NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton will get a chance to play his saxophone when the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz honors him with its Founder’s Award. The Monk Institute announced Monday that Clinton will receive the award
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is preparing to announce first-of-its-kind criminal charges Monday against Chinese military officials in an international cyber-espionage case, a government official said. Attorney General Eric Holder and other federal law enforcement officials were expected to
According to a senior official close to the White House, Israel’s continued “settlement” building is primarily to blame for the collapse of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Another senior official told The New York Times Thursday that those sentiments directly reflect President Obama’s
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Jim Miklaszewski said while he was a great general, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is not the type of leader for this situation and he needs to step down in light of his handling
Sunday on “Face the Nation.” CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett gilled White House chief of staff Denis McDonough about the Veterans Affairs waiting list scandal. When Garrett repeatedly asked why in three weeks the president has not
The Chinese official Xinhua News Agency published an incendiary article this morning titled: “Geithner Charges White House With Telling Him To Lie, But Fallout Muted.” Over the last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping is reported to have fired 183,000 Communist
Are concussions minor injuries not worthy of a public fuss or a scourge requiring a White House mind-meld meeting? The Obama Administration announced on Thursday the White House Healthy Kids and Safe Sports Concussion Summit, an event scheduled for May
On Thursday, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki told a Senate committee that he was “mad at hell” after hearing of allegations that the VA had been falsifying waiting lists for patients and that some 40 veterans had died as
Republican strategist Karl Rove suggested that he would like Congress to pass amnesty legislation during the lame-duck session of Congress, but he also said that immigration reform could get done “early next year.” President Barack Obama said that there were
The White House: In this week’s address, the President discusses actions to expand opportunity for more Americans, with or without the help of Republicans in Congress, including his Administration’s efforts to cut red tape for major transportation infrastructure projects. And
It has forever been perfectly fair game in prudent political discourse to demand that politicians seeking higher office reveal information about their physical fitness. Everyone remembers when Democrats and the press tried making an issue out of Ronald Reagan’s advanced
Just over a year ago, I called on Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to step down. Despite having said repeatedly that he had more than adequate resources to fix the host of problems in his Veterans’ Affairs department, nothing seems
— With the horrific Veterans Administration scandal seeming to widen by the day, CNN’s Jake Tapper grilled White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough over President Obama’s usual posture in matters involving scandal: indifference, no one held accountable, and calculated
On Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), and Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) should “seize” the moment on amnesty legislation and lead Republicans in passing a comprehensive immigration
Brutally honest and politically incorrect, this unofficial advice was given just before I retired from the US Army. My 30-year career was challenging but consisted mostly of garrison assignments typical of the Cold War. My retirement health challenges were smoothly
The NY Times could have taken advice from its own editorial board on how to handle an embarrassing gender pay gap issue. Instead they tried to downplay the issue, exactly as they had criticized the White House for doing a
Friday at the White House daily press briefing, ABC News chief White House correspondent Jon Karl grilled White House press secretary Jay Carney on the growing VA Hospital waiting line scandal. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Leading Republican Senators have taken another look at National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s initial account of the Benghazi attack in the wake of recently released documents, and have found that her story has “completely collapsed.” While most critics of Rice’s Sunday
Under pressure from outside groups, the White House is deciding to overturn part of the 1973 Helms Amendment which bans American money from being used to perform or promote abortion overseas, reports the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are lunching outside the White House and promoting government financed work projects that he says could be endangered if Congress does not act by the end of the summer.
Over the last year, polls have emerged showing that Americans–and the Millennial generation in particular–have lost their trust in government. This month a new poll of Republicans shows a continuation of that trend. A new Fox News poll finds that
On May 15th, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson indicated “she’s inclined to split the difference between Congress and the White House” in the lawsuit dealing with document requests about Operation Fast and Furious. According to Politico, Jackson said
A veteran BBC journalist who once referred to America’s Republican Party as “nutters” has come under fire after tweeting nasty comments about a Conservative Party Member of Parliament last night during the BBC’s debate show Question Time. Mantej Deol, a
On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Thursday, conservative commentator Mark Steyn reacted to an interview CNN’s Jake Tapper conducted with White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough over the falsified waitlists at Veterans Affairs hospitals that may have resulted in
On Thursday’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer offered an optimistic forecast for the GOP in the 2016 presidential elections. Krauthammer based on fatigue from President Barack Obama and overestimating the popularity of
