Opinion

There's a lot of talk around the country these days about rights and freedoms. The Second Amendment right to bear arms and the First Amendment right to speak freely have been of primary focus as the debate rages over gun control in the wake of December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

This was not a Muslim atrocity. It was a terrorist atrocity committed by men with twisted ideas.

Editor's note: Tom Coburn, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Oklahoma and the ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for years in a Cleveland house will get free McDonald's for the next year, a company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.

An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.

An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him.

Debris litters what remains of a classroom at Plaza Towers Elementary School on Wednesday, May 22, after it was destroyed by a tornado that ripped through the area two days earlier in Moore, Oklahoma.

Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: "Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be resolved before we turn to the merits of the case." The issue he raised but could not resolve - that is up to the ... (more)

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In a nod to Toronto's pro basketball roots, the Raptors donned Huskies uniforms for a game in 2009.

In 1973, renowned physician and psychiatrist Karl Menninger wrote a ground-breaking book titled Whatever Became of Sin? Its premise is that our attempts to distance ourselves from sin do not exempt us from its To read the full story, you need Subscriber Content access.

Guilty as charged. That was a Philadelphia jury's verdict against abortionist Kermit Gosnell for multiple murders of babies in his Pennsylvania abortion facility.

Following the success of the 2011-2012 world tour celebrating the 35th Anniversary of his multi-platinum selling live album Frampton Comes Alive!, Peter Frampton is back on the road with Frampton's Guitar Circus.

A 27-year-old Russian native shot dead overnight in Orlando, Fla., became "violent" during questioning by an FBI agent and Massachusetts State Police investigators about the marathon bombings and any links to a triple-murder in Waltham in 2011.

A brutal attack in broad daylight near a military barracks in London left one man dead and two suspects hospitalized Wednesday after a shootout with police.

The report states: "About 3:21 PM on Thursday 2/11/10 Officers Hester and Cordasco ... were patrolling in the Downtown Crossing area when a radio call came in for a fight in the area of 172 Tremont St.

Judy Smith, on whom the ABC hit drama is based, weighs in on how the star revealed her surprise surgery for maximum impact.

A devastating early morning fire has left a church in ruins and an estimated 150 parishioners wondering what to do next.

It's clear by this point that the Internal Revenue Service should not be in the business of figuring out what constitutes political activity and just how much of it is engaged in by any particular group claiming tax-exempt status.

Morgenthau: A frequent criticism of generals is that they always seem to be fighting the last war.