The United States Embassy in Jamaica is suspending all visa operations and nonessential services for Americans as violence continues to escalate in the island nation’s capital, a State Department spokesman told FoxNews.com on Monday. A travel alert remains in effect for the area. The State Department issued the alert on …

The principal of a public school in Brookline, Mass., is asking parents to fill out permission slips before their children can participate in a weekly recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. Gerardo Martinez, the principal of The Devotion School, informed parents that the school would begin reciting the pledge in …

Stuffing a stocking or wrapping an oddly shaped present? Science can help. Whether it’s Christmas shoppers mailing last minute gifts or a steelyard dispatching ball bearings to factories, everyone wants to maximize the number of objects that fit into a container. Naturally the packing fraction — the fraction of the …

LOS ANGELES – Jada Pinkett Smith is adding another title to her resume: schoolmaster. The 37-year-old actress-producer-musician and her husband, Will Smith, opened the New Village Leadership Academy last fall. The private school, for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, has 60 students, according to the Web site. Pinkett Smith hopes to …

A United Nations report on climate change that has been lambasted for its faulty research is under new attack for yet another instance of what its critics say is sloppy science — adding to a growing scandal that has undermined the credibility of scientists and policymakers who back the U.N.’s …

Sources inside ‘The Colbert Report’ tell FoxNews.com that the sudden suspension of Colbert’s Comedy Central show is due to a family emergency. Comedy Central refused to comment on that information, other than to say that “due to unforeseen circumstances, the show will air repeat episodeson Wednesday, February 15 and Thursday, …

The most important takeaway from Tuesday night’s Florida primary results is that with nearly 4-in-10 (38%) of primary voters saying that they are not satisfied with any of the GOP candidates, all four contenders have a lot work to do in advance of Super Tuesday on March 6 — when …

With the news that a military body is ruling Egypt, the question immediately turns to what the U.S. should do. And the answer is that on the most fundamental level the U.S. needs to play a clear and decisive role in pushing the transition to democracy and free and fair …

Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court disavowed the truth about marriage that diverse cultures and faiths around the globe have embraced for millennia: that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. Why has this fact been recognized so universally and for so long? The answer is simple: the …

The Green citizens have rolled the dice and voted overwhelmingly to reject the “austerity” referendum. This was a way for voters to stick a finger in the eye of their creditors. The left around the world has responded to the vote with thunderous applause – and is seling the results …