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• Sen. Rubio: Border Amendment Will Make 'Substantial Improvement' on Immigration Bill
  Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said that lawmakers in the upper chamber will release an amendment on Thursday that will provide a "substantial improvement" dealing with border security to the proposed immigration bill that has drawn increasing fire from conservatives. "This is...
• Ben Carson: Spiraling Obamacare Costs Should Make Americans 'Extraordinarily Worried'
  Americans should be "extraordinarily worried" over the projected rising costs of healthcare under Obamacare, renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson said on Wednesday. "This was something that was supposed to bring the cost of healthcare down - and, of course,...
• Senate Close to Immigration Deal
  Prospects for U.S. Senate passage of an immigration bill with strong bipartisan support brightened on Wednesday when a group of Republican and Democratic negotiators reached a tentative deal on ways to shore up border security, senators said. After days of intensive...
• Actor James Gandolfini, Best Known as Tony Soprano, Dead at 51
  New Jersey actor James Gandolfini, who immortalized the role of mob boss Tony Soprano on HBO's 'The Sopranos,' has died of a massive heart attack at age 51. Gandolfini dies in Italy, a source told the Daily News. "Everyone is in tears," the source close to the 51-year-old...
• Obama Draws Only 5,000 in Berlin Speech, Down From 200,000 in 2008
  President Barack Obama returned to Berlin on Wednesday - but he found a very different reception than when he visited the German capital five years ago.
• Sen. Feinstein Calls for End to Force-Feeding Guantanamo Prisoners
  The Pentagon should stop force-feeding detainees at Guantanamo Bay who are on a hunger strike, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., says.
• Obama Offends Catholics in UK: Says Religious Schools Divisive
  President Barack Obama angered some proponents of Catholic education during his visit to Ireland this week when he told a Belfast audience that towns will remain divided "if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs." An article, which...
• National Security Expert: Obama's Arms Stance Makes Nuclear War More Likely
  Leading national security expert and Heritage Foundation Vice President Dr. James Carafano tells Newsmax that President Barack Obama's proposal to reduce nuclear weapons would actually make nuclear war more likely rather than less.
• Bill Gertz: Obama's 'Communist' Nuclear Stance Could Trigger Arms Race
  President Barack Obama's call on Wednesday for "peace with justice" as he proposed the reduction of America's nuclear arsenal has communist overtones and could trigger an arms race, veteran journalist Bill Gertz says.
• Assange: WikiLeaks Team Aiding Snowden on Iceland Asylum
  Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, said his legal advisers have talked with lawyers for Edward Snowden to help arrange asylum in Iceland for the American contractor who leaked information on U.S. electronic surveillance methods to newspapers."We have been...
• Bernanke Vows to End Quantitative Easing in 2014
  
  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank expects to slow the pace of its bond purchases later this year and bring them to a halt around mid-2014, comments that weighed on stocks and pushed bond yields to a 15-month high.
• Obama Struggles to Form Friendships Abroad
  President Barack Obama has struggled to forge strong relationships with foreign heads of state, unlike presidents before him, and recent international encounters with a number of leaders have highlighted his uneasiness with them.
• Vince Flynn, Author of Mitch Rapp Thriller Series, Dead from Cancer
  Vince Flynn, the best-selling author of the Mitch Rapp series of political thrillers that includes American Assassin and The Last Man, died on Wednesday at age 47 after a battle with prostate cancer, his representatives said.
• Rep. Mo Brooks: CBO's Score of Immigration Bill Is Way Off
  Rep. Mo Brooks is disputing the Congressional Budget Office's prediction that the Senate immigration reform bill will decrease the federal deficit by $197 billion over the next decade.
• Obama in Berlin, Calls for Huge Cuts in Nuclear Arsenal
  President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin on Wednesday to call on Russia to revive the push for a world without nuclear arms by agreeing to target further reductions of up to one third of deployed nuclear weapons.
• Chertoff: NSA Programs Would Have Helped Identify 9/11 Operatives
  Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is voicing his support for the NSA's surveillance programs, saying they could have helped officials identify at least 15 of the 19 al-Qaida operatives responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
• Allen West: I May Challenge Rubio for Senate Seat
  Former U.S. Rep. Allen West said Wednesday that he hasn't ruled out a challenge to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, even as the former congressman acknowledged that it would be a difficult and expensive road to take.
• Pope John Paul II Miracle Approved, Puts Him Step Closer to Sainthood
  A board of theologians has approved a second miracle for former Pope John Paul II, putting him one step closer to sainthood, Vatican insiders told the Italian media Tuesday.
• Obama's Berlin Speech on Nuclear Cuts Panned by Republicans
  President Barack Obama drew sharp criticism from Republicans on Capitol Hill on Wednesday following his call for a major cut in the nation's nuclear arms arsenal.
• Mueller Admits FBI Uses Drones in Domestic Surveillance
  The FBI uses drones in domestic surveillance operations in a "very, very minimal way," Director Robert Mueller said.
• CBO: Immigration Bill Could Add Billions to Cost of Obamacare
  Proposals in the Senate immigration bill to legalize the nation's 11 million undocumented workers and expand the guest worker program will cost the government billions as more people become eligible for Obamacare, according to a new Congressional Budget Office analysis.
• CBO: Immigration Bill Could Add Billions to Cost of Obamacare
  Proposals in the Senate immigration bill to legalize the nation's 11 million undocumented workers and expand the guest worker program will cost the government billions as more people become eligible for Obamacare.
• Obama Set to Outline Climate-Change Steps
  President Barack Obama will outline steps to tackle climate change in the weeks ahead, White House energy adviser Heather Zichal said, confirming what the president is telling donors privately.
• Fox Fires Tobin Smith for $50,000 Stock Endorsement
  Fox Business News commentator Tobin Smith is out of a job after it was revealed his company, NBT Equities Research, was paid $50,000 to tout stock as a celebrity endorsement.
• Softbank Sole Bidder For Sprint After Dish Pulls Out
  Japan's SoftBank Corp.cleared a major hurdle in its attempt to buy U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel Corp, as rival bidder Dish Network Corp. declined to make a new offer after SoftBank sweetened its own bid last week.

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