So after reading some gang abuse on kfaess in another thread and having really no clue what's going on in the US at the moment except for what CNN/Fox News spit out at me I'd like to get a discussion started on the current events in US politics and what led up to them.

Basically, I'm looking for some links to some unbiased (as much as possible when it comes to politics) news reporting agencies and possibly a background of what's going on and how we got to this point.

I'm sick of being in the dark about this kind of stuff and I'd like to be more aware of the world I live in.