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Senator defends U.S. overthrow of Zelaya. DeMint, a conservative Republican, described Zelaya as a "dictator in the style of Chavez," referring to Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez Senator Jim DeMint on Thursday defended the toppling of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, said that now is still the rule of law in the Central American country.

President Barack Obama yesterday signed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Air Force Service Pilots of World War II, the first women in American history to fly military aircraft.

The so-called "military coup" in Honduras was a successful effort by Honduran patriots to preserve their constitutional system of government from an international alliance of communists and socialists backed by Iran.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya formally began his campaign to reclaim his office Tuesday, making appeals to diplomats and Obama administration officials in the capital and in New York.

The Obama administration is seriously considering not extending further invitations to Iranian diplomats for Fourth of July celebrations overseas, senior administration officials tell CNN.

With the House about to tackle a controversial climate change bill, a hurried reporter at The Hill newspaper e-mailed Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's office, seeking her position on the bill.

Why do our politicians suck so bad? John de Groot doesn't always try to answer that question, but he's usually digging up evidence to prove the premise.

A group of 25 US lawmakers urged Lithuania and Poland in letters released Wednesday to enact laws this year to address restituting property the Nazis stole during the Holocaust.

The Washington Blade reports : "According to his office, more than 100 members of Congress have signed on to co-sponsor the measure.

After taking flak for days from some conservative quarters for his approach to the turmoil in Iran, President Obama on Tuesday declared himself "appalled and outraged" by Tehran's response to the post-election protests, but repeatedly declined to say whether there would be any consequences, or shifts in U.S. policy, as a result.

President Obama's latest remarks on Iran, in which he said the U.S. and the world are appalled and outraged by the Iranian government's crackdown on dissent, have met with praise but also some continuing criticism from members of Congress.

Susie Bain found her place in the sky when she was 21. The Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, and Bain had left college because it was too expensive.

Congress volleyed back today on the contentious issue of repealing the military's ban on open service for gay men and lesbians.

As a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, Austinite Susie Bain flew stateside.

A Bipartisan delegation from South Florida is preparing to leave for Haiti Monday morning.

In late summer 1985 a treasure hunter laid claim to an alleged wreck near the Nuestra Seora de Atocha , the famous Spanish galleon that Mel Fisher found and mined for untold riches.

The fundraiser set to be hosted Wednesday by elected officials and business leaders at the posh Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables sounds like countless other receptions benefiting Florida's political establishment.

A United States Congresswoman is accusing Bahamian officials of incompetence "or worse" in the handling of a case in which an American journalist was allegedly beaten by Defence Force officers at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre.

James Kemp, son of former congressman Jack Kemp, who accepted the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom on behalf of his father, on Tuesday, June 16, at the U.S. Capitol.

President Barack Obama signed a memorandum Wednesday granting benefits to same-sex domestic partners of gay and lesbian federal employees.