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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 HeadlinesAmid 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 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 HOLYWOOD HEADLINES 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 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  The Michelle Williams-starrer will be released in France by TF1, while Entertainment One will release in the UK, Spain and Canada. 
Read complete article  The film adaptation of the classic novel is being written for the screen by Oscar winner Christopher Hampton. 
Read complete article  The Chinese company, led by Wang Zhonglei, will first distribute in China QED's upcoming WWII film "Fury," starring Brad Pitt and Shia Labeouf. 
Read complete article  The 35th edition of the event also unveiled the first 10 competition titles. 
Read complete article David Garrett's Mister Smith brokers deals for the studio's output across Europe, the Middle East and Africa including one with Samuel and Victor Hadida’s Metropolitan FilmExport. 
Read complete article  Film festival attendees continue to be drenched by rain, and movie starring older actors thrive at the market. 
Read complete article  The Cannes veteran discusses his most difficult acquisition, avoiding the fest craziness and why he won’t be calling Michael Lynton at 4 a.m. 
Read complete article  The movie is being directed by Frank Gladstone and boasts Christina Ricci, Rosie Perez and Craig Ferguson in its voice cast. 
Read complete article  Jeremy Saulnier’s revenge tale is eyeing a fall theatrical release. 
Read complete article MOVIE REVIEWS Guillaume Canet's drama, featuring Clive Owen, Mila Kunis, Marion Cotillard and Billy Crudup, revolves around a family divided by one brother being a cop, the other a criminal. 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  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 
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