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House panel OKs renaming part of Las Vegas mountain as ‘Mount Reagan’

Congressional lawmakers have moved Ronald Reagan's name a step closer to becoming the new dub for a section of Frenchman Mountain, located outside of Las Vegas.

April 10, 2014

Sen. Rand Paul on former IRS official Lois Lerner: Choose — testify or jail

Sen. Rand Paul said it's not complicated: Former IRS official Lois Lerner has a quick and clear decision to make — either testify, or go to jail.

April 10, 2014

Fireworks mishap sets U.S. flag on fire at Atlanta Braves’ home opener

The U.S. flag that flies at Turner Field caught fire after a fireworks mishap at the Atlanta Braves' home opener this week.

April 10, 2014

Sen. Angus King: I’m an ‘I’ who votes ‘D’ but may switch to ‘R’

Sen. Angus King, an Independent from Maine who more often than not votes Democrat and caucuses with the Democratic Party, said he's now mulling a move to the right.

April 10, 2014

Man-eating, one-ton crocodile caught in Uganda

A man-eating crocodile weighing more than a ton was caught in Kakira, Uganda, to the relief of area villagers who said they've been terrorized for months.

April 10, 2014

Republican billionaires press House GOP on LGBT rights

A couple of Republican-leaning billionaires have kicked off a $2.2 million campaign aimed at pressuring the GOP-led House to pass protections for the LGBT community in the workplace.

April 10, 2014

Nancy Pelosi: I’d fall on my speakership sword to get immigration amnesty passed

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she's so intent on passing an amnesty package to help illegal immigrants that she'd even take the sacrificial dive and give up her chance to resume leadership duties in Congress.

April 10, 2014

Sarah Palin to Eric Holder on gun ID: ‘You don’t want to go there, buddy’

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin turned Attorney General Eric Holder's veiled threat to a congressman back on himself Wednesday, saying his idea about an identification bracelet for gun owners was a notion better left untouched.

April 10, 2014

Arkansas school boots Confederate flag from student vehicles

Administrators with a small-town school in Arkansas say students are starting trouble by flying Confederate flags from their trucks, and they need to take them down or face suspension.

April 10, 2014

Arrest warrant issued in day care car crash that killed girl, hurt 14

Law enforcement authorities in Florida issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for a man in his mid-20s who they believe is to blame for the tragic car crash that led to the death of one girl at a day care facility and the injuring of 14 other children.

April 10, 2014

Armed police yank Ohio museum-goers from car: ‘Is Grandma going to get shot?’

Zealous military police acting on a tip that a family of U.S. Air Force museum-goers — complete with a grandmother and a 5-year-old girl — were in the throes of burglarizing cars, pointed guns first and asked questions second.

April 10, 2014

Russia accused of holding back on key Boston bombing intel, new IG report shows

Russia has been faulted in a just-released inspector general's report of holding back on crucial intelligence information about one of the Boston Marathon bombers — information that may have actually raised enough FBI red flags that agents could have stopped the terrorist attack.

April 10, 2014

Actor Rob Lowe disses big government: ‘Individuals usually do a better job’

Hollywood's Rob Lowe said in an interview Wednesday night that big government was hardly that answer — that really, individuals do it best.

April 10, 2014

Ready for Hillary group raises $1.7M to entice Clinton to run in 2016

Ready for Hillary, the independent group with a mission to entice former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for the White House in 2016, said it's raised more than $1.7 million in the three-month time period that wrapped on March 31.

April 10, 2014

Russia tells NATO chief to quit the ‘Cold War-era rhetoric’

Russia — under fire from the West for ratcheting up what some say is a Cold War-type mentality — has now turned the tables, accusing NATO of the same and saying bluntly: Stop it.

April 10, 2014

Stabbing suspect charged as adult; parents puzzled at son’s behavior

The 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing 22 of his Pennsylvania school mates will be charged as an adult, law enforcement authorities said Thursday.

April 10, 2014

Navy to test ‘Star Wars’-type weapon that fires 7 times the speed of sound

The U.S. Navy is planning to test out a new weapon on the sea that's equipped with "Star Wars"-type technology and that fires at seven times the speed of sound, researchers said.

April 9, 2014

U.N. climate alarmism on food supply all bunk, other scientific group says

Scientists who serve on a panel that's sort of the antithesis to the U.N.-tied International Panel on Climate Change — the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change — said the scare-mongering that's been making media rounds about dwindling food supplies due to atmospheric fluctuations is just that, nothing but bunk.

April 9, 2014

Obamas’ 2013 Ireland jaunt cost taxpayers $7.9M: watchdog

A government watchdog group said recently obtained records show that the entourage that accompanied President Obama and his wife to Ireland in June cost taxpayers a total of $7.9 million.

April 9, 2014

Kate Mulgrew clarifies role in geocentrist video: I was ‘misinformed’

Actress Kate Mulgrew, best known for her leading role in "Star Trek: Voyager" as Capt. Kathryn Janeway, has dissociated herself from a documentary trailer she narrated that pushes the idea that the sun revolves around the Earth.

April 9, 2014