In response to First Lady Launching Full Scale Campaign To Combat School Lunch Program Critics: Mrs Obama denounces moves in Congress to roll back school nutrition standards. “This is unacceptable,” she says at nutrition event. — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May
First Lady Michelle Obama sent a strong message to Republicans in Congress who want to allow local school districts to opt out of the federal regulations on school lunches. “This is unacceptable,” she said during a roundtable discussion of the
Mariem Yahya Ibrahim, the 27-year old Sudanese Christian doctor who was sentenced to death for apostasy, gave birth to a baby girl in Omdurman Women’s Prison in Khartoum on May 27, 2014. The baby, the daughter of Ibrahim and her
First lady Michelle Obama is stepping into the political arena Tuesday to fire back against school lunch critics who are “assaulting” her efforts to make school lunches healthier for kids. Critics include Republicans in Congress, the School Nutrition Association, and the
Historically, there were two ways to get rich: hard work and inheritance, apart from hitting the jackpot or robbing a bank of course. Now, in a world of ethically challenged public servants, there is another way – public service. Inheritance,
The Chinese government has not taken well to charges by the United States government that several of its military officials have been hacking into American corporations with the purpose of stealing trade secrets. In an aggressive report, mostly relying on
It depends on what the meaning of ‘scandal’ is. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi explained in an interview with Vox founder Ezra Klein that the situation surrounding the Department of Veterans Affairs wasn’t quite a “scandal” in the official sense
The leader of France’s conservative opposition UMP party, Jean-François Copé, resigned today after police raided his offices in an investigation over a massive fraud scandal involving former President Nicolas Sarkozy. France 24 reports that the entire UMP front bench now
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi admitted that Democrats won’t be talking about Obamacare much as they head into the 2014 midterm elections. Pelosi reminded Klein that the health care reform law signed by the president was called the “Affordable Care
On Saturday, Michael Moore reacted to the multiple homicide in Santa Barbara that left seven dead. The filmmaker, who wrote and directed Bowling for Columbine, said in a Facebook post that the horrifying event was “now part of normal American life.”
About 60,000 immigrants, many facing deportation, worked at the nation’s system of 250 detention centers last year for $1 a day. The cheap labor, which the government says is legal, saves taxpayers millions of dollars every year. Private companies, which
HOUSTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, Texas–As Americans gathered across the United States to honor their fallen heroes, over 1,000 people gathered at the Houston National Veteran’s Cemetery to honor those who died in service to our country. The touching ceremony was full
NEW DELHI (AP) — India deployed sharpshooters and security forces around the capital Monday as Narendra Modi prepared to be sworn in as prime minister in a ceremony attended by a slew of foreign dignitaries — including the prime minister
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) will travel to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) backyard Wednesday to push for amnesty legislation just weeks before Cantor’s June 10 primary against Dave Brat. According to Casa de Virginia, Gutierrez’s speech at the State
TheDemocrats’majority in the Senate is on the line this electionseason, and if Republicans take back control, the GOP will needtodecide on new rules for the new Congress in the upper chamber. Some Republican members are willing to go back to
During a May 25th appearance on Face the Nation, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said the attacks Elliot Rodger carried out with a gun ought to revive gun control in Congress. On May 23 Rodger shot and killed three people in
Big banks are breathing easier in the wake of Tea Party defeats that they believe increase the GOP’s odds of reclaiming the Senate, reports The Hill. “The fact that Ted Cruz will not have a whole lot of new allies
For someone once charged with policing America’s borders, former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano sure does seem to have a loose grasp on her thoughts on the subject. Today she’s saying the border can’t even be sealed and we’re wasting
California is home to 53 members of Congress, far more than any other state in the union. Thanks to a decennial redistricting that favored Democrats–and to the state’s relatively new election rules that junk traditional party primaries for a “top
President Obama visited Chicago last night for a fundraiser, joking with some of his closest wealthy friends that it was difficult to talk about global warming after a cold winter. “I know it’s hard to talk about global warming here in Chicago
At a fundraiser held in Chicago for Illinois Democrat Senator Dick Durbin and other Democrat Senators, President Obama said that he faced a Republican Party that was anti-science, opposed women receiving equal pay for equal work, and wanted to stop
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has been frustrated by the Tea Party movement that gave him his Speakership after the historic 2010 midterm elections, but he said on Thursday that there was not much of a difference between establishment Republicans
On Fox News last night, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that for Americans to find out the truth about the details surrounding the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would have to testify in Congress. Paul
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gave House Republicans six weeks to pass amnesty legislation before President Barack Obama starts to use executive actions to ease deportations and change immigration laws. “We’ve waited
