- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from BBC News - PoliticsAlmost £4.2m in donations were reported by four UK political parties in the third week of the election campaign, figures show.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comThe GOP can never pass up an opportunity to make themselves look like complete buffoons and a protest following the funeral for Freddy Gray, who died from a severe spinal cord injury while in police custody is no exception. Why display c...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsAccusing the ruling BJP of indulging in "misinformation campaign" against Rahul Gandhi, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh urged the party Vice President to get active on the social media to counter the opposition and also to remain c...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from International Business TimesThe Nepalese government said Thursday that climbing on Mount Everest would resume by next week. The decision comes despite the death of 18 mountaineers in an earthquake-triggered avalanche on the world’s largest peak. The Saturday avalan...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSFianna Fáil leader launches party’s same-sex marriage campaign
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from CTVNews.ca - Politics - Public RSSRupert Murdoch's tabloid Sun has spoken, urging voters to back David Cameron's Conservative Party in Britain's election -- unless they're in Scotland. There, it says, they should vote for the Scottish National Party.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageAndrew Lam, Los Angeles Times The first time I returned to Vietnam, a customs officer looked at my American passport and asked, “Brother, when did you leave?”“Two days before National Defeat Day,” I mumbled.That d...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comYou’d think Judith Miller -- the disgraced New York Times reporter who helped rally the country into a $2 trillion, 10-year war -- would do us a favor and slink into obscurity. Alas, Miller is hawking a new book, and using the opportunit...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syrian activist groups on Wednesday reported another suspected chemical attack in the northwestern province of Idlib, with one group tweeting that a dozen people were "suffocating." Several Idlib-based groups said g...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comWhile some Baltimore students were met with consequences for their participation in the city’s fiery riots, punishing kids wasn’t on Nikkia Rowe’s agenda when classes resumed on Wednesday. Rowe, the principal of Renaissance Academy, is m...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comAs a Moroccan national who visits the U.S. often, I have grown attached to the American people, their country, and the values they aspire to live by. And so it pains me to hear of incidents of police brutality, which violate the rule of ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Top Stories"The middle class in America is at a tipping point," Sanders says.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comOpponents of marriage equality trotted out the same old arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. And on Wednesday's "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart positively crushed every single one of their talking points. First, he took on the slippe...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from News Politics Priority RSSThe DA has called for Parliament to set up a portfolio committee dedicated to Chapter 9 institutions and initiate law amendments to shift their source of funding.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from CBS News - PoliticsSen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, has just announced a 2016 bid for the White House. He tells CBS News' Nancy Cordes that he's in a fight against the billionaire class.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ABC News: PoliticsNOTABLES --BERNIE SANDERS MAKES IT OFFICIAL -- 'I AM RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT': Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, is running for president in 2016, Sanders said in an interview with ABC's JONATHAN KARL. "I am running for president," Sanders s...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate panel passed a bill Wednesday that would expand popular tax-free college savings accounts that President Barack Obama failed to scale back.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageKen Vogel, Politico A handful of deep-pocketed donors are reconsidering their gifts to the $2 billion Clinton Foundation amid mounting questions about how it’s spending their money and suggestions of influence peddling, according t...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics News | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comU.S. consumers boosted spending in March by the largest amount in four months, a hopeful sign that this key sector of the economy is reviving after a frigid winter. … Click to Continue »
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | theguardian.comCardiff University research also finds non-party sources were given relatively little airtime, with businesspeople the most common Continue reading...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics News | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comPaychecks for U.S. workers are rising at a faster pace as strong hiring in the past year has lowered the unemployment rate and increased competition for workers. … Click to Continue »
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comBALTIMORE -- At the Mondawmin Mall in West Baltimore Wednesday afternoon, members of rival gangs banded together to make sure local high school students got home from schools safely. "We all met up today to make sure the incidents that h...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from International Business TimesFor people who were unpleasantly surprised earlier this month by tax penalties for not having health insurance, there may be comfort in knowing they have one last day to avoid a higher fine next year, as the sign-up period for health car...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from News Politics Priority RSSThe ANC has slammed the DA for neglecting housing, sports and educational facilities in the area where Tony Ehrenreich lives.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comEarlier this year, a sobering documentary called The Man Who Saved the World made the rounds of U.S. college campuses. That title sounds pretty dramatic, and it is. The film focuses on an event that occurred on September 26, 1983, during...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsBJP President Amit Shah has disapproved Haryana minister O P Dhankar's remark on farmer suicides saying that party leaders should avoid making such comments. The post Dhankar’s ‘coward’ farmer remark: Amit Shah tells BJ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | theguardian.comSpeaking on Thursday, Danny Alexander says the Conservative party must tell the public the details of its planned welfare cuts. The Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury told the Guardian of Tory plans in 2012 for £8bn cuts to welfare ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from UK Politics - The Huffington PostConservative cabinet minister Liz Truss repeatedly dodged questions today about where the party would make cuts to welfare should it win the general election in a week's time. The Conservative Party has said it will cut £12bn from the we...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from PoliticsNick Berardini was in his senior year at the University of Missouri in 2008 and working the late shift at the local TV station when a call on the police scanner changed his life. Berardini got word of an in-custody death by th...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageNick Loeb, New York Times DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — LAST August, I filed a complaint in Santa Monica, Calif., using pseudonyms, to protect two frozen embryos I created with my former fiancée. I wanted to keep this private, bu...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | theguardian.comKent police will take no action after Ukip leader claimed comments on panel show breached Representation of the People Act Continue reading...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsMONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Promising to fight what he deems "obscene levels" of income disparity and a campaign finance system that is a "real disgrace," independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he will run for president as a D...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics News | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe number of Americans seeking unemployment aid plummeted to the lowest level in 15 years last week, evidence that employers are laying off few workers despite a sharp slowdown in economic growth. … Click to Continue »
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics News - UK PoliticsRussell Brand is once again the talk of Westminster. Rupert Hawksley revisits his book, Revolution
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics on HuffingtonPost.comAt long last, the Supreme Court is poised to decide what, if anything, the Constitution has to say about same-sex marriage. As spirited demonstrations outside (and, briefly, even inside) the high court during oral argument in Obergefell ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from CNN.com - Politics
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsPHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia judge has refused to dismiss the National Rifle Association's lawsuit challenging the city's gun regulations.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - Most Americans think the government should protect religious liberties over gay rights when the two come into conflict, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds, though fewer think most businesses should be allowed to turn...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Daily News - PoliticsThe FBI supported a ransom paid to Al Qaeda for Warren Weinstein, an American hostage accidentally killed by a U.S. drone.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostIn 2008, Sen. Bob Casey’s name was added to an alleged list of Clinton traitors. Ahead of the crucial Pennsylvania Democratic primary, Casey backed Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton. She went on to win the state without him, but t...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ABC News: PoliticsSen. Bernie Sanders said he is concerned by the millions of dollars flowing into the Clinton Foundation.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from PolicyMedicaid expansion under ObamaCare is giving a lift to hospitals’ finances, a new study from the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation finds. The study finds that hospitals’ charity care costs fell by 40 percent in states that expanded Medi...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics News - UK PoliticsWhat time is BBC Question Time on? What will David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg say? All you need to know ahead of tonight's show
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from CBS News - PoliticsA multi-state military exercise is the subject of intense speculation about the imposition of martial law. The training operation called "Jade Helm 15" was announced in March, and the Texas governor is deploying the state guard to monito...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from International Business TimesFor nearly 16 months, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has had to swat away allegations from critics -- or chuckle at teasing from voters -- about Bridgegate. Questions about the closing of lanes on the George Washington Bridge in Septembe...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsUS-USA-OBAMA-EBOOKS:Obama to announce free e-books for low-income kids
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsGov. Christie said Wednesday that he didn't think a report that a former ally was set to enter a guilty plea in a federal investigation of the George Washington Bridge lane-closure scandal involves him.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSLabour TD votes for his own bill which would allow gardaí to strike and join unions
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageDavid Keating, RealClearPolitics It is 3 a.m. when the pounding begins. You awake in daze, your dog is barking, your children are frightened and you can hear voices yelling at the front door. You look outside to see armed police officers...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from International Business TimesOn January 15, Leo Hubert died in the oil fields of North Dakota. A co-worker found him motionless on the catwalk of a storage tank battery with the hatch open, according to the Bismarck area office of the Occupational Safety and Health ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Mail.com: Politics10 a.m. (0415 GMT) In quake-wracked Nepal, everyone who is able is joining the aid effort. The 32-year-oid Narayan Thapa was working at a tire factory in Gorkha town when the earthquake destroyed his village of Bungkot, around 45 kilomet...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from RIA NovostiThe Iraqi government has strongly opposed a bill proposed by the US Congress that allows the Iraqi Kurds to be armed directly, bypassing Iraq's central government, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said in a press release.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Mail.com: Politics12:50 p.m. (0705 GMT) Nepalese police say the boy who was pulled from rubble five days after the earthquake is an 18-year-old who made it alive by "good faith." Nepalese police officer L. B. Basnet says he spoke to the boy who gave his n...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from RIA NovostiBritain's New Communist Party (NCP) has condemned the Ukrainian government for its recent crackdown on leftist ideology, saying its latest action to ban communist symbols proved Kiev was a Western proxy that had no credibility, NCP leade...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from All News RSS FeedWhen Bernard Sanders declares his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday, he'll join a lengthening roster of gadflies who have run in order to push the party to the left.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsKUWAIT: Regular meetings are held between Kuwait's Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khaled Al- Jarallah and US Ambassador to Kuwait Douglas Silliman to discuss a broad range of subjects including regional developments in Yemen, Iran, Iraq...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsThe Guv shares his thoughts on changing the state, a “probably” late state budget, Kathleen Kane and more.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsHeadteachers say pupils will bear the brunt of an education funding crisis - irrespective of which party gains power on 7 May.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsUS-USA-OBAMA-EBOOKS:Obama to announce free e-books for low-income kids
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSLabour TD votes for his own bill which would allow gardaí to strike and join unions
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics RSS Feed(AP) — Where Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, stands on some issues: Sanders, a self-described "democratic socialist," has been pushing for higher taxes on the rich ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Sky News Australia
The Andrews government's first budget will put $1.3 billion towards widening the Tullamarine Freeway. - Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsRahul’s transformation has made all the slogan-shouting for a greater role for Priyanka Gandhi redundant for the moment. The post 13 days, zero critics: The Rahul Gandhi guide to silencing ‘Priyanka lao’ brigade appeared firs...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsThe sensational suicide in Delhi and Rahul Gandhi’s well-timed aggression have made farmers’ distress a politically expedient issue. The post Right issue, wrong cure: What Rahul Gandhi’s campaign for farmers is missing appeared fir...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics RSS FeedCongressional Republicans have yet to unite behind any of the growing number of proposals for responding to a Supreme Court ruling that could void federal subsidies that millions of people use to buy coverage under President Barack Obama...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsTRENTON - New Jersey's top elected Democrat on Tuesday accused Gov. Christie of ignoring the state's slow economic recovery, suggesting the governor's presidential ambitions were impeding progress at home.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from All News RSS FeedVirginia Rep. Barbara Comstock was the only Republican among the nine Washington, D.C.-area members who issued a joint statement Wednesday expressing their disappointment with a proposal for deep funding cuts to the Washington Metropolit...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Politics RSS Feed(AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, says he will do more than simply raise progressive issues or nudge Hillary Rodham Clinton to the left. "People should not und...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsThe uprising this week in Baltimore has weighed heavily on a number of Philadelphia mayoral candidates, they said Wednesday during a forum on job creation and workforce training.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from All News RSS FeedBy Doug Young
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from All News RSS FeedMark the calendar: Roll Call's Taste of America 2015 food-on-food competition returns soon. Will Utah's cherry cobbler repeat? Or will West Virginia's pepperoni roll restore glory for the Mountain State?
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe stark contrast between The Sun front pages north and south of the border may seem odd, but we've actually been here before.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsMayoral candidate Lynne Abraham says she had no role in her law firm’s representation of narcotics cops now on trial for corruption.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - Jeb Bush wants Republicans to know he's breaking fundraising records. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants Democrats to think she won't.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Irish Times Politics RSSGovernment accused of cover-up and misleading Dáil in Siteserv controversy
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsEgypt's economic growth is set to accelerate in the next two years, reaching 5.5 percent in fiscal 2016/17, a Reuters poll forecast.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Mail.com: PoliticsDENVER (AP) — In Colorado, couples can get married with only one of the parties present for the occasion, a holdover from the Vietnam War that allowed soldiers to marry their sweethearts while deployed. Even though there's no evidence th...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - Politics RSS feedTransportation officials from both countries are expected to discuss timelines for phasing in newer-model tank cars on Friday
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsThe party that promised clean, alternative politics is back with a fresh controversy, courtesy Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar who is adamant over his claim that he has a bona fide Degree in Law from Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur Univer...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from World PoliticsIndia and China are currently engaged in an arms race of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief - and that's a spot of good news for Nepal as it looks to recover from this tragedy.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsDOVER, Del. (AP) - The state House is set to vote on legislation adding electronic cigarettes to Delaware's indoor smoking ban.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsThe Rahul Gandhi attack on Modi for allegedly being anti-farmer and anti-poor is being misread by the BJP. The cost of this misreading is the loss of the Land Bill and GST. Rahul is actually trying to retrieve political space lost to Kej...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from RIA NovostiViolence in and around Menaka, Timbuktu and Goundam must stop as it hinders the peace process in Mali, US State Department acting spokesperson Mary Harf said in a statement.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from All News RSS FeedEven the dead need a cold beer now and then. Hence the "City of Silence" coozies Historic Congressional Cemetery sells for five bucks a pop.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe Lib Dem says his coalition partners were planning child benefit cuts in 2012 - the Tories accuse him of "attention seeking".
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem leaders hope to convince voters to back them as they face questions from a studio audience.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedDANNY Alexander has accused the Conservatives of being bent on “slashing support for families” as he went public with Tory proposals for an extra £8 billion of welfare cuts that were vetoed by the Liberal Democrats.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsMayor Nutter hosts 2nd annual meeting of organization he co-founded.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - Most Americans think the government should protect religious liberties over gay rights when the two come into conflict, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds, though fewer think most businesses should be allowed to turn...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political NewsSaudi Arabia is providing military training for hundreds of Yemeni tribesmen to fight the Iranian-allied Houthi militia, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsMONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Promising to fight what he deems "obscene levels" of income disparity and a campaign finance system that is a "real disgrace," independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he will run for president as a D...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News30 April 2015 BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army pushed ahead with a crackdown on criminal elements in Beirut's southern suburbs Wednesday, as Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk carried out a tour of the neighborhoods. Security forces were deploye...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Firstpost » PoliticsIn Vidarbha, Rahul Gandhi will be meeting with widows in nine households to discuss farmer suicides and will also meet with farmers as he hopes to figure out ways to tide over the problem of crop failure and agrarian woes The post Ghar a...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from All News RSS FeedBy Nathan J. Diament and Kent Johnson
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsTwo and a half years after Hurricane Sandy struck the Shore, about 1,200 New Jersey homeowners are still awaiting state approval of their applications for aid to help rebuild their homes, a top official in Gov. Christie's administration ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from All News RSS FeedFor Rep. Tom Graves, his role as chairman of the subcommittee that doles out funds for the legislative branch is an opportunity to put his fiscal conservative principles into practice.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate panel passed a bill Wednesday that would expand popular tax-free college savings accounts that President Barack Obama failed to scale back.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Philly.com PoliticsFEASTERVILLE U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R., Bucks) will be the featured speaker for the Feasterville Business Association's networking and general membership meeting next week. He is to focus on legislative action that could affect Buck...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedSCOTLAND’S political leaders are beginning their final push for votes with just one week to go until the General Election.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Sky News Australia
The govt insists police are under strict guidelines about what info they share on death penalty cases.
