Citing the rejection of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operational head Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi's bail plea, an editorial in a leading Pakistani newspaper has said that it is time for the country to evolve a strong legal system to boost its fight against...

Pakistan must not let 'sworn enemy' India join the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan gas pipeline project to prevent it benefiting and acquiring more means to 'oppress the Kashmiri people as well as plot against Pakistan', an editorial in a Pakistani newspaper said...

Published: September 3, 2010 It has been a long time since it has been possible to be hopeful about the Middle East. But the one-year peace process undertaken this week by President Obama may...

Media attention this week has focused on the Brigham Young University football team's declaration of independence, and for good reason. With a sweetheart ESPN contract and regular matchups with Notre...

On the eve of the 9/11 terrorist attacks' ninth anniversary, the controversy over locating a mosque near ground zero in New York City shows that we must stand for fundamental freedoms even as we...

In mid-August in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz, a horrific, Taliban-ordered sentence was carried out against two young, unmarried Afghan lovers who had eloped against their families'...

President Barack Obama went on TV the other night to talk about the end of the combat mission in Iraq, and what he did not say is what very few are saying, least of all the ideologically disturbed,...

President Barack Obama is embarking on something I've never seen before — taking on two Missions Impossible at the same time. That is, a simultaneous effort to heal the two most bitter divides...

In this time of change at the Deseret News, and in fact always, there are way too many shrill voices. I seek to be positive and to recognize the good the Deseret News has done and its being a key...

President Barack Obama stated that we "spent vast resources abroad at a time of tight budgets at home." I would have thought that most of the resources spent on the war have actually been expended in...

this morning in New York, but they will not be politicking to have his suspension reduced beyond two games, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has learned. Reports have suggested that Rooney is...

In "Chasing 3000," Trevor Morgan plays Mickey, a teen who takes his younger brother on a road trip from California to Pittsburgh to see Roberto Clemente's 3,000th...

The question is not, are successful peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians in America's interest? That much is clear: Peace in the Middle East helps the United States a lot. The question...

It may be futile to complain about the crowds and the revelry that characterize night life on the South Side. Because of the vitality of its bars and restaurants, the place has become the de facto...

In the furious debates about illegal immigration, the average American might think there's no good news. But on Wednesday, the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the respected Pew Research Center,...

Glenn Beck has undertaken a long personal journey from his troubled beginnings in Mount Vernon, Washington, to the promised land of Cable TV and hallowed ground of the Lincoln Memorial. In the...

The furor over the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near ground zero keeps giving us new reasons for dismay. As politicians and commentators work themselves and viewers into a rage, others...

Next week, President Obama is scheduled to propose new measures to boost the economy. I hope they’re bold and substantive, since the Republicans will oppose him regardless — if he came...

Concerning "Guns not safe or sane" (Letters, Aug. 28), I am amazed yet again by the ignorance gracing the letters section about gun laws in this state. California already has some of the strictest...

The war that began on a false pretense ended in ambiguity. President Obama declared this week that it was time for the United States to "turn the page" in Iraq. The combat mission is officially...

Muni operators seem to have lost their sense of direction. Consider their union's latest move: asking the California Public Employment Relations Board to stop Muni from restoring 61 percent of the...

If we told you that a poorly regulated energy facility killed thousands of birds this year, you could assume we were talking about BP's Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico. But we also...

President Obama's ambitious effort to lift the nation's schools draws heavily from the playbook employed in Chicago and New York City: Test kids more often, open more charter schools and tie teacher...

T axpayers can sense when they’re being conned, which is why champagne bottles have remained corked amid reports of the many jobs “saved or created” by the federal stimulus program....

Steelers quarterback Byron Leftwich holds his left knee after getting injured against the Panthers in the second quarter. Leftwich left the game with the...

Steelers quarterback Byron Leftwich was taken to a hospital tonight after an injury to his left knee in the second quarter of their game against Carolina at Heinz Field. Leftwich was to undergo an...

Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and team president Art Rooney II will meet with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell Friday morning in New York, but they will not be politicking to have his...

Alain Pilon THIS promises to be the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor —...

On Dec. 16, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama and his senior aides gathered for a briefing on the state of the U.S. economy. It was horrifying. The economy was on the verge of collapse. There was...

my July 7 column, “Let Goldman Be Goldman,” which took to task both the Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress for “demonizing” Goldman Sachs, and much of the rest of...

The brutality of Tuesday night’s shooting remains difficult to grasp, even after years of bitter experience.Kochava Even-Haim, Avishai Shindler, Yitzhak Ames and his wife, Talia, who was pregnant...

"May our enemies and haters come to an end," he intoned. "May Abu Mazen [Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas] and all those wicked men be lost from the earth. May God smite them with the...

Adam Bandt Adam Bandt, the MP elect for the seat of Melbourne (long considered a “safe Labor seat”), and the Greens' first House of Representatives member to be elected in a general election has...

The lesson of Labour's recent history is not to avoid conflict - it is to pick the right fight and to win itSolidarity is the defining value of the labour movement. As the trade union banners used to...

The Scottish Government's declaration of its plans to impose a minimum price per unit for alcohol of 45p perfectly demonstrates the tendency of politicians identifying a problem - in this case...

Earlier this week we reported, in good faith, the story that ticket sales at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe had soared by more than 95,000 to a record new level this...

Now Professor Stephen Hawking has opined that a new set of theories have rendered redundant the role of a creator for the Universe.In his new book, The Grand Design, he moves away from his previous,...

United States . These policies assure that more illegal immigration will follow - with illegals confident that the administration, which refuses to secure this nation's borders, will not remove those...

Mr. Obama announced the official end of "combat operations". He argued that with the withdrawal of the last combat brigade, he had fulfilled his campaign pledge to wind down the war."Operation Iraqi...

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan...

Voter Terry Penrod prepares to cast his absentee ballot at the Franklin County Veterans Memorial polling place Tuesday, September 30, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio. Voters in this crucial swing state began...

"Good fences make good neighbors" remains the classic American land-use dictum, although poet Robert Frost's intent was to advance the opposite view -- that neighbors don't really need...

In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Robert Bonner, former Customs and Border Protection commissioner and administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, argues that government forces...

I am a middle-aged mother of two, a member of the American workforce, and a former believer in the American Dream. I was raised in a family that taught me the value and the honor of hard work. This...

At least Glenn Beck isn't among the nearly one in five Americans who believe President Obama is a Muslim. Nor, as far as he's yet admitted, is he among the majority of Republicans who actually told...

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While going through some old files recently, I ran across one of my early public grade school report cards. It was my first grade card from the fall of 1930. In addition to being graded for the...

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently suggested that Israel end its role as an occupying power in Gaza. Is he onto something? Supporters of the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, in 2005,...