At a September 13 Monitor breakfast, FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey and president Matt Kibbe discussed the potential Republican House majority and addressed recent criticism of the tea party's diversity.
Exposure to smoke and toxins from cooking fires is blamed for the deaths of millions of women and children each year. A public-private partnership, announced by Hillary Clinton Tuesday, is on a global clean cookstove mission.
Nonprofit groups, which are not supposed to be primarily political, are becoming big players in midterm elections, in part because of the anonymity they afford donors.
After the shooting death of an El Diario intern, a front-page editorial in the paper asked the leaders of organized crime to tell the publication what it should or should not publish.
AP - President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, plans to leave the White House at the end of the year, a move that comes as the administration struggles to show an anxious public it's making progress on the economy.
AP - Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort by Democrats and the White House to lift the ban on gays from serving openly in the military, voting unanimously against advancing a major defense policy bill that included the provision.
AP - The mayor and former city manager of Bell were led away in handcuffs Tuesday, charged with six other officials with taking more than $5.5 million from the working-class suburb in a scandal that triggered nationwide outrage and calls for more transparency in government.
A Yemeni diplomat who has spoken to military commanders on the scene told ABC News there was no confirmation so far that American-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is at the location in South Yemen where a military operation continues. Yemeni officials said earlier today they believed Awlaki was near a village where thousands of civilians have fled their homes in the wake of ongoing fighting between government forces and a group of suspected al Qaeda militants and leaders with whom Awlaki was believed to be hiding.
There was nothing alarming in the behavior of Denver Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley in the weeks before his apparent suicide, according to Head Coach Josh McDaniels.
Eight current and former Bell, California, city officials charged with misappropriation of funds and making or receiving illegal loans demonstrated "corruption on steroids," the L.A. County district attorney said.
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