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Republicans Tuesday struck out at President Barack Obama’s long-promised plan to close the United States’ detention center at Guantanamo Bay, with several insisting that his plan to transfer detainees to American soil is against the law. “After seven years, President Obama has yet to convince the American people that moving Guantanamo terrorists to our homeland is smart or safe,” House…

Being a Christian candidate for president means far more than advocating for life, religious liberty, and the family. It means far more than sharing your faith on campaign stops and calling on Americans to welcome God into the public square. And it means far more than doling out hugs and the vaguest inspirational bromides as you go. It means being…

Authorities investigating the shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14 people in December — the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since 9/11 — recovered three cellphones belonging to the assailants. Two of them had been destroyed, while a third one found in the shooters’ vehicle was locked by a short, numeric passcode. The FBI wants to hack into that…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s charge that corporate CEOs earn 300 times more than their workers isn’t just wrong. It hides another very real wage gap: She earns more in just one speech than the average American CEO in a year. Mark J. Perry, a University of Michigan professor and author of the American Enterprise Institute’s popular Carpe Diem…

Columbia, S.C. — Nikki Haley made her decision over dinner. Three dinners, to be exact. They were casual, held at the South Carolina governor’s mansion, in the family quarters rather than in the formal dining room. Having long decided that she would wait until after the New Hampshire primary to make her decision, the South Carolina governor was genuinely undecided….

Fox News Poll: Clinton ‘feels the Bern,’ trails Sanders by three points nationally Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Bernie Sanders now tops Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination. The latest Fox News national poll finds 47 percent of Democratic primary voters now back the Vermont senator, up from 37 percent in January. Clinton gets 44 percent,…

Operation Gideon: Cruz’s South Carolina salvation Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is betting that an old-time religious revival will deliver him victory in South Carolina’s GOP primary on Saturday. When Cruz announced Thursday that 300 Christian leaders across the state had endorsed him, it was the culmination of what the campaign has dubbed “Operation Gideon.” It’s an alliance among a close-knit…

Let’s understand something about the fight to fill the Supreme Court seat of Antonin (“Nino”) Scalia. This is about nothing but raw power. Any appeal you hear to high principle is phony — brazenly, embarrassingly so. In Year Seven of the George W. Bush administration, Senator Chuck Schumer publicly opposed filling any Supreme Court vacancy until Bush left office. (“Except…

ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRLINER — Inserting himself into the Republican presidential race, Pope Francis on Wednesday suggested that Donald J. Trump “is not Christian” because of the harshness of his campaign promises to deport more immigrants and force Mexico to pay for a wall along the border. “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and…

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has overtaken businessman Donald Trump in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News national poll of likely Republican voters. Here’s how the six remaining candidates stack up, according to the poll: Ted Cruz: 28 percent Donald Trump: 26 percent Marco Rubio: 17 percent John Kasich: 11 percent Ben Carson: 10 percent Jeb Bush: 4 percent In head-to-head…

According to Senator Elizabeth Warren, the future of the republic teeters in the balance. Unless the United States Senate bows to the will of President Barack Obama and approves his replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, everything we hold dear will be lost. A refusal to get with the program, Warren insists, “would threaten both the Constitution…