Posted in Politics on Apr 15th, 2011
Rev. Jesse Jackson, political activist and the founder and leader of the Rainbow PUSHÂ Coalition, is being accused of harassing a gay ex-staffer, forcing him to partake in raunchy activities.
Posted in Politics on Apr 11th, 2011
Laurent Gbagbo, the self-declared president of Ivory Coast, was arrested Monday, sources said, potentially ending a civil war that has claimed hundreds of lives in the cocoa-producing West African nation.
Posted in Politics on Apr 9th, 2011
Democrats and Republicans narrowly averted a partial shutdown of the federal government Friday night, agreeing on a budget deal and a short-term funding extension little more than an hour before the clock struck midnight and time ran out.
Posted in Politics on Mar 26th, 2011
Geraldine Ferraro, the Queens congresswoman who made history as the first woman to serve on a major party’s presidential ticket, died Saturday. She was 75.
Posted in Politics on Feb 15th, 2011
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be tried on charges of sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power, an Italian judge ruled Tuesday.
Posted in Politics on Feb 11th, 2011
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down Friday and handed over power to the military, his nearly three decades of iron rule ended by a groundswell of popular protests that began January 25.
Posted in Politics on Feb 10th, 2011
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stubbornly clung to the presidency late Thursday night, refusing in a highly anticipated speech to step down by saying he does not take orders from anyone outside Egypt.
Posted in Politics on Feb 10th, 2011
Republican Rep. Christopher Lee of New York resigned his House seat Wednesday after a report that the married congressman had tried to meet a woman on Craigslist
Posted in Politics on Jan 6th, 2011
Elizabeth Edwards left everything to her children, with no mention of her estranged husband, John Edwards, in her will.
Posted in Politics on Dec 16th, 2010
A federal grand jury has indicted the imprisoned former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, on new charges including racketeering, extortion, bribery and filing false tax returns, authorities said.
Posted in Politics on Dec 7th, 2010
Elizabeth Edwards, the estranged wife of 2004 vice presidential candidate and former North Carolina senator John Edwards, died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 61
Posted in Politics on Nov 21st, 2010
Talk about going rogue.
Former First Lady Barbara Bush set Republican party loyalty aside and said what she really thinks about former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin.
Gov. Martin O’Malley has won a second term in Annapolis, handing Republican former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. a second consecutive statewide defeat, the Associated Press is reporting. But Ehrlich spokesman Henry Fawell said the AP’s call was “premature” and that the campaign remains “cautiously optimistic.”
Posted in Politics on Sep 27th, 2010
Three Democratic sources close to Rahm Emanuel tell CNN that the White House chief of staff informed senior colleagues he is all but certain to run for mayor of Chicago, and will leave the White House to take the final exploratory steps.
Posted in Politics on Sep 17th, 2010
Baltimore State’s Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy conceded her long-held position Friday afternoon to primary challenger and fellow Democrat Gregg Bernstein, who won by a narrow margin of votes.
