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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes comments Sept. 12, 2012, while speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., on the killing of U.S. Embassy officials in Benghazi, Libya. (Associated Press)

Romney rips Obama on China

Mitt Romney in his weekly podcast address on Saturday ripped President Obama for "driving jobs overseas."


Unification Church faithful gather in South Korea to mourn Rev. Moon

Tens of thousands of mourners descended on this remote rural retreat to pay their final respects to Unification Church founder Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a solemn two-and-a-half hour ceremony Saturday.

Panetta in Asia to advance Pentagon's 'pivot' to Pacific region

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is visiting Asia to further advance the U.S. military's focus on the Pacific region, which includes shifting much of its naval fleet, expanding joint exercises with regional allies, and deploying forces to Australia and Southeast Asia.

White House details 'destructive' spending cuts

With excruciating detail, the White House's budget office on Friday laid out exactly where it will have to cut $109 billion from federal spending in January, including $11.1 billion from Medicare and $54.7 billion from defense spending.

2 British soldiers killed in Afghan insider attack

A gunman in an Afghan police uniform killed two British soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, a day after insurgents dressed in U.S. Army uniforms attacked a military base, killing two American Marines, wounding nine other people and destroying six Harrier fighter jets, military officials said.

Nationals blow four-run lead, drop series to Braves

Ryan Mattheus kept his eyes low, his words muffled. He berated himself. He called his inability to throw strikes in the decisive eighth inning Saturday night "inexcusable" and searched for the reason why his command deserted him.

Official: No Marines in Libya at time of Benghazi attack

No U.S. Marines were in Libya when protesters stormed a diplomatic mission in the eastern city of Benghazi and killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans late Tuesday, a senior Obama administration official said Saturday.

Teenager accused of plotting to set off car bomb in Chicago

Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said Saturday.

Obama: Americans 'reject denigration of any religion — including Islam'

President Obama paid tribute to the four Americans slain this week in Libya and again tried to tamp down anti-American anger around the globe in his weekly radio address on Saturday.

Calif. filmmaker: I won't return to besieged home

A Southern California filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed Saturday by federal probation officers at a Los Angeles sheriff's station, authorities said.

Brewer tells Values Voter Summit that racial profiling will not be tolerated in Ariz.

Gov. Jan Brewer, Arizona Republican, told attendees of the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., on Saturday that "racial profiling will not be tolerated" under her state's tough new anti-illegal immigration laws.

Obama pushes economy in campaigning

Sensing an opening on the economy, President Barack Obama launched an aggressive new effort Saturday to convince voters in the most competitive states that Republican rival Mitt Romney is risky for the nation's recovery with a plan that caters to multimillionaires over the middle class.

Al Qaeda calls for more attacks on embassies

Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen praised the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya in a Web statement Saturday and called for more attacks to expel American embassies from Muslim nations.

2 NATO soldiers killed in Afghan insider attack

An Afghan local policeman killed two soldiers with the NATO military coalition in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the latest in a surge of insider attacks that are fracturing trust between Afghan forces and their international partners.

White House calls report 'absolutely false,' was not warned about Cairo attack

The White House insisted Friday that anti-American protests roiling the Middle East are not directed at President Obama's policies, but at a film produced in the U.S. that Muslims find offensive.

Judge strikes down Wis. law limiting union rights

A Wisconsin judge has struck down the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers.

Commentary

TAUBE: How Romney could save the Keystone pipeline

Earlier this year, President Obama indefinitely postponed construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. This project would have transported synthetic crude oil and diluted bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta to numerous U.S. states.

DECKER: 5 Questions with Geert Wilders

Geert Wilders has been a member of the Dutch Parliament for 14 years and is the founder and head of Holland's Party for Freedom (PVV). He is known across Europe for his staunch defense of individual liberties in the face of increasingly strict speech codes and other politically correct legislation.

KNIGHT: Trashing the Constitution

Constitution Day is Monday, Sept. 17, so I compiled a non-exhaustive list of the ways Barack Obama has violated the Constitution.

EDITORIAL: Islamist explosion not over film

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is emphatic that the anti-Islam video "Innocence of Muslims" is "disgusting." This happens to be what most Americans feel about our flag being desecrated. For some reason, foreign governments don't heap praise on the United States and its traditions every time their people commit acts of disrespect toward us. U.S. politicians could learn from their example.

EDITORIAL: Saving gas, wasting lives

President Obama's latest fuel-efficiency decree means consumers will have to turn in their SUVs and pickup trucks for tiny, European-style city cars within the next few years. It's also likely to produce another, more costly consequence: a lot more death on America's roads.

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