By Reza Kahlili Published December 30, 2010 FoxNews.com On December 24, a research report from the South Korean Foreign Ministry Institute indicated that North Korea would carry out another nuclear bomb test after the beginning of the year. — South Korean media reported earlier this month that the North was digging a tunnel in preparation [...]

Published December 30, 2010 Associated Press WASHINGTON — In a secret operation to secure nuclear material, the United States has helped Ukraine send to Russia enough uranium to build two atomic bombs. This week’s removal of more than 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of highly enriched uranium followed a pledge by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to [...]

Published December 31, 2010 FoxNews.com Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday morning to kick off a weeklong trip in the Middle East and Europe that will address international and regional security. While in Afghanistan, Napolitano will meet with senior U.S. and Afghan officials to discuss security progress, and will [...]

Dec 30, 2010 by Stephanie Condon President Obama earlier this month signed into law a measure to pay American Indians and black farmers a total of $4.6 billion to cover decades of government mistreatment. Now, a Republican congressman says the GOP-controlled House next year will hold hearings to investigate the settlement, which he says amounts [...]

By SALLY GOLDENBERG, LARRY CELONA and JOSH MARGOLIN Last Updated: 12:37 PM, December 30, 2010 These garbage men really stink. Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The [...]

The FCC’s new Web power grab deserves a vote under the Congressional Review Act. Dec 30, 2010 WSJ On the eve of Christmas Eve, while you probably weren’t paying attention, the Obama Administration released the text of its new Internet regulations, which mark a significant pivot from the hands-off approach to the Web observed by [...]

The latest scheme to socialize the costs of renewable energy. Dec 30, 2010 WSJ You’d think poor Michigan has enough economic troubles without the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission placing a $300 million to $500 million annual surtax on the state’s electric utility bills. But on December 16 FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff announced new rules that [...]

Maybe grandmothers are a threat to America after all. Dec 29, 2010 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO Why do grandmothers get frisked at airports? For years this rhetorical question has been a trope of the Transportation Security Administration’s critics. But maybe the TSA was on to something all along. FoxNews.com reports that “a 46-year-old Indiana grandmother [...]

Dec 30, 2010 By Brad O’Leary Anti-gun activist and Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano has now put her distaste for both the First and Second Amendments on full display. Napolitano’s victim over the Christmas break was Chris Liu, a commercial airline pilot based at San Francisco International Airport, who had been posting cell [...]

Dec 30, 2010 By Kevin Glass Republicans have been promising that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises that engaged in reckless subprime lending in the run up to the mortgage crisis, would be wound down and privatized. The Wall Street Journal reports, however, that this may take longer than expected. Earlier this [...]