(CNSNews.com) - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs the federal government’s major health-care programs as well as the Obamacare insurance exchange, spent $1,113,178,000,000 in fiscal 2013, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement for September, which was released last week. That sets a record for the most money ever spent by a federal […]

A cloture vote today will determine whether legislation moves foreward in the Senate to protect cross dressers from discrimination in employment. ENDA or the Employment Non Discrimination Act, among other things, will require employers to treat cross dressers as if there were normal. There are however problems with the proposed legislation. Other than forcing employers […]

If the claims made in the new book, “Double Down: Game Change 2012” by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann are true it reveals a disturbing glimpse into the thinking of President Barak Obama. According to the book, responding to comments made by aides regarding dorne strikes, the President alledgedly said “I’m really good at killing […]

By Terence P. Jeffrey (CNSNews.com) - The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which will come up for a cloture vote in the Senate today, mandates that employers in the United States permit men to dress as women at work and women to dress as men as long as they otherwise adhere to “reasonable dress or grooming standards.” […]

The Telegraph - Rob Crilly, Islamabad The Afghan president has condemned the timing of an American drone strike that killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, amid a growing wave of criticism in Pakistan and fears of a diplomatic freeze. Pakistan’s prime minister is due to meet his security cabinet later today to discuss a response to […]

Nov. 4, 2013 9:49am Becket Adams From the Blaze A San Diego woman says she has been kicked off her insurance plan due to Obamacare while battling Stage 4 gallbladder cancer.       “I had great cancer doctors and health insurance,” Edie Littlefield Sundby wrote in a Sunday Wall Street Journal op-ed. “My plan was canceled. Now I […]

The Telegraph - Bruno Waterfield, Brussels The EU needs its own “European Intelligence Service” to take on America’s spies, says a senior Brussels official The European Union must create its own intelligence agency within the decade to “level the playing field” and to counter the power of America’s National Security Agency, one of Europe’s most senior officials […]

CBS Chicago - Mike Krauser With an expected vote on same-sex marriage in Springfield next week, African-American clergy members campaigning against the issue are threatening to unseat lawmakers who vote in favor, reports WBBM’s Mike Krauser. Bishop Larry Trotter, of Sweet Holy Spirit Church in Chicago, is vowing that there will be consequences for those lawmakers who […]

CNN - Chelsea J Carter and Susanna Capelouto Leaked classified documents show the U.S. National Security Agency and its British counterpart are among the “worst offenders” of mass surveillance without oversight, according to an open letter purportedly written by Edward Snowden and published Sunday by the German magazine Der Spiegel.

CNN - Michael Pearson Insomniacs and chronic wee-hour shoppers: Take shopping for Obamacare insurance on the federally run HealthCare.gov website off your overnight shopping lists — at least for a while. The part of the problem-plagued website that allows people to apply for coverage will now be taken offline nightly between 1 and 5 a.m. […]

The Hill - Mario Trujillo Mitt Romney said President Obama’s broken healthcare promise that people who like their insurance can keep it is “rotting away” his second term in office. If the White House wants to regain trust, Romney said it needs to work with both parties to rebuild the law.

The Hill - Brendan Sasso Senior military officials are leaning toward removing the National Security Agency director’s authority over U.S. Cyber Command, according to a former high-ranking administration official familiar with internal discussions. Keith Alexander, a four star general who leads both the NSA and Cyber Command, plans to step down in the spring.

CBS Las Vegas Looking at photos of women on Facebook is what distracted the driver of an empty fuel tanker when he crashed into two fire department trucks and three police cars on Interstate 8 killing a public safety officer in May. According to the Arizona Daily Star, Officer Tim Huffman was killed in the accident […]

CNN - Faith Karimi After a one-year hiatus, the New York City Marathon returned Sunday with a different priority: security. It went off without a hitch as 47,000 runners raced through five boroughs and passed cheering crowds. Last year’s marathon was canceled because of damage from Superstorm Sandy.

CNN - Jennifer Feldman and Greg Botelho Georgia police discovered a badly burned body of a 10-year-old girl Saturday in an apartment complex’s trash can — pointed out by her father, who was standing nearby. The grisly episode began with a 911 call around 3:40 a.m. Saturday by a man who said he wanted to commit suicide, the […]

The Hill - Mary Trujillo Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday he shouldn’t have to threaten to hold up all Obama administration nominees to get answers about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year. Graham said he is hopeful the administration will eventually relent and allow Congress to interview survivors […]

The Hill - Patrick Mortiere and Bob Cusack A slew of media organizations have petitioned the government to release ObamaCare data that the White House has refused to make public. CNN, ABC, MSNBC and others have filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking information on the beleaguered healthcare.gov website. They have also asked for government documents revealing how […]

The Hill - Julian Pecquet An explosion of violence in Iraq risks turning the troubled country into a political liability for President Obama. During last year’s reelection campaign, the president managed to both earn credit for withdrawing all U.S. troops and avoid blame for the deteriorating security situation.

The Hill - Julian Hattem A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the birth control mandate in ObamaCare, concluding the requirement trammels religious freedom. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — the second most influential bench in the land behind the Supreme Court — ruled 2-1 in favor of business owners who are fighting […]

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Brian Handwerk With an extra hour of sleep and an earlier sunset, daylight saving time (also called daylight savings time) ends this weekend. That means clock confusion is once again ticking away, giving rise to hotly debated questions: Why do we spring forward and fall back? Does daylight saving time (DST) really […]

The Wall Street Journal - Siobhan Hughes New Tack Is a Departure From More Confrontational Approach Still Favored by Some in Party Many House Republicans are replacing their push to delay or defund the 2010 federal health law with a new strategy: Hang back and see if problems with the rollout continue or get worse. It is […]

The Telegraph - Liam Halligan US policymakers are caught in a trap – a seemingly inescapable dilemma that stems directly from the massive scale of QE Back in the spring, Ben Bernanke told the world that “tapering” would start “later this year”. The Federal Reserve Chairman was indicating, in other words, that America’s central bank […]

CNN - Bill Mears Linda Stephens has lived in her upstate New York community for more than three decades and has long been active in civic affairs. But as an atheist, those views have put her at the center of a personal, political, and legal fight that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

BBC Pakistan’s interior minister has said the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has destroyed the country’s nascent peace process. “This is not just the killing of one person, it’s the death of all peace efforts,” Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said.

CNN - Haimy Assefa A New York man dubbed the “subway vigilante” after he shot four youths in 1984 was arrested Friday for allegedly selling marijuana to an undercover officer, Sgt. Carlos Nieves told CNN. Bernhard Goetz, 65, met the female undercover officer at Union Square Park on Friday and agreed to sell her marijuana, according […]

The Hill - Keith Laing Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole said in a memo to TSA workers that was obtained by The Hill that he was unable to comprehend the shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport on Friday that left one of his agency’s employees dead. The agency’s officials identified the deceased TSA […]

The Hill - Megan R Wilson Gun rights groups are throwing their weight behind efforts on Capitol Hill to rein in the National Security Agency (NSA). The National Rifle Association (NRA) is among a number of groups that have signed on to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit against the secretive government agency.

New York Post - S A Miller A tech firm linked to a campaign-donor crony of President Obama not only got the job to help build the federal health-insurance Web site — but also is getting paid to fix it. Anthony Welters, a top campaign bundler for Obama and frequent White House guest, is the […]

NBC News - Pete Williams, Andrew Blankstein, Erin McClam and Tracy Connor A gunman shot and killed a Transportation Security Administration worker Friday at Los Angeles International Airport, federal authorities told NBC News. At least two other people, including a second TSA employee, were wounded, they said. The authorities told NBC News that the gunman was […]

CNS News.com - Terence P Jeffrey The real median earnings of both men and women dropped in the third quarter of 2013 and are down 3.2 percent since President Barack Obama took office in the first quarter of 2009, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In non-inflation-adjusted dollars, Americans who worked […]

BBC A third of Texas abortion clinics can no longer provide the procedure after a federal court allowed new restrictions to take effect in the state. The Republican-led state legislature passed a law in July requiring doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

BBC Germany has hit back at US criticism of its export-led growth model, describing the attack as “incomprehensible”. The rebuff came after a US Treasury report said Germany’s dependence on exports for growth was hurting the eurozone and the wider global economy.

the guardian - Paul Lewis Barbed exchange with former ambassador over spying on foreign leaders likely to deepen rift with Obama administration The director of the National Security Agency has blamed US diplomats for requests to place foreign leaders under surveillance, in a surprising intervention that risks a confrontation with the State Department. General Keith […]

CNN - Jason Seher Six people. That’s how many Americans had successfully enrolled in the federal health care exchange by the morning of October 2, according to documents provided to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Notes from a “war room” meeting at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance between administration officials and […]

The Hill - Peter Schroeder Senate Democrats are again threatening to change Senate rules after Republicans blocked a pair of the president’s nominees on Thursday. The blockade of two of the president’s picks has renewed talk among Democrats about the “nuclear option,” which would change Senate rules to allow a nominee to be confirmed with […]