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House panel threatens to cut defense secretary budget over Bergdahl stonewalling

April 16, 2015: Defense Secretary Ash Carter, right, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon. (AP) The head of a powerful House panel is threatening to withhold defense funding over the…

New Trouble for Clinton Foundation

FILE: June 12, 2012: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department, in Washington, D.C. (AP) The Clinton Foundation in the spotlight today as the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal all carry pieces…

State Dept. contractor allegedly paid by Chinese agent to spy on Americans – yet no charges filed

Newly unsealed court documents obtained by Fox News show a State Department contractor allegedly was paid thousands by an individual thought to be a Chinese agent in exchange for information on Americans — but despite an FBI probe, the Justice…

Dana (Perino) goes to Washington

I was seven-years-old when I first visited the White House. My mom had a high school friend that worked on Air Force One manifests, and she invited us for a tour while my parents and I were in the nation’s…

Hillary Clinton vs. GOP: Republicans can’t win White House on attacks alone

April 14, 2015: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with local residents at the Jones St. Java House in LeClaire, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) April 14, 2015: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. (AP) PreviousNext To bond with “everyday”…

DEA chief tells House committee she can’t fire agents involved in sex parties

WASHINGTON – With the Secret Service still smarting from its 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, another federal law agency is in hot water over an even more salacious sex scandal – in the same country. The Administrator of the…

States flouting post-9/11 ID law, giving cards to illegal immigrants that mirror licenses

After the 9/11 attacks, Congress passed the REAL ID Act to prevent foreign nationals from fraudulently obtaining a U.S. driver’s license — by requiring that any ID issued based on unverifiable foreign documents look different in “design or color” from…

Nuclear talks with Iran and Indiana’s religious freedom law

This is a RUSH transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” April 2, 2015. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! O’REILLY: “Personal Story Segment”…

Syria now at a ‘dangerous tipping point,’ UN warns

The four-and-a-half-year old Syrian civil war has become an “unsustainable” humanitarian disaster that threatens soon to undermine the stability of neighboring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, United Nations aid officials are warning. While the world’s wealthier countries this week…

French Alps crash shows psychiatrists cannot be last line of defense

French Red Cross members pay tribute March 28, 2015, to the victims of a Germanwings plane crash in front of a stone slab erected as a monument in Le Vernet, France. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) There has been a lot of…