SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Southern California woman says doctors predicted she would give birth to a big baby boy, but nobody was prepared for just how big. Jayden Sigler weighed in at 13 pounds, 14 ounces, when the healthy boy was delivered Thursday by cesarean section, the North County Times reported Saturday (http://bit.ly/Amd2Wv ). [...]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) (CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that the testimony Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke gave Pelosi on Feb. 23 in the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee was “factual” and that she has “a great deal of respect” for it. Fluke testified that [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (CNSNews.com) – First Lady Michelle Obama said yesterday that she considers Secretary of State Hillary Clinton her role model “in so many ways.” Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Obama are both Ivy League educated lawyers who have served as first lady of the [...]

Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) are both members of the Senate Tea Party Caucus (AP Photos) (CNSNews.com) – Two conservative Republican senators with tea party ties joined 21 Democratic colleagues and an independent senator Wednesday in urging President Obama to accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. Sens. Rand Paul [...]

Law student and reproductive rights activist Sandra Fluke. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – Although Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke testified to the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee last month that contraception can cost a law student $3,000 over three years and that some of her fellow students could not afford it, a Target store only [...]

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Northwestern University law school, Monday, March 5, 2012 in Chicago. Holder said Monday that the decision to kill a U.S. citizen living abroad who poses a terrorist threat “is among the gravest that government leaders can face,” but justified lethal action as legal and sometimes necessary in the [...]

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at the American Legion in Westerville, Ohio on Monday, March 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) (CNSNews.com) – Ten states will host Republican presidential primaries or caucuses on Tuesday, with a total of 391 bound delegates at stake. With nine of the 10 states awarding delegates on a proportional basis, [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Americans spent nearly $51 billion on their pets in 2011. FILE – In this Oct. 26, 2011 photo, groomer Sara Ingram streaks the fur of Yorkshire terrier Betsey Johnson during a spa session at the Barkley Pet Hotel Day Spa in Westlake Village, Calif. Americans spent $50.96 billion on their pets [...]

A Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agent pats down a man before he is returned to Mexico. (Photo: CBP/Gerald L. Nino) (CNSNews.com) – Does the Obama administration intend to enforce the nation’s immigration laws or not? Two Republicans are asking that question, after a federal appeals court halted the deportation of five suspected illegal [...]

Youcef Nadarkhani and his wife, Fatemah. (Photo courtesy of Present Truth Ministries) (CNSNews.com) – The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a resolution calling on Iran to free a Christian pastor sentenced to death for “apostasy.” Youcef Nadarkhani has resisted multiple attempts by Iranian authorities to persuade him to renounce his faith. The measure passed [...]