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Scottish voters are turning their backs on independence, with support for separation from the UK falling away. According to a new YouGov poll for the Times, support for a “yes” in September’s referendum has fallen three points to 39 percent,

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. One year ago this month, senators of both parties — with support from the business, labor, law enforcement, faith communities — came together to pass a commonsense immigration bill.  Independent experts said that bill would

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the international community on Sunday to support Jordan in the fight against “Islamic extremism” and to back the independence of Iraq’s Kurds. His remarks follow reports in Israeli media that officials in Tel Aviv

An independent Scotland could have a disproportionately large banking sector compared to its economy, leaving it vulnerable to financial shocks, according to a study by The Banker magazine released Monday. The trade publication found that Scotland would have banking assets

This Independence Day weekend, Los Angeles will host the world’s first medical marijuana farmer’s market, a gathering where interested buyers can purchase cannabis directly from the source–the growers themselves.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, the California Heritage Market seeks to foster

Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party (UKIP) continues to impact the British public’s idea of what should be nationally prioritised, as the UK economy improves, and on the back of the party’s huge election victories last month. The Economist reports that

HOUSTON, Texas–37-year-old Carmen Hernandez, an illegal alien living in the greater Houston area, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for distributing child pornography. Subsequent to serving his time, Hernandez will spend the rest of his life on supervised release and

One of the Scottish National Party’s (SNP) biggest backers has warned that an independent Scotland could harm business. The Stagecoach group, which run buses and trains across the UK, warned in its annual report that independence would be a “risk”

Nearly seventy years ago, America and its allies demanded unconditional surrender from Germany. Today, America and its allies hope for a draw against Germany. Many partisans of the U.S. soccer team would regard even a loss, provided by not too

Last week, the UK Independence Party’s (UKIP) HQ launched its own Twitter account, separate to that of the UKIP national and press accounts. Their first tweet, “Good Morning, first tweet from us here at UKIP Head Office, Lexdrum House” is

Citing the need to respect the independence of government institutions, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said this week that he would not interfere to overrule the sentences of three Al Jazeera journalists condemned to at least seven years in prison

HOUSTON, Texas–Six child victims and three pimps were discovered by law enforcement officers during the last several days in Texas. The apprehensions were made as the result of Operation Cross Country, an effort to curb commercial sex trafficking in the

The Scottish left is planning to dump the Queen as head of state if the country votes for independence. Despite the official line that Queen Elizabeth II will be kept on the Scotsman has revealed a plot to oust her.

UK media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict typically imputes good faith to Palestinians – operating under the premise that most truly want a peaceful resolution with the Jewish State. However, what if this assumption is misplaced? How would media coverage

The Tory group’s European parliament presidential nominee has embraced an absurd scare tactic in the party’s attempts to frighten the British people away from the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and any thought of leaving the European Union. Sajjad Karim, a

The radical left-wing party Podemos (“We Can”) of Spain, which became the sensation of the European Parliament elections after winning a stunning five seats and 1.2 million votes on its first try, accepted millions of Euros from Hugo Chávez’s repressive

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Trying to tough it out in an accelerating government crisis, Poland’s prime minister said Thursday that early elections within weeks may be necessary to calm the situation sparked by eavesdropping on political leaders. Donald Tusk called

First Lady Michelle Obama reminded attendees of a naturalization ceremony Wednesday that the Founding Fathers weren’t born in America. The ceremony for 50 new U.S. citizens was held at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Obama pointed out that the

Despite determined tactics by the British Conservatives to stop it, the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group, the caucus in the European Parliament that has been the platform in Brussels and Strasbourg for Nigel Farage and the UK Independence

Spain’s King Juan Carlos signs an act of abdication Wednesday to end his 39-year reign, as a flag-festooned Madrid spruces up its streets for the people to hail his 46-year-old son as their new king, Felipe VI. The 76-year-old Juan

Former prime minister Sir John Major, the Tory politician who surrendered significant parts of the British Constitution to the European Union in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty and turned Her Majesty’s subjects into “citizens of the EU,” yesterday lectured the Scots

“We must be self-sufficient. Why can’t we send our defense equipment to other nations?” asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday as he attended the inaugural act of India’s largest warship, the INS Vikramaditya. The newly minted prime minister used the

A Dutch Calvinist political party which denies the equality of women and which until 2006 banned women from party membership has now become a member of the British Conservative’s group (the European Conservatives and Reformists) at the European Parliament. In

Police in the Cheddar Valley in Somerset are hunting for a black and white dog that may, bizarrely, be an accomplice in the theft of UK Independence Party election material that went missing on the run up to the European

In yet another political gift to the UK Independence Party (UKIP), British Prime Minister David Cameron has come out in favour of Albania becoming a member of the EU. The move will eventually allow free movement of people from that

The Republican controlled legislature in South Carolina recently infuriated liberal groups by insisting that state universities teach students about the U.S. Constitution and other founding documents. The SC House of Representatives had recently cut funding for two state universities that

A Scottish charity has branded author JK Rowling a “bitch” after she donated £1 million to the campaign for a ‘no’ vote in the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence. The Dignity Project, who carry out work to improve the lives

A group of activists in Puerto Rico unhappy with the current status of the island as a United States commonwealth is demanding a separation from America and reunification with Spain. The group plans to contest the 1898 Treaty of Paris,

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has given a £1 million donation to the ‘Better Together’ campaign to keep the United Kingdom together, her website reports. It was announced this morning that the Labour Party supporter and donor would be campaigning

July 18-19, 2014, a group of Muslim women, led by attorney Nadia Shahram, will hold a convention in Seneca Falls to issue a “Declaration of the Equalities for Muslim Women.” Symbolically and historically, this is an important event, one that

FORT WORTH, Texas–During last week’s Texas State Republican Convention, Rafael Cruz, father of Texas Senator Ted Cruz and an evangelical pastor in the Dallas area, spoke with Breitbart Texas about his outreach efforts in the faith community and the role

A group of Milwaukee-area Catholic school parents are outraged over Archbishop Jerome Listecki’s decision to implement the controversial Common Core standards in its 110 parochial schools. As FoxNews.com reports, though some parents have pulled their children out of the archdiocese’s

Tens of thousands of Basques held hands in a 76-mile long human chain on Sunday in a demonstration to demand the Spanish government allow let them to vote to break away and form their own country, according to an AFP

Opponents of Scottish independence must match the emotion of the nationalist campaign in the 100 days left until the referendum, former British finance minister Alistair Darling said on Monday. Darling urged the “quiet but resolute majority” of Scots to play

The Basque separatist group Gure Esku Dago (“It Is in Our Hands”) organized a human chain that connected the northern city of Pamplona to Durango, Biscay. The controversial move has been condemned by Spanish authorities for the use of children