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A new book by Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff argues that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, far from being the friend of the Jews in whom many elderly Jews still believe, may have held deep antisemitic prejudices.  Newly-unearthed private remarks and actions, many of which

The death of at least five Americans, in the deadliest day for foreigners in Afghanistan this year, has highlighted fears about Taliban strength ahead of NATO’s withdrawal in 2014. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy in the southern

In the latest controversial move in the US Embassy in Cairo’s ongoing Twitter saga, the Embassy removed its Twitter account for a few hours on Tuesday after the Embassy tweeter got into a fight with the Egyptian president’s account. Mohammed

(AP) Colo. prosecutors seeking death penalty for HolmesBy DAN ELLIOTTAssociated PressCENTENNIAL, Colo.Prosecutors on Monday said they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in last year’s movie theater attack that killed 12, wounded 70 and spurred new gun

The United Nations announced on Wednesday that they were assembling a team to go to Syria on a “fact finding mission” to determine whether the Syrian Army or the rebels have acquired chemical weapons. Transcript: QUESTION: Do you have any

State Department Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell during the State Department daily press briefing on Wednesday: QUESTION: Since I brought up the question of same-sex marriage, much was made today after the hearings about the fact that under DOMA, Defense Of

Two years after the U.S. intervened in Libyan affairs to have Muammar Gaddafi overthrown under the guise that a freer, more tolerant society would be ushered in, an American Christian has been imprisoned for allegedly proselytizing in Benghazi. News of

The State Department denied multiple reports of U.S. Special Forces and other military groups training the Syrian Opposition Coalition in Jordan on Tuesday saying that the only training they have given to Syrians has been “non-lethal.” State Department Deputy Spokesman

WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) —A U.S. Senate vote in support of the Keystone XL pipeline sends a strong message to President Barack Obama, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce president said. U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., received bipartisan support in the

Environmentalists, terrified that Barack Obama may abandon them and approve the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would transport heavy crude oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, are threatening a massive act of civil disobedience with 50,000 people willing

After jet-setting to Israel to lecture citizens of the Jewish State about how they needed to empathize more with Palestinians who elect Hamas and back Israeli extinction, President Obama demonstrated what empathy means to him: the State Department has announced

Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement Friday on Saeed Abedini, a Christian pastor and U.S. citizen detained in Iran eight months ago, tortured, and sentenced to eight years in prison. Kerry said he was “deeply concerned” about Abedini’s fate

On Saturday, Frank Gaffney, the Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy, told Breitbart’s Uninvited panel at CPAC that the Obama administration’s policy of unilateral de-nuclearization has “profoundly hurt our nation’s national security.“ Very few people are paying

With the news of a Grand Jury investigating business ties between Sen. Bob Menendez and mega-donor Salomon Melgen, Breitbart News revisits the entire time-line of the questionable Dominican port security deal. The timeline of the Melgen-Menendez Dominican port security deal

(AFP) – France has joined Britain in voicing its willingness to supply weapons to Syria’s rebels if it cannot convince its European partners to lift an arms embargo as the conflict enters its third year. “Our goal is to convince

Six months have passed since the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, which killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, and we are no closer to the truth about what happened. And there is only one

Indian refiners may be forced to halt imports of Iranian crude oil after insurance firms said refineries processing oil from Iran will no longer be covered, a report said Saturday. Western sanctions aimed at halting Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme

(AP) – Syrian rebels on Saturday freed 21 U.N. peacekeepers after holding them hostage for four days, ending a sudden entanglement with the world body that earned those trying to oust President Bashar Assad a flood of negative publicity. The

Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) says the “appalling” waste of U.S. reconstruction funding in Iraq demonstrates the need for a “top-to-bottom” review of the State Department and the decision-making process for dispersing aid. According to Corker:  The extent of waste and

QUESTION: I guess the most serious thing we could ever talk about is nuclear war, so why don’t we start with North Korea? How serious do you take the threats from Pyongyang? And what contacts have people in this building

On March 5, Judicial Watch announced that it had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking details on a nearly $400,000 contract the State Department awarded to a private company for security at the American consulate in Benghazi.

President Barack Obama is set to send a U.S. delegation to the funeral of rabidly anti-American Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez’s funeral later this week.   According to Reuters, Senior U.S. officials said the Obama administration also “had no immediate plans

This Friday, Michelle Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry will give ten women the International Women of Courage Award at the State Department. As Samuel Tadros reports, one of those women, Samira Ibrahim, is an anti-Semite and supporter of

On March 4, the House of Representatives put forth a spending bill that adds $2 billion for embassy and consulate security in a bid to prevent another Benghazi-like attack.  This is part of the larger bill that keeps the government

Monday morning, President Obama will announce MIT nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz as his choice for Energy Secretary. A supporter of research into renewable energy, Moniz is also a strong advocate for natural gas and fracking. His nomination is expected to

Dennis Rodman, the former NBA superstar who went to North Korea last week and, by all accounts, was the first American to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, said Jong Un had a message for President Barack Obama:

The State Department has released its much-anticipated report on the environmental impact of the Keystone Pipeline and, to the alarm of the green lobby, it seems to leave President Obama with little reason to continue delaying approval of the project.

The State Department’s $51.6 billion budget for 2013 covers a multitude of things, from the $8.2 billion for the “Overseas Contingency Program”–once called the War on Terror–to the $4.1 billion “in contributions to international organizations.”  Then there’s the $469.5 million

This afternoon, the State Department released a draft environmental assessment of the proposed Keystone Pipeline. The assessment concluded that blocking the pipeline would have little impact on stemming climate change nor curtailing the development of Canada’s oil-sand fields. In other

Although Congressional hearings regarding the deadly attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi brought both Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill as well as CIA Director Leon Panetta to answer questions, Republicans still want more questions answered about the assault that

(AP) Leaving NKorea, Rodman calls Kims ‘great leaders’PYONGYANG, North Korea Ending his unexpected round of basketball diplomacy in North Korea on Friday, ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman called leader Kim Jong Un an “awesome guy” and said his father and grandfather

This morning, the State Department announced that Secretary of State John Kerry has committed $60 million in “non-lethal” aid to assist the Syrian rebels fighting the Assad regime. The announcement comes on the eve of automatic budget cuts across the

Last Tuesday, Dr. Guido Gomez Mazara, a former legal adviser to Dominican Republic President Hipolito Mejia, told the Dominican publication Acento that Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) pressured the State Department and the American Ambassador to the Dominican Republic to revoke his passport.