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House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 26, 2015, during the committee's hearing: Leadership Challenges at the Department of Homeland Security: Allegations of Improper Influence Regarding Special Visas.

National Security

House Homeland Security chair: ‘Terrorism has gone viral’

Barbara Boland · May 10, 2015 3:33 pm

"The threat of the challenge is enormous and it's something we've never seen before," said Brett McGurk, the State Department's special envoy on defeating the Islamic State. (AP File)

Obama official: Defeating Islamic State ‘going to take time’

Zack Colman · May 10, 2015 2:21 pm

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina speaks at the Freedom Summit, Saturday, May 9, 2015, in Greenville, S.C. Republicans making their pitch to be the party's 2016 presidential nominee aimed to out-do each other Saturday in arguing that President Barack Obama is a failed leader. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

South Carolina voters break down 2016 candidates

David M. Drucker · May 10, 2015 9:00 am

As medical advancements improve prospects for premature babies, viability becomes a shifting standard. (Getty Images)

Could science help ban abortions?

Paige Winfield Cunningham · May 10, 2015 9:00 am

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,Â says Democrats will dig unless all three of their demands -- trade enforcement language, African Growth, and TAA -- are included.Â (Getty Image)

Dems dig in heels in trade fight

Susan Ferrechio · May 10, 2015 9:00 am

In this aerial image, the first ever methane hydrate gas taken from seabed layers is seen lit at the stern of drilling vessel Chikyu, as Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. begins the world's first offshore test mining in the off coast of Atsumi Peninsula on March 12, 2013 in Aichi, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Could ‘ice that burns’ be the next step in natural gas?

John Siciliano · May 10, 2015 9:00 am

Construction continues at the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Complex in Devesulu, Romania March 8. (Aegis/MDA)

National Security

Aegis missile defense rises in Romania

Tara Copp · May 10, 2015 9:00 am

A "crisis" of masculinity is brewing in young men who "are combining playing video games, and â¦ watching on average two hours of pornography a week," leading Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo. (AP Photo)

Expert: Porn causing ‘masculinity crisis’

Barbara Boland · May 10, 2015 12:33 am

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the Freedom Summit, Saturday, May 9, 2015, in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo)

Ted Cruz charts fraught territory, attacks GOP opponents on religious liberty

David M. Drucker · May 10, 2015 12:12 am

Watch: Media shows its hypocrisy on ‘Draw Muhammad’ cartoon contest

Barbara Boland · May 9, 2015 9:41 pm

First lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement address at Tuskegee University, Saturday, May 9, 2015, in Tuskegee, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Michelle Obama: Blacks have been ‘frustrated and invisible’ for ‘decades’

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 9:14 pm

Obama: Elizabeth Warren is ‘absolutely wrong’

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 7:47 pm