St. Petersburg, Russia – “What are you Americans thinking?” asked the young woman in perfect, if slightly accented English. She was wearing a nametag with “Marie” in both Cyrillic and English print and had greeted us pleasantly when we ducked out of the rain and into her store to buy …

Fair and balanced swift boat coverage, that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points” memo. I told my staff today they’ve done a great job in researching the swift boat business. For the past month, The Factor has been dead on about what is fact, what is false, and …

Another setback for parental authority. That’s the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” By law, you are responsible for your children. And traditionally the government has stayed out of the parent-child relationship unless abuse or neglect is involved, but under pressure from the ACLU (search) and other progressive groups, …

KATHMANDU, Nepal – A court official in Nepal says a Canadian tourist with several previous child sex convictions has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing a minor boy. The Lalitpur district court said that Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh, 71, from the province of Nova Scotia, was also …

Simon Cowell |Michael Jackson Simon Not Leaving American Idol: Stake Too High Simon Cowell is not leaving American Idol. I’m sorry I’m so late to the AI craze, but I did catch Cowell giving interviews last week to the effect that he “didn’t know what he’d be doing” about a …

BUENOS AIRES – The 10 federal policemen assigned to protect prosecutor Alberto Nisman, found dead hours before he was set to testify on allegations that President Cristina shielded Iranian spies, are being questioned about their actions the day Nisman was found dead. The policemen, along with two supervisors, have been …

BEIJING – A man admitted on Wednesday that he set a fire that spread through a bus in eastern China and injured 33, entering his plea from a hospital bed wheeled into a courtroom because of his own injuries in the blaze, a court said. Bao Laixu said he started …

TOKYO – The Japanese government spokesman expressed “extreme indignation’ Sunday over a video purportedly from the Islamic State group that shows a militant beheading hostage Kenji Goto. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the Cabinet was convening an emergency meeting and was rushing to confirm the authenticity of the online …

PARIS – A Paris court has convicted four members of a short-lived group of charges related to providing logistical support to Chechen jihadis in Syria. The youngest member of the group, Khamzat Ilyasov, 20, was sentenced to five years in prison. It was the harshest sentence in Thursday’s trial as …

And now the most telling two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Click here to watch it! Speaking Too Soon? One month after touting his leadership team of 34 ‘great folks behind me’ in Iowa, Presidential Candidate and Democratic Missouri CongressmanDick Gephardt …