By Andrew P. Napolitano
The president's men trash the Constitution to pursue antagonists

As the drone boom unfolds, one key lawmaker warns we could eventually see science-fiction style warfare over America.

Less than 25 percent of the $1.5 billion pledged by the international community for Syrian refugees has been delivered, jeopardizing the humanitarian aid project, U.S. officials say.

For proof that President Obama is getting serious about climate change in his second term, look no further than his pick Monday to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has suspended a deal to finance an in-state fertilizer plant to be built by a Pakistani conglomerate that the Pentagon has criticized for refusing to take steps to stop the flow of materials to makers of bombs that kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The Justice Department said Thursday it won't prosecute Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs or its employees in a financial-fraud probe.

Virginia legislators are preparing to take on the thorny subject of voter identification laws during the upcoming General Assembly session amid national controversy that includes the Justice Department's rejection of a state law on the matter for the first time in almost 20 years.

U.S. lawmakers and federal agencies are investigating reports that Iranian and Venezuelan diplomats in Mexico were involved in plotting cyberattacks against U.S. targets, including nuclear power plants.

The Senate subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights is holding a hearing Wednesday focused on the market power - and potential market abuse - of the Internet search giant Google. While antitrust enforcement rightly focuses on consumer harm, subcommittee members also should carefully examine the impact of Google's operations on America's small businesses.
Va. board votes on abortion clinic regulations; Md. assembly may put off gas tax hike; Perry: Americans don't want 'caretaker state'; D.C. spending bill moves through Senate; Michaele Salahi now with Journey guitarist?; Md. businesses got $16M in 9/11-related loans; U. of Md. student sexually assaulted in dorm.
A D.C. spending bill passed the first of two hurdles this week when it emerged from a Senate subcommittee without any amendments that would restrict local officials from spending city money on controversial social programs.

A D.C. spending bill passed the first of two hurdles this week when it emerged from a Senate subcommittee without any amendments that would restrict local officials from spending city money on controversial social programs.

An Associated Press analysis of the programs found that the government has spent at least $3.4 billion on food counter-terrorism in the last decade, but key programs have been bogged down in a huge, multi-headed bureaucracy.

With the attention of the lawmakers focused squarely on reducing the nation's debt, Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday defended his department's request for a budget increase in fiscal year 2012.

With the attention of lawmakers focused squarely on reducing the nation's debt, Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday defended his department's request for a budget increase in fiscal 2012.

Approval by an arm of the World Bank for a $26 million loan to build a luxury hotel in Ghana — a West African nation where 40 percent of the people live in poverty — was "not an appropriate use of public funds" and should not have received U.S. government support, the chairman of a Senate subcommittee that oversees the bank says.