Jason Chaffetz may subpoena Office of Personnel Management to testify on identity theft

The House's top investigator said in an interview Sunday that he may have to subpoena the Office of Personnel Management to testify next week after Obama administration officials resisted his request to come before Congress and detail the massive identity theft revealed last week.

Hackers might have gotten ahold of ...

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Shots Fired From Behind at Cleveland Police as They Chase Suspect on Foot

Dozens of people gathered nearby Sunday as police investigated, and they yelled angrily at officers. 

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Surveillance Video Shows Man Fatally Shot After Charging, Swinging Flagpole at Cop

"I don't think the officer had an opportunity to transition to a less lethal option."

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It Doesn't Get Much More American Than Metallica's Metal National Anthem at NBA Finals

Awesome.

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Pando at Bonnaroo, Day Three: On the festival's best evening yet, why do I feel like music is doomed?

"They want you to get lost." For the security guard I find myself sharing a joint with Saturday night, this is his tenth consecutive year working at Bonnaroo. We'll be killing time waiting for Mumford & Sons to finish their crude, capitalistic heist of Western folk traditions for at least another 45 minutes. That's when salvation will take the bodily form of the neo-soul demigod D'Angelo, sent to Earth to clear the miasma left by Mumford's recycled melodies, hanging in the […]

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Supreme Court's Obama subsidies ruling final health law showdown, Democrats say

President Obama and his top aides are increasingly portraying this month's Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare subsidies as the final showdown for the health care law, saying that if the justices rule in their favor it should be the signal for Republicans to give up their attacks and move on ...

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14 Police Officers Who 'Engaged' With Dallas Gunman Placed on Leave

Officers will be interviewed and offered counseling.

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Two Teenagers Seriously Injured in Shark Attacks Off North Carolina Coast

Officials were working to get people out of the water.

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Escaped Killers Used Contractors' Tools Left Overnight to Bust Out of Maximum-Security Prison, Prosecutor Says

The prisoners worked methodically between midnight and 5 a.m. over many nights.

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Analysis: Frayed relations could lead to significant change

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Frustration, even outright anger, with Gov. Bobby Jindal has been simmering in the Louisiana Legislature for years, building as the Republican governor's presidential ambitions grew more obvious.

But widespread legislative sentiment that Jindal has been making decisions based on a GOP presidential campaign he's expected ...

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White NAACP Leader Rachel Dolezal Is BISEXUAL Too!

You won't believe it

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Spokane NAACP Member Petitions Against Chapter President Outed as White; Rachel Dolezal Postpones Meeting, Statement on Controversy

"This is about integrity."

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Hillary Clinton a Model of Consistency, John Podesta Says

Clinton's campaign manager put his boss in a league of her own.

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Reagan: A "Black Belt In Badassery?"

(John Hinderaker) I have no idea whether this is true or not. The source is Brad Meltzer, a comic book author, novelist and occasional nonfiction writer, writing in the New York Daily News. Meltzer says that he was talking with Secret Service agents, getting information for his latest book, a political thriller: We were talking about Reagan and that day he was shot. Then one of the agents offered this secret: When

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More Blues for the Greens

(Steven Hayward) Now matter how many greenbacks the government throws at "green" energy, everyone ends up feeling blue. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal updated the story we've been covering for a long time now about the dismal performance of the Brightsource solar energy array in the California desert: High Tech Solar Projects Fail to Deliver $2.2 Billion California Project Generates 40% of Expected Electricity By Cassandra Sweet Some costly high-tech solar power

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No Apology: CNN's Anchor 'Misspoke' By Calling Would Be Cop Killer 'Courageous And Brave' [VIDEO]

Fredricka Whitfield offers a non-apology apology

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In Iowa, Bernie Sanders Gets Pressed on Immigration

Visiting a town with a sizable Hispanic population, the presidential candidate is asked to expand on his immigration platform.

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16-Year-Old Living as a Boy Files Federal Lawsuit Against School District Over Transgender Restroom Policy

"It is sad that this is even a debate."

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Is Jeb Bush's Campaign in Pickett's Charge Mode?

The ill-fated episode proved to be a turning point in the Civil War.

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Entering 2016 Race, Jeb Bush Calls For 'New Leadership' And 'Conservative Principles' [VIDEO]

'America's best days are in front of us'

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Not Frankenstein: Doctor Plans World's First Head Transplant [VIDEO]

Italian doctor says he had a volunteer ready, claims he's 2 years away

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CNN Host Claims She 'Misspoke' When She Called Dallas Gunman 'Courageous and Brave'

"I misspoke and in no way believe the gunman was courageous nor brave." 

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State Trooper Gives Old Woman On Scooter A Highway Escort [VIDEO]

'I just treated her the way I would've wanted somebody to treat my mom'

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CNN Anchor To Apologize For Calling Dallas Police Shooter 'Courageous And Brave' [VIDEO]

Fredericka Whitfield to apologize for major on-air gaffe

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Despite the Fact Rachel Dolezal has Two White Parents, MSNBC Host Wonders, 'Is it Possible She Might Actually be Black?'

"I wonder can it be that one would be cis-black and trans-black?"

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Hillary Clinton Aides Wave Off Trade Fight on Capitol Hill

Joel Benenson downplays "a lot of jockeying about bills that Democrats used to support 100 percent and now for some procedural reason in Congress they're voting against it."

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US Coast Guard's Huge Weekend Drug Bust In Miami

'Anywhere drugs go, corruption and violence follows'

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Hillary Skips Sunday Again, Top Surrogattes Fill In

Sounds about right

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Israeli Ambassador's Hilarious Response to Muslim Group Spokesman's Wacky Allegation Mossad Stole His Shoe

"We have your shoe…call me."

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'Combat-Ready' Chris Christie Contrasts Himself With Jeb Bush

The Republican touts his blue-state credentials.

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All Our Yesterdays…

(John Hinderaker) The closest figure we have to Lady Macbeth, Hillary Clinton, re-announced her presidential candidacy on Friday. She couldn't have done a better job of setting up Marco Rubio; it was like walking into a right hook: Even in that brief clip, we are reminded of what an awful candidate Hillary is. Apart from her corruption and her terrible record as Secretary of State, I doubt that one person in five

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Wallace Talks 'Income Equality' Hypocrisy, Hillary Flack Dances [VIDEO]

'That's ... that's not the point.'

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As crime soars in Baltimore, the police are partly to the blame

(Paul Mirengoff) The May arrest and crime numbers from Baltimore are in. They show that the police arrested fewer people than in any month for at least three years, despite a surge in homicides and shootings across the city. According to the Baltimore Sun, arrests declined citywide by 43 percent from April to May. They dropped by more than half in the West Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested. Several neighborhoods

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Bill Clinton Reads the Free Beacon

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Fmr Obama Chief Of Staff: I Had No Idea Hillary Had A Private Server [VIDEO]

'You had no idea?'

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Zoo Animals on the Loose After Deadly Georgia Flood

At least 12 people have died. 

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Woodward: Clinton Email, Donor Disclosure 'Not Enough'

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Page: Clinton Seems 'Aloof And Powerful and Disconnected From People'

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Chris Christie mocks Hillary's move to the left: 'I thought Elizabeth Warren wasn't running'

Republicans are mocking Hillary Rodham Clinton's move to the left, saying the Democratic presidential front-runner is crafting a message of economic populism because that's what she thinks voters in her party want to hear.

During an interview on ABC's "This Week," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, widely expected to mount ...

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Chris Wallace Hammers Karen Finney over Clinton's Income Rhetoric Hypocrisy

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Medical Expert: 'The Power Of The Doctor Is Becoming Subsumed By The Government'

Medical Expert: 'The Power Of The Doctor Is Becoming Subsumed By The Government'

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'I Didn't Know How Much Longer I Could Stand There Without Getting Sick': Passengers Forced to Evacuate Plane Without Crew's Instructions

"Nothing was done. Nothing was said."

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Bill Clinton defends foundation, says GOP should be 'scared' of Hillary

The Clinton Foundation never rewarded donors with political favors and accusations to the contrary are "personal attacks" that prove other politicians are scared of Hillary Rodham Clinton, former President Bill Clinton said Sunday.

In a wide-ranging interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Mr. Clinton denied that Mrs. Clinton rewarded ...

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Bin Laden's Entourage A Part Of Latest Gitmo Transfer

'We are working feverishly to transfer each of the 51 detainees currently approved for transfer'

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Why a Famous Constitutional Law Scholar Says the Supreme Court's Jerusalem Passport Decision Gives the President 'Too Much Power Over Foreign Policy'

"This is ignorance of the founding of America. The United States was founded as a legislative government."

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Jeb Bush Unveils 'Jeb! 2016' Graphic on Twitter

It comes ahead of his expected presidential campaign announcement Monday in Miami.

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Ball: Hillary's Relaunch Speech Was 'Really Flat'

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How One App Can Help French Muslims Pray

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Virgin Mary Statue Stands Once Again in Ancient Christian Town in Syria

"The statue was a symbol of protection for me, and when it was gone I felt a huge loss."

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Clinton Cash: An update

(Scott Johnson) The New York Post celebrates Madam Hillary's rollout rerun with an update from Peter Schweizer on Clinton Cash: Bloomberg and the Washington Post…drilled down and discovered an additional 1,100 hidden foreign Clinton Foundation donations. Since the revelation, the Foundation has only released 24 of the secret foreign donors. When will Americans see the remaining 1,076 names? Hillary hasn't said. And thanks to the Huffington Post, we now know that in

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Favorite Son or Total Stranger? Nearly Three-Quarters of Florida's Voters Have Never Seen Jeb Bush on a Ballot

Age, transience, and crime have reshaped the state's voting rolls since the former governor last ran for office.

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Ancient Liberties

As Count John prepared to assume the English throne in April 1199, he traveled to Fontevraud Abbey in the French countryside to witness the burial of his brother and former king, Richard the Lionheart. Accompanied by St. Hugh of Lincoln, John observed the ornate sculpture of Christ's Last Judgment above the door of the abbey. Hugh had an admonition for the soon-to-be-king—avoid the fate of past rulers who, consumed with ambition, lost the favor of the Almighty and were cast into the eternal hellfire.

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Judge Who Tried Family Court Case Involving Alleged Dallas Shooting Suspect: 'I Always Thought His Target Would Have Been Me'

"It doesn't surprise me that he did something like this."

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