case for how recent news coverage of Israel’s war of self defense in Gaza has turned the American
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli-declared temporary cease-fire and troop withdrawals slowed violence in the Gaza war Monday, though an attack on Israeli bus that killed one person in Jerusalem underscored the tensions still simmering in the region.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed a militant leader in the Gaza Strip Monday, just hours ahead of a seven-hour truce announced by Israel that was meant to open a “humanitarian window” for aid as Israeli
