While religion in China may not be a big topic for discussion during President Hu Jintao’s meeting with President Obama this week, many experts say that an explosive growth in Christianity may be transforming the officially atheist regime. According to China Aid, a Texas-based human rights group, the number of …

Every time a killer is sentenced to die, a school closes. That is the broad assessment of a growing number of studies taking a cold, hard look at how much the death penalty costs in the 35 states that still have it. Forget justice, morality, the possibility of killing an …

Nearly five years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf region, killing nearly 2,000 and displacing more than 250,000 others from Louisiana to Florida. This week, in a series titled “Hurricane Katrina: Five Years After,” FoxNews.com looks back on the costliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. Tropical depressions …

A spaceship Lockheed Martin is building for NASA is being prepared for the next round of tests as engineers attach a tower designed to lift the ship and its astronauts to safety if something goes wrong during launch. Lockheed Martin said Friday the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and abort system …

Editor’s note: The following column originally appeared on RedState.com. The Bible tells me to love my neighbor. I have a number of black friends and I do not know any of them who would feel comfortable coming into my house if I were flying the Confederate battle flag. So I …

American air travel was historically pioneering and world leading. But every year that goes by, government overregulation and infrastructure socialism make that historical perspective more and more outdated. The American Society of Civil Engineers rates U.S. airport facilities D+. Not one U.S. airport ranks among the world’s top 25. Airline …

The electorate sent a very clear message to President Obama, and indeed, the leaders of the two major parties Tuesday that they want them to pursue a very different approach to politics and policy going forward. Make no mistake; this was at its core an anti-incumbent election. Liberal Democratic administrations …

Terror mastermind and Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden has been dead since Sunday. But nothing has changed in terms of how the Republicans need to run against President Obama. The killing of Usama bin Laden is justifiably a tremendous accomplishment for the United States and certainly for President Obama. …

Swedish scientists plan to explore a mystery ripped straight from the “The X-Files.” Rather than Mulder and Scully, this adventure features Swedish researchers Peter Lindberg and Dennis Asberg. They too know the truth is out there — and in mere days plan to visit what they call the “Baltic Anomaly.” …

The headlines about recent shark attacks on humans along the North Carolina coast have many people feeling frightened, even though such attacks are statistically rare. But the truth is that the world’s 450 species of sharks, most of which pose no danger to humans, have a lot more to fear …