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A man believed to be a soldier has been beheaded in an attack on a street near the Woolwich barracks in London, witnesses report.

Arizona Sen. John McCain and other moderate Republicans pointed to ill-fated abortion comments as one reason the GOP lost the 2012 elections and suggested conservative lawmakers should "leave the issue alone" in the future.

Recently, I asked Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, one of the most fiercely pro-choice members of Congress, why she thought the House of Representatives had been so muted this year in its introduction of anti-abortion and anti-Planned Parenthood bills.

On Tuesday, judges on the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down an Arizona law that would have banned abortions at 20 weeks.

On Tuesday, judges on the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down an Arizona law that would have banned abortions at 20 weeks.

President Obama's meeting with Burma's President Thein Sein at the White House today is a stark reminder of how far the Administration has come on Burma policy.

McCONNELL: OBAMACARE TOP 2014 ISSUE - For all of the past week's headlines on Benghazi, the IRS and Justice Department, there's still one issue that will top them all in the 2014 midterm elections, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's crystal ball.

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According to reliable estimates, there are nearly 10 million children around the world who, if global bureaucrats would merely get out of the way, could be adopted into loving, permanent families.

Rep. Trent Franks will offer a bill to ban late-term abortions in response to the gruesome case of Kermit Gosnell, an abortion provider recently convicted of killing three viable infants.

Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday he did not know whether there has been even one prosecution under the Born Alive Infant Protection Act .

A Philadelphia prosecutor called it a "house of horrors." But it was no amusement day at Hershey Park for the unsuspecting women who entered the Women's Medical Society in West Philly for more than 15 years.

Eric Holder comes to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a show of fireworks that could be unlike any seen in this Congress so far.

BREAKING: CHUCK HAGEL TO ANNOUNCE 11 FURLOUGH DAYS The defense secretary plans to announce today the Pentagon will furlough about 800,000 civilian employees due to sequestration, but for just 11 days, not 14 or even 22 as previously considered, POLITICO's Stephanie Gaskell reports: http://politi.co/YGIxwQ Hagel, who is planning exemptions for ... (more)

House Republicans are beginning to speak out about the high-profile case against a Philadelphia abortion doctor, but leaders, committee chairmen and rank-and-file members have yet to coalesce around a single strategy to address the hot-button issue.

Two House committees launched nationwide campaigns earlier this week to investigate the prevalence of poorly regulated abortion facilities similar to the kind Kermit Gosnell ran in Philadelphia for 17 years.

After years of ongoing opposition to the Tohono O'odham Nation's plan to build a resort-style casino, the new Glendale City Manager suggests the city drop legal opposition and develop a "more positive" relationship with the tribe.

Arizona Rep. Trent Franks is capitalizing on the trial of Kermit Gosnell by attempting to push a bill through Congress that would ban abortion after 20 weeks for women in Washington, D.C. . Rep.

Republican lawmakers have dispatched letters to all fifty states demanding to know more about the regulation of abortion clinics and enforcement of abortion laws.

Gray said he intends to push legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to apply for driver's licenses in D.C. Even though the D.C. proposal taps on the hot-button issue of immigration, members of Congress don't seem likely to invest themselves in defeating it.