Candidates Race Across Iowa On Last Day Before Caucuses

The White House their goal, Republican presidential hopefuls raced across Iowa on Monday in a final, full day of frenzied appeals for support in precinct caucuses that open the 2012 campaign. “It is the race you make it,” an upset-minded Rick Santorum told voters soon to pick a winner.

Michelle Obama Praised For Support Of Military Families

Just as President Obama’s approval ratings have begun to turn around, the first lady is reportedly receiving some new support of her own — among military veterans.

Chuck Smith, Founder of Calvary Church in California, Is Battling Lung Cancer

Pastor Chuck Smith on Sunday shocked his congregation when he revealed he has been battling lung cancer. Smith, 84, is senior pastor of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, Calif.

New Film ‘Nefarious: Merchant of Souls’ Exposes the Truth About Sex Trafficking

As we waited in a packed theater recently to see a new documentary about sex trafficking, I wondered how Christian filmmaker Benjamin Nolot would present this graphic subject to us.

Obama Ending Vacation, Gets Ready for Re-election

With an eye on the 2012 campaign, President
Barack Obama wrapped up a low-key Hawaiian vacation Monday and planned
to quickly get back in front of voters as he ratchets up his bid for
re-election.

Pictured: President
Barack Obama and the first family leave the East-West Center after
visiting an exhibit about the President’s mother’s anthropological work
in Honolulu, Hawaii Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

David Cameron Predicts Tough Year for United Kingdom

Prime Minister David Cameron issued a blunt
message to Britons on Monday, saying that though the Summer Olympics and
the queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebration will raise the country’s
profile 2012 will still be a tough year.

Outcry in Nigeria as Fuel Prices More than Double

Irate drivers in Africa’s most populous
nation paid more than twice the usual price Monday after the government
quietly removed a long-cherished consumer subsidy that had kept gas
affordable, prompting fears of strikes and unrest.