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There’s something sick about an administration which is so pro-Islamic that it can’t even tell the truth about the people who are trying to kill us,” Mr. Gingrich said ... Mr. Gingrich accused the White House of being unwilling to discuss threats from some Muslims. And he slammed President Barack Obama for mounting a “war” on the Catholic Church over contraception but apologize to Afghan President Hamid Karzai over the burning of Qurans.

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A suspect is in federal custody after passengers say he threatened an infant and tried to charge the cockpit of an airplane en route to Honolulu. No air marshal was aboard, but seven passengers tackled and subdued him. Passengers say the man's strange behavior started just a couple hours after Northwest Flight 91 took off from Los Angeles. "He came up to first class several times, and at one point he really startled me... He came up to my left shoulder, and he got right in my face and he said something in Spanish -- he said something about medicine,...

At a government test site in Nevada last week, scientists generated a brief electrical pulse four times as powerful as all the electricity on Earth. It was all over in a few millionths of a second. And you should have seen the aluminum can. The 650-ton Atlas Pulsed Power Facility discharged nearly 19 million amperes through a liner, described as an aluminum shell the size of a tuna can. You might expect it would have exploded. Not exactly. The official line: "The current caused the liner to implode at extreme speeds, with unrivaled symmetry, precision and reproducibility." That means the...