If California GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari wants any chance at winning the general election against incumbent Democrat Jerry Brown later this year, he will have to persuade a sizable chunk of the state’s Independent and Democratic voters to vote
A Chinese football fan has reportedly died after spending days awake watching the opening games of the World Cup in a marathon TV session. The 25-year-old man from Suzhou, a city of eastern China, stayed up “for days” to watch
NATAL, Brazil (AP) — Jurgen Klinsmann speaks with pragmatism. He books his airline tickets with hope. The U.S. coach caused a stir in the lead-up to soccer’s championship when he said that “I think for us now, talking about winning
German President Joachim Gauck said the German army should be more involved abroad. After WWII, Germany has been reluctant to be involved in any mission that requires troops. Germany is America’s most important ally on the European continent and the
Lionel Messi will be attempting to cement his legacy as an all-time great when Argentina tackle Bosnia-Hercegovina in their World Cup Group F opener in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. Trophies, plaudits and individual honours have rained down upon the
BERLIN (Reuters) – The Alternative for Germany (AfD) failed to make as big a splash in European elections last month as its eurosceptic counterparts in France and Britain. But that may be about to change. Less than a month after the vote,
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — The heat and humidity of the jungle made its mark on the first World Cup match to be played in the Amazon rainforest, and so did Mario Balotelli. With players from both sides slowing as the
The EU’s energy commissioner has threatened politicians and journalists who campaign against his eco-policies, accusing them of stirring “anti-EU sentiment” and warning them that their opposition to his EU energy-savings directives will “not be taken lightly.” Günther Oettinger, a German
Prime Minister David Cameron appears to be losing his grip on tactics in his fight against the appointment of euro-zealot Jean Claude Juncker to the top job at the European Commission. Today saw the latest effort by the prime minister
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant who has been recovering in Germany after five years as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan, returned to the United States early Friday to continue his medical treatment. A Pentagon spokesman, Navy
PARIS (Reuters) – It’s not a good sign when the leader of a G7 nation feels the need to state his country still matters. That is precisely what French President Francois Hollande did at a meeting of European Union leaders
MUNICH, Germany, June 12 (UPI) — The copyright on Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf will expire at the end of 2015, and German legal scholars are debating whether the book should be studied or suppressed. The book of Hitler’s philosophical
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, whose release from captivity under the Taliban has sparked an uproar among those concerned that freeing five high-ranking Taliban officials for his freedom puts Americans in danger, made have exhibited signs of mental illness before joining the
The Conservative Party, and more notably Prime Minister David Cameron, is set to fall on the wrong side of German Chancellor Angela Merkel after it emerged that their European Parliamentary grouping has grown beyond control and allied with one of
Vice-President Joe Biden has insulted Germany, the EU’s biggest economy and America’s most important ally in Europe, with a gratuitous and ignorant accusation that the German people are hostile towards immigrants and “xenophobic.” Offering no evidence, Biden told an audience
The Islamist terrorists that were responsible for attacking the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and killing four including Ambassador Chris Stevens were overheard by multiple US spy agencies communicating by means of State Department cell phones they seized during the
USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann said to not expect the United States to win the World Cup in Brazil. “You have to be realistic. Every year we are getting stronger,” Klinsmann told reporters in Brazil. “We don’t look at ourselves as
Wednesday at the House Armed Service Committee hearing, Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) grilled Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel over why no one has talked to U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. When Hagel said the delay was due to his medical condition
In response to Brat Wins in Virginia – Cantor Goes Down!: Congratulations to Dave Brat, who will now find himself under sustained attack from both Republican and Democrat elements of the Democrat-leaning but “bipartisan” (or really, trans-partisan) Beltway machine. This
World Cup 2014 in Brazil has its very own psychic animal! A 25-year-old loggerhead turtle named Cabeção, or Big Head, picked Brazil to beat Croatia in the opening game on Thursday. From The Associated Press: At the Praia do Forte
The government of North Korea has responded with signature bombast to the news that the United Nations is opening an office in South Korea dedicated to studying and combating human rights abuses within North Korea, warning that the challenge “to
After that meeting in Sweden, it looks like David Cameron can’t even win a battle in a phoney war. It turns out the prime minister didn’t even raise the issue of Jean-Claude Juncker at a meeting of the leaders of
German officials will visit Tehran on Sunday for talks on Iran’s nuclear drive, top Iranian negotiator and deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday. The meeting will follow similar discussions with American, Russian and French negotiators this week ahead
Cybercrime is costing businesses worldwide nearly half a trillion dollars a year, with the UK particularly badly hit. The increasingly problematic situation also has an impact on 150,000 jobs in the EU, according to new research published by McAfee and
FIFA President Sepp Blatter believes the long European soccer season is causing some of the world’s top players to get hurt before the World Cup. He said that it’s “too long a season and always the same players are always
NBC News reports that U.S. officials have stated that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was examined at the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, after his release from the Taliban, is in decent physical shape. He has no permanent physical
Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Provisional IRA, is now the most popular party in Ireland. A party once considered so toxic that the voices of its members, including party leader Gerry Adams, were barred by law from television
Indiana treasurer Richard Mourdock warned that the possibility of U.S. bankruptcy will push the country the way of Nazi Germany during a speech on Saturday. In the 1930’s during the Great Depression and under the pressure of the Treaty of
European Union officials have told a Lebanese newspaper they do not believe the Algerian-French gunman who allegedly murdered three people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and seriously injured another acted alone, according to a report in the Jerusalem Post.
As the world commemorates the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the great battle that all but secured the liberation of Western Europe, it is vital to look back at the all-important “special relationship” that that developed between the United States
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is in stable condition six days after being released from Taliban captivity, but he still has not spoken to his parents. According to Fox News, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said, “His health continues to
The greatest amphibious assault in world history took place seventy years ago on the shores of Normandy, France. The incredible story of how Allied soldiers, led by the United States, Great Britain, and Canada, boldly invaded German-occupied France in Operation
In response to the shooting on May 24 at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, the German interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, has said there will be closer cooperation between European Union states against fighters returning from Syria, after the suspected
It takes nothing away from the courage and valor of the American troops who landed at Normandy on D-Day to say that their ultimate victory was a forgone conclusion. Yes, US GI’s still had to fight it out, all the
It is poignant and poetic that Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004, just a day before the 60th anniversary of D-Day–the day Reagan helped re-instantiate into our collective consciousness. Indeed, on D-Day Minus One, June 5, 1944, the ships
A Pentagon spokesman said that they are reviewing the authenticity of a video released to the media by the Taliban showing Bowe Bergdahl being turned over to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. “We are aware of the video allegedly released by
Members of right-wing Austria student fraternities known as Burschenschaften will march in Vienna this evening. Although they say they are politically neutral, the Burschenschaften have ties with the eurosceptic Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), which took almost 20 per cent of
Vladimir Putin and his allies in eastern Ukraine must think all their birthdays have come at once: Ursula von der Leyen, the German defence minister, has announced that from now on the German army will be more family-friendly, with increased
Yuri Kochiyama, a political and social activist who triggered reparations being paid to Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II, died in Berkeley, California on Sunday at the age of 93. Kochiyama’s most famous moment came when she held
Intermittent and unreliable wind and solar power pose a serious energy security risk and threaten to undermine the reliability of energy generation in the UK, according to a new report. The paper published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation says
