First on CNN: House Republicans unveil top 2016 targets
READ: Poll says most disapprove of Obama’s handling of ISIS Though they came out of 2014 enjoying their largest majority since 1928, House Republicans will have to play offense if…
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As Rivals Falter, India’s Economy Is Surging Ahead
SRIPERUMBUDUR, India — China’s economy is slowing. Brazil is struggling as commodity prices plunge. Russia, facing Western sanctions and weak oil revenue, is headed into a recession. As other big…
The best tourist attractions that no longer exist
The Pink and White Terraces of Lake Rotomahana were the world’s largest silica towers and the South Pacific’s biggest 19th-century attraction until a massive eruption at Mount Tarawera that momentous…
$20,000 Homes Created By Students Could Help Fix Rural America’s Affordable Housing Crisis
Students at Auburn University may be turning their home-building expertise into real-world housing market solutions. Since 1993, the university’s Rural Studio Design Workshop has allowed students to ditch the comforts…
France Moves to Open Up Sunday Shopping
Across Europe, it has been an enduring tension between the clamor for seven-day-a-week shopping and stores that close on Sundays in a nod to earlier times of greater religious faith…
Gene Alday, Mississippi Lawmaker, Says Blacks Don’t Work And Get ‘Crazy Welfare Checks’
A Mississippi lawmaker says racist comments recently attributed to him were taken out of context and supposed to be off the record. State Rep. Gene Alday, a Republican, told The…
Boehner Says He’d Allow Homeland Security Shutdown
WASHINGTON — The House speaker, John A. Boehner, said Sunday that he was “certainly” prepared to allow funding for the Department of Homeland Security to lapse, raising the possibility that…
Yoga In A Club With A Live DJ Will Make You Feel Like An Actual Warrior
This story is part of HuffPost Healthy Living’s We Tried It series. What We Tried: Deep House Yoga, a vinyasa class taught to the soundtrack of a live techno DJ….
Jeb Bush Was Not Shy About Using His White House Connections
The stream of requests to the White House from Jeb Bush, a young but well-connected Republican leader in South Florida, ranged from the weighty and urgent to the parochial and…
HUFFPOST HILL – America Struggles To Explain Latest Biden Gaffe To Children
The political world was shocked to learn that a governor whose existence had just come to its attention moments prior was resigning. Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted she was a little…
Diena Thompson Burns Home Of Convicted Child Killer Jared Harrell
The mother of a girl raped and murdered five years ago was allowed to burn down the house where her daughter was killed. On Thursday afternoon, Diena Thompson set fire…
White House Denounces GOP Schools Bill
The White House on Friday pushed back against House Republicans who want to limit the federal government’s role in education. – In a conference call with journalists, a senior White…
House Begins Passing Series of Deficit-Hiking Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON — One of the few bipartisan goals that President Barack Obama and Republicans agree on is comprehensive reform of the tax system, but Democrats cried foul Friday as GOP…
Internet Raises Funds For Firefighter Who Responded To Emergency Call At His Own Home
A group of firefighters is helping one of their own start over after a tragedy. Mike Heim, a volunteer fireman in Soloman, Maryland, answered a call about a house fire…
Apple adds crucial security update for iMessage and FaceTime
Related: Tim Cook to address hacking at White House summit Related: An Apple Watch may help keep the doctor away
Obama huddles with tech execs in San Francisco
Meant to unite industry brass with top U.S. law enforcement officials, the White House cybersecurity summit on the campus of Stanford University has attracted only one major Silicon Valley CEO:…
McCaul: White House not doing enough to save hostages
McCaul, speaking on CNN’s The Lead, declined to confirm a report from the Daily Beast that the White House had intelligence on U.S. citizens held by ISIS but acted too…
The Dream Of Dogs Riding On Amtrak Is Tantalizingly Close
WASHINGTON — In a historic step for the rights of dog owners, legislation that would instruct Amtrak to develop a pet-friendly policy is on the verge of passing the House…
Republicans struggle to avoid Homeland Security shutdown
House Speaker John Boehner, pressed Thursday if he’d guarantee DHS wouldn’t be shut down, sidestepped the question, and instead repeated his mantra: The House had done its job. READ: Boehner…
John Boehner: DHS Shutdown ‘Would Be Bad,’ But It Could Happen
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he couldn’t rule out a possible shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security. The AP reports Boehner said it “would be bad” if the…
House honors Selma marchers, stalled on Voting Rights Act
READ: Down with ‘Notorious R.B.G.’ “As we look toward the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, it is certainly fitting to honor the brave individuals who against brutality and oppression, took…
Education Committee Sends No Child Left Behind Update To House
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House education committee approved a partisan bill Wednesday to update the No Child Left Behind education law, maintaining annual testing requirements but stripping the federal…
House Republicans Plead With Mitch McConnell To Weaken Filibuster
WASHINGTON — Stymied in their attempts to pass a bill that would curb President Barack Obama’s immigration orders, some conservative House Republicans have a fallback option: They’re pushing Senate Majority…
Senate set to clear Ash Carter to be Defense Secretary
He will take the helm at Department of Defense as the United States is immersed in several complex national security challenges across the globe, including the widening military campaign against…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House To Open After Six-Year Renovation
In 1919, Bohemian oil heiress, theater enthusiast and political radical Aline Barnsdall purchased the 36-acre park site now known as Barnsdall Park. She enlisted architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design…
Funding Is Still Elusive for Homeland Security
WASHINGTON — Republicans who have been so disciplined in their opposition to President Obama are now finding themselves badly splintered over how to keep the Department of Homeland Security operating…
Illegal Pot Growers Foiled By Snow-Free Roofs
Police near Amsterdam had an easy time of it zeroing in on a suspected marijuana grow house — it was the only one on the block whose roof was clear…
Here’s What Season 3 Of ‘House Of Cards’ Is About According To Netflix
The third season of “House of Cards” leaked online for a brief moment on Wednesday, allowing pretty much everyone who writes about pop culture on the Internet to spend 58…
‘In The House’ Star Maia Campbell Arrested At Waffle House & Burger King
LL Cool J’s ex co-star Maia Campbell should really try ordering in — she just got busted at a restaurant for the 2nd time this year … most recently for…
House Passes Keystone Bill, Sending It To Obama For Veto
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed the Senate version of legislation approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on Wednesday, sending the bill to President Barack Obama’s desk for…