Obama rocked by scandal—America please!
Posted by:
anonymous
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 12:16:41 -0700 | political-news
By Harold Michael Harvey When I was a college student a long, long time ago, Richard Nixon was president of the country. Back in that day the popular slang on my campus was, “You are a scandalous.” Anyone attending Tuskegee...
Obama's big problem
Posted by: itobin53
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 13:57:24 -0700 | political-news
Political scandals keep pundits busy, but they don’t stop the days on the calendar from moving forward. No matter what President Barack Obama’s legacy becomes, he will have to convince the tea party Caucus in the Republican-controlled Congress to help...
US defends seizure of press phone records as necessary
Posted by: Nathan Salant
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 14:57:27 -0700 | political-news
US officials said this week that the unprecedented seizure of two months of telephone records from several Associated Press bureaus to find out who leaked government secrets was justified because of the importance of the information. Deputy Attorney General James...
Italy protests turning the heat up on new Prime Minister Enrico Letta
Posted by: rooys
Rome :: Italy | updated 2013-05-18 14:05:09 -0700 | political-news
Many people dissented in Rome on Saturday against somberness arrangements and heightened unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to keep tabs on making jobs to assist haul the country out of retreat. "We trust that this government will at...
Tribesmen condemn unfair load shedding in FATA
Posted by: sudhir
Peshawar :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-18 05:10:25 -0700 | political-news
The TESCO has put the lives of the tribesmen in troubles by 23 hours load shedding in FATA. The discriminatory and unfair distribution of power supply has caused inconvenience to the tribal people. The power suspension has also created famine...
First lady to high school grads: live your dreams
Source: Associated Press
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 14:07:52 -0700 | political-news
First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit. Mrs. Obama spoke for 22-minutes to the Martin Luther...
Senior Pakistani politician killed in Karachi
Source: Al Jazeera English
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-18 14:49:11 -0700 | political-news
48 Hussain was a senior member of the party of Khan (pictured), which is competing in Sunday's vote [Reuters] A senior member of Pakistani politician Imran Khan's party has been shot dead in Karachi, just hours before re-elections were scheduled...
LDA plaza's 9th floor to be demolished in Lahore
Source: DAWN
Lahore :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-18 11:31:44 -0700 | political-news
COM 1 hour ago Rescue 1122 fire-fighters struggle to extinguish the fire that erupted at Lahore's LDA Plaza. The committee formed to investigate the cause of the fire has submitted its initial report, which states that the 9th floor of...
Efforts to Strengthen Afghan Law on Women May Backfire
Source: Newyork Times
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 11:03:03 -0700 | political-news
Afghanistan Afghan women, and sometimes even little girls, are sold or traded to pay family debts. So-called honor killings are a constant threat to women, especially in the country's vast rural areas, where even talking to a man who is...
GOP Calls for Reform After Scandal Shows IRS Is 'Rotten at the Core'
Source: Fox
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 10:52:46 -0700 | political-news
Published May 18, 2013 FoxNews.com The IRS targeting Tea Party groups and other conservative-leaning political organizations has reignited calls for reform and the argument among Capitol Hill Republicans that the federal government has become too big and out of control....
At I.R.S., Unprepared Office Seemed Unclear About the Rules
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 12:27:25 -0700 | political-news
Ty William Wright for The New York Times I don't believe there's any such thing as rogue agents, said Bonnie Esrig, a former senior manager in the I.R.S. office in Cincinnati. The specialists, hunched over laptops on the office's fourth...
Bill allows tougher penalties in social media based mob attacks
Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 11:42:08 -0700 | political-news
A bill signed into law Saturday allows judges to impose stiffer penalties on people who use social media or other methods of electronic communication to organize mob attacks. The new legislation aims to deter people from using social media sites...
GEORGIA GUN LAW FIGHT: Town Sued Over New LawRequiring Gun Ownership
Source: Fox
Kennesaw :: GA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 12:00:46 -0700 | political-news
Ga. A group that supports gun control filed suit Thursday against a north Georgia town that recently passed a law requiring gun ownership that it said is mostly symbolic. The Washington-based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed a...
AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten
Source: The Boston Globe
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2013-05-18 11:31:58 -0700 | political-news
Egypt (AP) In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked west for several hundred miles, crossing the Sinai Peninsula before settling...
Cops, city to review Boston bombing response
Source: Fox
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 13:09:39 -0700 | political-news
Published May 18, 2013 Associated Press Boston's police department and mayor's office will conduct twin reviews of the response to last month's bombing of the Boston Marathon, police commissioner Ed Davis said Saturday. Davis said the aim of the reviews...
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