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 | Marco Rubio's politics mark a man of yesterday
By Quiana Fulton
Sen. Marco Rubio has made his aspirations clear, he wants to be the next President of The United States. In his speech he claimed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton policies and politics are of yesterday and yesterday is over. But the facts show that in-fact Sen. Rubio politics are from yesterday no Hillary's.
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 | Exclusive: Uncommon costs; by Claude Solnik, LIBN
How the company behind Common Core took over a nation's testing and cashed in. Diane Ravitch writes that this This is one of the best articles you will read about Common Core and testing. It appears in the Long Island Business News. It shows the big business of testing, with a focus on Pearson.
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| Greek-Russia ties bloom as default looms
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller agreed last week on a "roadmap" for a multi-billion dollar pipeline project to transport gas from Russia to Greece. The long-term plan is a further sign of warming geopolitical ties between Athens and Moscow, at a moment when the Greek economic crisis appears to be worsening. In effect, Greece is now engaged in a very high stakes game of poker. It has issued a legislative decree to tap pockets of cash reserves across the public sector and has reportedly made plans to potentially nationalize the banking sector and introduce a parallel currency to pay bills in the event its cash reserves are exhausted.
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| George W. Bush Bashes Obama on Middle East
In a closed-door meeting with Jewish donors on Saturday night, former President George W. Bush delivered his harshest public criticisms to date against his successor on foreign policy, saying that President Barack Obama is being naïve about Iran and the pending nuclear deal and losing the war against the Islamic State. "In order to be an effective president ... when you say something you have to mean it," he said. "You gotta kill em." For George W. Bush, the remarks in Vegas showed he has little respect for how the current president is running the world. He also revealed that he takes little responsibility for the policies that he put in place that contributed to the current state of affairs.
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| Quake-Aid Need Acute In Nepal Capital; More So In Villages
Shelter, fuel, food, medicine, power, news, workers - Nepal's earthquake-hit capital was short on everything Monday as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings and struggled to provide for their families' needs. In much of the countryside, it was worse, though how much worse was only beginning to become apparent. The death toll soared past 3,700, even without a full accounting from vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster.
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 | 5 years after BP spill, drillers push into riskier depths
Five years after the nation's worst offshore oil spill, the industry is working on drilling even further into the risky depths beneath the Gulf of Mexico to tap massive deposits once thought unreachable. Opening this new frontier, miles below the bottom of the Gulf, requires engineering feats far beyond those used at BP's much shallower Macondo well.
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 | Nepal Earthquake Death Toll Tops 3,000
The death toll from Nepal's earthquake rose to 3,218 on Monday, two days after the massive quake ripped across this Himalayan nation, leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets. Aid groups received the first word from remote mountain villages -- reports that suggested many communities perched on mountainsides were devastated or struggling to cope. The earthquake was the worst to hit the South Asian nation in more than 80 years. It destroyed swaths of the oldest neighborhoods of Kathmandu and was strong enough to be felt all across parts of India, Bangladesh, China's region of Tibet and Pakistan.
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| Flood of Money in U.S. Election Is a Scandal Waiting to Happen
The role of money and politics in the 2016 presidential election is a conundrum. There will be humongous sums spent; the effect on the outcome could be minimal, but in time the flood of cash may produce Watergate-level money scandals. All of the top contenders have the backing of billionaires who seem willing to spend unprecedented sums on their campaigns, principally via the super PACs, which have no contribution limits; these entities are supposed to be independent of the campaign, a fiction that no one believes. There will be vast amounts of independent expenditures on both sides; the network of Charles and David Koch, the right-wing multi-billionaires, is planning to spend almost $900 million.
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| Madam Secretary: We Have Some Questions
Clinton's comments in support of middle class America represent a decidedly populist tenor, and those noises she's making sound awfully good to battle-weary political junkies desperate to oppose the presidential spokesmen of the wealthy elites in the Republican Party. On the other hand, both Clintons appear to be captives of the same economic class Liberals seek to contain, and the sourcing of funds for the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State becomes more scandalous by the minute. In addition, Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq and is on record as being more "hawkish" in pursuing foreign policy than President Obama.
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