(CNSNews.com) – Former President George W. Bush said Tuesday that the Arab Spring is “the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet Communism.” “These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom,” Bush said in a speech in Washington, D.C., sponsored by his presidential foundation, the George W. Bush Institute. “In the Arab Spring [...]

Ann Romney, her son, and her husband, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – A CBS/New York Times poll on the presidential race released Monday showed that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has not only moved ahead of President Barack Obama 46 percent to 43 percent among all registered voters, but also that [...]

Islamist presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh, left, and former foreign minister Amr Moussa take part in Egypt’s first-ever televised presidential debate in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Khaled, Al Masry Al Youm) (CNSNews.com) – As Egyptians prepare to vote for their first post-Mubarak president next week, the antipathy towards Israel espoused by [...]

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President Obama discuss the Chicago summit, during a meeting at the Oval Office on May 9, 2012. (Photo: NATO) (CNSNews.com) – NATO’s summit in Chicago this month – the first on U.S. soil in 13 years – will be the biggest in its history, with some 60 countries and [...]

Actor George Clooney and President Barack Obama at the White House on Oct. 12, 2010. (White House Photo/Pete Souza) (CNSNews.com) – At fundraiser dinner at the Hollywood home of actor George Clooney on Thursday night, President Barack Obama joked that he and the actor were “Dope and Hope.” “It was wonderful,” Obama said, “walking through [...]

Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo) on left. (AP photo) (CNSNews.com) – Just hours after President Obama came out Wednesday in favor of homosexual “marriage,” members of the House Armed Services Committee voted 36 to 25 to adopt an amendment protecting the religious liberty of military service members,  especially chaplains, on the issue of same-sex marriage. The [...]

This March 10, 2012 photo provided by Jeff Gilligan, a passenger of the American-based cruise ship Star Princess, shows a fishing vessel adrift in the Pacific Ocean off the Galapagos Islands. (AP Photo/Jeff Gilligan) (CNSNews.com) – Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, now a lobbyist, is backing ratification of the same Law of the Sea [...]

A defiant Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, pounds his fist on the podium as he answers questions regarding the Department of Justice announcing a federal civil lawsuit against Sheriff Arpaio and his department, during a news conference Thursday, May 10, 2012, in Phoenix. According to the Department of Justice, after months of negotiations failed to [...]

Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio (AP Photo) PHOENIX (AP) – Federal authorities have said they plan to sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office over allegations of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latinos. The U.S. Justice Department has been seeking an agreement requiring Arpaio’s office to train officers in how [...]

(AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – A new U.S. Border Patrol security strategy, presented to lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday, does not contain performance measures to assess its effectiveness, according to a federal auditor. Testifying before the House Homeland Security subcommittee on border and maritime security, Rebecca Gambler, the acting director for homeland security and justice issues [...]