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Orlando man recognized gunman from gay dating apps copied! Cord Cedeno, who frequents Pulse nightclub and lost friends there, recognized the gunman from his photos as someone who had messaged him on a gay dating app. Read More
On a quiet street in Rodeo, about 45 minutes from San Francisco, residents were shocked to hear that their neighbor was the shooter's mother-in-law. (Published Monday, June 13, 2016) On a quiet street in Rodeo, about 45 minutes from San Francisco, residents were shocked to learn their neighbor was the mother-in-law...
FORT PIERCE — At least four regular customers at the Orlando gay nightclub where a gunman killed 49 people said Monday that they had seen Omar Mateen there before. "Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent," Ty Smith sai...
Orlando Nightclub Gunman Scouted Walt Disney World as Potential Target: Source Disney Phelan M. Ebenhack / AP The gunman behind the Orlando nightclub shootings , the deadliest mass shooting in American history, recently scouted Walt Disney World as a potential target, a federal law enforcement source tells ...
Hector Monsegur spent the last three years as a model law enforcement informant, quietly drawing out his fellow hackers and directly aiding in the arrest of members of the LulzSec hacking crew and Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond. His hard work was rewarded Tuesday, when a judge sentenced him to time served and released...
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A former Anonymous hacker who faced 26 years in prison for staging global cyber-attacks, was set free by a judge who credited him with helping prevent at least 300 such intrusions, including one on the U.S. Senate website. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan federal court today cited Hector Xavier Monse...
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the full version of events that occurred Tuesday since the original post about how Parkland students were coming under attack for their outspokenness. Hours later, an aide to a state representative sent an unsolicited email to a reporter that played on a conspiracy ...
Donald Trump Jr. liked two tweets on Tuesday that peddled a conspiracy theory about a 17-year-old survivor of the Parkland school shooting, suggesting that he was "coached" to propagate an anti-Trump narrative by his father who is a retired FBI agent. Both tweets attacked David Hogg, one of the students who documen...
When Jenny Rodgers saw her doctor for her 20-week prenatal visit, she expected normal results, as usual, but she and her husband received a shock— the ultrasound showed that the left side of their son’s heart was not developing properly. Their unborn son, Aiden, was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (H...
January 8th, 2014 is a day I’ll never forget. It’s the day we learned our unborn son, Aiden, only had half of his heart, a condition called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). We already have a son, Noah, who at the time was about 19 months old. He is perfectly healthy so while every parent prays for a healthy baby...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea plans to deport a Korean-American woman accused of praising rival North Korea in a recent lecture, officials said Friday, in the latest in a series of cases that critics say infringe on freedom of speech. In this Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, photo, California-resident Shin Eun-mi, ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a New Year's address in this January 1, 2015 photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang. REUTERS/KCNA SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea rejected on Friday a South Korean call for the resumption of stalled talks, a setback for efforts to reduce...
SANAA, Yemen — Doctors from the scene of violent anti-government protests in Yemen’s capital Tuesday night said that what was originally thought to be tear gas fired by government forces on demonstrators might instead have been a form of nerve gas, which is forbidden under international law. Military personnel open...
Thousands of Yemenis defiantly demonstrated Wednesday at a public square, a day after the army stormed Sanaa University, firing live ammunition, killing one person and wounding scores of others. A female anti-government protestor masked with her national flag listens to speeches during a demonstration demanding the...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fired back at former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Sunday, after Gingrich described an 2008 climate change ad he made with Pelosi as "the dumbest single thing I’ve done." "Well, I don't want to make any comments about Newt Gingrich, he who has been fined $300,000 by the ethics co...
Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman says the biggest difference between himself and front runner Mitt Romney is trust. "He's morphed himself so many times that for many of the voters, I think they're going to find during an election that's based on trust, that they're going to have a hard time getting a be...
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) explained his endorsement of Mitt Romney in an interview aired Sunday, saying his once-bitter 2008 rival worked tirelessly for his general election campaign. "After the 2008 [primary] campaign was over, no one worked harder on behalf of my campaign than Mitt Romney did," McCain said on CB...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi denied on Sunday there was any problem with President Barack Obama attacking Congress as he gears up for his reelection campaign. "It's not me. It's the Republican majority in the House of Representatives," the California Democrat said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We have misse...
Despite a pledge to support the Republican presidential nominee, Jon Huntsman says he'd have a "tough time" voting for Rep. Ron Paul over President Barack Obama. "You'd vote for [Paul] if it were him versus President Obama?" CNN's Candy Crowley asked Huntsman in an interview aired Sunday on "State of the Union." ...
The Newark man who reportedly yelled "they cheated my team" before shooting and killing a friend he lost a Super Bowl XLVII bet to in 2013 was convicted of life in prison for the "brazen" crime.
NEWARK -- When the Baltimore Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII on Feb. 3, 2013, Eddie Roberson lost a $700 bet with his longtime friend, Talif Crowley, over which team would win the game. Two days later, Roberson remained angry over losing the bet and shot Crowley six times on a Newark str...
FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers that the FBI submitted a partial report to the White House in March on Rob Porter, whose position involved access to the nation’s most sensitive secrets, and completed its scrub of the ex-aide’s background in late July. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo FBI director puts responsibili...
CLOSE FBI Director Christopher Wray is providing new details that call into question the White House timeline leading up to the departure of former staff secretary Rob Porter. (Feb. 13) AP White House Chief of Staff John Kelly signals photographers to stop taking pictures of him as President Trump met with members ...
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray on Tuesday contradicted the White House’s account of when the bureau informed officials about the status of a senior aide’s security-clearance investigation. White House officials said that they were first contacted in the summer by the FBI about senior aide Rob Porter’s clearance. ...
NEW ORLEANS -- Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who has come under fire for his lavish spending, told GOP activists Saturday that he has taken responsibility for his "mistakes" and is now ready to "move on." In a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Steele alluded to the co...
AP/Gerald Herbert NEW ORLEANS -- Michael Steele won a standing ovation as he walked out to address the Southern Republican Leadership Conference Saturday afternoon. From, oh, at least a few dozen people. The ballroom was about half-empty for Steele's address, the final speech of the weekend. Turns out the Repub...
A GOP operative who won plaudits for bolstering Mitt Romney’s recent debate performances is not being retained by the front-runner’s campaign, an apparent victim of internal tensions over staff receiving too much credit for the candidate’s comeback, POLITICO has learned. Brett O’Donnell, a former top aide to Michel...
5 years ago (CNN) - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has parted ways with debate coach Brett O'Donnell, a Romney campaign source confirmed Friday. O'Donnell, a former Michele Bachmann adviser who also did debate prep sessions with John McCain and Sarah Palin in 2008, was given credit in several media reports...
2012 Primary Debate Schedule Here is the most up-to-date and complete schedule we have for the 2011 / 2012 Republican Primary debates. These debates are between all the Republican candidates. For the schedule of debates between the Republican nominee and President Barack Obama, see the 2012 Presidential Debate sche...
On the last stop of his Europe tour, Obama recognized Poland's economic and democratic growth, saying it could be a template for pro-democracy movements in North Africa and the Middle East. Exxon Mobil and Chevron are vying to tap Poland’s shale gas reserves, which one US survey says are the biggest in Europe and c...
Polish leaders praised President Barack Obama on Saturday for pushing ahead on issues of key importance to Warsaw: establishing a U.S. military presence in this central European country and making it easier for Poles to visit the United States. U.S. President Barack Obama and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, righ...
Ed and Elaine Brown were sentenced to prison for tax evasion in 2007, but the government is having a hard time selling their booby-trapped property in New Hampshire. The home of Ed and Elaine Brown in Plainfield, N.H., Jan. 7, 2007. The property, owned by convicted tax evaders, will once again be auctioned for sale...
Two New Hampshire properties at the center of an armed standoff with federal agents, including a compound that featured escape routes and once was believed to be booby-trapped, were sold at auction Thursday. View photos New Hampshire businessman James Hollander bought both properties belonging to convicted tax ...
The home of convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown is scheduled to go up for auction, and prospective bidders are being allowed to take a look inside. Click to watch News 9's coverage. After the Browns were convicted, the 100-acre parcel with a fortress-style house was the scene of a nine-month standoff. The...
KATIE NICHOLL: Brad takes plunge with a waterfall dream home By Katie Nicholl for The Mail on Sunday Brad Pitt has completely fallen for his Christmas present from Angelina Jolie – a waterfall in California. The star now plans to take time out from his movie career to build an ambitious house over the f...
Well here's a big surprise: When People Magazine asked readers which celebs they'd most like to have as neighbors, the Brad and Angelina family came in a close 2nd, just behind Tim Tebow! In spite of all the mocking about the 6 kids (half adopted), Brad's facial hair, and Angelina's glam/goth ways, people would love to...
Published on Oct 12, 2011 Brandon Flowers, Mormon lead singer of The Killers, wants to be a positive force in the world. His wife, kids, & parents set a good example for him. More at http://www.mormon.org/brandon
Tattoo fans face tougher obstacles. Those who have tattoos tend to keep them hidden, especially after 2000, when Gordon B. Hinckley, then the president of the church, spoke out against tattoos as “graffiti on the temple of the body” at the church’s general conference. Still, tattooed Mormons have managed to find on...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's top federal prosecutor said Friday the state has a "formidable" problem with marijuana overproduction that winds up on the black market and that he wants to work with state and local leaders and the pot industry to do something about it. U.S. Attorney Billy Williams convened the unpre...
"The thing about Oregon is that it is known for its cannabis, in a similar way to Oregon pinot noir," Whitney says. "For those who are able to survive, they are positioned extremely well not only to survive in the Oregon market but also to take advantage of a larger market—assuming things open up on a federal level."
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, in defending against criticisms of his relaxed demeanor on the campaign trail, opened up about his past "volatile" behavior during an interview that aired Sunday. "I have plenty of energy. But, you know, I am soft-spoken. I do have a tendency to be relaxed. I wasn't alw...
Lindsey Graham channels his inner comedian and Howard Beale with bonkers "SNL" bit: "How am I losing to these people?" Carson "tried to kill someone at 14," Donald Trump is "crazy as hell," and Graham can't understand how he's losing South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is not going to be the next president, but p...
She was a newlywed and a nurse who was coming back home to continue her studies. But Brittany Oswell never made it to Columbia. The 25-year-old Lexington woman died in a Texas hospital after suffering an embolism and going into cardiac arrest on an American Airlines flight from Honolulu. Now Oswell's parents an...
CLOSE A family is suing American Airlines after they allegedly mishandled medical care on a 2016 flight. The New York Daily News notes that Brittany Oswell and her husband were on a South Carolina Bound flight from Hawaii when she began having complications. Buzz60 An American Airlines plane sits at a gate at Chica...
The family of a South Carolina woman who died after suffering a medical emergency midflight is now suing American Airlines alleging wrongful death. Interested in Airlines? Add Airlines as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Airlines news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add Interest Brittany Oswell,...
If you walked by your coworker today and saw hardcore porn filling her screen, there may be an innocent explanation. Some sort of hack is currently spewing porn and gore all over Facebook. It's a porn flood! For the last couple days, Facebook has been "inundated with pornographic images and links," reader Adam Sank...
Update: Facebook: images of porn, violence due to coordinated spam attack. Last night, reports came in suggesting Facebook users have been experiencing a flood of very graphic images depicting pornography, acts of violence, self-mutilation, and bestiality for the last few days. I contacted Facebook when I first hea...
Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.
If your computer screen is visible to anyone else in your office, you may want to avoid visiting Facebook today. Your news feed may be a little more, um, interesting than usual. Many news sources are reporting that the site has been hit with a massive spam attack that is resulting in people unknowingly posting hardcore...
House Democratic leaders could begin the process of taking away Rep. Anthony Weiner’s committee assignments today as part of a final push to force him from office, even as a minor backlash against calls for his resignation has emerged from one corner of the caucus. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her le...
Dems mull action on Anthony Weiner as photos emerge showing congressman in bra and pantyhose Anthony Weiner doesn't look so hot in a bra and pantyhose. Things went from drag to worse on Wednesday for Anthony Weiner - and could get even bleaker for him Thursday. Hours after photos of the creepy congressman v...
... r protecting nature despite poor working conditions. The report 'Ranger Perceptions: Central America' collates survey responses from more than 330 Rangers across seven Central American countries. Results show that over three-quarters of Rangers have faced a life-threatening situation, and over half see their fa...
Wayne Lotter Credit: PAMS Foundation Wayne Lotter, the co-founder and president of conservation organisation PAMS Foundation, has been shot dead by gunmen in Tanzania. The 51-year-old, from South Africa, was killed late on Wednesday night while travelling in a taxi through the city of Dar es Salaam, in an attack th...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A prominent conservationist who worked on high profile ivory smuggling cases has been shot dead in Tanzania, colleagues said on Tuesday, although the motive for the killing was unclear. “We are heartbroken to share the news that PAMS Foundation co-founder, Wayne Lotter was shot and killed last n...
... (FOLLOW THE MONEY) Extracts of the speech given by Krissie Clark, Executive Director of PAMS Foundation at the closing ceremony of the ‘Money Laundering, Financial & Wildlife Investigation, Asset Tracing and Forfeiture’ workshop, together with the Inspector General of Police, Director of Criminal Investigations...
The head of an animal conservation NGO who had received numerous death threats has been shot and killed by an unknown gunman in Tanzania. Wayne Lotter, 51, was shot on Wednesday evening in the Masaki district of the city of Dar es Salaam. The wildlife conservationist was being driven from the airport to his hotel w...
"Luckily, [my case] was low grade enough that I didn't have to be hospitalized, but it's a very debilitating thing, and I think there's so much shame around it and there shouldn't be," Paltrow told ET . "It's something that happens, it's something that befalls many women after they have a baby, and for me, it ended up ...
Imagine you were a Hollywood producer pitched the following idea: a baby girl born into an acting dynasty is put to work in a dog food commercial at the age of 11 months. At seven, she’s a film star pouring Baileys over her ice-cream, at 11 she develops a drink problem, at 12 she’s a drug addict, at 13 she cuts her wri...
America has a new celebrity couple, and they just made history for completing their quest to visit all 645 Cracker Barrel locations. The Indiana-based duo, Ray and Wilma Yoder, stopped by their final Cracker Barrel store in Portland on Monday, with 644 locations and over five million miles already under their belts...
TUALATIN, Ore. (KOIN) — Ray Yoder celebrated his 81st birthday Monday morning with his wife Wilma and blueberry pancakes at the Cracker Barrel in Tualatin. That’s not necessarily unusual. But what made it special was this was the 645th Cracker Barrel they’ve visited — literally every one in the United States — and ...
CLOSE Ray and Wilma Yoder traveled across the country, visiting every Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. Humankind Ray and Wilma visited many of the Cracker Barrel stores while traveling the country for their job delivering RVs. Ray Yoder estimates he has driven about 5 million miles on his Cracker Barrel quest. (Ph...
Billy Crystal is coming to the rescue for the Oscars -- or so he's tweeting, anyway. The comedy veteran and eight time Oscar host tweeted on Thursday afternoon that he would be hosting the Oscars, though he added a sarcastic aside: "Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name whe...
This post has been corrected; please see bottom for details. Billy Crystal tweeted Thursday, in what some construed as a joke, "Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show." Now, two sources familiar with the 2012 O...
With a couple of clears of the throat, literal and metaphorical, the much anticipated fourth series of Arrested Development arrives at last on Netflix today, dumped in its entirety with the enthusiasm of one of the members of the Bluth family eagerly offloading its stock in the family business, risks be damned. The...
'Arrested Development' review: even better Photo: Mike Yarish, Netflix Image 1 of / 5 Caption Close Image 1 of 5 Jason Bateman stars in the return of "Arrested Development" on Netflix. Jason Bateman stars in the return of "Arrested Development" on Netflix. Photo: Mike Yarish, Netflix...
There are two questions regarding “Arrested Development,” which returned this weekend via Netflix: Is it good — or as good as it was — and does that really matter? Regarding the second, probably not. That’s because Netflix is emulating HBO by playing the attention-getting game, and as with “House of Cards,” reviving th...
Netflix debuted all 15 episodes of the revived, beloved series Sunday, featuring the original cast, a slew of A-list guest stars and numerous go-to references. Having watched all 15 episodes of the new season of Arrested Development, this is the first thing you should know: Watch all 15 -- in a marathon (or two, if...
Skip in Skip x Embed x Share Sharbat Gula became the face of refugee plight when she was featured on the cover of 'National Geographic' as a child. Her struggles are far from over. USA TODAY NETWORK Photographer Steve McCurry poses in front of photographs of the 'Afghan Girl' featured in the exhibit 'Steve McCurry....
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani investigator says the police have arrested National Geographic's famed green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' for having a fake Pakistani identity card. Shahid Ilyas from the Federal Investigation Agency, says the police arrested Sharbat Gulla during a raid on Wednesday at a home in Peshawar...
The Republic | azcentral.com Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:43 PM The image of Arizona State University’s fraternities went from bad to worse this week as a Martin Luther King Jr.-themed party raised the specter of racism and led to a threat of a boycott from the African-American community. Local civil-rights leaders want ...
Tau Kappa Epsilon does not condone or support any actions by its members that would be defined as racist, discriminatory, and/or offensive. Social events with "party themes" that are defined as such have no place in our fraternity's mission or purpose. It is with embarrassment and regret when a few individuals within o...
Tokyo condemns ‘absolutely unacceptable’ provocation, as Pyongyang reacts to imposition of new UN sanctions following missile tests We will sink Japan and turn US to 'ashes and darkness', says North Korea North Korea has threatened to sink Japan and said the US should be “beaten to death like a rabid dog” after...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's top government spokesman said Thursday that a North Korean threat to sink Japan with a nuclear bomb is "extremely provocative and outrageous." A statement from an organization called the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee attacked the United States for leading a push for stronger U.N. sanctions...
A popular canyon area of Joshua Tree National Park has been shut down because vandals have defaced the area with graffiti splashed across rocks and archeological sites, officials said Monday. Rattlesnake Canyon has been shut down temporarily as park officials assess the damage, which apparently has been encouraged ...
Zuma Press More than 300 acres of Joshua Tree National Park, top, have been closed. For years, millions of visitors drawn to the peculiar beauty of Joshua Tree National Park have stayed on the straight and narrow while hiking the steep and twisty trails: picking up their trash and heeding authorities' pleas to leav...
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[Latest: FBI official Andrew McCabe asks Justice Department not to fire him] The FBI office that handles employee discipline has recommended firing the bureau’s former deputy director over allegations that he authorized the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter and misled investigators when asked about ...
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Jeff Sessions' decision will involve input from the senior career official at the Justice Department, Associate Deputy Attorney General Scott Schools, a DOJ official said. | Stephen Lam/Getty Images Sessions mulls firing Andrew McCabe Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing a decision about whether to fire former ...
Mr. McCabe is a career agent, not a political appointee, so Mr. Trump has no direct say in his fate. The decision nonetheless comes at a moment of turnover in Mr. Trump’s national security team. On Tuesday, the president fired the secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, and named the C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, to repl...
The fallout continues over at CBS News. Following multiple on-air apologies for a faulty 60 Minutes report, veteran broadcaster Lara Logan has taken an immediate leave of absence from the venerable news magazine -- alongside producer Max McClellan. CBS News chief Jeff Fager announced the news today in a staff m...
The CBS News correspondent Lara Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, made serious errors in an Oct. 27 report on the attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, and will take leaves of absence, the network announced on Tuesday. Four Americans died in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, including Ambassador J. Christo...
Justin Bieber, Hailey Baldwin Engaged!!! Justin Bieber Engaged to Hailey Baldwin EXCLUSIVE Justin Bieber popped the question to Hailey Baldwin Saturday night ... and she said yes!!! Two eyewitnesses who claim to have seen the proposal go down tell us it happened at a resort in the Bahamas. They say ever...
Justin Bieber proposed to Hailey Baldwin! The singer, 24, and the model, 21, got engaged on Saturday evening in the Bahamas during dinner at a local restaurant, according to TMZ which was the first to report the news. Get push notifications with news, features and more. “It’s kind of a surprise, but kind of...
1/47 20 February 2018 Sarah Clarke is introduced as the new Black Rod to the House of Lords. She is the first female Black Rod in the 650-year history of the role and will be known as the Lady Usher of the Black Rod. PA 2/47 19 February 2018 Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson holds a rhinoceros horn as he vi...
The oldest message in a bottle is 131 years and 223 days old (released 12 June 1886), and was found by Tonya and Kym Illman (both Australia) at Wedge Island, Australia, on 21 January 2018. On June 12th 1886 a gin bottle (Daniel Visser and Zonen Schiedam) was thrown overboard by German captains from the Barque Paula...
Science Julius Caesar may have suffered mini-strokes, say doctors Centuries-old diagnosis of epilepsy may be overturned by new research which suggests that Caesar suffered a number of strokes Doctors at Imperial College claim that a diagnosis of mini-strokes makes sense of symptoms described in Greek and Roman writings...
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Bill Maher tells Judy Miller: It’s the 4th Estate’s job to ‘call bullsh*t on the military-industrial complex’ Jon Stewart destroys ‘disingenuous’ Dick Cheney: It was you that propped Iran up at our expense NYPD officials embarrassed and powerless as cop blog fills up with disturbing racist comments Stephen ...
Who is Arie Luyendyk Jr., really? Rebecca Nelson spent two days in Scottsdale with Arie and his fiancé Lauren to learn about who he really is and hear his side of The Bachelor's cringeworthy finale. I'm on the back of Arie Luyendyk, Jr.'s new Harley, on what is essentially a date from The Bachelor. We're racing dow...
Who is Arie Luyendyk Jr., really? Rebecca Nelson spent two days in Scottsdale with Arie and his fiancé Lauren to learn about who he really is and hear his side of The Bachelor's cringeworthy finale. I'm on the back of Arie Luyendyk, Jr.'s new Harley, on what is essentially a date from The Bachelor. We're racing dow...
Malawi's Vice-President Joyce Banda has been sworn in as president following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika. She becomes southern Africa's first female head of state after taking the oath before parliament in the Malawian capital, Lilongwe. Ms Banda, who had been vice-president since 2009, was cheered and appl...
Malawi has known rule by Britain and by a mercurial dictator. Over the last few days, however, it wasn't clear who was leading this impoverished southern African country, as doctors disclosed Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika had died but the government insisted he was only ill. FILE - In this photo taken Monda...
Mitt Romney made another gaffe on his London trip Thursday by acknowledging he met with the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency, according to reports. Romney’s meeting with MI6 head Sir John Sawers was not on the Republican’s public schedule — and Romney made a major blunder by revealing it, CBS News and The ...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney walks out of 10 Downing Street after meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London, Thursday, July 26, 2012. / AP Photo/Charles Dharapak (CBS News) Mitt Romney gave an update Thursday on his meetings during the first day of his London trip, including some ...
Mitt Romney handed Barack Obama a potential gift for the US presidential election campaign when the presumptive Republican nominee blundered on his first diplomatic outing by questioning whether London was capable of staging a successful Olympic Games. In a move that astonished Downing Street, hours before it laid ...
It is difficult to provide an accurate, up-to-the-moment comparison that includes all three streams of campaign money — money spent by candidates, money spent by party committees and money spent by outside groups — because candidates have had to file financial reports that cover only up until mid-October. Moreover, cer...
To hear top Democrats tell it, the party is being wildly outgunned this year in the fight for campaign cash as Republicans rely on outside groups to funnel money to GOP contenders. But the numbers tell a different story. Text Size - + reset VIDEO: Allen on 2010 spending POLITICO 44 It’s true that co...
CHAMPAIGN -- A Tolono man has hired a lawyer after refusing to watch a workplace training video. David Hall works at the Social Security Administration office in Champaign. He says all employees were told to watch a video about LGBT inclusion, but he claims that violates his religious freedom. Hall says he's ex...