(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Embassy in Kabul plans to spend up to $250,000 in taxpayer money on the creation of a website that will allow people to show how “the Afghanistan of today has provided opportunities that didn’t exist before.” The stand-alone website — or dedicated YouTube channel — must give people in Afghanistan and […]
(CNSNews.com) – Experts could not answer questions about privacy concerns related to incorporating unmanned aerial vehicles, (UAV) or drones, into U.S. airspace at a House hearing on Friday. The House Science, Space and Technology Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight invited officials from the Federal Aviation Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Government Accountability Office […]
(CNSNews.com) – After years of sex education in the nation’s public schools, a new report indicates that many young people are not listening or learning how to avoid sexually transmitted diseases. The report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are more than 19.7 million new sexually transmitted infections in […]
(CNSNews.com) – The State Department took two dramatically different approaches to dealing with the identities of the Diplomatic Security (DS) agents it sent to Benghazi, Libya, to protect Amb. Chris Stevens and the small number of other temporary U.S. diplomatic personnel the department rotated through what its own review board would later admit was a […]
(CNSNews.com) – Explaining why he has no choice but to demand an increase in the legal limit on the national debt, President Barack Obama said at a Monday press conference that Congress orders him to spend money. “This is a matter of Congress authorizes spending,” Obama said. “They order me to spend,” he said. “They […]
(CNSNews.com) – The top 10 states with the highest state taxes on a gallon of gasoline are blue states — meaning they voted for President Barack Obama in 2012 — with the exception of two states that, however, were blue in the 2008 election and then turned red this year. According to data analyzed by […]
LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for British CNN host Piers Morgan to be deported from the U.S. over his gun control views. Morgan has taken an aggressive stand for tighter U.S. gun laws in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting. Last week, he called a […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama’s likely nominee for Secretary of State, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), has been an avid supporter of foreign aid to Pakistan throughout his years in the Senate. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, co-sponsored the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009 along with Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.). The […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General says it will investigate whether EPA officials — including Administrator Lisa Jackson — used alias email accounts to conduct official government business, thereby shielding those communications from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Jackson reportedly used the name “Richard Windsor” on an official email account […]
(CNSNews.com) – MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said on Sunday he is “uncomfortable” using the phrase “right-to-work” because it has its origins in the “segregationist white supremacist south.” “I’m not going to use the phrase [right to work] that is commonly used because it is such a ridiculous—let me just give people a little bit of history […]
