Widows, children and grandchildren of many of those slain by Italy’s various mafias are rallying in Naples to protest organized crime.
An Italian priest who runs a group called “Libera” (Free) organizes the march and helps citizens fight organized crime.
The annual march on the first day of spring drew thousands of participants Saturday along Naples’ waterfront.
Three days of intense fighting between police and insurgents in a wooded area of Dagestan ended Saturday with five officers and about a dozen militants left dead, Russian officials said.
Regional Interior Ministry spokesman Mark Tolchinsky said 14 insurgents were killed, but the Interfax news agency cited the Federal Security Service as saying 12 died.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee comfortably outraised its Republican counterpart in February by more than $1 million, a signal that Republicans still have a lot of work to do to catch up to the Democratic fundraising machine.
The National Republican Congressional Committee raised $2.
Watching the various spats among conservatives, it’s difficult to tell whether one is witnessing a series of lively political disagreements or an episode of “Monday Night Raw.”
Liberals have shown no small measure of delight in this fracas, and understandably so. Taking political advantage of conservative fratricide makes perfect sense, as it’s the strategic execution of [...]
Three days after Barack Obama became president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made a prediction: Democrats would make big mistakes that would play into the Republicans’ hands going into the 2010 midterm elections.
There are still 20 months until the midterm elections, but McConnell’s words about Democratic mistakes are starting to ring true.
A U.S. official says Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is gaining momentum to become NATO’s new secretary general.
The U.S. official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of negotiations.
The official says the United States has not yet decided who should replace outgoing NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, but says consensus is [...]
President Barack Obama’s aides say the administration will work with Congress on his budget proposal, but energy independence is not subject to wheeling and dealing.
“The president is prepared to negotiate on this budget with folks like those at this table … and the president’s been very clear about this, as has our budget director: We [...]
Armed with new deficit estimates, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad is pressing to cut up to $28 billion, or almost half, of the increased appropriations sought by President Barack Obama for domestic and foreign aid programs in the coming year.
For this reason, the North Dakota Democrat still faces resistance from his own party.
The US Supreme Court takes up a closely watched case on Tuesday examining when a documentary film may violate election law and become an illegal form of campaign advocacy.
The justices are being asked to decide whether the FECs action was unconstitutional government censorship that violated the documentary producers free speech rights.
The Obama administration is hoping it has finally come up with the right formula to resolve the nation’s worst banking crisis in 70 years.
The goal is to buy as much as $1 trillion in bad assets that are weighing on banks’ balance sheets, stifling their ability to resume more normal lending to families and businesses.
