NORWICH, New York – A New Jersey man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Thursday for running over a 12-year-old baby sitter after a GPS system secretly installed by his suspicious wife helped convict him. Prosecutors said George Ford Jr. intentionally ran over Shyanne Somers with his …

JERUSALEM – Israeli police say four people were killed, including a British tourist, when a helicopter crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off the Israeli coast. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the civilian helicopter crashed about 300 meters from the seaside city of Netanya Tuesday afternoon, killing all four people aboard, …

GENEVA – The campaign posters are inflammatory: Minarets rising like missiles from the national flag. A proposal championed by right-wing parties to ban minarets in Switzerland goes to a nationwide vote on Sunday in a referendum that has set off an emotional debate about national identity and stirred fears of …

With the Copenhagen climate talks starting next week, climate-gate keeps getting worse. There is no precedent for so many academics engaging in coordinated efforts to distort research for political ends. The problems go well beyond deleting e-mails to prevent their disclosure from a Freedom of Information Act request. The UN …

The news that is not White House approved… Goodness and Welfare The health care law’s requirement that all individuals purchase health care insurance has raised constitutional questions among lawmakers and scholars alike. CNS tracked down Michigan Representative John Conyers to ask him what he had to say about the issue, …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Complaint Department Michigan Democrat John Conyers appears to be on President Obama’s “naughty” list this year. The second longest-serving member of the House tells The Hill newspaper he received a call from the president several weeks ago expressing frustration with Conyers’ criticism: …

The Christian faith of early 20th-century Irish author C.S. Lewis is enjoying a rebirth right now as American culture, and the wider Western world, appear to have lost a sense of right and wrong. Credit the recent rediscovery of the author’s writings on religion, culture and morality, including “A Christmas …

SEAN HANNITY – An impeachment inquiry has been formally announced and here’s what’s happening inside the Biden White House. You have Joe Biden, who wants you to just simply trust him. Now, Joe has previously lied about, let’s see, his past employment, his grades in law school, his trips on …

Senator McCain and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney traded insults this week over intelligence leaks – McCain called the Obama White House “grossly irresponsible” to leak classified information for political gain, while Carney called McCain “grossly irresponsible” for even suggesting it. I’ve been in three presidential administrations, and frankly, …

You hear the bell ringing and you look and see The Salvation Army’s famous “red kettle” and you know it’s getting close to Christmas. First started in 1891 in San Francisco, the “Red Kettle Christmas Campaign” is The Salvation Army’s biggest and most visible fundraising program to help the needy …