U.S. Treasury Department (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – The number of American workers collecting federal disability insurance benefits hit yet another record high in October, according to the Social Security Administration. This month 8,803,335 disabled workers are collecting benefits, up from the previous record of 8,786,049 set in September. In February 2009, the first full month [...]

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has warned the OSCE that its observers risk criminal prosecution if they approach polling stations in the state. (AP Photo/File) (CNSNews.com) – The head of an international body that will monitor the U.S. elections next month protested to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday after Texas’ attorney-general warned that any [...]

Celebrity ‘Top Chef’ Judge Tom Colicchio spoke on Oct. 24, 2012 in Washington, D.C. at the launch of the Food Policy Action group. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) – The founders of the new Food Policy Action group used National Food Day on Wednesday to launch a new website to “score” members of Congress on their votes [...]

U.S. currency. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – Workers in New York pay the highest in local and state taxes, while workers in Alaska pay the least, according to data released by the Tax Foundation today. According to Gallup, New York is among the top 10 Democratic states, and Alaska leans Republican although it is not in [...]

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama walks past each other on stage at the end of their last debate at Lynn University, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s assertion that Iran faces the toughest sanctions ever imposed is accurate [...]

U.S. military guards at the Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP File Photo/Brennan Linsley) (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama last week blamed Congress for being unable to close the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, during an interview with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” “There [...]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Two off-duty Florida law-enforcement officers fatally shot an armed, naked woman who confronted them at a social gathering Saturday, authorities said. The shooting occurred at about 1:15 p.m. Saturday in Hernando County, north of Tampa. The county sheriff’s office said in a news release that the men were approached by an [...]

An appeal for Congress to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which finally happened in September 2011. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – A 26-year-old lesbian deployed to Afghanistan reportedly brought along male hormones — part of her ongoing sex change from female to male, the Military Times reported this week. The Specialist — who eventually plans to [...]

(AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – New York and Massachusetts are administering food stamps to 2,000 dead people, according to Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) catalog of government waste. The 2012 Waste Book, released earlier this week, documents $4.5 billion in waste in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. Among his findings, Coburn [...]

(AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – The combined number of people enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare–the government health-care programs for the poor, disabled and elderly–now exceeds the number of full-time private sector workers in the United States. In 2011, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), there were 70.4 million people who enrolled in [...]