The Taliban released a video over the weekend that purports to show the execution of 15 Pakistani soldiers -- punishment, they say, for Pakistan attacks on the militants. The video, according to AFP, which it says obtained a copy, shows the soldiers lined up in three rows, each with their hands bound behind their back and blindfolded. A Taliban...

The White House is delaying for one week the release of President Obama's budget for the 2013 fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, a decision that administration officials say was based on "the need to finalize decisions and technical details" but which Republicans say is a direct violation of law. "This will mark the third time in four years the president has missed his statutory requirement to present a budget on time,...

TAMPA, Fla. –  Under pressure, Newt Gingrich arranged the release of a contract Monday night showing the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. paid his consulting firm a $25,000 monthly retainer fee in...

There’s no longer room at the inn at a Manhattan church that’s sheltering Occupy Wall Streeters after a holy vessel disappeared from the altar last week. When the Rev. Bob Brashear prepared for Sunday services at West Park Presbyterian Church on West 86th Street, he noticed parts of the bronze baptismal font were gone. In a fire-and-brimstone message to occupiers later that day, he thundered, “It was like pissing on the 99 percent.” In Brooklyn, at another church housing...

Republicans have a race on their hands. Just days after Mitt Romney seemed poised for a three-for-three streak in the opening presidential primaries, Newt Gingrich ensured the nomination fight will drag on after surging to a decisive victory in the South Carolina election Saturday night. The candidates head next to Florida, which is now expected to be a grueling contest ahead of the Jan. 31 vote -- one which will test Gingrich's organizational strength as well as Romney's positions on issues...

But federal agency still refuses to retest machines after cancer warnings Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, January 16, 2012 Following reports of cancer clusters at Boston-Logan Airport, the TSA is set to test its naked body scanner operators for radiation exposure, but still refuses to test the actual machines that thousands of Americans are forced to pass through each day. “After years of rebuffing health concerns over airport scanners, the Transportation Security...