Jacobs insisted that scrapping the address now, following the uproar and the tensions the planned address has caused between Israel and the United States, “will not be an embarrassment.” “It will be something people will respect him for,” he said. The …

If the world is to be prepared for the next pandemic, even Chan says her agency must change: "We always say we go to war with a virus. But the world is not as well-prepared for [an] epidemic as they are for war." Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global …

From the Koch brothers to Al Franken, momentum builds to reduce prison population.

Because most illegal aliens are economic migrants, turning off the wage-magnet is, as Barbara Jordan called it, “the linchpin of a comprehensive strategy to deter unlawful migration.” When Arizona made e-Verify mandatory in 2008, it was so successful …

Tragically, the Ebola crisis might have been averted had the WHO and its member states simply heeded earlier (supposed) “lessons learned.” In 2011, a committee charged with taking stock of the WHO's response to the 2009 flu pandemic, known as H1N1, …

"Would-be illegal aliens understand that being caught at the border will likely result in them being released — often with authorization to work in the U.S. They understand that interior and workplace enforcement has been gutted, and that there is no …

In 2011, a review committee convened to assess how the WHO and the International Health Regulations functioned during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic found that WHO was well-positioned to manage a geographically focused, short-term outbreak but didn't …

Tommaso Di Ruzza was appointed Wednesday as the new director of the Vatican's Authority for Financial Information, filling the post left vacant Nov. 19, when the previous director, René Bruelhart, was made president of the …

Vatican City, Jan 21, 2015 / 06:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Tommaso Di Ruzza was appointed Wednesday as the new director of the Vatican's Authority for Financial Information, filling the post left vacant Nov. 19, when the previous director, René Bruelhart, …

China’s anti-corruption watchdog has stepped up inspections of state-run conglomerates, focusing on strategic firms, as Beijing prepares to implement its most ambitious reform of government industry in nearly two decades. Anti-graft inspectors are targeting 53 strategic central government-owned groups, where top executives hold the rank of deputy government ministers, a state industry source familiar with […]