Politics

A federal budget deal was reached that would avoid another government shutdown because President Obama wasn’t involved in the negotiations, Washington Post columnist Bob Woodward said Sunday on Fox Morning News. The budget bill replaces $65 billion in across-the-board spending cuts that were set for this year and next. “I think this budget deal worked,…

It’s tempting to forget about South Africa, now that Nelson Mandela has found his final resting place. But the South Africa he transformed is still changing in interesting and surprising ways. The nation is already the economic powerhouse of the continent and has recently muscled its way onto the world stage. It will see watershed…

Nelson Mandela was buried in his childhood village of Qunu, South Africa, on Sunday, ending the journey of the singular man who went from prisoner to president and revolutionized South Africa. A military escort accompanied his coffin to the burial site and removed the national flag that draped his coffin, CNN reports. His widow, Graça…

As we came together to plan the national memorial service of our world’s father, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, it dawned on me that we were planning the impossible. We were trying to package what could never fit in a box. No one title could completely encapsulate Mandela. He was a freedom fighter, a visionary, a change…

In a show of support for President Obama, who has taken some heat for a selfie taken during Nelson Mandela’s memorial service this week, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Helle Thorning-Schmidt, prime minister of Denmark, say the photo wasn’t inappropriate. “There were lots of pictures taken that day, and I just thought it was…

Don’t say I didn’t tell you: Two years from now, the GOP will officially split into two parties, with traditional Republicans getting freed up to do their thing while a more robust Tea Party spin-off picks its own nominee for a presidential election that will be unlike any we’ve seen since Ross Perot’s wild ride…

The women’s health organization Planned Parenthood has found itself under assault in recent years. Laws passed in states like Texas, which recently became one of 13 states to ban abortion after 20 weeks, will now shutter many local Planned Parenthood clinics. But as the nearly 100-year-old organization struggles to keep its doors open, it has…