After Islamist terrorists killed 17 people in and around Paris in January, the trend was to drone on about how the attacks pointed to France’s failure to integrate Muslims. But our latest attack at home, at a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tenn., highlights the insanity of blaming ourselves. The …

HOUSTON – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says one of her top priorities remains alleviating an “epidemic of distrust” between communities and law enforcement. Lynch discussed tensions between minority communities and police agencies during a speech Monday in Houston at the national convention of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the …

MIAMI – The parents of slain journalist Steven Sotloff are speaking out about the foundation they established to honor his legacy and their disappointment with the U.S. government in a rare interviewing marking the 1-year anniversary of his death. South Florida residents Shirley and Arthur Sotloff have spoken little since …

This is a rush transcript from “Hannity,” June 5, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, HOST: And tonight in “Your America,” President Obama extended an olive branch to Iran and Hamas in his Egypt speech, but today there are reports …

TOPEKA, Kan. – A brother of the man suspected of fatally shooting abortion doctor George Tiller told a Kansas newspaper that the family never foresaw him capable of killing. Scott Roeder was in jail Monday while investigators sought to learn more about his background. He has not been charged in …

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Federal immigration officials say they’ve arrested a Mexican fugitive who is nicknamed the Ghost and is accused of trafficking high-potency heroin throughout the Midwest. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Khaalid Walls says Jose “Carlos” Hernandez Salazar was taken into custody Tuesday in central Ohio. He says …

NEW YORK – John “Junior” Gotti’s mother unleashed a profanity-laced tirade Wednesday after a judge dismissed two anonymous jurors at her son’s racketeering trial, saying he was being cheated of a fair trial as his father had been. “They’re railroading you!” Victoria Gotti shouted as she stood in the spectator …

TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian news agency reports that the judiciary has after just a day lifted its ban on a popular newspaper which ran a photo of a Baha’i temple. The spokesman for Tehran’s justice department, Zahed Bashirirad, said the ban on the daily Hamshahri had been lifted, the …

MOSCOW – A military plane with 10 people aboard crashed late Friday in Russia’s Far East, Russian news agencies reported. ITAR Tass quoted an emergency ministry official as saying that the Tu-142-M3 anti-submarine turboprop crashed Friday in the Tatarsky Strait between the Pacific coast and Sakhalin Island. The Interfax news …

A former student at an upstate New York middle school sneaked inside Tuesday, assembled a shotgun in the bathroom and held the principal hostage before surrendering without firing a single shot, police said. Dutchess County Sheriff Adrian Anderson said Christopher Craft Sr., 42, got into Stissing Mountain Middle School just …