May 2, 2012 – Fox News has confirmed Newt Gingrich met with Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades on Monday to talk about how the former House Speaker can assist as a surrogate and fundraiser for the presumptive Republican nominee. At the meeting, the Romney campaign also offered to connect Gingrich with their network...

May 2, 2012 – Prominent Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy in Beijing, a week after seeking shelter following his escape from house arrest. Mr Chen's lawyer said the activist was "happy" after receiving "clear assurances" from Beijing that he would be free to stay in China and study....

May 2, 2012 – A new report reveals plans to keep residents and dignitaries safe during the NATO Summit include a no-fly zone, with a shoot-to-kill mandate for those who break the ban. As CBS 2’s Susanna Song reports, the government is warning small plane pilots that if they enter the no-fly zone...

May 2, 2012 – The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is attacking House Republicans over their plans to extend the Bush-era tax cuts without paying for them with budget cuts. In a statement Wednesday, the DCCC pointed out that House Republicans pushed to offset the extension of a payroll tax cut earlier this...

May 2, 2012 – An ethics watchdog group is using the hacking scandal in the United Kingdom to call on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to cancel Fox's broadcast licenses. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday, arguing that U.S. law...

May 2, 2012 – An ethics watchdog group is using the hacking scandal in the United Kingdom to call on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to cancel Fox's broadcast licenses. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday, arguing that U.S. law...

May 2, 2012 – As recession spreads across Europe, Germany may not be able to avoid being dragged down. In the past week, Spain and the United Kingdom revealed that they had slipped back into recession, with two straight quarters of economic contraction. In all, 12 European economies are now...

May 2, 2012 – Assailants targeted protesters demonstrating against the exclusion of a presidential candidate in Cairo early Wednesday, killing at least 11, medical sources told CNN. At least 100 people were injured, said Hisham Shiha, the deputy minister of health. It was unclear who the attackers were, but they were not...

May 2, 2012 – Private companies are pulling back on hiring. Businesses added just 119,000 jobs in April, according to a report issued Wednesday by payroll-processing company ADP. The number fell far short of the 170,000 jobs economists were expecting. Earlier this year, the same report showed companies added 201,000 jobs...

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May 2, 2012 – The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into allegations that up to 80 complaints of sexual assault over three years were not investigated thoroughly because of gender bias in a college town in Montana. The investigation will look into sexual assault investigations at the University of Montana at Missoula, the...

May 1, 2012 – In the April issue of Townhall Magazine, we featured the powerful story of Brandon Darby ("Radical Awakening: From America Hater to…

May 1, 2012 – A New York City barber was accused of violating the city’s discrimination policy because he charged women three dollars more for a hair cut than men. “I’m here for 21 years and I’ve never heard of such a thing,” said Leon Kogut, the owner of Leon’s Fantasy Cut in...

May 1, 2012 – Serving and former US Navy SEALs have slammed President Barack Obama for taking the credit for killing Osama bin Laden and accused him of using Special Forces operators as ‘ammunition’ for his re-election campaign. The SEALs spoke out to MailOnline after the Obama campaign released an ad entitled ‘One...

May 1, 2012 – President Obama’s healthcare law gives the country’s biggest businesses a strong incentive to quit offering healthcare benefits, House Republicans said Tuesday. Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee said employers would save billions of dollars if they quit offering health coverage to their employees and instead pushed workers into...

May 1, 2012 – Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) has put forward legislation creating a federal program aimed at reducing the number of overweight Americans. The Lifelong Improvements in Food and Exercise (LIFE) act, H.R. 4604, proposes spending $25 million on the program in fiscal year 2013, and "such sums as may be...

May 1, 2012 – The leader of an Amish sect in Ohio, who was indicted on federal charges for allegedly shaving the beards and cutting the hair of community members, must pay for his own legal defense after making millions off an oil-and-gas deal, court documents show. Previously ruled indigent, Samuel Mullet Sr....

May 1, 2012 – China's government says manufacturing activity continued to recover in April, with an index of purchasing managers' sentiment rising for the fifth straight month. The index released Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics rose to 53.3 in April from 53.1 the previous month. The index bottomed out at 49...

May 1, 2012 – Occupy May Day is underway. Occupy San Francisco got an early start on May Day, kicking off its organized protest at 8 p.m. local time on April 30. "San Francisco, once a stronghold of the dispossessed, has become a playground for the rich and a living hell...

Apr 30, 2012 – No wonder Townhall columnist and professor of criminology Mike Adams suggested to me that a more accurate name for the Southern Poverty…

Apr 30, 2012 – Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe tomorrow calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth. Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence...

Apr 30, 2012 – President Obama's top energy and environmental officials are casting their work as a core piece of White House efforts to boost the economy while using rough-and-tumble language to parry Republican attacks. Four speeches over four days by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson signal a political...

Apr 30, 2012 – The killing of Osama bin Laden is undoubtedly a crowning achievement in President Obama's tenure at the White House. Yet one year after the president ordered the successful mission that resulted in the death of the nation's number one enemy, it's unclear how much of a boost Obama...

Apr 30, 2012 – The wife of a former campaign aide for John Edwards takes the stand Monday in a federal court in North Carolina, where she is expected to detail her role in helping conceal the one-time Democratic presidential hopeful's affair with a videographer. Cheri Young continues her testimony from Friday. Her...

Apr 30, 2012 – Spain has fallen into its second recession since 2009 as its economy shrank for the second consecutive quarter, according to a government report Monday. There are now a dozen European nations that have had their economies shrink for two consecutive quarters, a condition that generally equates to a recession....