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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hands with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Midday Roundup: Taliban agrees to peace talks

Newsworthy | Hope for Afghanistan? Obama administration officials announced today the Taliban has agreed to peace talks ahead of the planned U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan next year. The talks will be held in Qatar, where…

Edward Snowden

Midday Roundup: Snowden pleads with public to take his side

Newsworthy |  Public relations. Engaging in his own PR campaign, National Security Administration leaker Edward Snowden is taking to the  Guardian s  website…

Bill Cosby

Signs and Wonders: Bill Cosby wades once again into politically incorrect waters

Newsworthy |  Cosby speaks. In a recent interview, Bill Cosby said his humor—especially his groundbreaking The Cosby Show—came from his own life experiences, and from a…

In this photo released by Arthit Suriyawongkul, a U.K. Home Office Carrier Alert notice about NSA leaker Edward Snowden is seen at an airline check-in counter at Chiang Mai airport in Thailand.

Midday Roundup: No (more) leakers allowed in U.K.

Newsworthy |  Stay away. British officials don’t want anything to do with Edward Snowden, the man who allegedly leaked details about U.S. surveillance programs to the…

The Caterpillar logo is seen on earth moving equipment in Springfield, Ill.

Signs and Wonders: Caterpillar withdraws Boy Scouts support

Newsworthy |  Road kill. The Texas-based Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have been attempting to navigate the middle-of-the-road regarding homosexuality, but it looks…

Black Forest Fire Dept. officers burn off natural ground fuel in an evacuated neighborhood, prepping the area for the encroachment of the wildfire in the Black Forest area north of Colorado Springs, Colo.

Midday Roundup: Colorado fire burns fast and furious

Newsworthy |  Conflagration. After burning for only two days, the fire raging at the edge of Colorado’s Black Forest has already outstripped last year’s deadly…

In this undated photo made available by Google, Denise Harwood diagnoses an overheated computer processor at Google’s data center in The Dalles, Ore.

Midday Roundup: Google exec downplays government’s internet spying

Newsworthy |  Misled? Google chief legal officer David Drummond told Fox News in an exclusive interview that the public has been seriously misled by news reports about the…

The Rev. Fred Luter Jr. points upward after being re-elected as the Southern Baptist Convention's president.

Signs and Wonders: SBC president calls for more black missionaries

Newsworthy |  Southern Baptists begin. The nation’s largest protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), is meeting this week in Houston. Among the…

Secretary of State John Kerry

Midday Roundup: State Department tries to cover up sexual misconduct

Newsworthy |  Cover-up? The U.S. State Department is facing accusations of a cover-up after CBS News published a memo detailing sexual misconduct by several of its…

Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., center, questions the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service Steven Miller, lower right.

Midday Roundup: Conservative bureaucrat claims responsibility for IRS scandal

Newsworthy |  Claiming blame. A conservative Republican who works for the Internal Revenue Service claims he and a colleague are responsible for singling out Tea Party and…

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney

Signs and Wonders: Secret email accounts violate government transparency

Newsworthy |  Obama official secret. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has been claiming that officials in the Obama administration have secret email accounts as a way…

Chick-fil-A's Spicy Chicken Sandwich

Signs and Wonders: Punished for upholding the law?

Newsworthy |  Stand down. Some of us do not wonder that the number of suicides and sexual assaults in the military now approaches civilian levels. An organization that was…

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