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New US hostage policy will help families work with gov’t, say negotiators

A former FBI hostage negotiator who dealt with Islamist terrorists holding Americans for ransom said President Obama’s new strategy for handling such cases is a “step in the right direction” that clears the way for families and the government to…

Fox News Poll: Obama too soft on Islamic extremists, keep Gitmo open

American voters think Barack Obama is too soft on Islamic extremists, and that the U.S. fight against them is going badly. ; Fifty-eight percent in the latest Fox News poll say the president is too soft on Islamic extremists, including…

Gross dishonesty in the media

This is a RUSH transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” June 24, 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: In the “Impact…

Bon Jovi, Lady Gaga headlining Clinton fundraising spree

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton embarked Monday on an aggressive campaign dash across the United States, further fueling questions about whether the front-running Democratic presidential candidate is having a harder time than expected locking down the Left in the face of…

Gun-free zones an easy target for killers

The horrible tragedy last night that left nine people dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., probably could have been avoided. Like so many other attacks, the massacre took place in a gun-free zone, a place…

DIA Director sees Iraq as ‘quagmire,’ but strikes term from testimony

EXCLUSIVE: One of President Obama’s top intelligence officers has privately concluded that the situation in Iraq is a “quagmire,” but struck the term from testimony being prepared for him to deliver on Capitol Hill, Fox News has learned. Internal documents…

Connecticut’s strict gun licensing law linked to steep drop in homicides? Not really

A new study in the American Journal of Public Health claims that the state of Connecticut’s 1995 gun licensing law has reduced firearm homicide rates by 40 percent. But this just released study gives academics a bad name. Not surprisingly,…

Facebook purges pages offering priceless ISIS plunder for sale

These items, believed to have been stolen by ISIS, were offered for sale on Facebook. Facebook struck back at ISIS this week, taking down pages the terrorist army’s middlemen were using to try to sell plundered treasure and artifacts from…

Iran satellite launches tied to ballistic missile program, UN experts say

EXCLUSIVE: Iran has launched a space satellite using technology that could “contribute to” the development of a ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons, according to a United Nations-appointed panel of experts monitoring the issue. Tehran intends to launch more…

Sources: Administration tried to recruit Taliban 5 members as informants, effort was ‘total failure’

The U.S. government tried to recruit members of the Taliban Five as assets, so they could gather intelligence and the U.S. could influence their future actions, Fox News has learned. The effort to “flip” the five Taliban leaders into becoming…