NEW YORK TIMES: …Mr. Obama’s library will be in his adopted home, Chicago’s South Side, according to two people who were briefed about the decision. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak before the official announcement. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was Mr. Obama’s chief of staff and led […]

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS COLUMN: …”I ran because Pennsylvania couldn’t keep doing what it’s doing,” Wolf says, “I’m not here to mark time, tread water or use this as a stepping stone to anything else . . . I think I can make it better.”… His budget calls for reduced property taxes, more sales taxes, cutting […]

FINANCIAL TIMES: The US’s economic expansion faltered badly in the first quarter with gross domestic product rising by a sluggish 0.2 per cent annual pace, which could influence policy makers’ decision on when to lift interest rates. The growth figure was a fraction of the 1 per cent rate of expansion predicted by economists, and […]

SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE: Sam Stretton, a West Chester attorney and constitutional law expert, said the presentment is further evidence that Ms. Kane’s tenure has been a “disaster” and she should resign immediately… John Burkhoff, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, agrees Ms. Kane’s ability to run the office has been compromised, but […]

NEW YORK TIMES: The Syrian Army has suffered a string of defeats from re-energized insurgents and is struggling to replenish its ranks as even pro-government families increasingly refuse to send sons to poorly defended units on the front lines. These developments raise newly urgent questions about the durability of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule. “The trend […]

NEW YORK TIMES: …Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Rand Paul want to ease mandatory minimum sentences. Gov. Chris Christie wants to release nonviolent offenders pending trial without bail. Gov. Scott Walker, former Gov. Rick Perry and former Senator James Webb want to expand drug treatment as an alternative […]

NEWSMAX: Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul says it was a big “mistake” to topple Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein — and that it may have made Iran “twice as strong as it was before the Iraq War.” Speaking to Orthodox Jews at the Torah Umesorah Hebrew Day School in Brooklyn, N.Y., Paul also said he […]

WILKES-BARRE TIMES-LEADER: …“I couldn’t possibly do it, because I have very little money,” the 90-year-old said at a press conference during a recent visit to Wilkes-Barre. “And now it takes $200 million if you want any chance to get the Democratic or Republican nomination.”… “When I ran against Gerald Ford, who was the incumbent president, […]

FINANCIAL TIMES: Explosive iPhone sales among the middle class in China and other emerging economies propelled Apple ahead of Wall Street’s forecasts for the fifth successive quarter, as it pledged to return another $70bn to shareholders… “I’ve never seen as many people coming into the middle class as they are in China and that’s where […]