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Obama Wants Funds to Fight Ebola in Africa

Obama Wants Funds to Fight Ebola in Africa

As the Ebola outbreak continues to grow in Africa, President Obama is now asking for federal funds to fight the virus. The White House is asking for $88 million to fund drugs and to cover the costs of sending personnel

Dan Sullivan: Dems 'Stuck in the Last Century'

Dan Sullivan: Dems 'Stuck in the Last Century'

Former Alaska Attorney General and Republican Senate Candidate Dan Sullivan argued that the Democratic Party is “stuck in the last century” in the Republican Party’s weekly address on Saturday.  Sullivan outlined how federal government policies have prevented economic growth in

South Sudan Faces Hunger Crisis

South Sudan Faces Hunger Crisis

South Sudan’s civil war is forcing people to flee towns and villages, leading to a devastating food crisis. Over 4 million of the 11 million citizens in South Sudan face starvation, including 50,000 children. Unfortunately, the country is in the middle

Biden: 'Cut the Middle Class Back Into the Deal'

Biden: 'Cut the Middle Class Back Into the Deal'

Vice President Joe Biden emphasized the middle class and economic growth in the White House’s weekly address. Transcript as follows: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Joe Biden, I’m filling in for President Obama, while he addresses the NATO summit in

Box Office: A Depressing State of Affairs

Box Office: A Depressing State of Affairs

Despite being in nearly 2000 theatres, this weekend’s only widely released newcomer, the faith-based “The Identical,” crashed and burned with a mere $1.86 million take, which is about half of what was projected. Summer 2014’s two big bombs, “Expendables 3”

Average TV Viewer Is 44 Years Old

Average TV Viewer Is 44 Years Old

Unless bundled cable providers find a way to move their racket online, the demographic reality of younger people moving online looms as an existential threat to the most lucrative business in entertainment and the news media. In just four years

Fleeing Immigrants Lead Police On 160 Mile Chase

Fleeing Immigrants Lead Police On 160 Mile Chase

MCALLEN, Texas – A group of illegal immigrants stuffed into a pickup truck led authorities on a 160 mile chase that began near Laredo and ended just north of the San Antonio downtown area.  Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to

French President in Trouble, in Public and Private

French President in Trouble, in Public and Private

PARIS (AP) — Things can’t get much worse for French President Francois Hollande: The economy is lagging; his new government is already under fire; and his private life has just been exposed in a ravaging book by the former first

Wendy Davis Memoir: I Had 2 Abortions During 2nd Marriage

Wendy Davis Memoir: I Had 2 Abortions During 2nd Marriage

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis reveals in a new campaign memoir that she terminated two pregnancies for medical reasons in the 1990s, including one where the fetus had developed a severe brain abnormality. Davis writes

Why is the GOP Wave Suddenly Not A Wave?

If you follow election coverage as I do, a funny thing seems to have happened as we move from Summer into the Fall and on toward the November mid-terms. Suddenly, media outlet after media outlet is talking about the lack

O'Reilly Fires Back at 'Ridiculous' State Department

O'Reilly Fires Back at 'Ridiculous' State Department

On Friday, the Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” host Bill O’Reilly responded to State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf’s attacks on him for lacking “intelligence or class,” and using “sexist” and “personally offensive language.” O’Reilly argued that “on the

Krugman: GOP Wants to Push US Back to 1894

Krugman: GOP Wants to Push US Back to 1894

Thursday at a CUNY-TV special with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), economist and columnist for The New York Times, Paul Krugman, while discussing the U.S. Supreme Court’s “Hobby Lobby” decision, said the Republican Party’s “real goal is to push us back

Krauthammer: Rand Paul 'Hard to Take Seriously'

Krauthammer: Rand Paul 'Hard to Take Seriously'

Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)’s foreign policy “makes no sense” and that it was “hard to take [Paul] seriously” on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “He walks this line, he makes