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Iran will preside over the United Nations arms control forum this month, despite the fact that it is under UN sanctions for illicit nuclear activities and routinely supplies arms to the terrorist organization Hezbollah in violation of international law.

House Republican members are defying Speaker John Boehner and five committee chairmen by endorsing a measure that would set up a special panel to investigate the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

The United States will not send an ambassador to a session of the United Nations' Conference on Disarmament that will be chaired by Iran in the coming weeks, the U.S. Mission to the U.N. said Monday.

Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen this week introduced H.R. 1843, the Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act.

"On Tuesday, Delaware became the 11th state to allow marriage equality," he wrote on his Facebook page.

Did you know that in more than half of the country it is still legal for a boss to fire someone just because of who they are dating, or how they identify? While it sounds absurd, for thousands of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender Americans in states like Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania, it is all too real.

The Every Child Deserves a Family Act would prohibit federally funded adoption and foster programs from discriminating families based on sexual orientation and gender identity, or marital status.

"I urge all responsible nations to raise their voices in support of these brave hunger strikers who are so desperate for freedom that they risk their lives so that the world can focus attention on their plight" Washington, DC - Today, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , Chair of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, issued the ... (more)

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , a fierce critic of the left-wing governments of ALBA and one of the only U.S. lawmakers who pays any mind to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, released a statement this week criticizing President Barack Obama for not condemning the Sandinista leader during his recent trip to Central America.

A bipartisan group of Congress members introduced a bill Tuesday that would provide clearer rights for same-sex couples who want to adopt children.

Will printed guns be game changers? If anybody with the money can buy, lease or otherwise gain access to a 3-D printer, raw materials and the proper "blueprints" via open-source software, will any gun laws be enforceable anywhere? Until a working model was produced, those were just hypothetical questions.

A bill legalizing adoption and foster parenting by same-sex couples is set to be reintroduced on Tuesday, with supporters hopeful that momentum around the Supreme Court's oral arguments on marriage equality and recent pro-LGBT comments from Republican lawmakers will give their legislation a boost.

Beyonc said Monday that she was "shocked" by criticism of her and her husband Jay-Z's recent trip to Cuba.

A leading member of Congress is accusing the Iraqi government of failing to protect unarmed Iranian dissidents from terrorist attacks in a refugee camp near Baghdad.

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, made the following statement regarding President Obama's trip to Mexico and Costa Rica.

Castro, who was to receive an award Saturday night for her advocacy, also defended her country's government, which has been accused of repressing political dissent.

One of the convicted spies known as the "Cuban Five" will be able to permanently remain in Cuba in exchange for renouncing his U.S. citizenship, a federal judge ruled Friday after U.S. officials dropped their initial opposition.

Mariela Castro, the daughter of President RaAol Castro, during an appearance at an academic conference in San Francisco in 2012.

Less than a week before the House Oversight Committee is due to have its hearing examining the attacks on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Office of the Inspector General is expected to do a special review of the Accountability Review Board that released the Mullen-Pickering report on the Benghazi attack.

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, made the following statement regarding Joanne Chesimard, a convicted felon who killed a New Jersey State Trooper and fled to Cuba, being named today as a Most Wanted Terrorist by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and New Jersey authorities adding more ... (more)