According to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, he is currently in the great country of Canadia! That is how he pronounced the country during a press conference in Ottawa. From The Sydney Morning Herald: Asked about Canadian Prime Minister Stephen
According to a “Late Contribution Report” filed Monday with the California Secretary of State office, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the maximum allowable $13,600 to Marshall Tuck in his race for Superintendent of Public Instruction just before
Brazil has called up 170,000 security forces to handle crazy World Cup soccer fans, but also because of protest threats by those unhappy that Brazil spent billions on the tournament and not the citizens. President Dilma Rousseff told the army
Ukraine and Moscow met on Monday and it appears the two sides may have come to some sort of agreement to stop the violence in east Ukraine. “As a result of the work, the sides reached a mutual understanding on
British Prime Minister David Cameron promises a “robust response” to the “culture of fear and intimidation” that British investigators found at five state schools in Birmingham, England, where Islamic extremists allegedly plotted to subvert and run them according to rigid Islamic norms. A report released
REUTERS – Sunni Islamist insurgents seized control of Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul early on Tuesday in a spectacular show of strength against the Shi’ite-led government, which called on parliament to declare a state of emergency. The capture of
Seven men have been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of a woman in Tahrir Square as thousands celebrated the inauguration of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The arrests come after a video was posted on Youtube purportedly showing
According to the executive director of Cal State University Sacramento’s Center for California Studies, the only way Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari can unseat Governor Jerry Brown is if an asteroid hits earth, reports the San Jose Mercury News. Steve Boilard, formerly a
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Five Americans troops were killed in an apparent friendly fire incident in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday, in one of the worst such incidents involving United States or coalition troops since the start
The South China Morning Post reported that China intends to build an artificial island base in the disputed and oil-rich Spratly Islands between the coast of Vietnam and the Philippines. With the U.S. fracking boom destroying China’s comparative advantage in manufacturing from
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament Monday that he was committed to restarting Japan’s controversial commercial whale hunting program, despite the UN denouncing the policy and demanding Tokyo stop the killings immediately. The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Petro Poroshenko promised peace and unity, which includes reclaiming Crimea from Russia, in his inauguration speech. The next step in the process is appointing new ministers and members to his team. Reuters reported: He is expected soon to name a
Questions have risen as to whether or not Oakland Mayor Jean Quan was texting behind the wheel before the vehicle she was driving was struck by another vehicle whose driver allegedly ran a red light. Two different accounts of what
A high school teacher in Southern California allegedly held a group of three students at knifepoint and demanded he be driven to a fast-food restaurant, reports NBC Los Angeles. John Edward Maust, a 34-year-old teacher at Arroyo Pacific Academy in
Indian government officials have struggled to suppress the country’s rape epidemic, and some have exacerbated public outrage with insensitive remarks. The latest such remark comes from a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, who claimed rapes “happen accidentally.” The
The Basque separatist group Gure Esku Dago (“It Is in Our Hands”) organized a human chain that connected the northern city of Pamplona to Durango, Biscay. The controversial move has been condemned by Spanish authorities for the use of children
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services disclosed that 6 million people have signed-up for healthcare from Medicaid since the rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The new data suggests that millions of the “8 million” Obamacare
On Sunday, Islamic Prayers and readings from the Quran were heard from the Vatican for the first time in history. The prayers came as a result of Pope Francis’s request that Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Cairo, June 8 (Petra) —- Egypt’s new president Abdel Fattah al Sisi was sworn in on Sunday after his victory in last month’s elections in which he won 97 percent of the vote. The former army chief took the oath
LONDON (Reuters) – The jury in the seven-month trial of two ex-Rupert Murdoch editors, one the media mogul’s head of British newspapers and the other a close aide to the prime minister, is expected to retire to consider its verdict this
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said he wants snap inspections at schools in response to “deeply concerning” allegations of a plot by extremist Muslims to take over schools in the English city of Birmingham. In March an anonymous,
Francis Fukuyama defends liberal democracy in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, noting that despite the rise of authoritarian China and the resurgence of nationalist Russia, democracy and free markets are still winning. “When observing broad historical trends, it is important
Last week, a new bill aimed at fighting diabetes in California by imposing warning labels on soda and other sweetened drinks passed the Senate in a 21-13 vote. A new report from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Recently the security breach Target suffered that left thousands of customers’ private information vulnerable to data thieves made the news in a big way. Now we have discovered that up to 400 enrollees in Connecticut’s healthcare exchange may have also
The World Cup kicks off on Thursday, June 12 in soccer-crazy Brazil. But due to unfinished projects, promised money not paid, corruption, and poor public transportation, the country is not very excited. Brazil learned the hard way it is not
