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The first female bishop of the Episcopalian Church and the second in command of the denomination in Maryland has been named by her diocese as the driver of a car that mowed down a father and beloved Baltimore bicycle maker two days after Christmas.

During the meetings Mayor Bill de Blasio had with five different New York City police unions on Tuesday, the mayor’s senior aides called top Democratic New York lawmakers on the city and state levels. They urged lawmakers to slam the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch and other officers for turning their backs on the mayor, DNAinfo reported.

Roberts’s new message of “positive faith,” in which religion could help with personal needs—from addictions to job searches—took him to a larger congregation in Tulsa and eventually around the world and on television.

Virginia Democrat Jim Webb’s Born Fighting PAC released the following statement in response to suggestions that the PAC made financial donations to Webb’s family.

Benjamin Parangan, a maintenance man at Osceola, Florida’s Living Water Fellowship, drew a gun and shot at Pastor Terry Howell on Friday. He missed, and Howell responded by drawing his own gun, shooting and critically wounding the maintenance man.

His track record of support squishy candidates, or holding his support for more conservative ones, leads many to believe that he himself is a Republican establishment squish whose every move is calculated and based on political expediency. The truth is, Jeb is just a shrewd politician. He is conservative, he is GOP establishment, and he is all about Jeb.

I guess Secret Service security lapses aside, the Obama administration continues to allow young, untrained and unpaid staffers to man the wheels of presidential motorcade vehicles.

Every generation of conservative leaders must rise to the occasion to confront the challenge of the time. The challenge at present is to stop Obama’s war on our borders and thereby his war on the rule of law. Will conservatives rise to the occasion?

Illinois’ current credit rating is A-, the lowest of any state in the union, one notch about junk bond status. This dismal rating is driven largely by the state’s enormous pension costs.

House Speaker John Boehner has thrown his full support behind his embattled ally, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, as more ties between Scalise and former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke—including a nearly-decade long close relationship with the ex-KKK leader’s top aide—have emerged.

Anyone old enough to recall the Bush presidency might remember that the media used to be very, very concerned about “burger-flipper jobs,” median wages, and career quality. Bush’s fantastic unemployment rates were supposed to be marred with a big fat asterisk because too much job growth was occurring in low-wage, dead-end service industry jobs.

Anti-amnesty champion Steve King is not optimistic about Republican leadership’s plan to defund President Obama’s executive actions on immigration reform, even as Republicans prepare for a fight on the issue in February.

New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) vetoed legislation that his own administration drafted to delay the use of a new teacher evaluation system tied to student performance on the Common Core-aligned assessments.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) offered his support for House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) following revelations that the Louisiana lawmaker once spoke to a group of white supremacists in 2002.

While guest-hosting on MSNBC’s “Ronan Farrow Daily” on Tuesday, NBC News Foreign Correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin dubbed President Obama “golfer-in-chief” with a graphic reading “wedding crasher-in-chief” behind him during a story on President Obama’s golf game forcing the relocation two soldiers’

The ‘War on Cops” so visible since Michael Brown’s death in August, was long an undertone before becoming an overtone. In other words, it was already there and has been there for some time.

Popular radio host and top conservative Mark Levin took to his Facebook page this morning and called for the current GOP leadership to be “cleaned out.”

Those familiar with what was once referred to as “Clinton, Inc.” are already pointing to Team Hillary as the source behind a political hit on potential Hillary challenger Democrat Jim Webb.

Winston Churchill famously said “history is written by the victors,” and truth is often the first casualty in the aftermath of conflict. Last week, “historian” Mark Updegrove, who doubles as a paid employee of the taxpayer-financed Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential

Bosnia-Herzegovina police raided a popular local newspaper that allegedly had a recording with incriminating language from a politician who heads the left-wing Social Democrats party.

Immigrants detained illegally entering Arizona across the southern border are becoming more likely to lash out aggressively at the Border Patrol agents who stop them, according to the president of the union that represents agents in the state. “Now, when we stop two or three people, often we find that, at least, one of them is aggressive,” he said.

New York Police Department arrests were down “66 percent” during the week of Christmas, compared to arrests for the same time period in 2013. This drop comes as “officers feel betrayed by [Mayor Bill de Blasio] and fear for their safety.”

Rep. Michael Grimm’s (R-NY) decision to resign from Congress is “honorable,” House Speaker John Boehner says. Monday the embattled New York lawmaker announced his intention to step down. He’d pleaded guilty to tax evasion earlier this month.

Charles Chipps, Sr., is a world famous spiritual leader who for decades has inspired members of the Oglala Lakota Nation with his guidance at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian reservation. But shocking charges that he sexually molested a long list of teen girls have divided the community.

At mid-morning on December 26 a Southlake, Texas, man saw a drew his gun to stop a domestic attacker who he spotted “hitting” a woman on the side of the road.

On Monday’s broadcast of Bloomberg Television’s “With All Due Respect,” Bloomberg Washington correspondent Josh Green discussed the politics of an improving economy with co-host John Heilemann. According to Green, the direction of the economy will not only have an impact on President

In recent years, the wife and daughter of former Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) were paid roughly $100,000 by “Born Fighting PAC,” a committee Webb chaired while in Congress.

A member of John Boehner’s inner circle is under fire even as the House Speaker is at his most vulnerable. Exactly one week before the House GOP’s top official will seek re-election to his post, multiple sources report that his deputy, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, spoke at a conference of white supremacists back in 2002.

National School Choice Week began as an annual celebration in 2011, with only 150 events. Since then, it has grown exponentially, and a record 10,100 events are planned for January 2015 to raise awareness of the benefits of alternative education, which supporters call a matter of “simple justice.”

White House Senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer doesn’t think that Republicans will succeed in defending President Obama’s executive amnesty in 2015. Pfeiffer suggests that Republicans won’t have the political momentum to sustain a mini-shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Few couples get to chat with the president about their wedding day. But CNN is airing a video of President Obama’s phone call to a wedding couple in Hawaii who had their ceremony unceremoniously moved so that he could play golf.

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer does not think the next president will roll back President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform, even if a Republican wins in 2016.

Eight NYPD officers walked out of a Brooklyn Chipotle chain store two weeks ago after an employee greeted them with a “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” gesture.

Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) declared that Republican leaders in Congress “need to get on board” with defunding the president’s executive action on immigration on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “Some of us wanted a contract that would include

In yet another move telegraphing his intention to run for the 2016 Republican nomination, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has resigned from the corporate board of “forest resources and real estate company Rayonier Inc. as of Dec. 31.”

Back in 2005, two business-school professors, Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins, published a thoughtful book, Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them. A decade later, we can look ahead to the Predictable Surprises of 2015—and beyond.