Most people know how to use computers, but far fewer know how they work and even fewer are capable of writing the coded instructions that form the basis of every program, website and application. There’s an effort to change that, and it could be a boon to political campaigns. This …

American Pastor Saeed Abedini has now spent 1,000 days in captivity in Iran – nearly three years suffering in prison – separated from his wife, Naghmeh, and their two young children. No one could have imagined that he would be imprisoned this long when he was taken into custody by …

On Monday morning, in advance of this week’s bipartisan health care summit, President Obama posted a new plan for reform on the White House Web site. It closely resembles the Senate bill that passed in December. On a conference call with reporters, White House staffers told them that if Republicans …

Developments this week with Libya and Syria show that President Barack Obama is in way over his head on U.S. foreign policy – once again. In Libya, rebel fighters are closing in on Col. Moammar Qaddafi’s stronghold of Tripoli – though remain locked in a six-month civil war and face …

The people who are paid to root out waste, fraud, corruption and wrongdoing in the sprawling United Nations are often not qualified to do their jobs,and are hampered by insufficient funding and potential conflicts of interest because the very people they are investigating control their careers and budgets,according to a …

In her 1985 speech after receiving the Best Actress Oscar for her role in “Places in the Heart,” actress Sally Field famously gushed, “You like me; you really, really like me.” The latest in a long history of surveys examining the public’s level of trust in the news media might …

President Reagan believed “We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.” When Reagan was sworn into office in January 1981, the United States had record inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. It was commonly assumed our military had fallen behind that of our superpower rival, the Soviet …

Most analysts think President Obama went to Israel in a public relations effort to smooth relations between the two countries. He wasn’t aiming for any breakthroughs in the peace process, and tried to dampen expectations in advance. The visit may have started out that way, but by the end I …

I find it interesting that on the same day we have members of Congress putting forth bills to allow our military personnel to be armed in military recruiting centers … President Obama is presenting a plan to limit the ownership of guns for some of our elderly citizens. The administration …

DETROIT – A woman who died in a Los Angeles-area car crash last September is the eighth person killed by exploding air bags made by Takata Corp. of Japan, U.S. safety regulators and Honda Motor Co. confirmed Friday. The woman was identified in a lawsuit as Jewel Brangman, 26, who …