With retired Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis at his side, President-elect Trump told a crowd in North Carolina that military families and veterans will be among his top priorities. "We will rebuild our military and alliances, destroy terrorists, face our enemies head-on and make America safe again," he insisted.
The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is now lit. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., flipped the switch Tuesday night.
Across Iraq, ISIS has blazed a trail of terror, targeting Christians and other minorities. The town of Bashiqa sits just a few miles from Mosul and ISIS forces. Driving through the town, it bears the scars of a bitter battle.
The nominations have been revealed for the 2017 Grammy Awards and several Christian artists have been nominated for more than one Grammy.
A bishop in Syria is being called a "saint" for working secretly to save the lives of more than two hundred Christians who were kidnapped by the Islamic State.
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YouTube partially lifted its ban on a video recorded by a British Muslim who was raised to hate Jews but later changed his thinking.
Betsy DeVos, the nominee for Secretary of Education, says a trip to Israel helped her to cast a vision for education reform. DeVos has helped to lead the school choice movement for years.
Closing out two terms as a president at war, Barack Obama staunchly defended his counterterrorism strategy as one that rejected torture, held to American values and avoided large-scale troop deployments, in an implicit effort to shape the strategy his successor might employ.
Republicans on Capitol Hill launched a new effort to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for unjustly mistreating Tea Party groups, but were shut down on the House Floor.
Amazon is opening brick-and-mortar grocery stores that have no checkout stations.