December 19, 2012

Lawmakers in Washington have stripped an amendment from next year’s National Defense Authorization Act that could have kept the government from indefinitely detaining US citizens without charge or trial.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Michigan) told reporters on Tuesday that an amendment to…

December 18, 2012

An 11-year-old student may face charges after he said his parents encouraged him to bring a gun to school for protection.

Fox Salt Lake City reports that the …

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December 18, 2012

Large store chains responded to the Sandy Hook massacre by suspending sales or pulling ads of semiautomatic rifles, similar to the one used last Friday. Gun stores are under intense pressure from the massive outcry against assault rifles after last week's massacre in Newtown,…

December 18, 2012

"[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, check for your ID."

Stovall said while some people may be offended by the actions of his department, they should not be.

"We're…

December 18, 2012

Across this devastated town, students returned to schools Tuesday, marking the beginning of a new reality.

With their sense of normalcy shattered after last week's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, students at other schools are seeing more police and counselors on hand.…

December 17, 201

Gandhi is known around the world as the master of "nonviolence." And yet, in the face of being threatened with bullying attacks, even Gandhi directly advocated the use of violence in the defense of the innocent. Had Gandhi been alive today and witnessed the senseless loss of life at Sandy…

December 17, 2012

Three days after it suffered one of the worst mass shootings in US history, Newtown in Connecticut has begun the dreadful process of burying the 27 victims on Monday, starting with two of the young children to be killed in their classrooms at Sandy Hook elementary school.

One of the two boys was the youngest of all…

December 17, 2012

A key law that has prevented millions of low-income tenants from becoming homeless is set to expire at the end of the 113th Congress, kicking off what experts warn could be a new wave of evictions.

Homelessness is up 16 percent among families in major cities since the beginning of the foreclosure crisis, according to a report…

December 16, 2012

December 17, 2012

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December 17, 2012

The first photo of imprisoned Marine, Jon Hammar from his Mexican jail cell shows him with shackles on his leg. The image was sent to Hammar’s family from an anonymous email account. Fox News Latino reported the email read: “I found your…

December 17, 2012

Two people were wounded late Sunday when gunfire erupted at a local movie theater, sending panicked moviegoers rushing to exits and ducking for cover, police and witnesses said.

A lone suspect was in custody after being wounded by an unidentified law enforcement officer, a Bexar County…

December 15, 2012

Vics suffer as $60B aid plan gets porked up. 

President Obama’s $60.4 billion request for Hurricane Sandy relief has morphed into a huge Christmas stocking of goodies for federal agencies and even the state of Alaska, The Post has learned.

The pork-barrel feast includes more than $8 million to buy cars and…

December 17, 2012

There isn’t a lot to do in Paragould, Arkansas, but residents of the town of barely 25,000 seem to have no problem finding trouble. Now in order to curb the rising crime rate, the city is proposing heavily armed police patrol the streets on foot.

At a town hall meeting on Thursday, Mayor Mike Gaskill and Police Chief Todd…

December 17, 2012

Police in Los Angeles, California have arrested a man that they say made criminal threats against area elementary schools.

The identity of the suspect, apprehended Sunday afternoon, has not been released. On Monday, however, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the individual was still in custody after making online…

In the aftermath of the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, a shocked and grieving nation is grasping for answers to an agonizingly simple question: Who could do such a thing? Who could walk into a classroom full of 6-year-olds, innocent…

December 17, 2012

Several armed suspects have been arrested for attempts to recreate the Connecticut elementary school shooting massacre, which killed at least 27 people, including 20 children.

In Indiana, a man identified as Von Meyer, 60, was arrested on Sunday after threatening to light his wife on fire and kill as many people as…

December 16, 2012

Sandy Hook Elementary didn't take chances when it came to safety.

The school had regular lockdown drills, teaching students and teachers to stay quiet and out of sight, a…

December 16, 2012

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not have to testify before a Senate hearing concerning the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi after she fainted and sustained a concussion last week.

Clinton, 65, is currently recovering at home following last week's incident, when extreme dehydration caused by a…