America was horrified by the testimony that came forth during the trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who was sentenced this week to life imprisonment for the murder of three babies born alive at his abortion operation. Now four former workers at a Houston abortion facility are making accusations that describe the killing of live [...]

CNN - Faith Karimi A federal court has sentenced two Minnesota women to lengthy prison sentences for soliciting donations in the name of charity, then funneling the funds to Somali militants. Authorities said the two women went door-to-door in Somali neighborhoods in the U.S. and Canada, seeking contributions. Amina Farah Ali, 36, got two decades in [...]

The Washington Times – Jeffrey T Kuhner All the president’s problems lead to his own doorstep President Obama is facing a perfect storm of scandals, cover-ups and criminality that threatens to sweep him from power. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings. They eventually brought down President Nixon, forcing him to resign. [...]

The Telegraph - Tom Phillips, Shanghai and agencies China has tested a long-range missile capable of intercepting satellites, US intelligence sources have claimed. On Monday night local time a rocket was sent into space from a launch centre in Sichuan province, southwest China. Beijing said the launch was part of a scientific data-collecting mission. But that version [...]

CNN A 30-year-old Uzbek national who has been arrested on federal terrorism charges is expected to make an initial appearance in a Boise, Idaho, court on Friday. A grand jury in Boise returned a three-court indictment charging Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, one count [...]

CNN Republicans using the Internal Revenue Service scandal to slam health care reform have a new twist in their argument. Sarah Hall Ingram, who heads the implementation of the Affordable Care Act at the IRS, formerly led the agency’s tax exempt/government entities division, the same division that’s now taking heat for targeting conservative groups in the [...]

BBC Russia has sent sophisticated anti-ship missiles to Syria, US media report. The New York Times quotes unnamed US officials as saying the missiles could be used to counter any potential future foreign military intervention in Syria. Without confirming details, Russia’s foreign minister said Russian supplies did not break any international rules. It comes amid growing [...]

CNN – Jennifer Feldman Police in Omaha, Nebraska, said Thursday that they’re looking into whether there’s a connection between the recent killings of a university professor and his wife and two unsolved area homicides. Roger and Mary Brumback, both 65, were found dead at their home early Tuesday by officers responding to a welfare call. [...]

CNN – Barbara Starr The U.S. military has updated plans to “capture or kill” alleged perpetrators of the deadly terror attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, CNN has learned. The development comes amid growing pressure on the White House to show progress in the effort to catch those who killed Ambassador Christopher [...]

The Hill - Bernie Becker and Peter Schroeder House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) said Friday that he expects more IRS officials to lose their jobs over the targeting of conservative groups – but that even that won’t fix broad problems within the agency. Camp, leading off the first hearing held on the extra [...]

Mail Online – David Martosko, Washington DC Assailed by questions over three scnadals engulfing White House during Rose Garden press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Would not say whether anyone in his West Wing knew about the IRS targeting of the Tea Party before last week Offered ‘no apologies’ for DoJ secretly seizing phone records [...]

The outrageous behavior by the IRS when dealing with those who are opposed to the politics of the Obama administration continues to come to light. The latest example involves the Coalition for Life of Iowa. The group was contacted by an IRS employee, who gave her name as Ms. Richards, who demanded s sworn statement [...]

BBC ALancaster bomber has performed a flypast over Derwent reservoir, 70 years on from the historic World War II raid on German dams. Hundreds of onlookers gathered near the dam – one of the practice sites pilots used ahead of their top-secret mission.

Walter Hoye is the founder and president of the Issues4Life Foundation. In the wake of the Kermit Gosnell verdict the Black pro-life activist spoke to the effect of the abortion industry on Black America. Hoye says, “the Ku Klux Klan lynched 3,446 Negroes, while it took the Klan 86 years to accomplish this, abortion on [...]

CNN – Jake Tapper The U.S. Marshals Service had been “unable to locate” two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program who have been identified as known or suspected terrorists according to the Justice Department’s inspector general. The Marshals Service has concluded that “one individual was and the other individual was believed to be [...]

Townhall.com – Guy Benson Remember what we were told when this explosive story first broke less than a week ago?  The IRS official in charge of tax exemptions for organizations saidthe improper methods employed within her division were executed by “low level workers” in Cincinnati who weren’t motivated by “political bias,” and impacted roughly 75 organizations?  Wrong, wrong [...]

The Washington Examiner - Joel Gehrke IRS officials refused to grant tax exempt status to two pro-life organizations because of their position on the abortion issue, according to a non-profit law firm, which said that one group was pressured not to protest a pro-choice organization that endorsed President Obama during the last election. “In one case, [...]

The Daily Caller – Neil Munro The Benghazi-related emails released by the White House late May 15 exclude the critical emails between administration officials that were sent during the crucial first two days after the deadly jihadi attack that killed four Americans last September. The 100 pages of partially redacted emails also conclude with a dismissive message from [...]

The Telegraph – William Clarke and agencies The attack, targeting a Nato military convoy, killed six American Nato personnel and at least eight Afghans, including two children, in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year. The Toyota Corolla, laden with explosives, detonated in Kabul’s Shah Shaheed district at 8:00am injuring 37 [...]

CNN - Chelsea J Carter, Drew Griffin and David Fitzpatrick The nation’s top tax collector resigned Wednesday amid controversy over Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups that applied for federal tax-exempt status. The official, acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, was aware employees were targeting conservative groups in May 2012, according to the agency. But Miller, then the [...]

CNN - Jake Tapper and Alison Harding In a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa exclusively obtained by CNN, the co-chairmen behind an independent review of September’s deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, expressed irritation over the House Oversight Committee chairman’s portrayal of their work and requested he call a public hearing at which they can testify. “The [...]

CNN David Beckham, one of the most iconic football stars of his generation, has announced his retirement. His decision comes days after the 38-year-old won his latest title with French club Paris Saint-Germain. Beckham, who won the Champions League with Manchester United in 1999, also won league titles with Real Madrid, AC Milan and Los [...]

CNN - Susan Candiotti Boston Marathon bombing victims were collateral damage in a strike meant as payback for U.S. wars in Muslim lands, the surviving suspect wrote in a message scribbled on the boat where he was found hiding, a law enforcement source told CNN Thursday. In the message, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also proclaimed that an attack [...]

CNN - Lateef Mungin Tornadoes ripped through North Texas on Wednesday night, part of a weather system that killed at least six people and injured more than 100 others, officials said. The fatalities occurred when the storm struck a Habitat for Humanity neighborhood in the Granbury area, Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds said. There were about [...]

The Hill – Amie Parnes The White House took a series of steps Wednesday to make up with the Washington press corps. The wooing took several shapes and followed a disastrous press briefing on Tuesday at which White House press secretary Jay Carney was torn apart over the Department of Justice’s seizure of Associated Press [...]

World Net Daily – Bob Unruh Obama admin insists family return to Germany to face attacks An appeal is planned for a family of homeschoolers the Obama administration wants to deport to their home country of Germany to face persecution from education officials there who seek fines and jail for such individuals. The word comes [...]

CNN – Brad Lendon At 42, Richard Swanson was without work, without kids at home, without a mortgage, but with a lot of time to ponder what matters. “It gives you time to think of what you want out of life,” he said in a YouTube video. One thing he wanted, he said, was to watch [...]

CNN - Greg Botelho and Amanda Watts Lava flowed Tuesday from two Alaskan volcanoes, with authorities placing both on the second-highest alert levels because “sudden explosions … are possible with little or no warning.” The volcanoes are Pavlof and Cleveland, both in the Aleutian Island range southwest of mainland Alaska. The Alaska Volcano Observatory has issued a watch due to [...]

BBC – James Gallagher Human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a “significant step” for medicine, say US scientists. The cloned embryos were used as a source of stem cells, which can make new heart muscle, bone, brain tissue or any other type of cell in the body. The study, published in the [...]

The Telegraph – AFP Italy has announced the United States was transferring 200 marines and two planes to its base at Sigonella in Sicily. Speaking in parliament after leftist MPs complained they had not been told about the deployment, Foreign Minister Emma Bonino said the transfer was “in accordance with bilateral agreements” between Italy and [...]

BBC The US man accused of imprisoning three women for a decade in his house in Ohio will plead not guilty to all charges, his lawyers say. Ariel Castro, aged 52, is charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. The women were abducted at different times and held in Mr Castro’s [...]

CNN - Dana Bash and Chelsea J Carter Lax oversight at the Internal Revenue Service allowed for the singling out of some conservative groups, resulting in lengthy delays in the processing of their applications for federal tax-exempt status, according to a report by the agency’s inspector general released Tuesday. The report found that for more than 18 months beginning in [...]

CNN - Holly Yan and Joe Sutton The adoptive parents of a child born with male and female organs say South Carolina mutilated their son by choosing a gender and having his male genitalia surgically removed. The surgery took place when the child was 16 months old and a ward of the state, according to a lawsuit filed by the [...]

CNN – Dana Ford The Army announced Tuesday that a sergeant first class assigned to an assault prevention program at Fort Hood, Texas, is under investigation for sexual assault. The soldier, who was not named in an Army statement, has been suspended from all duties. Specifically, the soldier is under investigation for “pandering, abusive sexual [...]

The Hill – Jordy Yager Attorney General Eric Holder will face a barrage of questions Wednesday on Capitol Hill in the wake of his decision to recuse himself from a Justice Department investigation that has targeted media phone records. Holder has been in the hot seat before, but Democratic lawmakers have always strongly defended him. [...]