PM to Ashton: If Hezbollah is not a terrorist group, who is?

by www.jpost.com  |  June 20, 2013  07:17 AM

In meeting with EU foreign policy chief, PM takes swipe for not blacklisting Hezbollah; ahead of Kerry visit says EU undermining efforts by focusing on settlements; calls on EU to pressure Iran over nuclear aims.

AP EXCLUSIVE: Taliban offer to free US soldier

by hosted2.ap.org  |  June 20, 2013  04:32 AM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The Afghan Taliban are ready to free a U.S. army soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as a conciliatory gesture, a senior spokesman for the group said Thursday.

First Video is In!

by dailycaller.com  |  June 20, 2013  04:04 AM

First reader video is in, from “Ex Machina.” Mainly an anti-Rubio hit. Well done–Ann Coulter in particular will approve the mocking of Edward Kennedy’s 1965 promises. The final prescription maybe a tad too harsh for me, but I am a known wuss on the deportation issue. (I’m willing to have a legalization/amnesty if effective border enforcement [...]

Medical care lags behind Afghan military growth

by hosted2.ap.org  |  June 20, 2013  03:42 AM

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHINWAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The young Afghan soldier lay in great pain on a cot at an army base, his uniform pants cut up to his thigh so medics could clean the wound in his right knee where he was shot fighting insurgents.

In northern Iraqi city, al-Qaida gathers strength

by hosted2.ap.org  |  June 20, 2013  03:28 AM

BAGHDAD (AP) - Al-Qaida's Iraq arm is gathering strength in the restive northern city of Mosul, ramping up its fundraising through gangland-style shakedowns and feeding off anti-government anger as it increasingly carries out attacks with impunity, according to residents and officials.

James Gandolfini: He let his characters star

by hosted2.ap.org  |  June 20, 2013  03:27 AM

NEW YORK (AP) - James Gandolfini would have hated all this fuss.

Senators closing in on border security compromise

by hosted2.ap.org  |  June 20, 2013  03:23 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) - White House-backed immigration legislation is gaining momentum in the Senate, where key lawmakers say they are closing in on a bipartisan compromise to spend tens of billions of dollars stiffening the bill's border security requirements without delaying legalization for millions living in the country unlawfully.

Where was the Tea Party on Election Day? [VIDEO]

by dailycaller.com  |  June 20, 2013  01:05 AM

Daily Caller senior editor Jamie Weinstein visited the Tea Party Patriots’ rally on Capitol Hill Wednesday to see where the tea party disappeared to on Election Day last November when it mattered. Only, he got sidetracked by an interminable speech by messianic conservative preacher Glenn Beck, a tea party pretzel maker, a bold political candidate from [...]

CBO says immigration bill aids investors, not wage earners

by dailycaller.com  |  June 20, 2013  01:02 AM

Bill to drive down wages for low-skill Americans, increasing income inequality

Farm bill amendment seeks to allow hemp production

by dailycaller.com  |  June 20, 2013  01:00 AM

'Voters across the country have made it clear that they believe industrial hemp should be regulated as agricultural commodity, not a drug'