Sometimes people look at public figures and think they haven’t had to struggle with adversity – that everything has always come easy. In my new book “Getting Real” I get very real about failures in my life from struggling as a fat kid to living with the guilt of giving …

During Bill O’Reilly’s interview with the parents of Kate Steinle, the young woman murdered by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, I was struck by the grieving parents mentioning Kate’s faith and their own as a guiding force in the face of tragedy. How having something to hold onto when …

President Obama will no doubt give an eloquent speech tonight announcing the Obama version of “mission accomplished” in Libya. He will avoid the word “war,” and say we have established a no-fly zone, prevented a slaughter of the innocents, and are turning things over to others. He will talk at …

The latest Iraq war is between Iraq’s pro-Iranian Shiite government and pro-Al Qaeda Sunni rebels. It boils down to Iran vs. Al Qaeda, radical Shiites versus radical Sunnis. The first rule of foreign policy is if your enemies are killing each other, don’t step in to stop them. What we’ve …

PARIS – Families of surrogate children who have been effectively denied French citizenship are going to the country’s highest court to challenge the law denying papers for babies born abroad. Friday’s case could change how surrogate births are handled in France, where they are illegal. Until now, children born abroad …

BERLIN – A German court says it will not proceed with the trial of a former SS sergeant who served as a medic in the Auschwitz death camp because the 94-year-old is suffering from dementia. The Neubrandenburg state court said Monday that experts had determined that Hubert Z. was unfit …

ISLAMABAD – A spokesman for the international aid group Save the Children says the government of Pakistan has allowed it to reopen its offices. Saeed Ahmed, the group’s spokesman in Pakistan, says authorities removed a lock Wednesday on the gate to the group’s main office in Islamabad. That comes two …

BERLIN – Swiss authorities have approved the extradition of the wartime Bosnian commander of Srebrenica to his home country rather than to Serbia, on whose war crimes warrant he was arrested two weeks ago. Naser Oric was arrested June 10 on a Serbian warrant alleging that he and other members …

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The wife of a prominent Palestinian detainee says he has agreed to end a 55-day hunger strike and in exchange will be released by Israel. Rights groups have warned in recent days that Khader Adnan is near death. Randa Adnan visited her husband in an Israeli …

Syrian government forces retook a neighborhood from Islamic State fighters in a northeastern city on Tuesday, days after it was captured by the extremists, state TV reported. The IS group attacked several government-held southern neighborhoods of the city of Hassakeh last week. The fighting has continued since then, leaving dozens …