Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered a rather unexpected defeat in regional elections in Hamburg. The election results were the worst for the Christian Democrats since World War II. Merkel’s Christian Democrats received only 16 percent of the vote in the city-state, while the Social Democrats (SPD) took the election with 47 percent […]
House Speaker John Boehner has announced that the Department of Homeland Security may be facing a shutdown as soon as the end of the month. Democrats and Republicans are blaming each other if the department shuts down due to a dispute over its budget. The debate over the budget is caught in the balance of […]
The Houthi militia, which seized power from Yemen’s government on February 6, is outraged at a resolution going before the UN Security Council on Sunday. The Houthis had been working toward this goal for some time, having taken over the capital last September. The resolution will urge the militia to return power to government institutions […]
