Police have recovered a body of a man from the rubble of a terraced house in Nottinghamshire after a suspected gas explosion. Yahoo! News UK & Ireland – Latest World News & UK News Headlines
Read More...Posts Tagged House
Top adviser defends White House in IRS scandal
By admin on Sunday, May 19th, 2013 | Comments Off
A top Obama administration adviser said the White House did not know about IRS targeting. USATODAY.com Feed
Read More...Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House
By admin on Sunday, May 19th, 2013 | Comments Off
Controversies dominated this past week’s political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR’s Mara Liasson. Politics
Read More...Outgoing Acting IRS Director Grilled By House Lawmakers
By admin on Saturday, May 18th, 2013 | Comments Off
The House Ways and Means Committee became the first oversight panel in Congress to weigh in on the IRS tax-exempt group controversy on Friday morning. Politics
Read More...The Royal Opera House: Nabucco
By admin on Saturday, May 18th, 2013 | Comments Off
Plácido Domingo, one of the most celebrated talents of our time, is making a major role debut. This is a rare chance to see a genre-defining masterwork, containing some of the greatest choral music ever written, along with some wonderful arias and… Rotten Tomatoes: Movies
Read More...What A Week: White House Rattled By Controversy
By admin on Saturday, May 18th, 2013 | Comments Off
NPR’s Ari Shapiro joins host Scott Simon to talk about the Obama administration’s week. The president was buffeted by revelations that the IRS had targeted Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status and that the Justice Department had subpoenaed reporter phone records. On top of that, Republicans continue to allege that the White House engaged in [...]
Read More...House group reaches deal on immigration bill
By admin on Friday, May 17th, 2013 | Comments Off
A bipartisan group of House members announced they had reached a deal “in principle.” USATODAY.com Feed
Read More...House Republicans make repealing Obamacare an annual tradition
By admin on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 | Comments Off
In what has become an annual tradition, the Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday voted again to fully repeal the federal health care law passed by Democrats and signed by President Barack Obama in 2010. The House first voted for full repeal in January 2011 when Republicans took control of the chamber, and again in [...]
Read More...Carney: White House counsel told of IRS review
By admin on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 | Comments Off
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House spokesman Jay Carney says the IRS inspector general notified the White House counsel’s office during the week of April 22 that it was completing a review of the IRS office in Cincinnati that targeted conservative political groups for special examination. Carney says the counsel’s office was not given details about [...]
Read More...Under-fire White House releases Benghazi ‘talking points’ emails
By admin on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 | Comments Off
Under heavy political pressure, the White House on Wednesday released 100 pages of internal Obama Administration emails in which senior officials debated what to tell Americans about the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. For months, Republicans have charged that the White House watered down the original CIA-crafted talking points about the attack [...]
Read More...