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May 10 2015
News
Report: Yemen rebels agree to temporary cease-fire
Shiite rebels and their allies in Yemen agreed to a five-day cease-fire offered by a Saudi-led coalition that has been conducting airstrikes in the country, Yemen's state news agency reported Sunday, citing a rebel armed forces spokesman.
The SABA news agency, which is under the control of the Shiite rebels known as Houthis, said Col. Sharaf Ghalib Luqman said that that forces will
USA TODAYOct 20 2013
News
Mitch McConnell stands firm on spending cuts for future budget negotiations
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested Sunday that the automatic spending reductions known as the sequester have given his party leverage moving into future budget negotiations. The government-wide cuts, which took effect in March as a result of the Budget Control Act, trim spending by more than $80 billion during this fiscal year alone. They are scheduled to continue for
Washington PostMay 07 2015
News
Meet The Tea Party's New Favorite Candidate
Conservatives have found their candidate for one of 2016's most important Senate races: Florida Congressman Ron DeSantis.
Soon after he launched his bid Wednesday, a trifecta of deep-pocketed Tea Party-aligned groups — the Senate Conservatives Fund, the Club for Growth and FreedomWorks — all signaled they would back the two-term congressman in his bid to succeed Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla
NPR (Online News)Dec 22 2015
Opinion
OPINION: Ted Cruz's Holiday Spirit
The simple truth about Ted Cruz says Eliana Johnson of the National Review is that the man who boasts of his ideological purity is perhaps the most obviously tactical candidate. His path to the nomination runs through Iowa and the deep South -- through evangelicals gun fanatics nativists climate deniers and social conservatives -- and every position he takes is laser focused on winning them
Guest Writer - LeftApr 16 2015
News
US Marine imprisoned in Iran a victim of torture, cruelty, family says
The family of a U.S. Marine imprisoned in Iran for nearly four years says the American has been drugged, whipped and told a heartbreaking lie that his mother died in a car accident while he awaits a retrial.
The sister and brother-in-law of Amir Hekmati appeared on Fox News Channel's "On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren," where they described in chilling detail the torture that the
Fox News LatinoApr 28 2015
News
Riots challenge Maryland's new governor
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan -- an upstart politician who has never held public office -- is confronting one of the most serious challenges his state has endured in decades.
Just three months into the job, the Republican governor is playing a key role in regaining control of Baltimore, his state's largest city, which has been gripped by violence in the wake of the death of a 25-year-old
CNN DigitalNov 14 2014
News
Ted Cruz’s nutty Senate takeover: Why GOP’s “amnesty” freakout is a horrifying omen
At certain moments during the past year’s long and often tedious march to November, the political class, already bored with discussing a GOP Senate takeover most considered nearly certain, started debating a few post-election hypotheticals. With Republicans in control in both the House and the Senate, would the president try again to strike the elusive grand bargain?(No.) Would Senate
SalonApr 03 2019
News
Chicago elects Lori Lightfoot as first gay and first black female mayor in city’s history
Voters in Chicago on Tuesday elected former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot to become their next mayor, making Chicago the largest city to elect an African-American woman as its top elected official.
With votes in 95% of precincts counted, Lightfoot had 73.7% of the vote and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle 26.3%.
The win by Lightfoot, who identifies as a lesbian
USA TODAYSep 30 2013
News
Boehner Blasts Senate Democrats for Inaction on Shutdown
Compromise elusive, Republicans and Democrats engaged in finger-pointing Monday just hours before the first government shutdown in 17 years, driven by an intractable budget dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
"This law is not ready for prime time," said Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who insisted that the Democratic-controlled Senate act quickly and accept a
Newsmax (News)Sep 30 2013
News
House to Meet Monday Afternoon to Plan Next Move
House Republicans will gather at 2 p.m. Monday afternoon to plot their next move — even before the Senate moves to kill their latest proposal, which would delay implementation of President Obama’s health care law for a year while repealing a tax on medical devices to help pay for it.
At issue is whether to pass the Senate’s spending bill clean of policy prescriptions or add measures
New York Times (News)