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(CNSNews.com) – Iran's defense minister vowed Thursday that any U.S. or other warships that enter Iranian waters would be "severely punished," as the Pentagon confirmed that a U.S. patrol vessel had fired warning shots after being approached by an Iranian attack boat in an
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(CNSNews.com) – Pope Francis said Sunday he does not like speaking about Islamic violence, telling reporters on a flight to Rome that violent people were found in all religions, including his own. "There is always a small group of extremists in practically every religion," he said. "We
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(CNSNews.com) – President Obama told reporters three weeks ago that the U.S. had flown $400 million in cash to Iran last January because it could not send a check or wire the funds to the regime. The administration will not say how a much larger sum – $1.3 billion
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(CNSNews.com) – The Muslim world suffered two major terrorist attacks over the weekend – in Turkey and Somalia – but the bloc of Islamic states found just one subject worthy of commenting on on Sunday – the "painful occasion" of the anniversary of a failed arson attempt at Jerusalem's
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(CNSNews.com) – As the United States, Russia and the rest of the international community continue their Syrian ceasefire discussions, the slaughter of civilians continues in Aleppo, with Russian jets unloading bombs over the city again this week. On Wednesday, a five-year-boy became the face of the worsening humanitarian disaster, as
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(CNSNews.com) – House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce said in an interview with Fox News today that the $400 million payment that the Obama administration made to Iran as it was releasing a group of Americans it had imprisoned was in fact ransom. "It was ransom," said Royce.
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(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration will be publishing a new regulation in the Federal Register on Thursday that "makes it clear that an individual can use whichever restroom matches their gender identity," Ashley Nash-Hahn, a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration (GSA), told CNSNews.com. The Federal Management
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(CNSNews.com) – A jury found embattled Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane guilty of nine criminal charges on Monday for leaking grand jury information about a political rival to a Philadelphia Daily News reporter and then lying under oath about it in a scandal that roiled the state government in Harrisburg.