NEWSMAX — The State Department removed Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a largely symbolic step clearing the way for normalizing diplomatic relations 54 years after the U.S. severed ties after Cuba's communist revolution.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A trial date of Jan. 20, 2016, has been set for a racketeering lawsuit filed against Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and their non-profit Clinton Foundation, former federal prosecutor Larry Klayman, who launched the suit this week, has revealed to Newsmax TV.... (more)

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Obamacare appeared to suffer a setback of sorts this week after a judge overseeing a House-propelled lawsuit against the federal health-care takeover raised skeptical brows at the White House's play to toss the suit, asking at one point with a mocking tone: "You don't really believe" your own opening statements, do you?... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — How many times have you heard President Obama and his minions pat themselves on the back for their noble "investments" in "roads and bridges"? Without government infrastructure spending, we're incessantly reminded, we wouldn't be able to conduct our daily business.... (more)

PAUL BEDARD — In what may be the most twisted example of American immigration laws, a teen convicted in Mexico of beheading four men and hanging their bodies off a bridge south of Mexico City lives freely in the United States as a U.S. citizen because he was born in San Diego to an illegal mother.... (more)

AARON KLEIN — In the year prior to the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack, Hillary Clinton used her private email server to correspond about such highly sensitive national security matters as specific threats to the Libya hotel where Ambassador Chris Stevens was staying as well as his decision to remain at the hotel despite the threats.... (more)

GARTH KANT — The government activist group Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State John Kerry to force him to turn over the emails of his predecessor, Hillary Clinton. "Secretary Kerry is in cover-up mode for Hillary Clinton," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement Thursday.... (more)

WASHINGTON POST — J. Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in the history of the U.S. House, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million to an unnamed person to cover up "past misconduct."... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, known for his opposition to federal courts imposing same-sex "marriage" on states, says U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg could be penalized for her public advocacy of "gay" rights as the court considers a case that could redefine marriage in federal law.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Charter schools serve black and Hispanic students at higher rates than traditional public schools, according to new data from the National Center for Education Statistics... (more)

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Kenyan attorney Felix Kiprono told the Nairobian newspaper he wants to buy Malia Obama's hand in marriage, and he's planning to ask the president for permission in the coming weeks. And his proposed price to facilitate the wedding? Fifty cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats, Mediaite reported.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is running for the Republican presidential nomination as an "Obama Republican," according to the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board. The Journal on Wednesday trained its fire on Paul after he said "hawks" in the GOP were responsible for creating the Islamic State extremist terrorist group.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Doing the research and investigative work that the major U.S. media have all but abandoned, an organization called the American Life League (ALL) has uncovered dramatic evidence of links between the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church... (more)

JOSEPH CURL — President Obama's administration on Wednesday claimed dominion over all of America's streams, creeks, rills, ditches, brooks, rivulets, burns, tributaries, criks, wetlands -- perhaps even puddles -- in a sweeping move to assert unilateral federal authority.... (more)

THE GUARDIAN — A decade in the making, the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is reaching its climax and as Congress hotly debates the biggest trade deal in a generation, its backers have turned on the cash spigot in the hopes of getting it passed.... (more)

JEROME R. CORSI — More than 100 pages of previously classified Department of Defense and Department of State documents implicate the Obama administration in a cover-up to obscure the role Hillary Clinton and the State Department played in the rise of ISIS.... (more)

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD — China has moved weaponry onto artificial islands that it is building in contested areas of the South China Sea, adding to the risks of a confrontation with the United States and its regional security partners including Australia.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Air Force has reportedly picked Lockheed Martin's long-range Joint Air-to-Surface Missile to carry a new "superweapon' -- a pulse-generated beam weapon capable of destroying electronics and computers from miles away.... (more)

NEWSMAX — IRS investigators believe the identity thieves who stole the personal tax information of more than 100,000 taxpayers from an IRS website are part of a sophisticated criminal operation based in Russia, two officials told the Associated Press.... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — Socialist genius Bernie Sanders has figured out what's really ailing America. Our store shelves have too many different brands of deodorant and sneakers. Just look at all those horrible, fully stocked aisles at Target and Walgreens and Wal-Mart and Payless and DSW and Dick's Sporting Goods. It's a national nightmare!... (more)

NEWSMAX — Republicans and law-enforcement officials Tuesday praised a federal appeals court ruling supporting 26 states in their battle against President Barack Obama's executive amnesty for illegal immigrants... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The U.S. Supreme Court justices may be able to make a career of ruling on Obamacare, the president's signature health-care industry takeover, it seems. A fifth case on the controversial law that orders Americans to buy a specific consumer product the government believes they need has been submitted.... (more)

PAT BOONE — America, WAKE UP! Things are happening right in front of our noses, and we don't seem to grasp their significance, their danger to our way of life! Get this: Just five days ago, Robert Gates, former director of the CIA and former secretary of defense, and now president of the Boy Scouts of America, made a declaration to the assembled executives of that wonderful, time-honored youth organization.... (more)

FOX NEWS — A United States Marine was convicted at a court-martial for refusing to remove a Bible verse on her computer -- a verse of Scripture the military determined "could easily be seen as contrary to good order and discipline."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — WND has discovered what amounts to the government playbook for countering the rising "backlash" against the secret planting of Muslim refugees into cities and towns across America.... (more)