Republican Bob Turner's victory in the special election for Anthony Weiner's New York congressional seat is being interpreted across the political spectrum as a possible rebuke to Democrats, particularly President Barack Obama.
Republican Bob Turner and New York voters delivered a sharp blow to Democrats and President Barack Obama on Tuesday, as Turner won a special House election in New York in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans three to one.
Amid presidential election season, Republicans dealt a sharp blow to Democrats Tuesday, as Republican Bob Turner won a special House election in New York. The Republican victory, in the race to fill the seat vacated by scandal-plagued Anthony Weiner, gives Republicans a victory in the district that President Barack Obama won with 55 percent in the 2008 election, and one Democrats have held for four years.
For the first time in nine decades voters in New York's 9th Congressional District chose a Republican to represent the district in a special House of Representatives election for the seat vacated by former Representative Anthony Weiner, who resigned after a Twitter sex scandal.
The race for former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner's seat was too close to call as the polls closed, raising the possibility of an embarrassing loss for Democrats in a district that has never elected a Republican.
The number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46 million last year, the government said on Tuesday, underscoring the challenges facing President Barack Obama and Congress as they try to tackle high unemployment and a moribund economy.
Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip violates international law, a panel of human rights experts reporting to a U.N. body said on Tuesday, disputing a conclusion reached by a separate U.N. probe into Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship.
The number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46 million last year, the U.S. government said on Tuesday, underscoring the challenges facing President Barack Obama and Congress as they try to tackle high unemployment and a moribund economy.
The Obama administration and lawmakers are scrambling to preclude an upcoming United Nations vote that could grant the Palestinians formal recognition as a sovereign state.
Near the peak of General Motors Co's financial crisis, Opel workers laid a coffin at the feet of the brand's founder Adam Opel to mark what they considered the death of the brand.
Paul was affiliated with newsletters that were obsessed with racial subjects.
Republican Bob Turner and Democrat David Weprin are up for Weiner’s seat in Sept. 13 election.
The Miss Universe 2011 swimsuit presentation took place on Thursday night, as the international beauties showed their stuff in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Mel Gibson is reportedly making a movie about Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee. The actor, who has been labeled an anti-Semite thanks to a number of hateful rants, will team with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas for the historical work
The United States has killed the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Osama bin Laden. But in engaging in two costly wars, did the U.S. do much of what bin Laden wanted the U.S. to do?
The election to replace Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress after being revealed as an internet womanizer who used Twitter to send lewd pictures of himself, is more competitive than anyone expected.
Director Abel Ferrara ponders how we would behave knowing death was coming to us all in an environmental disaster in 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his latest film starring Willem Dafoe.
Dutch telecoms firm KPN said on Tuesday its IT unit, Getronics, has won new business from customers after hackers stole security certificates from Dutch IT firm DigiNotar, a business rival.
“After the Arab Spring, we predict that a winter of radical Islam will arrive, Eisenberg told a press conference in Tel Aviv on Monday.
Yeonpyeong lies in the Yellow Sea west of the Korean Peninsula close to the disputed sea border.
After dramatically downgrading its relations with Israel on Friday, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is totally suspending all trade and military ties with Israel, as relations between the countries continue to sour.
