After the 2012 election, the Republican National Committee took a hard look at our ground game and our field operation to determine where we could make improvements and what we could do better. The Growth and Opportunity Project report, commissioned
DUBLIN (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Friday he does not believe Britain will leave the European Union as the English are “a reasonable people” and quitting the bloc would be a disaster. Speaking during a trip
This article by Col. Bing West originally appeared at the Hoover Institution: Forty-three percent of voters ranked the economy as the top issue in the 2014 midterm election, versus 15% who cited foreign policy.1 Yet 62% said they were very concerned
Nuclear-capable Russian bombers in European airspace, NATO intercepts, a foreign submarine in Swedish waters — the fall-out from the Ukraine crisis feels like a return to Cold War days. NATO has intercepted Russian aircraft on more than 100 occasions so
CLEVELAND (AP) — Shortly after showering, and maybe rinsing off a forgettable performance, LeBron James smiled and laughed as he dressed for a flight to Chicago. “It was one game,” he said. James moved on quickly. It may take Cleveland
LONDON (Reuters) – Tesco could see its debt downgraded to “junk” status unless it outlines plans to cut borrowing and improve trading, rating agency Moody’s said, raising the prospect of higher financing costs for Britain’s biggest grocer. Tesco, already facing
This story originally appeared at Yahoo News: President Barack Obama’s fondness for rewarding big donors with plum diplomatic postsoverseas made international headlines earlier this year when a few of them embarrassed themselves in confirmation hearings. Now, the association that represents career U.S.
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone that Sunday’s planned elections in eastern Ukraine were illegitimate and would not be recognized by European leaders, a Berlin government spokesman said on Friday. Merkel
In New York, Democrat Andrew Cuomo is running away with the governor’s race. But he’s also running away from one of his party’s staunchest supporters: teacher unions. The incumbent governor is up more than 20 points in the latest RealClearPolitics
UK’s fierce debate about the European Union is often misunderstood across the Atlantic. It has unfortunately become a tradition of the US foreign policy to view the EU as synonymous with ‘strong’ Europe. So much so that a couple of
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Following large-scale protests, Hungary’s prime minister said Friday that the government would suspend a planned tax on Internet use and reconsider the matter next year. A scheme to make Internet service providers pay 150 forints ($0.62)
(AFP) A triple bombing at a bus station during Friday morning rush hour in north Nigeria killed at least eight people and wounded 34 others, rescue workers told AFP. A local rescue official who requested anonymity and was at the
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Anti-government protesters began gathering in Burkina Faso’s capital again Friday, a day after their violent demonstrations pushed the country’s longtime president to agree to relinquish power next year. Protesters stormed the parliament Thursday to prevent
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister said Wednesday that recent verbal attacks against him from the United States were merely because he was “defending Israel” and vowed to carry on with his policies despite the vitriolic rhetoric. Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks
(Reuters) – Rebels said on Wednesday they had seized the South Sudan oil hub of Bentiu as renewed fighting against government troops entered a third day, but the government said it was still in control of the town. Thousands of
(AFP) A French village has banned teenagers from dressing up as clowns for Halloween after people kitted out as the colourful pranksters have sown terror and violence in several parts of the country. The 6,000-strong village of Vendargues in southern
(AFP) Islamic State jihadists executed at least 46 members of a tribe that fought against them in Iraq’s Anbar province, a local leader and a doctor said on Wednesday. The men from the Albu Nimr tribe were killed in an
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban froze plans on Friday to impose a tax on Internet traffic, climbing down in the face of massive street protests and warnings from the European Union that the levy was a mistake.
LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Israel’s “Iron Dome” is heading to the seas, the maker of the rocket-blocking defense system says. State-owned defense contractor Rafael wants to leverage the system’s much-vaunted success in protecting Israeli civilians in this summer’s Gaza
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will pay back part of the outstanding debt used to fund World War One next year, when it redeems government bonds first issued almost 90 years ago by then-finance minister Winston Churchill. The finance ministry said
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) – Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed for what was — until recently — an obscure Syrian border town, now the focus of a global war
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — If trailing Auburn by 18 last season in the BCS Championship game didn’t shake Florida State, a 21-0 first-half deficit to Louisville surely wasn’t going to, either. Thanks to another remarkable comeback by the Seminoles and
Britain’s security services are set to clash with parliament and the country’s powerful press over revelations that police secretly used a controversial law to identify journalists’ sources, triggering a wider debate about media freedom in the digital age. Detectives used
LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) – British wholesale gas prices for the rest of this year fell on Friday after Ukraine and Russia signed a deal that will see Moscow resume gas supplies to Kiev this winter, while warm UK weather
A month on the streets has given young Hong Kong democracy protesters a taste of life outside the city’s cramped shoebox apartments — and away from the prying eyes of overprotective parents. In this city of high tower blocks and
