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London -
How would you like to spend £7,000 on your birthday party? Better still, how would you like your employer to pick up the tab?
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Ottawa -
Canadian Prime Minister waded into an ongoing scandal revolving around Senator Mike Duffy, and other senators, Tuesday on Parliament Hill, but offered little substance. The P.M. did not comment directly to reporters on any of those involved.
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Washington -
After repeated claims by the Obama administration that the IRS scandal was first made known to them more recently, it is now known that senior staffers at the White House were aware earlier in April.
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Nashville -
It has been rumored and speculated that World Wrestling Entertainment's Glenn "Kane" Jacobs would be running as a libertarian-leaning Republican against Lamar Alexander in the GOP primary for next year’s United States Senate race in Tennessee.
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London -
The UK has finally admitted that it has been funding surveys in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas of attitudes towards US drone strikes in the area.
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When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief-of-staff Nigel Wright resigned, he said that he paid off Mike Duffy's debt to the Canadian taxpayer without the knowledge of his boss. Could that really be the case?
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I had to know what it takes to create a political activist. Twitter is an amazing social network and it's where I ran into Diane Atkins, organizer for the Impeach Obama project, someone I suspected was a firebrand, I was right. Native New Yorker to boot!
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A new petition has been released on the White House's "We the People" website, calling for an end to the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing and its monopoly over currency in the United States.
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Addis Ababa -
An international press freedom group is calling on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to speak out on behalf of press freedom when he meets with leaders in Africa this week.
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Enniskillen -
Next month, G8 leaders and their entourages descend on County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland for the 39th G8 summit, on June 17-18. Like earlier summits, an agreeable location will host the event, on the shores of picturesque Lough Erne.
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Entitlements have been a driving force in American government for a while, but are they harming America or are they a necessity?
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People are arrested every day in America, often on false charges. So what makes Adam Kokesh's recent arrest at the fifth Smoke Down Prohibition event such a big deal?
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With Nigel Wright, the now-former chief of staff for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, resigning Sunday, the ongoing Mike Duffy false residency claims scandal seems to have made the big time. The do-do has hit the fan and we can expect more of it.
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In the pantheon of political scandals in the U.S., President Barack Obama and Umbrellagate, as it's been dubbed, doesn't register high on the list. Certainly not as high as, say, Richard Nixon and Watergate or Bill Clinton and...Sexgate?
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Washington -
Making the Sunday morning press circuits, White House insider Dan Pfeiffer condemned GOP criticisms of President Obama as "offensive" and "absurd," while Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) insisted on a need for greater embassy security.
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Ottawa -
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Chief of Staff Nigel Wright resigned amid the Senate scandal involving his help with the repayment of $90,000 for beleaguered Senator Mike Duffy's expense claims. Wright says that he accepts full responsibility.
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Cairo -
Two Egyptian journalists who work at a newspaper that has been very critical of Egyptian president Mursi have been ordered to face an expedited trial for defamation.
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Kabul -
A law on elimination of violence against women has been in effect in Afghanistan since 2009 by presidential decree. An effort to cement the law in the Afghan legislature with a vote, was blocked by religious leaders because it conflicts with Islamic law.
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Washington -
While the very visible big footprint war in Iraq is over and the Afghan war is winding down, the war against terror continues all over the world and is not expected to stop for at least 10 or 20 years.
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