NEW YORK – Spending more time on social networks and blogs? You’re not alone, with the latest figures showing the number of minutes spent on social networking sites in the United States has almost doubled over the past year. Nielsen Online, which measures Web traffic, said the number of minutes …

WICHITA, Kan. – Fears that the man accused of killing abortion provider George Tiller could plan new attacks are behind a judge’s decision last week to raise his bail to $20 million, up from $5 million. A transcript released Tuesday of a telephone call between attorneys and the judge makes …

The man of a 1,000 faces and voices Fred Travalena died Sunday of a recurrence of an aggressive form of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to a release from his publicist. He was 66 years old. Travalena was a regular on talks shows for several decades, including “The Tonight Show with Johnny …

KABUL – International troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer — enough to make up to a couple hundred roadside bombs, the Taliban’s most lethal weapon in what has been the deadliest year of the war, NATO announced Tuesday. Separately, video footage emerged of insurgents brandishing …

This wasn’t supposed to happen. At the end of February, after the $787 billion stimulus was approved, the Obama administration predicted that unemployment would average only 8.1 percent this year. Indeed, in February the unemployment rate stood at 8.1 percent. Yet, unemployment now stands at 10.2 percent and keeps rising. …

Some Tea Party people, along with commentators like Glenn Beck and some other radio guys, believe the Obama administration and progressives in general want to curtail individual freedom. And you know what? That might be true. Right now there is a case before the Supreme Court, McDonald v. Chicago, where …

The news that is not White House approved… Stonewall Jarrett White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is refusing to testify on Capitol Hill about the party crashing incident, and according to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, it’s entirely consistent with Obama’s administration’s commitment to transparency. Take a look at what she …

Democratic U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel said Thursday he won’t seek reelection to Congress next year, the result of congressional redistricting by Republican state legislators this fall that’s likely to shift North Carolina’s delegation to the right. And he said he’ll consider a U.S. Senate bid for an election that would …

There’s a rush this week to secure a border security accord in the Senate. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has shuttled back and forth to the Capitol multiple times for talks with Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and James Lankford, R-Okla. Things are so serious that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., even …

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s measures along the border, targeting illegal immigrants who enter the state, are not only “extreme,” but also “dehumanize” immigrants, putting them in “harm’s way.” On Monday, the governor signed a new law giving police the authority to arrest migrants …