A young Indian bonded child laborer cries as he is walked away after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement, at a garment factory in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) (CNSNews.com) – The Department of Labor announced on Monday that its [...]

Red light camera at a Chicago intersection. (AP) (CNSNews.com) – Contrary to its claims, the City of Chicago’s red light cameras are not based on safety, according to an Inspector General (IG) audit of the program that brought in more than $71 million in revenue for the city last year. The audit, released on May [...]

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNew.com) – The way to prevent abortionists like convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell from occurring again is to build more Planned Parenthood clinics, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Thursday about legislation that would prevent abortion after 20 weeks nationwide. “I would urge my [...]

In this July 20, 2006 file photo, a woman smokes a cigarette during a break from work in downtown Chicago. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) (CNSNews.com) – The National Institutes of Health issued a $536,526 grant to the University of Illinois, Chicago, for a two-year program ending in July to study the smoking cessation of lesbian, [...]

President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday during a press conference on Capitol Hill that the buck doesn’t stop with President Barack Obama on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, because he cannot “know about everything that is going on in [...]

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., left, and the committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., want answers from the IRS. (AP File Photo) (CNSNews.com) – What did the White House know about the IRS targeting conservative groups and when did it know it? Crucial evidence needed to develop an accurate [...]

A flag flies in the debris of a mobile home after a tornado struck a mobile home park near Dale, Okla., Sunday, May 19, 2013.pp_img type= MOORE, Okla. (AP) — A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a [...]

President Obama meets with Burmese President Thein Sein in the Oval Office on Monday, May 20, 2013 (Image: White House) (CNSNews.com) – Setting aside a long-held U.S. policy, President Obama — when hosting the president of Burma in the Oval Office on Monday — used the military-backed regime’s preferred term for the country, Myanmar – [...]

Cell phone (AP File Photo) (CNSNews.com) – The federal government is spending $146,944 in taxpayer funds to research sending automated text messages to people with depression to remind them to take their medication and monitor their mood and thoughts. The text messages will “prompt patients to monitor mood, thoughts and behaviors.” It will also “provide [...]

  (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – The audience rose to its feet after Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Penn.) chided Acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller about the Internal Revenue Service’s  treatment of taxpayers at a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday.   The hearing focused on the agency’s targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt [...]