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Tuesday, the Commerce Department is expected to report the April deficit on international trade in goods and services was $41.2 billion, up from $24.9 billion when the economic recovery began. The Obama administration’s ill-conceived energy policies and appeasement of China and Japan are responsible for this jump in the trade …

Building a relationship with your teen may seem futile and dangerous. After all, you’re not even sure if this is still your kid. He vaguely looks like the adorable lad in his kindergarten picture, but long gone is the precious way he used to chatter on with you. Now if …

FoxNews.com reporter Jana Winter faces jail on contempt charges unless she reveals the sources for an exclusive story she wrote about accused Colorado mass murderer James Holmes. Her story first revealed the existence of a notebook that Holmes had mailed to his psychiatrist. Winter is citing her First Amendment right …

Can poor people be trusted with guns?Overwhelmingly, Republicans thinks so.But while Democrats fight against taxes on the poor and oppose voter photo IDs because they impose too much of burden, they seem to be doing everything possible – fromfees, expensive training requirements, and photo IDs –to make it next to …

In spite of other disagreements, there is one aspect about marriage that both the left and the right can find to agree on. Marriage is a valuable anti-poverty program. The Brookings Institution says that if we had the marriage rate today that we had in 1970, there would be a …

The president of the United States will declare Wednesday, January 16 “Religious Freedom Day.” It commemorates one of the great dates in American history, January 16, 1786, when the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, was enacted. That law was famous for declaring the freedom of religious …

One of the nation’s largest public school systems is preparing to include gender identity to its classroom curriculum, including lessons on sexual fluidity and spectrum – the idea that there’s no such thing as 100 percent boys or 100 percent girls. Fairfax County Public Schools released a report recommending changes …

There’s been a lot of talk about not enough funding for a dilapidated infrastructure of Amtrak since the train crash earlier this week. But ironically, turns out the train involved in the deadly crash was a newly minted jewel called a “cities sprinter” … A train introduced only last year …

In my new book, “The Constitution of the United States and Other Patriotic Documents,” readers can rediscover what made America a luminous beacon of hope for liberty, prosperity, and justice throughout the world. Since before its founding, our country has been blessed with extraordinary leaders who steeled our resolve for …

Let’s be clear: defeating and dismantling Hamas is not only the right course for our friend and ally, Israel, but good for the United States, the whole Middle East and the world. On October 7, terrorists breached Israeli territory and murdered the largest number of Jews at any one time …