World
April 8th, 2016
U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), along with Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), today introduced the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act to help facilitate the return of...
March 31st, 2016
Yesterday I spoke to the brother of Gail Minglana Martinez, who died due to injuries sustained during the terrorist attack in Brussels last week.
March 23rd, 2016
A satellite flying in space over the American Super Bowl, unprovoked missile launches, the test of a so-called hydrogen bomb and threats to destroy Manhattan. This is just a snapshot of what North Korea has been up to this...
March 22nd, 2016
Days after Belgian law enforcement captured alive ISIS terrorist Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspected ringleaders of the deadly Paris attacks, terrorists retaliated in Brussels by launching a series of explosions at the...
March 19th, 2016
A suicide bomb attack at a busy shopping area in the Turkish city of Istanbul has killed at least four people, officials say.
Another 36 were injured - 12 foreign nationals - as the bomb went off near a government building...
March 11th, 2016
Fifty members of the U.S. House of Representatives and I sent a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, to express our disappointment on the recent statement by the...
February 24th, 2016
President Obama's decision to fulfill an 8 year old campaign promise on his way out the door by unilaterally closing Guantanamo Bay is not only dangerous, it is also illegal. The law -whether he likes it or not- says that...
February 11th, 2016
It was a routine exercise, sailing from Kuwait to Bahrain through the Persian Gulf, until, allegedly, the navigation system failed on one of the two U.S. gunboats. Mysteriously, the boats lost communication.
January 25th, 2016
I released the following statement after reintroducing S. 929, the Vietnam Human Rights Sanctions Act, which would impose sanctions and travel restrictions on Vietnamese nationals who are complicit in human rights abuses...
January 22nd, 2016
At least 20 people died and 17 were wounded after a suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a beachside restaurant-hotel in the capital of Somalia, authorities said. Six attackers were also killed.
April 6th, 2016
A new round of United Nations sanctions on North Korea has a lot of loopholes, and China is only enforcing those that hit at Pyongyang’s weapons-making capabilities. The rogue nation, that is once again making nuclear...
March 28th, 2016
The death toll in a devastating suicide attack on picnicking families in the city of Lahore rose to 72, with another 230 injured, local media reports said Monday, as Pakistani authorities vowed to hunt down the Islamist...
March 23rd, 2016
The surviving suspect directly linked to the terror attacks in Brussels Tuesday is believed to be still on the run, according to Belgian officials.
The unidentified man, who is seen wearing a light-colored jacket in...
March 22nd, 2016
A series of deadly terrorist attacks struck Brussels on Tuesday, with two explosions at the city’s main international airport and a third in a subway station at the heart of the city, near the headquarters complex of the...
March 18th, 2016
A few weeks ago, the FBI released a game called “Slippery Slope” that was aimed at a Gen-Z and Millennial audience, but was apparently developed by the “Department of Tone Deafness.” I use that snark, as the game itself,...
March 3rd, 2016
Peace Corps volunteers are America’s angels abroad. These unique volunteers are some of our best diplomats. They travel to the ends of the Earth to spread the message of democracy in lands far, far away. Sometimes they work...
February 22nd, 2016
With civil wars in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Iraq, and with instability and terrorism stretching from Turkey to Egypt, now is not the time for the United States to further roil the Middle East by appeasing our adversaries and...
January 26th, 2016
An imposing equestrian statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dominated the room where Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met on Monday. But Rouhani could not admire some of the other...
January 25th, 2016
The war on cash is escalating faster than many had imagined. Having documented the growing calls from the elites and propagandist explanations of the "benefits" to their serfs over the last few years, with China, and The IMF...
January 20th, 2016
Militants raided a university in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, timing their attack to a ceremony at the school to ensure maximum casualties.
After security forces combed the campus block by block after the massacre,...