Rowan Scarborough

Iran’s political prisoner treatment raises human rights alarm

The United Nations and a human rights group are expressing alarm at Tehran's brutal treatment of imprisoned dissidents who have stepped up criticism of Iran's religious regime.

September 4, 2017

Army finishes investigation of National Guard recruitment bonuses

The Army has finished scrutinizing thousands of soldiers in its yearslong investigation of fraud in the National Guard's wartime recruiting bonus program.

August 30, 2017

Sebastian Gorka one of Donald Trump’s last ‘Islamic terrorist’ hard-liners

The White House today is nearly devoid of the hard-liners who arrived in January wanting to use the bully pulpit to expose radical Islam as the root cause of global terrorism.

August 27, 2017

ISIS new face of propaganda: 10-year-old American boy

A new face of the Islamic State is a 10-year-old American boy the terror army claims came to Syria two years ago with his mother from the United States.

August 23, 2017

Trump campaign supporters during election snubbed for Pentagon, State Department, national security

Many of the Donald Trump supporters who toiled long payless days last year to get the Republican elected president remain on the sidelines as plum national security jobs go to outsiders.

August 20, 2017

Lawyers seek to overturn sex assault conviction

Attorneys for a SEAL war hero are seeking a dismissal of his 2014 sex assault conviction because the Navy is trying to remove the naval lawyers assigned to the sailor's defense team.

August 15, 2017

Sailor convicted of sex assault seeks appeal; lawyers say Navy illegally tried to remove them

Attorneys for a SEAL war hero are seeking a dismissal of his 2014 sex assault conviction because the Navy is trying to remove the naval lawyers assigned to the sailor's defense team.

August 14, 2017

Al Qaeda targets U.S. trains

Al Qaeda is about to take on a new target -- America's trains -- in an upcoming edition of its terror magazine, Inspire.

August 11, 2017

Donald Trump’s Russia deals encouraged under Clinton plan

When Donald Trump and his global real estate company were making what appears to be a limited number of financial deals in the 2000s with Russians, the political atmospherics were much more permissive.

August 7, 2017

Donald Trump’s Russia deals encouraged under Clinton plan

When Donald Trump and his global real estate company were making what appears to be a limited number of financial deals in the 2000s with Russians, the political atmospherics were much more permissive.

August 6, 2017

Ammar Shahin, Mahmoud Harmoush, U.S. imams, apologize after jihadi translations verified

A premier research organization known for exposing jihadi extremist chatter is expressing vindication for its work to out two California imams who were forced to apologize for their calls for mass violence against Jewish people.

August 2, 2017

Ismail Ghaani, Iranian general, boasts of Quds Force killing U.S. troops in Iraq

The deputy commander of Iran's notorious Quds Force bragged at a recent ceremony that his operatives have killed more Americans than U.S. troops have killed Iranian fighters.

August 2, 2017

Retired generals, admirals thank President Trump for banning transgender troops

More than a dozen retired generals and admirals have signed a letter to President Trump thanking him for his announced policy to ban transgender people from the armed forces.

August 1, 2017

Donald Trump’s transgender troop ban cheers social conservatives

Social conservatives are savoring a rare victory in the armed forces' long battle of the sexes, toasting President Trump's Twitter announcement that there will be no transgender troops.

July 30, 2017

With Robert Mueller, FBI gets second chance to inspect ‘hacked’ DNC computers

Robert Mueller's appointment as special counsel of the Russia election interference probe presents an opportunity for the FBI to inspect the Democratic Party computers that U.S. intelligence concluded were penetrated by Kremlin-directed hackers, cybersecurity analysts say.

July 27, 2017

Just Facts defends research finding illegal voting by noncitizens

A right-leaning fact-checker is fighting critics on the left who say its conclusion that a lot of noncitizens vote illegally is bunk.

July 23, 2017

Michael Silva case: Military appeals court drops sexual misconduct conviction of Air Force sergeant

A military appeals court has thrown out the conviction of a former Air Force drill sergeant in a case his supporters claimed illustrated the Pentagon's zeal in prosecuting troops accused of sexual misconduct.

July 21, 2017

FBI relies on discredited dossier in Russia investigation

The FBI is routinely asking witnesses in its Russia investigation about the accusations in a dossier against Donald Trump, further expanding the reach of a discredited opposition research paper sourced from the Kremlin and financed and distributed by Democrats.

July 20, 2017

Army to kick out sergeant who tried to keep secret info Barack Obama had revealed

The Army has rejected an appeal from a 13-year public affairs sergeant and is kicking him out in a case tied to the Osama bin Laden raid, President Obama's speech about it and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified information.

July 19, 2017

Snopes publishes favorable Donald Trump report

Snopes put out a report favorable to President Trump, concluding that, yes, he is the victim of lies in the news and in social media. In a way, the report bolsters Mr. Trump's Twitter rants against "fake news."

July 17, 2017