John Solomon

Mark Lippert, U.S. ambassador to South Korea, attacked

Mark Lippert, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea has been attacked, according to reports Wednesday afternoon.

March 4, 2015

U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: Fight climate change by eating less meat

A federal advisory committee is urging that the government's next generation of dietary guidelines for the first time take into account environmental factors, specifically recommending more fruits and vegetables and less meats.

February 20, 2015

Christine O’Donnell, tea party figure, says IRS mistakenly placed levy on bank account

Adding to the long-running saga of IRS dealings with conservatives, former Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell says the tax agency punished her mistakenly for the second time in five years by imposing an erroneous levy on her bank accounts.

December 25, 2014

Ferguson: The only indictment goes to the media

In the end, the first and perhaps only indictment to emerge out of the Ferguson tragedy went to the news media and its culture of frenzied coverage.

November 24, 2014

U.S. Energy Department doing poor job policing nuclear exports with Iran deal pending

Even as it pursues an 11th hour deal to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Obama administration is doing a poor job policing U.S. nuclear technology exports to ensure they don’t fall into the hands of foreign enemies looking to make weapons, investigators have found.

November 15, 2014

Obama’s dirty secret: U.N. climate pledge ignores sudden spike in U.S. carbon emissions

President Barack Obama pledged this week to lead the world in the fight against climate change. But his much ballyhooed speech at the United Nations this week skipped past a troubling fact back home: Carbon emissions are rising again in the United States.

September 26, 2014

A chastened Obama sounds an awful lot like an earlier Bush

It's long been said that the Oval Office changes its occupants in ways only those who have served in the small club of presidents can appreciate. Nowhere was that more apparent than Wednesday night when Barack Obama, the once youthful politician who just six years ago eschewed American interventionism across the globe, became the fourth graying-haired president in the last quarter century to ask the American people to support a decision for expanded military action in Iraq.

September 10, 2014

Senate panel didn’t interview CIA directors, key managers for torture report

Eleven years after the CIA last waterboarded a terror suspect, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is moving to uncloak its secret report on America's use of enhanced interrogation techniques in the early years of the war on terrorism, and the U.S. intelligence community is preparing to fight back.

August 25, 2014

EPA to give grants to fight cooking stove pollution

Federal officials cook up another front in the fight against global warming, but the new research on cooking stove pollution won’t help most Americans.

May 26, 2014

EXCLUSIVE: FBI blocked in corruption probe involving Sens. Reid, Lee

FBI agents working alongside Utah state prosecutors in a wide-ranging corruption investigation have uncovered accusations of wrongdoing by two of the U.S. Senate's most prominent figures — Majority Leader Harry Reid and rising Republican Sen. Mike Lee — but the Justice Department has thwarted their bid to launch a full federal investigation.

March 13, 2014

EXCLUSIVE: FBI had human source in contact with bin Laden as far back as 1993

The FBI placed a human source in direct contact with Osama bin Laden in 1993 and ascertained that the al Qaeda leader was looking to finance terrorist attacks in the United States.

February 25, 2014

VEGAS RULES: Harry Reid pushed feds to change ruling for casino’s big-money foreigners

EXCLUSIVE: The Obama administration overruled career Homeland Security officials and expedited visa applications for about two dozen foreign investors for a politically connected Las Vegas casino hotel after repeated pressure from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his staff, according to internal government documents obtained by The Washington Times.

December 10, 2013

The long line of conservatives targeted by the IRS

Tea party groups, Franklin Graham, Christine O'Donnell, a pro-marriage group. And now Dr. Ben Carson. The list of conservatives targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for audits, tax-exempt reviews or tax privacy breaches keeps growing, raising fresh questions in Washington about whether a scandal the Obama administration has blamed on bureaucratic incompetence and coincidence may in fact involve something more nefarious.

October 3, 2013

Aaron Alexis entered Navy Yard with shotgun, in two pieces, hidden in a bag

Aaron Alexis entered the Navy Yard Monday with a valid pass and a shotgun disassembled into two pieces hidden in a bag, authorities believe.

September 17, 2013

Aaron Alexis may have picked up and used victims’ weapons: investigators

Authorities investigating Monday's D.C. shooting spree believe the gunman brought a shotgun, legally purchased from a suburban Virginia gun shop, to the Navy Yard and acquired additional weapons at the scene, according to three law enforcement officials.

September 16, 2013

One shooter dead, hunt on for two more suspects in Navy Yard rampage

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said one shooter was confirmed killed at the scene of the Navy Yard rampage and authorities are looking for two other men who may also have been involved in the attack.

September 16, 2013

US, Russia reach deal on Syria chemical weapons

The Obama administration and Russia reached a deal Saturday to compel Syria to account for and eventually destroy its chemical weapons arsenal, leaving open the possibility that the UN could authorize sanctions or military action for future violations.

September 14, 2013

ANALYSIS: Syria shows Obama’s unsteadiness in conducting foreign policy

No matter where one stands on the crises in the Middle East, there's little argument right now on either side of the political aisle that the president's handling of Syria is no way to conduct American foreign policy.

September 1, 2013