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Police have forked out £6m to guard the Ecuadorian embassy because WikiLeaks fugitive Julian Assange is hiding out there, reports the Daily Mail. The Metropolitan Police have been standing guard outside the embassy 24/7 since June 2012, at a cost

Secretary of State John Kerry brought his dog Ben to a State Department Take Your Child to Work Day event. During the event, Kerry surprised the audience by approaching the podium with his dog on a leash. The dog jumped

HOUSTON, TEXAS–Cartel hit man 35-year-old Arturo Gallegos Castrellon, also known as “Benny,” “51” and “Guero” of Mexico will spend life in U.S. prison for leading the assassinations of one U.S. Consulate employee, her husband, and a husband of another Consulate employee, according

The State Department pulled a pro-Ukraine video last night, shortly after they released it on YouTube due to a key error in the map of Ukraine. Ukrainian viewers quickly spotted the error, informing the State Department that the map was

Thursday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked, “If you could change the outcome of any event that occurred while you were secretary of state, what would it be?” Clinton answered, “Oh, it would certainly be the attack on

On Thursday, Time released its list of “The 100 Most Influential People.” Each profile of an “influential person” was written by another famous person. Suffice it to say that mixed in with the meritorious are myriad culture-destroying celebrities, faux heroes,

Wednesday morning after CNN host John King played a video clip of State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki being unable to come up with any accomplishments of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the “New Day” panel could not contain their

On Tuesday, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was unable to confirm whether or not Bashar al-Assad had turned over his chemical stockpiles, which was part of an agreement negotiated in Geneva last year. Partial transcript as follows: REPORTER: Jen, just

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After videos of children choking circulated on the Internet earlier in the month, there was an indication of a strong possibility that a chemical weapons attack that took place at Kafr Zeita, a rebel held village some 125 miles north

Embattled Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has made her position as Chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee a center-piece of her reelection campaign, even staging a fake committee hearing intended to show her fighting for increasing energy production

HONOLULU (AP) — Officials say a 16-year-old boy is “lucky to be alive” and unharmed after flying from California to Hawaii stowed away in a plane’s wheel well, surviving cold temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen. “Doesn’t

More bizarre facts about California State Sen. Leland Yee are coming to light, and they range from receiving the severed head of a pig several years ago, to allegedly supporting or creating laws to benefit special interests who supplied him with

On Wednesday Tracy and Mary Finney of Marietta, Georgia were met by a police officer outside their children’s public school and informed they were trespassing on school property because they opposed the school’s process of testing all children. The Finneys,

During a ceremony at the State Department on Monday for the unveiling of the World Cup trophy, Vice President Joe Biden again tried to mislead his audience into believing that he had played college football. “I didn’t play soccer; I

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants struck in the heart of Nigeria on Monday with a massive rush-hour bomb blast at a bus station that killed at least 72 people and wounded 164 in the deadliest attack ever on

Russia is took another step towards complete censorship when Moscow shut down Voice of America. The US said Russia has double standards, but Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today) claimed they just did not want to renew the contract.   Dmitry Kiselyov, head

There is a clandestine plan by the Obama administration to pin the blame for the failure of peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians on Israel, according to a recent report from the Washington Free Beacon.  The Washington Free Beacon

Several news sources in the Middle East are reporting that the U.S. is set to release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in exchange for Israel releasing a final batch of convicted Palestinian terrorists, while freezing settlement construction. Pollard has been

A Moroccan national was arrested on Monday for planning to bomb a U.S. university and federal building. On the basis of multiple conversations recorded by the FBI, it was learned that the man had sought to avoid deportation by means

Former President Jimmy Carter explained during a conversation at the LBJ Presidential Library Civil Rights Summit that he frequently visited countries that were “outcasts” from the world community.  “I’ve been to North Korea three times, for instance, Rosa and I

Among the nagging questions left in the wake of theterrorist attack against our special mission compound in Benghazi, Libya, iswhether or not more could have been done to save the lives of the four Americanswho were murdered, including Ambassador Chris

British buyers are increasingly being priced out of the UK property market by foreign investors, particularly the Chinese. The latest example, as reported in the Daily Mail, is the seven acre RAM Brewery development in Central London, which will be

In a “management alert” released publicly April 3rd, State Department Inspector General (IG) Steve Linick said that the “lack of internal control at the department” has led to the loss of $6 billion in the last six years. The Fiscal Times reports,

According to a report that aired on San Diego, CA Fox affiliate KSWB, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is skipping an appearance at the Western Health Care Leadership Academy due to an organized protested related to the Sept. 11,

Several hours after Mahmoud Abbas appeared on television to announce he was breaking off negotiations with Israel and the United States, John Kerry took to the microphones in Brussels to solemnly declare no such thing ever happened.  “Let me make

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA’s former deputy director said Wednesday he deleted references to terrorism warnings from widely disputed talking points on the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack to avoid the spy agency’s gloating at the expense of the State Department.

Three American citizens visiting the small Mexican town of El Sásabe, Sonora, were attacked by armed individuals in late March. The shooting landed one of the young men, Jose Rodriquez, 19, in an American hospital with two bullet wounds. American

The United States criticized China as provocative Monday after its coast guard tried to block a Philippine vessel that was rotating troops in the tense South China Sea. The attempted Chinese blockade, which led to a two-hour standoff with the

Iran has named Hamid Aboutalebi, a militant who helped hold 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, to be its next ambassador to the United Nations, reports Bloomberg. Aboutalebi, Iran’s former ambassador to Belgium and Italy, was a member of the

Update: State Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf reacted to the IPT’s story by posting on Twitter: “FALSE. I addressed on the record in briefing. Said is abhorrent and insulting to millions who died in the Holocaust.” Harf’s statement comes five days after

The likely death toll has risen to 24 from the devastating mudslide that smothered the town of Oso, Washington about 55 miles northeast of Seattle. On Tuesday, a crew comprised of 200 responders were using everything from heavy equipment and

Parents in New York State and across the nation are saying “I Refuse” to Common Core centralized standards, testing, and student data collection, and are putting their words into action through civil disobedience. On Saturday, March 29th at 12:15 p.m.

The United States has said that North Korea’s test firing of two medium-range missiles into the Sea of Japan represents “a troubling and provocative escalation” on the Korean Peninsula. America is closely coordinating with allies and partners, including in the