A Canadian nuclear scientist who has not been seen for more than a month has simply vanished, leaving “absolutely no trace at all,” police say. Lachlan Cranswick, 41, a physicist from the Chalk River Laboratories nuclear facility in Ottawa, was last seen on Jan. 18, when he left his job …

Diversity, apparently, is in the eye of the beholder. The United Nations, which has come under fire for stocking its climate change group with scientists who are lockstep in their endorsement of the theory of manmade global warming, is trumpeting the “more diverse” panel it has selected for its fifth …

The Academy Awards is filled with actresses who look like a million bucks. But in truth, the star might actually be worth more than a million bucks, and pay almost nothing at all. Let’s start with the ladies’ designer duds. One requires — requires — a stylist to coordinate their …

An extensive investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found “suspicious” standardized test scores in roughly 200 school districts nationwide. “It looks like we have trouble all across the country,” said AJC Editor Kevin Riley. “It looks like we have trouble in large urban school districts and it looks like we …

I know Dominique Strauss-Kahn. I’ve attended conferences with him around the world, and we even once shared a changing room in a hotel at Davos two years ago. I don’t mean any of this to suggest that we are close friends. We’re not. But I know the man well. I …

A United Nations agency that quietly shipped computers and computer servers to North Korea several months ago apparently was violating restrictions on the equipment’s use imposed by Hewlett-Packard, the U.S.-based maker of the computers and computer servers, which bars any HP equipment from being sent to the communist dictatorship as …

In the course of my work at Fox News, I am often asked by colleagues to review and explain documents and statutes. Recently, in conjunction with my colleagues Catherine Herridge, our chief intelligence correspondent, and Pamela Browne, our senior executive producer, I read the transcripts of an interview Browne did …

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:09:05 +0000 – By Kathleen Troia “K.T.” McFarlandCommentator/Former National Security Official Editor’s note: Sent from New York City at 10 p.m. ET Forget Keith Olbermann, or Rachel Maddow, or Wolf Blitzer. They scoffed and sneered and stuck up their noses at the Tea Parties But the …

As Congress grapples with the budget deficit and debt ceiling, some are eyeing the Defense and Intelligence budgets hungrily. There is no doubt they will be cut, and perhaps cut substantially. But anyone who thinks they can balance the budget on the back of defense is wrong; there is not …

Poor Defense Secretary Hagel. Hired and fired in just one term. I’m not surprised. When he got the job I warned that he was the wrong pick, because he didn’t have good relations with Congress to sell the president’s unpopular agenda on Capitol Hill, or the credibility necessary to sell …