In an interview with Entertainment Tonight that will air Monday, President Obama discussed his friendship with George Clooney, calling the actor a “wonderful guy.” “The truth is we got to know each other because of a substantive issue,” Obama said. “He is a terrific advocate on behalf of the people of Darfur, and to the people of [...]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans blocked a measure Tuesday night that would have let the Federal Communications Commission prevent employers from forcing workers to reveal their Facebook passwords. Democrats offered the legislation as part of bill to slap new restrictions on FCC rules after a string of reports about employers insisting on access to social media [...]
GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain came down hard on immigration Saturday on the campaign trail, telling crowds in Tennessee that part of his policy would be to build an electrified fence on the Mexican border that could potentially kill anyone trying to enter the country illegally. He backed away from that proposal Sunday morning, however, [...]
WASHINGTON — The Republican presidential primary is heading into the home stretch before voters get to select which of the nine major candidates will get to face President Barack Obama next November. The release of the candidates’ third-quarter campaign finance reports on Friday and Saturday helps to illuminate which candidates are overperforming their goals and [...]
WASHINGTON — Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) accused the Republican Party of acting in bad faith in economic negotiations on Sunday, saying the GOP was allowing the economy to “remain stagnant” in order to score political points. “We need Republicans and Democrats to work together,” said Wasserman Schultz on CNN’s [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama saluted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday as a man who “stirred our conscience” and made the Union “more perfect,” rejoicing in the dedication of a monument memorializing the slain civil rights leader’s life and work. “I know we will overcome,” Obama proclaimed, standing the 30-foot granite monument to [...]
WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) backed away from calling the Occupy Wall Street protesters “mobs” on Sunday, but he doubled-down on going after the political leaders who have condoned the movement. At the conservative Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., last week, Cantor said he was “increasingly concerned about the growing mobs [...]
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation’s capital. But Cain’s economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity. Cain’s [...]
WASHINGTON — Despite a late entrance into the Republican presidential primary, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has reported an impressive $17.2 million in campaign donations from his Aug. 13 announcement through the end of September, according to a disclosure report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Saturday. A closer look at the numbers brings out [...]
WASHINGTON — GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain raised more questions about his knowledge of foreign policy on Sunday, saying he doesn’t know anything about the “neoconservative movement,” which dominated the eight years of the Bush administration. On “Meet the Press” Sunday morning, host David Gregory asked Cain who has shaped his views on foreign policy. [...]
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