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Attention: in order to improve our site performance, we decided to move the Newsfeefds from Reuters to the "News Service". Heather Nova Live At John Lennon TributeWashington Post HeadlinesFAIRFIELD, Conn. — Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it’s fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren’t even more injuries. Read full article >>
Read complete article President Obama’s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists’ sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he uses his office as aggressively as anyone who’s held it; other times he seems unacquainted with the work of his own administration. Read full article >>
Read complete article CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch’s brew of cancer-causing chemicals. Read full article >>
Read complete article SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the letters, which were postmarked Tuesday in Spokane. Read full article >>
Read complete article Over the past week, the media have been afire with a surprising, unwarranted and unfair "controversy" over Angelina Jolie's announcement of her preventive double mastectomy, undertaken because without it she had an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer. Read full article >>
Read complete article Whatever else happens as a result of the multiple controversies that have engulfed the administration, one thing is clear: President Obama has failed to meet one of the most important goals he set out when he was first elected, which was to demonstrate that activist government could also be smart government. Read full article >>
Read complete article House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) wants to know "who's going to jail" over the IRS scandal. But ousted acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller says no laws were violated when the agency targeted conservative groups. Read full article >>
Read complete article The firestorm buffeting the Internal Revenue Service intensified Friday as lawmakers began what they promised would be an extensive effort to learn whether there was any political motivation or White House involvement in the agency’s recently acknowledged misdeeds. Read full article >>
Read complete article Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev won’t be indicted within the 30-day period prescribed under the Federal Speedy Trial Act but prosecutors said Friday they would ask for more time. Sunday marks 30 days since Tsarnaev was arrested following the April 15 twin bombing that killed three people and injured more than 260. Tsarnaev, 19, is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in the April 15 bombings. He could face the death penalty if convicted. Read full article >>
Read complete article The General Services Administration doled out cash awards to senior executives based on votes of confidence by colleagues who recognized their efforts at grooming talent and running “terrific and productive meetings,” a new report reveals. Read full article >>
Read complete article Slogging through a drizzly Rose Garden news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Obama took a break to ask for some rain protection. “I am going to go ahead and ask folks, why don’t we get a couple of Marines — they’re going to look good next to us — just because I’ve got a change of suits but I don’t know about our prime minister,” he said as two Marines appeared at the lecterns with umbrellas. “There we go. That’s good.” He gestured to the soggy press corps, adding, “You guys I’m sorry about.” Read full article >>
Read complete article EARLIER ON THE FIX: The worst week of Obama's presidency? Close, but no. The IRS scandal: 'horrible customer service' or political malfeasance? The impossibly complex world of campaign finance — in 1 chart Read full article >>
Read complete article The National Republican Senatorial Committee narrowly outraised the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the month of April, hauling in $3.56 million to the DSCC's $3.54 million. It's the first month the NRSC has won this cycle, though the difference was small. The NRSC said it ended the period with about $7 million in the bank, while the DSCC ended with $8.6 million in the bank. Read full article >>
Read complete article * Karen Handel is running for Senate. * House Ways and Means heard from the IRS. * Conservatives were irked by Obama's umbrella. * Flake got hit for his gun vote. Read full article >>
Read complete article It doesn't take a political genius to grasp that President Obama has just weathered one of the worst weeks of his time in office. But, sometimes a picture tells the story better than all the words we've written on it this week. Below is a chart produced by TargetPoint, a Republican consulting firm, using their National Dialogue Monitor to track national conversation on May 15 and 16. ("The National Dialogue Monitor tracks every time a politician, celebrity, organization, issue or corporation is mentioned across all media channels -- television, radio, newspapers, magazines, blogs, websites, and social networks," according to an explanation on the firm's website.) Read full article >>
Read complete article This item has been updated. Former Nevada Republican senator John Ensign has agreed to pay a $32,000 civil penalty to the Federal Election Commission to settle allegations that he took an illegal campaign contribution from his parents. Read full article >>
Read complete article It turns out the question that led Lois Lerner to disclose the IRS's wrongdoing was planted by none other than Lerner herself. Celia Roady, the lawyer whose question led Lerner to disclose the committee's wrongful targeting of conservative groups, said Friday that Lerner asked her to ask the question. Read full article >>
Read complete article President Obama opened up a bit about growing up without a father Friday, telling some troubled young dads that they can salvage their relationships with their children. During a visit to Baltimore's Center for Urban Families, Obama listened to stories from a father who struggled to find work to support his family and another who served time in jail. Read full article >>
Read complete article For the sixth time in his presidency, Barack Obama "won" our "Worst Week in Washington" award this week. "For a president who wanted to spend the week, and the weeks to come, talking immigration and budget, the events of the past seven days virtually ensure he won't be doing that anytime soon," we wrote in describing Obama's scandal-plagued week. Read full article >>
Read complete article The Internal Revenue Service has said that the extra scrutiny given to conservative groups was an attempt to deal with an influx of applications. But as the Chronicle of Philanthropy and Atlantic have said — and as Rep. Todd Young (R-Ind.) pointed out during today's hearing — that surge didn't happen until well after the targeting began. Read full article >>
Read complete article The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee again outraised its GOP counterpart in April, pulling in $5.4 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee's $5.1 million, according to a DCCC aide. Read full article >>
Read complete article Did the Internal Revenue Service "target" conservative groups for extra scrutiny? Or was it more a case of "horrible customer service"? Depends on who you ask. Friday's House Ways and Means Committee hearing into the scandal that erupted into public view one week ago was something of a semantics battle, with outgoing IRS head Steven T. Miller objecting to the term "targeting," a move Republican lawmakers weren't buying. Read full article >>
Read complete article Stop the presses! First lady Michelle Obama's bangs are history. The Hill reports that Obama sported a new look during her commencement address at Bowie State University Friday:
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Read complete article The White House announced Thursday that President Obama “appointed” Natalie Wyeth Earnest to be assistant secretary for public affairs at the Treasury Department and Gregory L. Parham as assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Agriculture. Read full article >>
Read complete article BALTIMORE — President Obama insisted Friday that he is focused on improving the lives of middle-class Americans, despite being buffeted in Washington by a trio of controversies that have threatened to distract him from his second-term agenda. Read full article >>
Read complete article HOLYWOOD HEADLINES Jeremy Saulnier’s revenge tale is eyeing a fall theatrical release. 
Read complete article  The Coen Brothers' competition film starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake presents an outstanding fictional take on the early 1960s folk music scene. 
Read complete article  Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner and Steve Carell add a few more quips in the latest teaser for the sequel. 
Read complete article He was considered one of his generation’s most talented directors. 
Read complete article  Irish-Belgian co-production "The Price of Desire" is about architect and designer Eileen Gray and her relationship with Le Corbusier. 
Read complete article  Derek Jacobi stars in the film, directed by Paul Schoolman. 
Read complete article  Industry players are frantically moving events indoors and off the beach, but cold and rain on the Croisette hasn't dampened the Cannes party spirit. 
Read complete article  China's top actress, who stars in the upcoming "X-Men: Days of Future Past," was named International Artist of the Year. 
Read complete article  The project will be directed by Andy Morahan and scripted and produced by Nicholas Sercombe. 
Read complete article  Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin and director Francis Lawrence attend a press event for the upcoming sequel. 
Read complete article  The company has acquired U.S. rights to "My Cross to Bear," which is being produced by Unclaimed Freight’s Randall Miller and Jody Savin. 
Read complete article  Sean Ellis' thriller, set in the Philippines, won the audience award for world dramatic cinema at this year's Sundance. 
Read complete article  Dutch director Mike van Diem won the 1998 foreign film Oscar for "Karakter." 
Read complete article  "The Crash Reel" focuses on the friendship and rivalry between Shaun White and Kevin Pierce. 
Read complete article  Sweden's iVast joins the director's follow up to "Pina" as a co-producer. 
Read complete article  Overseas, "Fast & Furious 6" scores the top opening day ever for Universal in the U.K. and Ireland; "The Great Gatsby" also starts rolling out overseas. 
Read complete article  An international event for first and second filmmakers named Qumra will launch March 2014, steered by newly-appointed artistic advisor and filmmaker Elia Suleiman. 
Read complete article  Due to weather, the private party will now take place in the ballroom at the Martinez hotel. 
Read complete article  Sierra/Affinity has sold distribution rights in more than 20 territories. 
Read complete article Jeremy Saulnier's talented but sophomoric low-budgeter straddles the divide between genre thriller and art piece with mixed results. 
Read complete article  The acclaimed director will be awarded the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for his efforts in promoting Indian cinema globally. 
Read complete article  Dominik's script was adapted from Joyce Carol Oates' fictionalized biography of the late starlet. 
Read complete article  Distributors in Spain, Japan and Brazil take Berlin Festival winner "Child's Pose" while Russian and Mexican buyers board German film award champ "Oh Boy." 
Read complete article TLA takes David Cholewa's genre film for U.K., France and Anne Zohra Berrached's gay drama for multiple European territories. 
Read complete article  Sahamongkolfilm International's 3D action vehicle, which will be the highest budget Thai film ever made, has also been sold throughout Aisa. 
Read complete article MOVIE REVIEWS Paul Wright's Scottish psycho-thriller is a veritable "Beasts of the Northern Wild." Read complete article  In her latest Film Files column, Sharon Swart visits Worldview Entertainment's bash and Gaumont's windy party, where WME agent Jerome Duboz says: "the market feels energized." Read complete article Documentarian Mark Cousins excerpts 53 films from 25 nations to investigate the various ways childhood has been depicted in film. Read complete article  Carina Lau and Chen Kun star in Flora Lau's melancholy drama about a Real Housewife of Hong Kong and her personal driver, both facing crises. Read complete article  The only Russian film in Cannes' Official Selection this year is an apocalyptic comedy from debutant director Taisa Igumentseva. Read complete article  Mathieu Amalric plays the ideal analyst to Benicio Del Toro's Blackfoot patient in the competition film exalting the work of ethno-psychoanalyst Georges Devereau Read complete article  Veteran Hong Kong director Peter Chan returns with a familiar rags to riches story spanning 30 years and beginning in 1980s China. Read complete article  Sebastien Pilote's family drama unfolds like "King Lear" with sheep in rural Quebec. Read complete article  The fight over a Cape Cod wind farm makes for a doc consumed with bickering. Read complete article  Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu returns to the theme of children living apart from their families. Read complete article  Hernan Goldrid's cat-and-mouse thriller revolves around a law professor investigating a murder on campus. Read complete article  Jeff L. Lieberman's documentary concerns the little-known Jewish communities among Nigeria's Igbo people. Read complete article  Italian director Roberto Minervini completes his documentary-style Texas trilogy with this intimate portrait of a goat farmer's 14-year-old daughter. Read complete article  Beth and George Gage's documentary depicts the legal battle precipitated by a young protestor's act of civil disobedience. Read complete article  Marcel Ophuls ("The Sorrow and the Pity") reflects on his life and career in this first documentary feature in nearly two decades. Read complete article 
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