Apr 2, 2012 – A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck southern Mexico on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake's epicenter was about 17 miles (27 kilometers) from Ometepec, Guerrero. It was about 7.6 miles (12 kilometers) deep, the USGS said. There were no immediate reports of...

Apr 2, 2012 – Police captured a suspect in a shooting at a California religious college that resulted in "multiple fatalities" Monday, an Oakland police spokeswoman said. Several other wounded people were taken to hospitals, police said. Highland Hospital spokeswoman Jerri Applegate told KGO-TV that five shooting victims were being treated there....

Apr 2, 2012 – As circus great P. T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute."  The latest sucker appears to be the #1 clown at NBC News, President Steve Capus, who keeps tripping on his over-sized clown shoes.  Steve keeps falling in the sticky stuff left by the rogue circus elephants at...

Apr 2, 2012 – George Will discusses President Obama's open mic comments on the "This Week" roundtable. ABC's George Will said that President Obama's open mic comments asking the Russian president Dmitri Medvedev for "flexibility" and "space" on missile defense until after November's election reinforced perceptions that he is "kind of slippery, very...

Apr 2, 2012 – President Obama has extended an olive branch to Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and invited him to the White House this week to attend a signing ceremony for bipartisan jobs legislation. Eight months ago, Obama and Cantor clashed sharply during negotiations to raise the debt limit. At...

Apr 2, 2012 – Screams recorded on a 911 call during the confrontation that ended in Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's death don't seem to be those of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, two audio experts who analyzed the recordings said Monday. Zimmerman, 28, has claimed self-defense in the February 26 shooting, saying Martin...

Apr 2, 2012 – The United States is expanding its support for the Syrian opposition, agreeing to supply communications equipment and other aid but stopping short of arming anti-regime forces. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at an international conference in Turkey, joined other countries in pledging a fresh round of aid for...

Apr 2, 2012 – A major donor to President Barack Obama has been accused of defrauding a businessman and impersonating a bank official, creating new headaches for Obama's re-election campaign as it deals with the questionable history of another top supporter. The New York donor, Abake Assongba, and her husband contributed more than...

Apr 2, 2012 – A Pakistani judge sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters on Monday to 45 days of house detention for living illegally in Pakistan, the widows' lawyer said. The judge ordered that after their term, the five be deported back to their countries of citizenship, said Amir Khalil,...

Apr 2, 2012 – Would you rather have $1 to spend, or $1.49 billion? For winners in three states, all it took was a dollar to cash in and reap the rewards of Friday's record-setting Mega Millions jackpot. By picking the same winning numbers -- 2, 4, 23, 38, 46 with a Mega...

Apr 2, 2012 – A twin-engine plane carrying 43 people crashed soon after takeoff in Siberia on Monday, killing all but 12 people on board, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said. The plane had taken off from the city of Tyumen and traffic control lost contact with it immediately afterward, the ministry said....

Apr 2, 2012 – A woman who was found guilty of killing five patients at a Texas dialysis center by injecting them with bleach will learn her fate this week. A jury in Angelia County found Kimberly Saenz, 38, guilty last week of capital murder in connection with the deaths. On Monday,...

Apr 19, 2012 – A South Carolina county's deputies say a McDonald's employee spit in two customers' cups of iced tea after the drinks were returned because they weren't sweet enough. Authorities say 19-year-old Marvin Washington Jr. was arrested Wednesday and charged with malicious tampering with food. Greenville County investigators say surveillance...

Apr 19, 2012 – Sadly, since the regime is uncommitted to adequately feeding their own people – as I explain in my Townhall Magazine piece A Ruined…

Apr 19, 2012 – Incidentally, in the May issue of Townhall Magazine, my TH colleagues have dedicated an entire feature – available for purchase here…

Apr 19, 2012 – The United States is prepared for "any contingency" when it comes to dealing with North Korea, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told CNN. "We're within an inch of war almost every day in that part of the world, and we just have to be very careful about what we...

Apr 19, 2012 – Fifteen months after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords led to calls for politicians to tone down their rhetoric, Republicans and Democrats are prominently using “war” in their respective campaign messages. Members of both parties had urged their colleagues to ratchet down the animus following the January 2011 assassination...

Apr 19, 2012 – The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is warning the Obama administration that Congress could refuse to fund Afghan security forces after U.S. troops leave the country. In an interview with The Hill, Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) offered his strongest warning to Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government, saying...

Apr 19, 2012 – An appeal over singer Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" and brief partial nudity on national television has reached the Supreme Court, the latest free speech episode over indecent, if fleeting, images and words on the public airwaves. The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether record government...

Apr 19, 2012 – The global financial system is still on shaky ground and the multinational institution that's tasked with propping it up needs more money. "We need more resources," International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde said in a recent speech. The IMF, which acts as the United Nations...

Apr 19, 2012 – Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik says he was planning to capture and decapitate former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during his shooting massacre on Utoya island. Breivik told a court that he planned to film the beheading and post the video on the Internet. Brundtland had already...

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Apr 18, 2012 – Democrats] showed absolutely no interest in discussing our big picture problems or offering solutions," a GOP budget aide tells Townhall…

Apr 18, 2012 – White House spokesman Jay Carney reacted to the publication of photos in the Los Angeles Times of U.S. soldiers posing with corpses in Afghanistan by saying the Obama administration is "disappointed.. [with] the decision to publish two years after the incident," according to a pool report. Carney is...