POLITICAL MONDAY: Top 100 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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Prime Minister David Cameron tells MPs the Malaysian Airlines crash in east Ukraine is a "defining moment" for Russia.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the Middle East on Monday for yet another attempt at achieving a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Kerry traveled to Cairo Monday morning to participate in ongoing diplomatic ...
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There's something of a bombshell headline this morning at Politico: " Dim views of Hillary Clinton’s time at State ." The story, which is based on a new poll conducted by GfK, has quite a different take than previous polling on Clinton's...
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Ret. Staff Sgt. Ryan Pitts risked certain death to maintain post during Battle of Wanat.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin has no soul, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden concluded after meeting with the Russian leader at the Kremlin in 2011, according to an article in the New Yorker published online on Monday.
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President Obama will speak on the situation in Ukraine at 10:50 a.m.. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 298 people was shot down over Eastern Ukraine Thursday. A U.S. official has said that Russia supplied rebels with the type of sophi...
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President Obama says that Vice President Biden would make a very good president because he understands what the job requires. "I think Joe would be a superb president,” Obama told the New Yorker for a lengthy piece on the vice president ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said Joe Biden would make a "superb" president, but questioned whether his vice president or potential rival Hillary Clinton would want to endure another campaign for the White House, a media...
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Will Cameron's Russian rhetoric be matched by reality?
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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg defends his decision to appear on a light-hearted Sunday TV programme after criticism from some MPs.
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Relatives of passengers killed in the Malaysia Airlines plane crash are calling for the bodies of their loved ones to be returned home.
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Prime Minister David Cameron is at the Royal Welsh Show in mid Wales to launch a project to get public sector firms buying local produce.
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Unidentified gunmen killed four people and injured several others in the conflict-ridden Kenyan port city of Mombasa, BBC reported Monday. Robert Kitur, the police chief in Mombasa, told Associated Press that three gunmen opened fire ind...
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Clashes between rival Libyan militia fighting to gain control of Tripoli International Airport, have killed 47 people over the past 24 hours in Libya’s capital city, the country's health ministry said, according to an Associated Press r...
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Sarah Palin renewed her plea for lawmakers to impeach President Obama during a Saturday speech in Colorado. "There's only one remedy for a president who commits high crimes and misdemeanors and it's impeachment. It's the I-word," Palin s...
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With the recent spikes in terrorism in Syria, Lebanon and now Iraq, it is important to ask: Is the threat of terrorism around the world greater today than at the height of the Iraq war? The New York Times , CNN , Reuters and other news ...
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Julian Zelizer says President Obama called inequality the "defining challenge" of our time but hasn't followed through.
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Stephen Biddle is a professor of political sience and international affairs at George Washington University and an adjunct senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ivan Oelrich is a former vice president of t...
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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has defended his decision to appear on a light-hearted Sunday TV programme, after criticism from some MPs and Lib Dem supporters.
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"I can die a happy man not being president," he tells journalist Evan Osnos.
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"Radical" policies bridging the divide between left and right traditions are needed for Labour victory - Tony Blair.
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He is continuing his pursuit even after the company rejected his $80 billion offer.
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He suggests that in order to calm the chaotic situation, the border needs to be secured.
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Sir Richard Roberts, the most senior official in the House of Commons, says the traditional processes and outfits of Parliament allows 'hurley burley' politics to flourish
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Tony Blair resurrects prospect of EU army, saying Europe is "powerless" in the face of Russian aggression without the United States
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Nearly eight months into Colorado’s first-of-its-kind experiment, a small but slowly growing share of voters report having tried marijuana since its sale for recreational use began Jan. 1. The vast majority — 83 percent — still say they...
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Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said Monday that he does not see a "peaceful retirement" in Putin's future.
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CNN's Peter Hamby gives us five reasons why Elizabeth Warren could run for president.
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Eliana Johnson, NRO Even in the bitterly fought primary battle between Mississippi senator Thad Cochran and his challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, some of the radio ads that aired against McDaniel were considered especially incend...
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Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker The first day I put my family on a Paleolithic diet, I made my kids fried eggs and sausage for breakfast. If they were still hungry, I told them, they could help themselves to more sausage, but they were not...
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A look at the week ahead.
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Andrew Prokop, Vox If you've been reading political coverage lately, you will have learned that Hillary Clinton is currently on a gaffe-laden book tour where she has proven how out of touch she is with ordinary Americans, while Elizabeth...
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Alex Berezow, RCScience The American media is widely perceived to lean to the Left. Though most journalists won't openly admit the fact, it is indisputably true. As reported in the Washington Post, a 2014 study showed that among journali...
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Joy Pullmann, Federalist A Christian college in Massachusetts requested the freedom to live out its ideals, and since some powerful people don’t share those ideals they’re set to destroy Gordon College—unless it agrees ...
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Molly Ball, Atlantic In the Hobby Lobby decision handed down last month, the Supreme Court was asked to strike a balance between women’s rights and religious freedom. But the major conflict that has erupted in the wake of that deci...
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Robert Merry, Washington Times Hillary Clinton isn’t likely ever to become president of the United States. In fact, there is a greater possibility than is generally recognized by the Washington cognoscenti that she won’t even...
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By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES ANALYSIS — ABC’s RICK KLEIN: Texas Gov. Rick Perry will grab the immigration headlines today with a decision to assign some 1,000 National Guard troops to the Rio Grande Valley, accordin...
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The former Environment secretary said Greenpeace had set an image of him on fire in protest as his controversial plans to control TB in cattle by culling badgers.
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Stephen Moore, National Review Could the radical-Green movement in America make mankind’s future resemble a science-fiction Earth ruled by apes?This weekend I went to the see the blockbuster movie Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, an...
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Mark Schapiro, LAT In June, a decades-long open secret hit the media like a typhoon: Climate change is the fundamental economic challenge of our time.The bipartisan troika of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, hedge fund mogul Tom ...
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Ruben Navarrette, Daily Beast For Latino Democrats, especially Mexican-Americans, supporting President Obama’s reelection in 2012 was about voting for the lesser of two evils. Now, given the Obama administration’s callous tre...
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Craig Shirley, RealClearPolitics Several years after leaving office, Ronald Reagan was giving a luncheon speech in Los Angeles when he was asked during the question-and-answer session about the Middle East. Reagan responded with a parabl...
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John Sununu, Boston Globe HARRY REID has a border problem. More accurately, America has a border problem that Reid, as Senate majority leader, will need to help solve in the next three weeks. The Nevada senator’s difficulties stem ...
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Amy Davidson, New Yorker Last Tuesday, a crowd of angry people gathered on a road in Oracle, Arizona, a small town near Tucson. They’d heard that about fifty children from Central America—some of the unaccompanied thousands w...
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Michael Mukasey, WSJ Early in the current clash between Hamas and Israel, much of the drama was in the air. The Palestinian terrorist group launched hundreds of rockets at Israel, and Israel responded by knocking down rockets in the sky ...
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The Corporation of London is the body that runs the City and is a quirk of centuries of history.
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Politicians rank between door-to-door spruikers and insurance salespeople as a profession inspiring trust. Maybe this reputation is deserved, the mounting cost of deliberate obfuscation, spin and outright lies. But part of the real reaso...
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The Port of Savannah is one point of contention in a Georgia Republican primary runoff Tuesday in which 11-term Rep. Jack Kingston vies with businessman David Perdue for the party's Senate nomination.
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Last week's Senate vote on a measure intended to roll back the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision prompted new legislation seeking to secure access to contraceptive services from New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, plus a bill offe...
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Taxpayers for Common Sense found fault with the House's fiscal 2015 Defense spending bill, and the group now has its share of gripes with the Senate's $549.7 billion version, too, for spending money on programs the Defense Department doe...
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The city council of South Portland, Maine, is expected to take a final vote Monday night on a measure to ban bulk loading of crude oil for export -- a move that could block future shipments of Canadian tar sands oil from the port.
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Today marks the deadline for comments to a Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule allowing health care providers some flexibility on implementing the use of electronic medical record requirements and extend a second stage ...
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This could be a decisive week for highway and bridge building if the Senate can pass a bill providing additional money for the Highway Trust Fund.
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The House will take up a satellite television bill this week and a subcommittee holds a hearing on three tech bills. Elsewhere in Washington, events on Internet governance, open data and broadband regulation are coming up.
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Rep. Patrick Murphy's campaign made its first ad buy Monday in Florida's 18th District, reserving $1.4 million in cable and broadcast in the West Palm Beach-Treasure Coast media market, according to figures shared first with CQ Roll Call.
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The Scottish Government needs to present a Plan B quickly because it will not keep the pound if there is independence, MPs warn.
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Many young progressives think they have found a fail-safe way to end poverty: a universal basic income (UBI). The idea is very simple, they say: Every month, the government cuts a check to everyone. Period. That way, no one has to fall b...
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A protracted wrangle over the election outcome could undermine confidence in Indonesia which has seen strong investment in recent years. The post Indonesia: Outgoing leader urges presidential poll loser to concede appeared first on First...
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Climate hawks the world over hung their heads last week, as Australia's new government, led by Prime Minister Tony Abbot, axed its carbon tax. One of the more aggressive climate policies, the policy had made some real progress in cutting...
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Andhra Pradesh government has decided to set up Agriculture University at Lam Village, near Guntut. Presently Regional Agricultural Research Station is located here. Announcing this, agriculture minister minister Prathipati Pulla Rao sai...
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The Secretary-General of the Preparatory Office for the 2014 ASEAN-Republic of Korea (ROK) Commemorative Summit, HE. Choi Jong-moon, called on Secretary-General of ASEAN, H.E. Le Luong Minh, on 18 July 2014. Secretary-General Choi inform...
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House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy does not officially step into his new job as majority leader until August, but for all intents and purposes, the California Republican has already assumed the visible duties of his next leadership role.
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As rain pelted the capital, more than 200 Muslim Americans gathered in the Cannon House Office Building to break their daily fast.
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The most wide open Republican presidential contest in modern times is shaping up, so a thousand things could change in the 80 long weeks before the first scheduled caucuses and primaries take place. And a couple hundred of them surely will.
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Mike McFadden leaned his sturdy frame over the front counter of the Shady Drive Inn as the owner aired the same frustrations with political gridlock that some of her regular customers grumble about.Then she asked the Senate candidate poi...
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Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) have informed that Ganga Action Plan (GAP) Phase-I was launched as a centrally funded scheme in 1985 and later GAP Phase-II was initiated in 1993 with the objective of improving the water qual...
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In joint interview with army radio before his death, Staff Sergeant Oz and his father expressed their shared love for the brigade. "When Oz was drafted I slightly regretted instilling the Golani in him...The great satisfaction is when he...
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A bitterly cold snap has sent temperatures plunging in the south, with snow in Dunedin, and the Desert Road shut...Send your newstips, photos and video to newstips@stuff.co.nz The stretch of State Highway 1 in the middle of the North Isl...
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Molly Riley / AP Sen. Marco Rubio , a potential 2016 GOP presidential contender, is concerned about issues of access to affordable education, availability of job training and prospects for economic mobility. While shunning the "income in...
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Twenty-year-old Taneka Armstrong wants to land a high-tech job, but her day starts at Taco Bell. In Oakland, Calif., next door to Silicon Valley, Armstrong stands behind a steel counter, making Burrito Supremes and ringing up customers.....
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Though the national unemployment rate has fallen steadily in recent months, youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, and the jobless rate is even higher among young minorities. For young people between the ages of 16 and 24, unemploym...
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judiciary has sentenced a prisoner to death by stoning, hanging and 15 years imprisonment, state-run Mehr News Agency reported. The regime's judiciary chief in northern city of Ghaemshahr who did not identify the prisoner said the review...
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04am EDT Georgia's Prime Minister Irakly Garibashvili greets people during celebrations for the signing of an association agreement with the EU in Tbilisi June 27, 2014. Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Garibashvili fired five ministers on...
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Act of generosity came after seeing stories about children forced to eat cats Spent £150 filling up his trolley twice in 24 hours when approached by staff Employee stopped him and said 'we have other customers to think about' Bawler...
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It wasn't just "hundreds of dollars," City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson now acknowledges. It was just over $10,000. But he still says that all the money donated to his Peace Not Guns group was handled honestly, if somewhat slopp...
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Unfazed by rebel minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's resignation, Congress on Monday said Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi continues to enjoy a majority and dismissed suggestions that the dissidence in the state was against party vice preside...
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HARRISBURG - Just minutes before Gov. Corbett stepped out to announce he was using his line item veto power to strike millions of dollars from the legislature's budget two weeks ago, one of his top aides called over to the state Senate.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Afghanistan's disputed election and Iraq's unraveling are giving members of Congress and U.S. allies in the region reason to think President Barack Obama should rethink his decision to withdraw virtually all Americans t...
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A six member Tibetan parliamentary delegation met with over 28 Indian members of parliament from various political parties over the week in New Delhi where the delegation concluded their advocacy campaign launched through a resolution ad...
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Britain's growth figure is predicted to beat both Canada and Germany, as doubt is cast on a UK interest rate hike this year.
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Monday, July 21, 2014 Sponsored Links The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Traffic was jammed on I-85 early during the early stages of Monday's morning commute after a tractor-trailer crashed through the median wall at Spaghetti Junction. Th...
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Philippines A Korean national was arrested in Pasay City on Sunday night, after hurting a fellow Korean who was asking for the P2.8 million cash money that the former borrowed. South Korean Park So Hung is currently under the custody...
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Philippines The Sandiganbayan fifth division on Monday junked the plea of Dennis Cunanan for the court to reconsider its decision junking the travel motion of the pork barrel scam-tainted official. The court was referring to its decision...
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(AP) — Mike McFadden leaned his sturdy frame over the front counter of the Shady Drive Inn as the owner aired the same frustrations with political gridlock that some of her regular customers grumble about. Democrats are already scrutiniz...
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THROUGHOUT the summer, the borderlands between Scotland and England, this debatable land, with its soft rolling hills and secluded valleys, is crossed horsemen and horsewomen, riding out from their border towns as they have done for at l...
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Sulking Maharashtra Industries Minister Narayan Rane, who was pitching for a leadership change ahead of the state assembly elections, today resigned from the government. The post Maharashtra minister Narayan Rane resigns from government ...
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The NDA government is seeking the views of various political parties and eminent jurists to set up a Judicial Appointments Commission. The post NDA seeking views of parties on Judicial Appointments Commission appeared first on Firstpost .
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A judge has ruled that maps for two Florida congressional districts were drawn in a way that violates the state constitution.
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Jordanians are dropping out of the job market as Syrian refugee numbers swell.
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott has spoken directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he's is appalled by looting at the site of the MH17 tragedy.
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Charlie Flanagan held ‘constructive’ meeting with Gerry Adams in Dublin
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Former SC judge Markandey Katju's blog suggests that three former Supreme Court CJIs helped extend and promote an allegedly corrupt judge in Tamil Nadu. It suggests that the Supreme Court is vulnerable to political pressure. The post SC ...
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FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. (AP) — Ann Hunnewell and her central Florida police officer husband knelt in the living room of a fellow officer's home, with pillow cases as makeshift hoods over their heads. A few words were spoken and they, along ...
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At Rajya Sabha discussion on Israel's aggression in Gaza, MPs ask govt not to reverse Vajpayee's foreign policy The post Israel a terrorist, says Yechury; AAP says Modi govt’s silence is damning appeared first on Firstpost .
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Four in five Americans (81%) say the country would be governed better if more people with business and management experience were elected. Meanwhile, 63% say the country would be better governed with more female political leaders.
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