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A liberal group upset over potential cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security delivered pledges Friday to President Barack Obama’s national campaign headquarters threatening to pull its support. About a dozen people representing the Progressive Change Campaign Committee delivered what they said were 200,000 pledges from people who will refuse to donate or volunteer for [...]
They might be the least private private negotiations in Washington. The closed-door White House debt talks this week have spilled out into the open almost the moment they wrapped up each day, with anonymous officials from each side of the aisle offering self-serving blow-by-blow accounts. It’s part of how Washington does business, but perhaps because [...]
Governors nationwide are nervously watching the debt-ceiling debate in Washington, fearing that a partisan impasse could rattle financial markets and slow the economic recoveries they desperately want for their states. Yet many of them are sticking to the same partisan loyalties and talking points that are making it so difficult for President Barack Obama and [...]
Tim Pawlenty on Friday joined the Jim DeMint wing of the Republican Party in the debt ceiling debate. Sort of. Pawlenty argued in multiple TV interviews against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to hand over primary responsibility of raising the debt ceiling to the president in exchange for no tax increases, saying there has to [...]
Under assault in a phone hacking scandal, News Corp. has met a self-imposed deadline for reporting its 2011 political contributions online. On Friday, the media company reported a little more than $125,000 in donations, with the biggest single gift of $25,000 going to the Democratic Governors Association. The company’s board approved a new disclosure policy [...]
His presidential campaign on life support, Newt Gingrich ran into the county coroner at a recent tea party event in South Carolina. “I’m not here because you’re looking ill or anything,” Rae Wooten assured the former U.S. House speaker at Tuesday’s event in North Charleston. A chuckling Gingrich feigned relief. For the embattled White House [...]
Meet Colin and Christine Weir, Europe’s largest lottery winners. They live in a Scottish seaside town. They have been married for 30 years, and they have two kids, plus a three-bedroom house, and now, 161 million pounds (about $260 million). “We were tickled pink. I even had a glass of white wine, which is something I normally [...]
The Bugatti Veyron is a modern automotive legend. The sleek speedster from Volkswagen boasts a top speed of over 260mph, making it the fastest road-legal car in the world, and it has a stunningly large $1.5 million price tag to match. Because of this astronomical cost of entry, only a few hundred of the vehicles have ever [...]
ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clintonsaid Saturday she was troubled by Turkey’s arrests of dozens of journalists and that it was “inconsistent” with the economic and political progress the moderate Muslim nation has made. Despite those concerns, she said Turkey could serve as a model for Arab nations now in the midst of [...]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Four newly released Zimbabwean journalists say police arrested them for asking about a police officer fired for political reasons. Independent reporter Pindayi Dube spoke Saturday after the four were released north of the city ofBulawayo after their Friday arrest. He says they were arrested for trying to witness a policeman being evicted from a police [...]
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