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UN agency food aid vouchers in Syrian crisis diverted and sold for cash

A Syrian refugee removes water and mud around his UN-supplied tent, at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon) EXCLUSIVE: A World Food Program initiative that handed out hundreds of millions of dollars…

Forget Cuba or health care reform, Obama’s real legacy is Middle East nukes

President Obama recently sat down for a long, wide-ranging interview with Thomas Friedman, the New York Times’ premier columnist and multiple Pulitzer Prize winner. It was supposed to be an elevated discussion between two intellectuals about the weighty foreign policy…

Hillary’s Chipotle campaign: How the press is subsisting on scraps

The headline was tongue in cheek, I guess: “Hillary Clinton Eats Food.” Her world-famous stop at Chipotle is a metaphor for utter absurdity of the coverage as she rolled to Iowa in a van, which was treated as the most…

2016 race: Why Hillary’s biggest obstacle is ‘Clinton fatigue’

In this image taken from video posted to hillaryclinton.com on Sunday, April 12, 2015, Hillary Rodham Clinton announces her campaign for president. The former secretary of state, senator and first lady enters the race in a strong position to succeed…

Eric Bolling: Political dynasties

The office of the President is supposed to go to the man or woman who generates the most ideas to make America better. It’s supposed to go to the man or woman who has the leadership skills to stimulate the…

Meet the largest aircraft on earth

A U.S. Army mega aircraft – a hybrid of plane, helicopter, hovercraft and airship- is going civilian. Designed by British design company Hybrid Air Vehicles for the U.S. military, this massive piece of next-gen tech can travel through the air…

How the obsessive, dishonest prosecution of Scooter Libby almost cost us Iraq

FILE — I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby (AP) People who wonder why the war in Iraq went so wrong for so long, will need to read Judith Miller’s new book “The Story: A Reporter’s Journey.” Miller details how special prosecutor Patrick…

‘Alien’ camel skeleton discovered along the Danube river

The nearly complete skeleton of a camel, dating to the 17th century, was discovered along the Danube River in Tulln, Austria. (Alfred Galik/Vetmeduni Vienna) The skeleton of a camel that lived in the 17th century during the second Ottoman-Habsburg war…

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…

Quillaja: Coming to your beer, soda and shampoo

Sustainable quillaja harvesting in Chile (Chris Kilham) Two men with chain saws stand in the warm Chilean sun, cutting branches from trees. There are plenty of bees here buzzing around in the central valley, especially in this part where pesticides…