elections

Morning Must Reads: May 23 Submitted By Jerry

▲19 Votes Comment Attorney General Eric Holder admits that the US hadkilled four American citizens in drone strikes outside the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama will hold his first major counterterroism s...

swampland.time.com |  4h ago

TIME Exclusive: President Obamas 1979 Prom Photos Submitted By Charlotte

▲12 Votes Comment This article appears in this weeks magazine underneath the title, Obamas Grand Old Party. To subscribe toTIME, click here. Tucked away in someone elses shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might...

swampland.time.com |  5h ago

The IRS Scandal Is a Test: Is It Too Hard to Fire Misbehaving Bureaucrats? Submitted By Carl

▲18 Votes Comment Everyone agrees that some employees acted incompetently. So how much time and money will it take to get rid of them?

theatlantic.feedsportal.com |  6h ago

Obama to Push for Transparency in Face of Threats Submitted By Sloane

▲34 Votes Comment (WASHINGTON) Amid lingering concerns about his national security policies, President Barack Obama is outlining measures to clarify the deadly use of drones against terror suspects, make good on a p...

swampland.time.com |  7h ago

Moore Picks Up the Pieces With the Help of FEMA and Friendly Neighbors Submitted By Morty

▲28 Votes Comment

nation.time.com |  4h ago

Did James Rosen's Story on North Korea Do Any Harm? Submitted By Claire

▲24 Votes Comment It's certainly possible, but the public has insufficient information to make a definitive judgment.

theatlantic.feedsportal.com |  4h ago

Eric Garcetti Survives Nasty Race for L.A. Mayor Submitted By Jerry

▲18 Votes Comment This article appears in this weeks magazine. Labor unions spent millions. The two candidates dragged each other down in a vicious negative campaign. And comedian Will Ferrell promised free waffles ...

swampland.time.com |  17h ago

Four Americans Killed Since 2009 in Drone Strikes Submitted By Claire

▲20 Votes Comment WASHINGTON (AP) Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009. The attorney general said that in conducting U.S.counterterrorismoperations ag...

swampland.time.com |  19h ago

Jay Newton-Small on the Oklahoma Tragedy Submitted By Charlotte

▲9 Votes Comment OnMorning Joe,TIMEs Jay Newton-Small reports from Oklahoma on the tornado tragedy. She discusses the 16 minutes parents had to get their children to safety, from when sirens first alerted Moore res...

swampland.time.com |  23h ago

President Obama Responds to the Tornadoes in Oklahoma Submitted By Claire

▲12 Votes Comment Ed. Note: You can help people affected by the recent tornadoes through American Red Cross Disaster Relief. If you are in the affected areas, you can also register as "Safe and Well" to let your fri...

www.whitehouse.gov |  20h ago

Emails Shed Light on IRS Criteria Submitted By John

▲14 Votes Comment Emails and other documents suggest the IRS's procedures to target conservative groups for added scrutiny were developed by lower-level employees.

online.wsj.com |  12h ago

Fed's Varied Voices Leave Market Guessing Submitted By Ferris

▲22 Votes Comment In a day of conflicting messages from the Fed that roiled financial markets, Chairman Ben Bernanke left some straightforward new clues about the central bank's plans for its $85 billion-a-month bon...

online.wsj.com |  15h ago

Same-Sex Couples Left Out of Immigration Bill Submitted By Morty

▲27 Votes Comment Sen. Patrick Leahy has tried since 2003 to give people in same-sex relationships the right to sponsor their foreign partners for green cards, as married heterosexual couples can do. On Tuesday, he ...

online.wsj.com |  18h ago

Googles Long List of Subsidiaries Gets Much Shorter Submitted By Elaine

▲5 Votes Comment Some of the biggest U.S. companies have quietly removed hundreds of offshore subsidiaries from their publicly disclosed financial filings over the past several years. Here's a look at Google's subs...

blogs.wsj.com |  4h ago

Leak Probe Launched in Downtown Washington Submitted By John

▲13 Votes Comment Washington officials launched a broad leak investigation Wednesday that has exposed government waste dating back as far as 1897a probe that could lead, some say, to the very steps of the White House.

blogs.wsj.com |  17h ago

Obama to Travel to Oklahoma Sunday Submitted By Frank

▲5 Votes Comment President Barack Obama on Sunday will travel to Oklahoma to view the damage and response effort to tornadoes that devastated towns, the White House said.

blogs.wsj.com |  22h ago

Obama speech to focus on drones, Gitmo Submitted By Morty

▲28 Votes Comment Washington (CNN) - From the targeted killing of Americans overseas to the future of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama will lay out the framework and legal rationale for ...

politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com |  4h ago

TIME: Obama's prom night Submitted By Claire

▲6 Votes Comment (TIME) - Tucked away in someone elses shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish clothes and with an outdated do, your arm around a high school squeeze. The Preside...

politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com |  4h ago

CNN Washington AM Note Submitted By Estelle

▲28 Votes Comment NATIONAL STORIES: CNN: No more missing: Rescue switches to recovery in Oklahoma With everyone missing now accounted for from this week's deadly tornado, the long and difficult work of recovery can ...

politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com |  6h ago

5 things you should know about immigration reform Submitted By Sloane

▲18 Votes Comment Washington (CNN) - Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform won their first major legislative victory this week when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 to approve the bipartisan "Gang ...

politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com |  16h ago

ROCKZi

Read. Vote. Rock.

Elections