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President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday. Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts....
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The U.S. military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats. A spokesman for the Guantanamo Bay prison says that officials have also blocked access to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter through military computer networks because of the threat. Photo:...
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The Senate Finance Committee has launched an investigation into the improper targeting of Tea Party groups Lawmakers are getting their first chance to question the former head of the Internal Revenue Service, the man who ran the agency when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups. Some of the questions on Tuesday will be...
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The new federal health care law was one of the defining issues of the 2010 midterm elections that were dominated by Republicans, and the party’s leader in the Senate said Sunday he expects “Obamacare” to drive voters once again next year. “I don’t know what the issues will be next year. If I were...
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Scandals Shmandles! Obama rockin a high approval rating. Keep trying rethugs. New CNN/ORC poll has @BarackObama’s approval rating: 53% approve/45% disapprove. In April 51% approved.
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Videla was serving life imprisonment for human rights violations, including kidnap, torture and murder, during what the dictatorship called “the Dirty War” against opponents. As an army general, Videla led the March 1976 coup that toppled the government of Maria Estela Martinez de Peron. Under the regime, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared, presumed dead,...
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A published report says a video that appears to show Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine is being shopped around by a group of men allegedly involved in the drug trade. There was no way to verify the video, however, which was the subject of a report on Gawker on Thursday and then...
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The leaders of the panel that independently reviewed the attack last year in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans have agreed to testify publicly before Congress to counter what they consider unfounded criticism of their work. In a letter to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, veteran diplomat Thomas Pickering says he and...
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Anthony Weiner’s new campaign manager for his nascent mayoral bid is a recent Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee adviser who spent four months working on a failed Staten Island congressional race last year, two sources familiar with the hire told POLITICO. Danny Kedem, who worked on Mark Murphy’s congressional run in New York’s 11th District...
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A majority of Michiganians supports gay marriage and broadening rights for homosexuals, a dramatic reversal from just a few years ago, according to a statewide poll released Tuesday to The Detroit News and WDIV-TV Channel 4. Support for same-sex marriage has increased to 56.8 percent, up 12.5 percentage points from last year — movement...
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Morning Joe opened the show on Tuesday with a roundtable discussion about the Department of Justice seizing the Associated Press’ phone records — and was joined by Kathleen Carroll, the AP’s executive editor. Arguing that the move went beyond just incompetence, Joe Scarborough charged it was “sinister.” It’s “clearly distressing,” Carroll said, to know...
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Jon Stewart mercilessly tore into the Obama administration tonight over the revelation that the Internal Revenue Service specifically targeted Tea Party groups for scrutiny. Stewart slammed the government’s lack of “managerial competence” and said that thanks to this scandal, conspiracy theorists how have a level of vindication they’ve never had before. After briefly responding...
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Rachel Maddow tonight covered the new big scandal out of the Obama administration. No, not that one. Or that one. The scandal at hand is the revelation that Tea Party groups were singled out for scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service. And unlike other Obama administration scandals, this one is being taken seriously by...
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A co-author of the Heritage Foundation’s new immigration report, which right-wing media have hyped despite even conservative criticism about its methodology, has long promoted inflammatory theories about the relationship between race and IQ in Hispanic immigrants, an unsurprising fact given his ties to extremist anti-immigrant organizations. Dylan Matthews of The Washington Post’s Wonkblog reported...
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Rachel Maddow tonight tore into Republican outrage over Benghazi as the latest example of conservative conspiracy theories seeping in the mainstream, after conspiracies about the Boston bombing and the government stockpiling bullets made their way to the halls of Congress. Maddow said the GOP is trying to sell Benghazi as perhaps the biggest Obama...
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Jon Stewart tonight took on today’s big Congressional hearing on Benghazi, and specifically on how it’s become the latest way Fox News has gone all-out in covering a potential Obama administration scandal while wondering where the rest of the media is. But Stewart pointed out that no one else is quite on board because...
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford, looking for redemption in a political career that was sidelined by scandal, has won the vacant South Carolina congressional seat, the AP reports. Republican Sanford defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the state’s 1st Congressional District. Colbert Busch is the sister of political satirist Stephen Colbert. At one time, Sanford...
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Connected China is an interactive tracker of the people, organizations and relationships that form China’s elite power structure. Photo: China Premier Li Keqiang seen through a camera during a conference. REUTERS/Jason Lee reuters
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The US Senate has passed a bill that could end tax-free shopping on the Internet for many shoppers. The Senate voted 69 to 27 Monday to pass the bill, sending it to the House where it faces opposition from some lawmakers who regard it as a tax increase. Under current law, states can only...
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Morning Joe kicked off the week with a look at the NRA convention and Wayne LaPierre‘s speech. Questioning how so many people showed up to see LaPierre, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle in particular criticized his message and his approach — contending that he’s driven by fear of losing his power. Barnicle was especially...
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