When Bill Clinton was asked about foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, the former president told the Today Show: “All I’m saying is the idea that there’s one set of rules for us and another set for everybody else is true.” One set …

When President Obama took office I had high hopes for his national security team – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen. James Jones. But on the Homeland Security front it’s been Ready, Fire……Oops……. Aim. Remember when the president promised to shut Guantanamo within his first …

Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn’t they hardly notice it. It’s hard to worry about what happens in the Mideast when you don’t have a job in the Midwest. So for the next four years, most Americans won’t pay attention …

This week, I had the privilege of testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about the growing consensus from both Republicans and Democrats that our swelling criminal justice system is in need of reform. Over the course of the last decade, various states across the country have …

KETCHIKAN, Alaska – Ed and Renee Schofield were surprised when they got a call from the pound in Ketchikan. They were indeed missing their chocolate Labrador, Bently. But the Ketchikan Gateway Borough animal shelter is a long swim from their home on Pennock Island. The Schofields were told Wednesday that …

LONDON – A British man who beheaded an 82-year-old woman in her backyard has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity but will be locked up indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. Nicholas Salvador stabbed Palmira Silva to death in north London in September. He cut off her …

UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. panel is calling for Internet and social media companies to respond to the exploitation of their services by al-Qaida and other extremist groups who use the web to recruit fighters and spout “increasingly horrific propaganda.” The panel recommended in a report circulated Wednesday that these …

PRISTINA, Kosovo – Kosovo’s Parliament has failed to pass constitutional amendments that would allow the establishment of a special court to prosecute war crimes including the killing of hundreds of Serb civilians. In a major blow to relations between Kosovo and its main international backer, the United States, the 120-seat …

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A Texas woman vanished while snorkeling off the northwestern coast of Curacao last week, and the local coast guard stopped looking for her after three days of fruitless searching, authorities reported Monday. Amanda Waller was last seen Thursday while swimming back to Curacao’s popular Cas Abao beach. …

MOSCOW – Russian gas giant Gazprom says it has halted supplies to neighboring Ukraine after the collapse of pricing talks. Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said Russia halted the supply at 10 a.m. Moscow time on Wednesday because Ukraine did not pay the advance for the July delivery. Russian and Ukrainian …