BRUSSELS – Leading European airlines are lobbying for new rules in Europe to lessen the impact of strikes and reduce taxes, pushing for what they call more American-style aviation rules. The CEOs of Air France KLM, Lufthansa, Easyjet, Ryanair and International Airlines Group held an unusual meeting in Brussels on …

UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is criticizing Israel for the death and suffering of many Palestinian children during last summer’s conflict in Gaza and is urging the Israeli government to take immediate steps to prevent such killings. The U.N. chief referred to the controversy over his decision not to …

Speaker Pelsosi is the General Custer of our time. She is leading her troops to slaughter at the polls in 2010. The Speaker is vastly outnumbered by a majority of Americans do not want the health care reforms dictated by House Bill passed Saturday evening. According to a poll by …

Redemption may be in the cards for a New Hampshire man who is seeking to put up an electronic billboard containing Bible verses. Though his request was initially denied, Fab Cusson’s “signs for Jesus” will get a fresh start in Chichester, N.H., because of an error in a public notice …

Picture a sign post next to a remote building: Last gas for the next 50 million miles. A second sign sits beneath it, clarifying the location: Next stop, Mars. Last week, President Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, which charts the space agency’s trajectory and will shape the …

Are your tax dollars helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as part of “Climategate 2.0” indicate the answer may be “Yes.” The original Climategate emails — correspondence stolen from servers at a research facility in the U.K. and released on the Internet in late 2009 …

In a sign of pessimism about humanity’s future, scientists today set the hands of the infamous “Doomsday Clock” forward one minute from two years ago. “It is now five minutes to midnight,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) director Kennette Benedict announced today (Jan. 10) at a press conference in …

Parents at one Connecticut elementary school say they are outraged over the use of so-called “scream rooms” to discipline special needs students. The two rooms at Farm Hill Elementary School in Middletown, Conn., came under fire after several students complained about the sounds of children yelling coming from the rooms, …

I recently participated in a panel discussion at the America’s Future Foundation in Washington, D.C., which asked, “Are We Any Safer?” As I sat alongside colleagues from the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, and Institute for Humane Studies, I had the opportunity to reflect back on the last decade and offer …

Herman Cain survived the latest GOP debate Tuesday night. He was got a little knocked off his heels by his rivals at the CNN/Western Republican Presidential debate in Nevada but he definitely was not knocked out of the race. So now comes the big question: with virtually all the national …