By Grover Norquist Published May 27, 2010 FOXNews.com The “tax extenders” package is up again this week in the U.S. House of Representatives. The extenders package’s basic purpose is to prevent tax deductions and credits from expiring for businesses and families. But in Speaker Pelosi’s Washington, stopping these tax increases for another year means imposing [...]

May 27, 2010 By Joshua Rhett Miller Arizona ranchers – still reeling from the recent murder of a fellow farmer – tell FoxNews.com that President Obama’s plan to send 1,200 unarmed National Guard troops to the U.S./Mexico border won’t provide maximum border security. National Guards will help with intelligence, reconnaissance and drug and human trafficking [...]

May 28, 2010 UNITED NATIONS North Korea is exporting nuclear and ballistic missile technology and using multiple intermediaries, shell companies and overseas criminal networks to circumvent U.N. sanctions, U.N. experts said in a report obtained by The Associated Press. The seven-member panel monitoring the implementation of sanctions against North Korea said its research indicates that [...]

May 28, 2010 By HUMA KHAN, JULIE PERCHA, MATT GUTMAN and JEFFREY KOFMAN BP CEO Tony Hayward said on “Good Morning America” today that the cleanup operation along the Gulf coast is “going pretty well,” an assessment echoed by Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who is overseeing the Obama administration’s response to last month’s oil [...]

May 28, 2010 By EAMON JAVERS & CAROL E. LEE It was a remarkable moment in President Barack Obama’s press conference Thursday: just hours before, the head of the Minerals Management Service had left the top post at the agency that oversees offshore oil drilling.   And yet, the president said he didn’t know whether [...]

May 27, 2010 By Noah Bierman and Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff With one lawmaker citing President Lincoln’s respect for the rule of law, the Massachusetts Senate passed a far-reaching crackdown this afternoon on illegal immigrants and those who would hire them, going further, senators said, than any immigration bill proposed over the past five years. [...]

By Bridget Johnson – 05/26/10 An e-mail from Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) campaign suggested Wednesday that the controversy over Rep. Joe Sestak’s (D-Pa.) alleged administration job offer could be President Barack Obama’s Watergate scandal. In an e-mail with the subject line “The Sestak Affair – Obama’s Watergate?”, the ranking member on the Oversight and Government [...]

May 27, 2010 President Obama said Thursday that the White House is preparing to issue a formal explanation regarding the allegation that it offered Rep. Joe Sestak a job to drop out of the Democratic primary race against Sen. Arlen Specter.  The president, addressing the matter in public for the first time since the Pennsylvania [...]

May 27, 2010 By Sunlen Miller From Sunlen Miller This morning, President Obama will meet with the NCAA men’s basketball champion Duke Blue Devils at the White House to honor their 2009-2010 championship season in the Rose Garden. Keeping up the sports theme, the president and the vice president will take a photo with the [...]

By Song Jung-a in Seoul Published: May 27 2010 North Korea threatened to scrap all military assurance agreements with South Korea on Thursday and warned of an immediate attack should Seoul intrude on the disputed maritime border, further raising tensions on the peninsula. Pyongyang’s threat to abandon the agreements – designed to prevent accidental armed [...]