Saying the "seeds of hate" must not be allowed to take root, President Barack Obama used some of his newly embraced executive power to deliver new sanctions against Iran, Sudan, and Syria designed to prevent mass atrocities.
Though Mormons have been explicitly banned from posthumously baptizing late Holocaust survivors since 1995, religious leaders found themselves apologizing yesterday for annointing the parents of a famous Nazi hunter into their ranks.
Rudolf Brazda, 98, was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II
The Iranian president makes a puzzling remark at a recent ceremony
On Afghanistan's resources, an Israel counterfactual, and America's unoccupied jobs
They say the contractor hired to support the tree did a shoddy job
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