The streets of every major city in Venezuela continue to be war zones as President Nicolás Maduro escalates the military repression of opposition protesters looking for an escape from socialist dictatorship. After announcing a new “e-card” to ration goods, Maduro
President Mikheil Saakashvili sees many parallels between the current situation in Crimea and his own war with Vladimir Putin in 2008, when the Russian premier whittled away at Georgia’s breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In a column for
This was yet another weekend of failures for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, but you would never know it from reading the New York Times. While the mayor lost his bid to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg turned 81 on Saturday and remains one of the strongest voices on the court for liberal judicial thought. That did not deter one LA Times columnist from using her birthday to remind people that she
China’s frustration with the Malaysian government over failed attempts to find missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are well known, but more than a week into the search, they are no longer alone. U.S. officials tell the New York Times that they
As the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues, investigators have collected a series of concerning clues regarding pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah. The UK Mirror claims his family moved out of his home the day before the flight, while Malaysian authorities now
With the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 expanding far into both the Indian Ocean and southwest towards Australia, a court testimony by an al-Qaeda supergrass that he helped Malaysian al Qaeda members organize a plane hijacking is getting
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned protesters in a Caracas square, a focal point for the opposition, to evacuate or face the full force of the military, after months of protests in which unofficial government paramilitary groups have killed dozens of
Nate Silver is on the cusp of launching his newly revamped, ESPN-housed FiveThirtyEight. In an interview with New York Magazine, Silver trashes opinion writers as “undisciplined” creators of “a lot of bullshit” that have no place in the future of
A study of donations that corporations have made to political candidates in the last 25 years finds that most of the groups at the top of the list either exclusively fund Democrats or are mostly left-leaning. The study, from OpenSecrets.org,
With the deadline of a Crimean vote on independence set for Sunday, the world awaits for Russia’s next step in taking over the entire Ukrainian territory. So far, nothing Secretary of State John Kerry has said or done seems to
Everyone in politics knows that big GOP donors, many of whom are wealthy businessmen, are, broadly speaking, one of the key constituencies for a major amnesty bill. But aside from the money trail, their interactions with lawmakers, which often occur
The Associated Press is reporting that officials involved in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are “increasingly certain” that someone with aviation experience shut off the plane’s communications and flew it out into the Indian Ocean. The reports
“Several” Uighur naan salesmen in the central Chinese province of Hunan stabbed five passersby in a grocery market and were killed by police today, the latest in a string of mass knifing deaths plaguing China in recent months. The South
More evidence contradicts the possibility that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 exploded or crashed, as two individuals told ABC News that United States authorities believe the plane had its communications systems “systematically shut down” and several news agencies say the plane remained
An explosion in Harlem yesterday killed at least seven, the city reported today, and at least nine more remain missing. The death toll is up from two yesterday, and more information is coming to light on the massive infrastructure failure
Thursday morning, the Wall Street Journal published a report that missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 might have flown for up to four hours after disappearing. The data corroborating this theory comes from automatic updates allegedly sent to manufacturer Rolls-Royce, which
When New Jersey Governor Chris Christie revealed his proposed budget for the next year, small-government proponents decried the largest-ever payout to public pensions. As the state continues to parse through the proposal, some are objecting to the increase in taxes
The campus of New Jersey state school Rutgers-Newark joined its sister school in New Brunswick today in calling for the university to rescind its invitation to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as this year’s commencement speaker. According
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill that would provide aid to Ukraine which would need to pass both chambers of Congress to be signed into law before Crimea votes on its independence. The bill calls for reforms to
The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. officials involved in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 suspect that the plane may have been flying for up to four hours after its radar signals were shut down. The Malaysian government is
Roberto and William Isaias, Ecuadorian fugitives convicted of embezzlement by that nation’s socialist government, donated “hundreds of thousands” of dollars to United States politicians, including President Obama, while living exiled in Miami, The New York Times reports. The brothers, whose background as
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been in office three months, but he has managed to make enemies of the Democratic Party establishment, far-left charter school opponents, beloved weatherman Al Roker, and beloved weatherrodent Punxsutawney Phil in that short
Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel represents Harlem, devastated Wednesday by a gas leak explosion that collapsed two buildings and severely damaged several others. On NBC 4, Rep. Rangel described the situation as “our community’s 9/11,” though Harlem very acutely experienced that
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio updated the city on a dramatic explosion that leveled two buildings in Harlem early this morning. The Mayor told the media that a gas leak was reported to authorities about fifteen minutes before
