BBC News: The president of the World Bank has warned that the world is “one shock away from a full-blown crisis”. Robert Zoellick cited rising food prices as the main threat to poor nations who risk “losing a generation”. He was speaking in Washington at the end of the spring meetings of the World Bank [...]
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Roll Call: The Federal Election Commission has launched an audit into President Barack Obama’s record-breaking 2008 campaign. Individuals familiar with the campaign told Roll Call Friday that the FEC has been investigating the financial records of Obama’s previous campaign. The scope of the probe, which began approximately two years ago, is unknown. Presidential audits typically [...]
Fox News: Congressman Ted Poe is demanding answers from NASA. The Texas Republican says he was shocked to hear that Houston was denied one of the four retired space shuttles. On Tuesday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Atlantis will go to Florida, Endeavour will be sent to California and Discovery was awarded to the Smithsonian’s [...]
It was his 64th round since moving into the White House. The media was a little shy about reporting on Obama’s latest golf outing. While Southern states reeled from a massive tornado outbreak that killed several dozen people, Barack Obama played his 64th round of golf as president today. The White House pool reporter filed [...]
Fox News: Get ready for another deficit reduction plan. And this one, like the others on the table, will tick off a lot of people, its authors say. Two members of the so-called “gang of six” — a bipartisan group of senators working to craft a long-term spending plan — said Sunday they’re making progress [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration and environmental interests generally agree that global warming is a threat that must be dealt with. But they’re on opposite sides of a Supreme Court case over the ability of states and groups such as the Audubon Society that want to sue large electric utilities and force power plants [...]
Politico: In the halls of American power, the Arab Spring has brought Al-Jazeera in from the cold. Seven years after then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the broadcaster’s reporting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” and President George W. Bush joked about bombing it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised it as “real news” in her recent Senate [...]
Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) – Donald Trump has more harsh criticism for one of the most recognizable men in the world: George W. Bush. In a display of bipartisan bashing, Trump lashed out at the nation’s 43rd president as he criticized the 44th. “George Bush gave us Barack Obama. If it weren’t for George Bush, [...]
Fox Business: In a dramatic move sure to send shockwaves through the surging Internet poker world, U.S. officials shut down and seized the domain names for the three largest U.S. online poker companies on Friday. The indictment unsealed Friday alleges industry leaders PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker continued to operate their businesses inside [...]
Fox News: Stories of trees being splintered like baseball bats and families huddled in their homes that were ripped from their foundation are beginning to emerge after over 240 tornados ripped through a large portion of the country on Saturday. Jonathan Robinson saw a tornado moving toward his mobile home in Dunn, N.C., and grabbed [...]
Washington Post: TRIPOLI, Libya — Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the influential second son of Moammar Gaddafi who was once seen as the great hope for reform in Libya, is clear on two points: He and his government have done nothing wrong, and they are not going to back down. In an interview that reflected the defiance [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Beirut—In a rebuke of concessions made by their ruler a day earlier, thousands of Syrians took to the streets Sunday for another day of anti-government demonstrations, clashing with club-wielding plainclothes government operatives in cities around the nation. President Bashar Assad had vowed a day earlier to enact reforms and remove [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Monday’s tax filing deadline nears, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago, and nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all. The Internal Revenue Service tracks the tax returns with the 400 highest adjusted gross incomes each [...]
