The House of Grace

As members of the Army's 10th Mountain Division stood at attention before him, Vice President Biden outlined this summer's withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq and thanked the soldiers for accomplishing their mission.

The Obama administration is making a concerted push to get China and other key nations in Asia, the Middle East and South America to enforce tough international sanctions against Iran and enact their own penalties.

The US is looking to arrange high-level talks with Iran on a potential nuclear fuel swap deal proposed last year but never acted on by Teheran.

Russian seemed to be zig-zagging on Iran on Tuesday, slamming new EU sanctions despite having accused Teheran of "fruitless and irresponsible rhetoric" the previous day.

Stalled talks between Iran and world powers should begin again as quickly as possible but must focus on Tehran's nuclear program, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday.

The United States and South Korea on Wednesday plan to end their joint military exercises aimed at warning North Korea to stop acts of aggression.

The State Department said Wednesday the United States is "fully prepared" to take part along with other major powers in new talks with Iran about its nuclear program. Iran this week expressed renewed interest in discussing a proposed trade of its low-enriched uranium for foreign fuel for a Tehran research reactor.

Iranian president says his country has 'precise information' on American plot to stymie his country's growth and 'save Zionist regime' through military confrontation

In an interview aired on Iranian state television Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on "at least two countries" in the Middle East in the next three months.

Statistics indicate that a growing number of Americans are marrying someone from outside their own religious commitments. Is this a trend we should encourage? Not if you are committed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The statistical trend is clear enough, but the question is more complex than may first appear. The Washington Post reported on June 6, 2010 that 25 percent of American households were mixed-faith in 2006, according to the General Social Survey. That represents a significant increase from the 15 percent of such households in 1988.

But, what does mixed-faith mean? It could mean the mixing of relatively similar Christian denominations, or it might mean the mixing of two very different systems of belief.

As Naomi Schaefer Riley reported, “In a paper published in 1993, Evelyn Lehrer, a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, found that if members of two mainline Christian denominations marry, they have a one in five chance of being divorced in five years. A Catholic and a member of an evangelical denomination have a one in three chance. And a Jew and a Christian who marry have a greater than 40 percent chance of being divorced in five years.” Keep Reading

International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world, FBI officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Iran's opposition leader said Monday that Ahmadinejad's regime could suffer the same fate as the deposed Shah if they continue to consolidate their grip on power.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad abandoned preconditions for talks over Iran's nuclear program late Monday, saying talks would start in early September regardless of the conditions he had set.

Al Qaeda's second in command Ayman Al-Zawahiri has surfaced again, this time threatening more attacks against the U.S. and the West.

France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.

Iran was defiant Tuesday after the European Union approved new sanctions against the country, saying the measures are "ineffective and unconstructive."

What's odd about this scenario? German business confidence is soaring while U.S. consumer sentiment sinks. Britain's second-quarter economic growth was almost twice as fast as expected, the strongest in four years. Meanwhile, economists have steadily marked down forecasts for Friday's U.S. gross domestic product report.

Israel on Monday praised the EU after it imposed a new set of sanctions on Iran in an attempt to bring Tehran back to the negotiating table over its contentious nuclear program.

The Palestinian Authority is determined to sabotage attempts to upgrade the ongoing proximity Middle East peace talks with direct negotiations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, adding that direct talks were the only way to ensure Israel's security interests.

Iran submitted a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday, proposing to restart limited talks on an exchange of nuclear fuel.