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Sunday May 19th 2013

Entertainment and Living

Denmark wins Eurovision on ABBA’s turf with folksy ballad

Denmark’s folksy ballad wins Eurovision »

MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won Eurovision on Saturday before an [...]

Politics

Los Angeles mayoral race narrows, latest opinion poll shows »

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - City Councilman Eric Garcetti leads City Controller Wendy Greuel by 7 percentage [...]

Typical: MSNBC’s Bashir, Reid Try to Blame Bush for IRS Scandal »

Here's a classic from the Obama playbook: Whenever you're in trouble, find a way to blame George [...]

Fareed Zakaria Howler: ‘Obama’s World View is Rooted in American »

"President Obama’s world view is rooted in American exceptionalism." So astonishingly said [...]

News and Analysis

Investigators examine fractured rail in »

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (Reuters) - A fractured segment of track has been found on the rail line of a Metro-North passenger train from New York that [Read More]

Technology and Science

New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft »

SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is set to [...]

Google’s wearable Glass gadget: cool or creepy? »

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google staged four discussions [...]

Exclusive: EU cites Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE for trade »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe's top trade official for the [...]

NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday after the plane's landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said. [Read More]

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Opinion

Dem lawmakers buoyed by Obama response to trio of controversies

House Democrats believe the president has done a good job "stabilizing" three controversies that could threaten their 2014 prospects.

Eyes on Rand

It's easy to get caught up in the firestorm — Benghazi, the IRS, the fishing expedition the Department of Justice carried out within The Associated Press. But political junkies shouldn't miss what is developing with the all-but-declared candidacy of Sen. Rand Paul and his tour of the early presidential nominating states.On Monday he will be with [...]

Becerra is holdout on House immigration group’s ‘agreement in principle’

“I keep saying you’re not going to like my answer. We’re meeting," the California Democrat told The Hill. Read more...

Pope Francis condemns the cult of greed, Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan support it

In recent remarks that were stunning and profound, Pope Francis harshly criticized what he called "the cult of money" and condemned what he called the "dictatorship" of economies that are socially unjust and morally unfair.These remarks, reported in The Daily Telegraph and highlighted on the Drudge Report (but not in major American media) suggest [...]

Obama’s ‘New Superior Man’

“The patina of high-mindedness the president enjoyed is gone ... Something big has shifted.” — Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2013The spookiest thing of all perhaps is that with the overnight rise of Obama from nowhere in Chicago to the Oval Office is the uptick again in the world of global "New Superior Man." Granted, it [...]