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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 HeadlinesIn early 2010, an Internal Revenue Service team in Cincinnati began noticing a stream of applications from groups with political-sounding names, setting in motion a dragnet aimed at separating legitimate tax-exempt groups from those working to get candidates elected. Read full article >>
Read complete article Up to one in five American youngsters — about 7 million to 12 million, by one estimate — experience a mental health disorder each year, according to a new report billed as the first comprehensive look at the mental health status of children in the country. Read full article >>
Read complete article White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday that the question of whether any laws were broken as part of the IRS scandal is “irrelevant” to the fact that the agency’s actions were wrong and unjustifiable. Read full article >>
Read complete article After Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said, “The case is submitted,” on March 27, the justices of the Supreme Court presumably took a private vote and now are at work writing the opinions that will decide the fate of same-sex marriage in the United States. Read full article >>
Read complete article Amid a trio of controversies that has put the White House on defense, Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to the President Obama, appeared on all five Sunday news shows, defending the administration against attacks from Republicans. Read full article >>
Read complete article John Edwards was right. There are two Americas. In one America, the events of the past 10 days have exposed the true colors of President Obama and his administration. From edited talking points about the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, to the secret seizure of phone records of Associated Press reporters to the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, a single message has emerged: This is the inevitable result of government run amok. Read full article >>
Read complete article President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities. Read full article >>
Read complete article Even as his administration has faced intense scrutiny over a trio of controversies, President Obama's approval rating hasn't suffered, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll released Sunday. Fifty-three percent of Americans said they approve of the job the president is doing, while 45 percent said they disapprove. That's virtually unchanged from an early April survey in which Obama's approval/disapproval split was 51 percent to 47 percent. Read full article >>
Read complete article Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that the Obama administration "kind of made up a tale" about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that claimed the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Read full article >>
Read complete article Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that he fully supports investigating leaks that put American lives at risk. "What I am supportive of is investigating national security leaks that endanger Americans around the world," McConnell said on NBC News's "Meet The Press." Read full article >>
Read complete article The Senate's top Republican predicted Sunday morning that President Obama's health care law will be the biggest issue of the 2014 midterm elections. "I don't know what the issues will be next year. If I were predicting what's likely to be the biggest issue in the 2014 election, I think it would be Obamacare," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on NBC News's "Meet The Press." "I think it's coming back big-time." Read full article >>
Read complete article White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday the question of whether any laws were broken in the Internal Revenue Scandal is "irrelevant" to the fact that the agency's actions were wrong and unjustifiable. Read full article >>
Read complete article If there's a frog in the bucket, someone is having waffles on Sunday. So, so true. Read full article >>
Read complete article SARGODHA, Pakistan -- As I reached the polling station, ready to cast my vote here in my hometown after a 24-hour trip home from the U.S., where I'm in college, my biggest concern was not rigged elections or standing in a long line in scorching heat but simply coming out of the place alive. Read full article >>
Read complete article President Obama will deliver a speech Thursday at the National Defense University in which he will address how he intends to bring his counterterrorism policies, including the drone program and the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in line with the legal framework he promised after taking office. Read full article >>
Read complete article FAIRFIELD, 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 HOLYWOOD HEADLINES The first project from the group will be a feature film version of classic children's cartoon Maya the Bee. 
Read complete article  "I hope I’m not guilty of a horrifying amount of megalomania," says the director, who talks working with Alec Baldwin and meeting Russian billionaires in the Palais men's room. 
Read complete article  "Seduced and Abandoned" director James Toback talks to THR about making his fest doc, and "Inside Llewyn Davis" has its world premiere. 
Read complete article  Novelist, screenwriter and cinematographer S. Craig Zahler will make his directorial debut with the film which stars Jennifer Carpenter and Timothy Olyphant; Magnolia takes U.S. rights. 
Read complete article  Universal Pictures International takes U.K. and Irish distribution rights to the project based on the British West End hit play by Laura Wade. 
Read complete article  Paramount Pictures and its two co-producers unveiled their first official Chinese recruit for the fourth installment of the franchise. 
Read complete article  The actress/screenwriter relays the story of how she finally found success with Hollywood during the senior convocation at her alma mater. 
Read complete article  In her latest Film Files column, Sharon Swart visits THR's Martinez hotel soiree, appraises the "Hunger Games" beachside bash and catches up with Adrien Brody, who says: "This is a vacation, so to speak.” 
Read complete article  Star Oscar Isaac draws the loudest applause and shouts of "bravo" during the standing ovation. 
Read complete article  The actor is currently in Moscow prepping a film set in the capital. 
Read complete article  China Film Group vice president Zhang Qiang had all of his luggage stolen from his rented Cote d'Azur apartment, leading the senior exec to tweet: “This film festival is not worth mentioning!” 
Read complete article  Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake walked the red carpet. 
Read complete article David Linde, Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith and "Avatar" actor Stephen Lang will appear at the December event, which is tied to the Dubai film festival. 
Read complete article  The Coen brothers and Justin Timberlake deflect off-the-wall questions as the movie is unveiled. 
Read complete article  The J.J. Abrams tentpole came in slightly ahead of his 2009 film in North America; overseas, the 3D pic is narrowly bested by "The Great Gatsby." 
Read complete article  In "Two Days, One Night," the actress will play a woman trying to save her job. 
Read complete article  More than 200 projects from outside North America are looking for buyers as international productions look to challenge Hollywood dominance. 
Read complete article  James Toback and Alec Baldwin -- along with Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain -- show what it's like to bring a project to the Cannes. 
Read complete article  Writer-director Shana Betz helmed the autobiographical tale, which is the first film from Paquin's production company. 
Read complete article  Fox International Productions is producing "Rico, Oskar and the Pasta Detectives," but also German teen comedy "Playing Doctor." 
Read complete article The freshly-opened purpose built studio and production financier said it is also planning to expand its physical studios. 
Read complete article  The film, which stars John Malkovich, will be released in late 2013. 
Read complete article  UPDATED: Michael Barker and Tom Bernard's specialty unit is a natural fit for Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's new film, which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last Friday. 
Read complete article  Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and China's Fundamental Films will co-produce and distribute the titles, at least one of which will be shot in China. 
Read complete article  Josh Waller directed the film about a woman fighting for her life that had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. 
Read complete article MOVIE REVIEWS Singapore director Anthony Chen’s autobiographical debut feature overdoses on understatement. Read complete article  Guillaume Canet's drama, featuring Clive Owen, Mila Kunis and Marion Cotillard, is an overstuffed tale of family and crime in 1974 New York. Read complete article  Newcomer Amit Kumar makes a splash directing an artful genre piece set in a Mumbai downpour. Read complete article  Léa Seydoux and Tahar Rahim are two blue-collar workers at a nuclear power plant in France who fall in lust. Read complete article James Toback and Alec Baldwin -- along with Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain -- show what it's like to bring a project to the Cannes. Read complete article  Cult veteran director Alejandro Jodorowsky revisits his childhood in his first feature in two decades. Read complete article  Dutch writer-director Alex van Warmerdam unleashes a cultish group of evil intruders on an upper middle class family in this Cannes competition entry. Read complete article  Frank Pavich’s enjoyable documentary revisits a legendary unmade 1970s project by cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky. Read complete article  Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's follow-up to "Gangs of Wasseypur" is a dark kidnapping tale. Read complete article  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 Taisia 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 
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