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05/13/2013Is Congress Asking Hourly-Paid Americans to Work More for Less Pay?
Democrats, Labor Unions and Republican legislators are now at loggerheads over a bill passed in the House of Representatives last Wednesday that seeks to allow private employers to offer hourly-paid workers compensatory time off instead of time-and-a-half pay for overtime.
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05/13/2013Brother of Ariel Castro: 'I Want Him to Suffer, Rot in Jail'
Onil and Pedro Castro, two brothers of accused Cleveland kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro, 52, who were fingered in connection with their brother's crimes, declared in a heart-wrenching interview over the weekend that their brother is now dead to them.
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05/13/2013Video of Married Couple Singing 'Livin' on a Prayer' on Jay Leno's 'Pumpcast News' Goes Viral
A video of a fun-loving married couple from Burbank, Calif., who surprised the Tonight Show's fictional "Pumpcast News" with their made for TV rendition of two hit songs from the 1980s at a gas pump, has turned the duet into the latest Internet stars and revived the popularity of the songs.
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05/10/2013Pols Spar Over Full Faith and Credit Act Mandating Gov't to Pay China Over Americans
In a move tagged by Democrats as "political gamesmanship," the Republican controlled House of Representatives on Thursday passed The Full Faith and Credit Act which Democrats and President Barack Obama argue is "default by another name."
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05/10/2013NJ Gov. Chris Christie: 'I'm a Damn Good Republican,' for 2016 Presidential Run?
About 30 pounds lighter from weight-loss surgery in February, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently touted his conservative Republican stripes and danced around buzz that he might run for the presidency of the United States in 2016.
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05/10/2013John Piper's Confessions of Brokenness and Introversion
Noted theologian and founder of Desiring God Ministries, John Piper confessed that he is an introvert affected by brokenness, but God used him anyway to build a powerful ministry and pastor it successfully for 33 years.
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05/10/2013Unflappable Hero Charles Ramsey Says Past Domestic Violence Arrests Made Him a Better Man Today
Still riding a wave of cheers from the public for his role in the selfless and daring rescue of three young women and a girl in Cleveland, Ohio, unflappable Internet sensation Charles Ramsey said media reports of domestic violence arrests in his past were teaching moments which helped him become the man he is today.
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05/09/2013House of Horror: Ariel Castro Allegedly Forced Abortions, Punched Captive in Stomach Until She Miscarried
There were rumors. A naked woman had reportedly been roaming the backyard and someone had glimpsed a child staring from a window in the attic where no children supposedly lived. But inside the house at 2207 Seymour Ave., in Cleveland, Ohio, three captive young women and a child were desperately waiting to be freed from the horrors within.
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05/09/2013Jim Wallis Warns LGBT Activists to 'Stay Out' of Immigration Reform Debate
Left-leaning evangelical leader and same-sex marriage supporter Jim Wallace warned on Wednesday that tangling gay rights with immigration reform legislation currently being debated in the Senate would be the wrong thing to do at this time, and gay rights advocates are not happy with his comments.
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05/09/2013Rick Warren Journals Grief of Losing Son to Suicide; Describes 'Comforting Notes' on Twitter
Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest Calif., continues to journal his grief over losing his son, Matthew, who committed suicide just over a month ago, through his posts on Twitter. He tweeted on Wednesday that he has been most encouraged by support from the people who his son inspired to find God.
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05/09/2013Dead Giveaway: Hero Charles Ramsey Gets Autotuned and a Tweet From McDonald's
From the moment Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey's animated interview on how he helped save Amanda Berry and two other women began trending on social media, America knew it would only be a matter of time. The Gregory Brothers have autotuned news interviews of America's newest hero and the song, 'Dead Giveaway', published on Tuesday is already a hit.
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05/08/2013Saving Amanda Berry Was 'Christian, American' Thing to Do, Says Hero Charles Ramsey
Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man whose courage led him to help save Amanda Berry and two other women from a man who had held them captive for almost 10 years, doesn't think his actions were heroic. It was just the "Christian, American" thing to do, he says.
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05/08/2013Marco Rubio, Heritage Foundation Spar Over $6.3 Trillion Immigration Bill
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and the Heritage Foundation are now at odds over a study released by the foundation on Monday that calculates that the cost of an immigration reform proposal partly authored by Rubio would add $6.3 trillion to America's deficit.
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05/08/2013Ex-S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford Overcomes Past Scandal, Wins in Special Election
After a grueling political fight filled with personal drama that spurred even his Republican colleagues to desert him, former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford experienced what the media is describing as redemption on Tuesday night when voters re-elected him to represent the state's First District in Congress.
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05/08/2013Poll: Americans Divided Over New Immigration Bill
As the Senate's "gang of eight" works to enact a sweeping immigration reform bill proposing a 13-year pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants in America, a recent Gallup poll is showing that the nation is almost equally divided in its opposition and support for the bill.


