WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When officials in Frederick District, Maryland voted last year to stop paying for the local Head Start playgroup curriculum, they pointed to a near $12 million projected financial statement shortfall as proof that... 

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germans resoundingly elected Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and human rights activist from communist East Germany, as president of the European Union’s largest country on Sunday, posing a potential headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel.... 

ATHENS (Reuters) – After the success of a debt cut plot which paves the way for a 130-billion euro ($170.55 billion) international bailout, attention in Athens is shifting to politics and on how... 

(Reuters) – Chris Hughes, one of the co-founders of Facebook and a former online strategist for Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, has bought a majority stake in The New Republic, the magazine said... 

The ReelzChannel television network says it scheduled a pro-Sarah Palin documentary on the same weekend as HBO’s “Game Change” debut strictly for business considerations, not political ones.  Read More →