DON'T MISS: Top 10 Most Viral Politics News Worldwide
- The No. 1 GOP leader and the No. 3 GOP leader in the House reacted remarkably differently Tuesday night to the stunning defeat of the No. 2 GOP leader, Eric Cantor. House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) stuck to his usual routine by han...
- A First Amendment battle is brewing between the Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general and a good-government group that refuses to hand over whistleblower information about the VA scheduling scandal. Read full article >>
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June, 11, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe Passport Office denies that it is failing to cope with the volume of applications, despite claims of severe delays.
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June, 11, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsAuthor JK Rowling makes a £1m donation to help fund the campaign against Scottish independence.
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June, 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsWatch Prime Minister's Questions live from 12pm as David Cameron faces Ed Miliband across the despatch box
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June, 11, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsThe school nutrition association that supported imposing healthy food requirements on the nation's school lunch program has reversed itself, and is supporting a waiver for schools to delay them.
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June, 11, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsRepublicans have been using the 2012 attack in Libya against her. Analysts say while Clinton is talking about Benghazi, she is defining the issue herself well ahead of any political campaign.
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June, 11, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsHouse Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary election to Tea Party challenger Dave Brat Tuesday night in Virginia. Cantor was widely expected to eventually replace House Speaker John Boehner.
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June, 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsJ K Rowling, the bestselling author of Harry Potter, compares extreme Scottish nationalists to Death Eaters, as she announces a £1million donation to the Better Together campaign
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June, 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsJ K Rowling, the bestselling author of Harry Potter, compares extreme Scottish nationalists to Death Eaters, as she announces a £1million donation to the Better Together campaign
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June, 11, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsPlans to allow the use of force at a new "secure college" could breach young offenders' human rights, say MPs.
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June, 11, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsTwo professors at Virginia's Randolph-Macon College find themselves in an unexpected position: Facing each other in November for a seat in Congress.
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June, 11, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsThe man who rocked the political world is a 52-year-old "free-market, Milton Friedman economist." While Virginia GOP Rep. Eric Cantor tried to paint him as a liberal, in reality he's anything but.
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June, 11, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsIn some ways, the House majority leader is the most significant Republican incumbent ousted in a primary since the intra-party rebellion by conservative hardliners began five years ago.
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June, 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsUnions warn deployment of anti-fraud staff to clear passport backlog will harm work on weeding out criminals and terrorists
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June, 11, 2014 from The Sydney Morning Herald articlesUnscrupulous money recovery agents are capitalising on the abundance of personal information, including full names and home addresses, on a government website designed to reunite the public with lost money, escalating privacy fears among...
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June, 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsAnti-fraud officials deployed to clear backlog but minister insists security not at risk
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June, 11, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsMLAs will debate next week a motion to exclude Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly from the assembly for five days.
- Midnight had long since passed, but the lights were still on at the Capitol, where House Republicans were already planning — and tensely arguing about — how to move ahead amid the chaos of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s stunning pri...
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June, 11, 2014 from The Indian Express » Section » Politics
Defense ministry told SC in a recent affidavit that the alleged lapses to put disciplinary ban on Suhag were "illegal". -
June, 11, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsThe House Majority Leader was defeated by political unknown and Tea Party challenger Dave Brat.
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June, 11, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsLong shot candidate Dave Brat succeeded in his bid against a top House Republican Eric Cantor.
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June, 11, 2014 from The Indian Express » Section » Politics
Singh had on Tuesday attacked Army chief designate Dalbir Singh, accusing him of trying to protect a unit that "kills innocents," and "does dacoity". -
June, 11, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsSenator Rand Paul of Kentucky invited Hillary Rodham Clinton to see what poverty is like for the people of Kentucky.
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June, 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsA salary just short of £200,000 and a number of perks have failed to attract a large number of applicants for the post of Clerk of the House of Commons.
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June, 11, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsA huge loss for a key Republican in the Virginia House primary. Eric Cantor, majority leader since 2011, was ousted by political newcomer David Brat.
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June, 11, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsWelsh youngsters need to show they have the skills they need to succeed anywhere in the world, the first minister will tell head teachers later.
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June, 11, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsAmong those reacting on Twitter to the defeat of Representative Eric Cantor were a number of his colleagues in the House of Representatives and Senate.
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June, 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsMost voters are more concerned about litter and heritage than the rainforest, says Mary Riddell
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June, 11, 2014 from Top StoriesIn the Democratic primary for governor, "none of these candidates" beats all of the actual humans.
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June, 11, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsPHOENIX (Reuters) - A relative of celebrated Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez filed a legal challenge on Tuesday to have a man using his grandfather's name booted off the ballot in Arizona.
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June, 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsHelle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish prime minister and Neil Kinnock's daughter-in-law, is understood to be among Downing Street's preferred candidates to become next European Commission president
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June, 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsOne of the First Minister's spin doctors contacts the Telegraph questioning whether Claire Lally is a "normal" mother as she is subjected to a barrage of online abuse from the so-called Cybernats.
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June, 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsEducation provides our best hope of breaking down patterns of cultural segregation, says Ted Cantle
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June, 11, 2014 from Top StoriesThe college professor says he benefited from Cantor's attack ads.
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June, 11, 2014 from Top StoriesThe darling of Wall Street, K Street and the Republican establishment goes down in flames.
- The lights in the Capitol Hill suite of GOP House Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) stayed on past midnight as more than half a dozen aides shuffled between his offices and those of other GOP house members. Read full article >>
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June, 11, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe House majority leader outspent his opponent, had defeated a challenger in a more favorable year for the Tea Party and was said to have led in polls. But he lost anyway.
- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.), the chamber’s second-ranking Republican, was badly beaten in a primary contest Tuesday by an obscure professor with tea party backing — a historic electoral surprise that left the GOP in chaos and...
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June, 11, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tea Party Republican Dave Brat, who defeated House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a primary race on Tuesday, is an economics professor from a tiny Virginia college who attacked Cantor over immigr...
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June, 11, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageErick Erickson, RedState
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June, 11, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsCollege professor snatches victory from Washington insider and house majority leader.
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June, 11, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsVirginia congressman and House majority leader delivers concession speech.
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June, 11, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJonathan Martin, NY Times
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June, 11, 2014 from Top StoriesHe was on a track to be the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress in U.S. history.
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June, 11, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsIn one of the most stunning primary election upsets in congressional history, Mr. Cantor, the House majority leader, was soundly defeated by David Brat, a Tea Party-backed candidate.
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June, 10, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageChris Cillizza, Wash Post
- The primary defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Tuesday will rank as one of the great political upsets in at least a generation and promises to scramble the legislative dynamics in an already dysfunctional and ideologically di...
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June, 10, 2014 from Top StoriesTuesday's result is likely to raise pressure on Obama to use executive authority on deportations.
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June, 10, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageDave Brat, FOX News
