Politics

The New York Times, in an in-depth story published Monday, provided a look into a conservative nonprofit group "putting money behind" presidential candidate and Sen. Marco Rubio. Some of the details surprised Republican media buyers. For one, all of the money that has gone into television advertisements supporting Rubio has come from the nonprofit group—and not…

Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday it would no longer accept payments from companies that use tissue left over from abortions for research, bending to pressure in the wake of undercover videos targeting the group. In a letter to the director of the National Institutes of Health, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said the payments had become…

As Syrian refugees continue to flee the violence at home, President Obama is turning to the modern tools of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship as a supplement to the more traditional means of humanitarian relief. At the request of officials from the White House Office of Digital Strategy, the crowdfunding website Kickstarter has begun its first social…

Last week, NPQ ran a newswire about what nonprofit fundraisers might be able to learn from Republican online fundraising stats, so this week we will look at what, if anything, we can learn from the extraordinary recent performance of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. An editorial from The New York Times calls that performance “a…

As the supermoon cast its blood orange glow across the night sky the other night, some religious leaders said it was a sign of a looming apocalyptic deadline. Back on earth, in the depths of campaign headquarters across the country, fear of a different date was nigh—the stroke of midnight tonight, also known as the…

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards defended fetal tissue research before a House committee Tuesday, arguing that it offers potentially lifesaving answers on degenerative eye disease, Down syndrome and infectious diseases. The Republican-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is conducting one of four investigations into Planned Parenthood in the wake of a series of…

Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking federal investigators to give him the names of officials at the American Red Cross who did not cooperate with the government's recent inquiry into the charity. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office Monday morning, saying that the Senate Judiciary Committee, which he heads, "has…

A senior White House adviser was struck and killed by a car when he lost control of his bicycle while participating in a charity bike ride raising money to fight cancer. Jacob Thomas Brewer, 34, was entering a sharp bend in Mt. Airy, Md., when the married father and senior policy adviser crossed into an…

The Internal Revenue Service revoked the nonprofit status of the veterans benefit organization that hosted and sold tickets to a foreign policy speech by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump aboard a retired U.S. battleship, The Associated Press has learned. The group's endorsement of Trump at the event also could raise legal problems under campaign finance…

Daniel Craig donated almost $50,000 to a super PAC that claims to support Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, but a Washington public interest group has raised questions about the organization’s legitimacy. Craig’s publicist, Laura Symons, confirmed to Variety that he had made a donation. But the investigative organization Center for Public Integrity, in a report…