NRA targets Loretta Lynch, by Denise Oliver Velez Just how many elected officials are there in the United States? The answer is mind-blowing, by David Nir What presidents can do: the Supreme Court, by Armando Daily Kos Elections presents our fully interactive visualizations of the 2014 federal elections, by Stephen Wolf The Iran Regime Change Act of 2015, by Jon Perr New proposals to rein in payday loans show why unscrupulous corporations want you to hate government, by Ian Reifowitz It's so hard to be an Obamacare-hating Republican these days, by Dante Atkins Americans continue to lose because we do not know our savior, by Egberto Willies
The slowdown in the final quarter is likely to have lowered growth in the first quarter of this year, too, and some analysts have lowered their predictions for that growth. The Commerce Department will report first-quarter results on April 29.
As has been the case for most of the past six years, the economy continues to send mixed signals, but main takeaway is that it is underperforming.
On Friday, German tabloid Bild claimed that Lubitz had spent one and a half years in psychiatric treatment. They also put the break in his training down to a "serious depressive episode." The paper also reported that Lufthansa flight school in Phoenix, Arizona, had designated Lubitz "not suitable for flying," though VICE News has not been able to independently verify this. Germany's Federal Aviation Office has also said that Lubitz had a medical condition that was documented in his pilot's medical certificate, though there is no indication of exactly what this refers to.
Germany's Federal Aviation Office has also said that Lubitz had a medical condition that was documented in his pilot's medical certificate, though there is no indication of exactly what this refers to.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev Justin Welby, presided over the service with local senior clergy and representatives of world faiths. Sophie, Countess of Wessex and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were among the guests. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, a distant relation of the king, read a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
Sophie, Countess of Wessex and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were among the guests.
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, a distant relation of the king, read a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
Baton Rouge hospital closes ER thanks to Piyush Jindal, by Old Redneck Bipartisan bill to repeal the Patriot Act, by gjohnsit BREAKING: WikiLeaks Leaks TPP Draft!!!, by Tasini
Bipartisan bill to repeal the Patriot Act, by gjohnsit
BREAKING: WikiLeaks Leaks TPP Draft!!!, by Tasini
Readers looking for Shirley Leung’s twice-weekly business column in The Boston Globe this morning will see an unfamiliar face: Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. [...] "Last year I made a bet with the good mayor of Boston, and he’s now collecting his prize. He was so slow at installing a permanent director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority that I bet he couldn’t find one before Charlie Baker was sworn in as governor. I lost."
"Last year I made a bet with the good mayor of Boston, and he’s now collecting his prize. He was so slow at installing a permanent director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority that I bet he couldn’t find one before Charlie Baker was sworn in as governor. I lost."
Alex Street: “We estimate that keeping registration open through Election Day in 2012 would have allowed an additional 3 million to 4 million Americans to register and vote. We used the number of Google searches for ‘register to vote’ in the weeks leading up to the 2012 election to measure late interest in registering. These search terms were entered millions of times, and much of the activity fell at the very end of the campaign period.”