Mar 7, 2012 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is "working worse and worse". In a TV debate, Mr Sarkozy defended his plan to almost halve the number of new arrivals if re-elected next month. Mr Sarkozy is trailing in the opinion...

Mar 7, 2012 – Barack Obama's victory Tuesday in Oklahoma's Democratic primary was far less emphatic than typical for an incumbent president, and his poor showing in more than a dozen of the state's counties threatened to cost him a unanimous re-nomination. With all but six of the state's 1,961 precincts reporting, Obama had...

Mar 7, 2012 – At a Politico breakfast this morning, Los Angeles mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, the Democratic convention chair, said the Democratic party's platform should include same sex marriage. But one wonders what the president might say about Villaraigosa's comment. After all, Obama is opposed to same sex marriage. “I believe that marriage is...

Mar 7, 2012 – Iceland is reportedly looking to ditch their unstable currency and adopt the Canadian dollar, the Globe and Mail reports — and Canada might let them. Canadian ambassador Alan Bones is due to say tomorrow that if Iceland is sincere in its intention, the two countries should enter talks.

Mar 7, 2012 – Hiring in the private sector picked up in February, according to a report released Wednesday by payroll processor ADP. Private employers added 216,000 jobs in the month, ADP said, roughly in line with forecasts for 218,000 jobs gained. "I'm really heartened by these numbers," said Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, which...

Mar 7, 2012 – Gross domestic product grew by 2.7pc last year, down from 7.5pc growth in 2010, dragged back by higher business costs and lower industrial output. Economists had forecast a 2.8pc rise in gross domestic product. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, Brazil's GDP grew by 0.3pc in the final three months of 2011,...

Mar 7, 2012 – Retiring Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) will not endorse former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) in a Democratic primary. "I usually don't take sides in contested primaries, so that's pretty much where I am," he told The Hill on Tuesday. Kerrey has long been national Democrats' preferred choice, but after he initially...

Mar 6, 2012 – Editor's Note: By Mallory Carr. Rick Santorum decisively won North Dakota with 40% of the vote, a full 13 points ahead of Ron Paul, who finished 2nd. Paul was counting on a good showing here tonight. He typically fares better in caucus states, largely due to...

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Mar 6, 2012 – A fired employee of Episcopal High School in Jacksonville, Florida, returned to the school Tuesday, shot and killed the headmistress and then killed himself, authorities said. The gunman, who was terminated earlier in the day and carried an assault rifle in a guitar case, went to the office of Headmistress Dale...

Mar 6, 2012 – Newt Gingrich put his love of space exploration into action on Super Tuesday by going to Space Camp. “Of all the places we’ve held rallies, this may be the most amazing, just to stand here,” Gingrich said, surveying the space rocket above him. “I invite Saturday Night Live to come here...

Mar 6, 2012 – The Department of Homeland Security is finalizing its plan for a biometric data system to track when immigrants leave the United States and will present it to Congress within “weeks,” a top department official told a House Homeland Security subcommittee Tuesday. An exit system to track who is leaving the country...

Mar 6, 2012 – The White House abruptly announced Monday that it had scuttled plans to hold the coming G-8 economic summit in Chicago and would instead host world leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland's mountains north of Washington. It was an unusually late location change for a large and highly...

Mar 6, 2012 – The Townhall Polltracker average shows Santorum leading narrowly in the former state and comfortably in the latter, but RealClearPolitics…

Mar 6, 2012 – Ron Paul hoped a speech to North Dakota Republican caucus goers in Fargo could bring him the first state victory of his presidential campaign Tuesday. Rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum waited to see whether their own North Dakota campaigning would pay dividends. North Dakota Republicans prepared to visit one of...

Mar 6, 2012 – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) insisted Tuesday that a vote on approving the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline be part of an agreement that would allow sweeping transportation funding legislation to advance. The transportation bill stalled in a procedural vote early Tuesday afternoon as negotiations on which amendments will be...

Mar 6, 2012 – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) insisted Tuesday that a vote on approving the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline be part of an agreement that would allow sweeping transportation funding legislation to advance. The transportation bill stalled in a procedural vote early Tuesday afternoon as negotiations on which amendments will be...

Mar 6, 2012 – Top Republican and Democratic congressional leaders affirmed U.S. solidarity with Israel on Tuesday amid growing concerns over Iran’s nuclear program. Following a meeting of key House leaders and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.S. Capitol, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said “the United States Congress will never allow Israel...

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Mar 6, 2012 – Editor's note: This column was authored by Catherine Glenn Foster, Litigation Counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. For years, defenders of life have warned that the culture of death will – obviously – lead to death: that arguments used to justify killing some people in dire circumstances, via abortion...

Mar 5, 2012 – Sen. John McCain is calling for the U.S. military to use airstrikes in Syria. McCain, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the first senator to call for the United States to bomb Syria, as violence there continues to escalate with President Bashar al-Assad’s troops shelling opposition forces. In a...

Mar 5, 2012 – President Obama said Monday there is time to prevent Iran from securing a nuclear weapon through diplomacy and not a military strike at the outset of a high-stakes meeting at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. For the second day in a row, Obama said there’s “still...

Mar 5, 2012 – Presidential contender Newt Gingrich took harsh aim at rival Mitt Romney Monday, suggesting the former Massachusetts governor couldn't rally Republican support because he was being dishonest with voters. "He can't close the deal. And he can't close the deal in part because people inherently don't trust what he's saying and think...

Mar 5, 2012 – After two years of declines, Americans' income finally rose in 2010. The Internal Revenue Service provided a first peek at taxpayers' returns and it showed that adjusted gross income totaled $8 trillion, up 5.2% from 2009. But a closer look at the data reveals that only the wealthiest Americans will be...