Latest and Breaking Politics News and Top Stories - July 7
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David Cameron pledges to get to the truth of claims of historical child sex abuse in major institutions - ahead of an expected announcement of a "wide-ranging" inquiry.
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Charles Blow, New York Times Republicans believe that they have a chance of taking control of the Senate in November. And they do.Who will win control is at the moment basically a tossup, but Republicans get the nod by narrow statistical...
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Quentin Hardy, NYT Forecasting is tough. The future comes at us fast today, with too many variables to say much with certainty. Predictions are still useful, though: They are an excellent way to examine the passions of the moment.
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Carl Cannon, OC Register For Americans whoÂ’d prefer a less invasive federal government, and an executive branch with more modest views of its own authority, several events leading up to Independence Day have offered a welcome ...
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Dave Collins, WaPo HARTFORD, Conn. — As state officials across the country grapple with how to prevent mass killings like the ones at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, some are turning to a gun-seizure law pioneered in Conne...
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H. Pollack, Politico
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Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine Last week, Marco Rubio delivered a speech outlining his economic agenda, and it was widely hailed as the cutting-edge statement of “reform conservatism,” an intra-Republican movement that...
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Chris Mooney, Mother Jones
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The biggest issues facing future generations in Wales are climate change, the natural environment, jobs and skills, according to a survey.
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Terry Eastland, Weekly Standard
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Jonathan Tobin, Commentary Liberal anger over last week’s Hobby Lobby decision increased on Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court granted a provisional exemption to a Christian college that objected to being compelled to pay or even...
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James Antle, The Week The Rand Paul-Mike Lee policy partnership has been the most important Republican collaboration in Washington in recent memory. They have tried subtly — and sometimes not so subtly — to change the Republi...
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An inquiry into historical child sex abuse allegations will "leave no stone unturned", David Cameron has said.
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The Prime Minister says he is "determined" that the inquiry into claims of paedophilia in Westminster and other institutions "gets to the bottom of these allegations"
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John Richardson, Esquire
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In what has become a dire and politically explosive situation at the Mexico-U.S. border, Washington struggles to get the situation under control while politicians point fingers at each other.
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The tea party-backed challenger who narrowly lost a Republican primary runoff in Mississippi to longtime Sen. Thad Cochran says he plans to file a legal challenge contesting those results "any day now."
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The disappearance of more than 100 documents relating to a potential political cover-up of child sex abuse in the 1980s is a loss "on an industrial scale", according to the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee
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Nick Clegg says opponents "vilify our role in government" but there would have been no UK economic recovery without the Liberal Democrats.
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Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) says administration is one step behind on immigration crisis and should have seen it coming.
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Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that what the Obama administration needs to do is "immediately deport" young undocumented immigrants, part of a discussion in which many of the conversations drifted toward dis...
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Just how old school did the White House used to be? Here are a few examples of how antiquated the center of political power in the United States’ operating style has been up until very recently: 1. The p ersonnel process . Katja Bullock,...
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Business leaders and an academic have hit out at the Scottish and UK governments over their conduct in the independence referendum debate.
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Lib Dems in a 'Call Clegg' style film with advice for the deputy prime minister about their party's future.
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Former Home Secretary Lord Brittan says an historic allegation of rape against him is "wholly without foundation".
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The proving ground of a Harvard Law School professor’s goal of campaign finance reform will be five House races in November.
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Energy company boss claims Government efforts to curb spread of solar farms will fail because a replacement subsidy scheme is more attractive
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In a statement issued through his lawyers the former Home Secretary says he was questioned by the police about a serious allegation which is 'wholly without foundation'
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The father of a three-year-old Sri Lankan girl on a missing boat of asylum seekers has pleaded to Immigration Minister Scott Morrison to reveal the fate of the 153 who were on board.
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Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times
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Bill Scher, RCP If you blinked you probably missed it, but the governmentÂ’s privacy watchdog panel just declared, in a unanimous report, that the National Security AgencyÂ’s phone and email collection program is ...
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Sir Peter Bottomley dismisses the idea that the Paedophile Information Exchange in the 1980s would have been able to cover-up child sex abuse.
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A float in a Nebraska Fourth of July parade displaying an outhouse as the Obama presidential library has sparked considerable controversy. The float in the parade in Norfolk, Neb., depicted a male dummy clad in overalls and clutching a w...
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Last week, we showed how the federal civilian workforce grew since the start of the Obama administration, despite shrinking slightly in recent years. Today, let’s look at individual departments to determine which of have gained and lost...
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Obamacare is clearly fading as an issue. For the first time since we started these monthly round-ups, not a single column on the Affordable Care Act cracked the top five list. The column on John McCain’s flip-flop was by far the most wid...
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Private alternatives to traditional Medicare are attracting more people, as a new generation with different expectations enters retirement.
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Bradley Allen, Wall Street Journal
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Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register
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Sally Pipes, New York Post
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E.J. Dionne, Washington Post WASHINGTON -- You cannot talk for very long to a conservative these days without hearing the words "constitutional" and "constitutionalist."Formulations such as "I am a constitutional conservative" or "I am a...
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When the investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson left CBS this year, she did not do so quietly. She contends the network refused to run stories that might damage President Obama.
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Her new book -- all 596 pages of it -- is not the place to look for policy.
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Most state health insurance rates are scheduled to be approved by early fall, and will likely rise.
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The government announces £6bn of funding for local governments designed to boost local economies.
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Steven Adrian Smith, who was jailed in 2011 for possessing indecent images of children, was a electrical contractor at the Home Office for four years in the 1970s and 1980s
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The Home Secretary is expected to announce a wide-ranging inquiry into allegations of abuse in Westminster and other institutions
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There are 13 presidential libraries and soon there will be a 14th, for President Obama. Places vying for the prize stretch from Hawaii to New York. Chicago is so eager it's pitched multiple proposals.
