Jul 02 McConnell Gets a Rival, Kentucky Senate Contest Gets Interesting Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images It might not be star-studded, and it's very early in the cycle, but Kentucky's Senate contest just got a lot more interesting. Kentucky Secretary of State Alison… Continue reading
Jun 27 Hey, Batter Batter! Press Defeats Congress in Charity Softball Game Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Amy Walter, co-captains of their teams, shake hands before the Congressional Women's Softball Game. All images courtesy of Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com. There were a lot of great things about the Bad News Babes victory… Continue reading
Jun 12 Could Congress Learn From Our Rowdy Neighbors Up North? The marble halls of Parliament in Ottawa, Canada. Photo by Christina Bellantoni. OTTAWA, Canada | It's not every day you hear politicians bicker about which party is being "mollycoddled." Earlier this week, I was lucky enough to get a… Continue reading
Jun 10 Lawmakers Debate Leaks As National Security Whistleblower Reveals His Identity Edward Snowden speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. Photo by The Guardian via Getty Images "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong." That statement came from Edward… Continue reading
Jun 04 Christie Faces Big Decision After Lautenberg’s Death New Jersey GOP Gov. Chris Christie. Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images. Sen. Frank Lautenberg's death Monday sets up a series of big decisions for New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie and potentially far reaching political consequences. Lautenberg had… Continue reading
May 24 Does Technology Offer Anyone a Big Break in Entertainment Industry? Changes in technology have opened up new opportunities in the entertainment industry, offering platforms for the most scrappy or eclectic of musicians, filmmakers and other creative artists. That's the argument of a new book, "The End of Big: How the… Continue reading
May 24 Boehner: House Will Produce Its Own Immigration Legislation House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has been saying for months it's up to the Senate to get the ball rolling on a major overhaul of the nation's… Continue reading
May 14 Obama Ponders Time Left in Office as Probes Pile Up President Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House Monday night after arriving from New York City where he attended two Democratic fundraisers. Photo by Pete Marovich/Pool/Getty Images. "My intentions over the next three-and-a-half years are… Continue reading
May 06 High Stakes for South Carolina Special EmbedVideo(6383, 482, 304); This video was shot and edited by Terence Burlij. Voters in the coastal 1st Congressional district of South Carolina will decide on Tuesday whether the state's former governor, Mark Sanford, deserves a second chance in… Continue reading
Apr 19 One Year Later: What Happened to #stopKony? EmbedVideo(6239, 482, 304); The Daily Download's Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz discuss the #stopKony movement's effectiveness with PBS NewsHour's Christina Bellantoni. The Kony 2012 video skyrocketed to almost 100 million views on YouTube in the course of one… Continue reading