Obama met with autoworkers union chief, labor leaders: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama met with the head of the nation’s autoworkers union and other labor leaders last week to discuss a “wide range of issues,” according to the White House.
White House: no comment on reported air base deal with Turkey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Thursday said U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed joint efforts to fight Islamic State militants, but a spokesman declined to say whether they reached a new agreement over…
House immigration bill derided as knee-jerk reaction to murder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The recent killing of a San Francisco woman allegedly at the hands of an immigrant man has reignited Republican calls for tougher enforcement of U.S. immigration laws and led to a bill advocates say is racially targeted.
Trump in fight with Border Patrol union over Texas visit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused the union that represents Border Patrol agents of bullying its members to pull out of hosting a visit by him to the U.S.-Mexican border in Texas on Thursday.
Boehner says Congress will need short-term spending extension
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday that Congress will likely resort to a short-term federal spending extension for the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, blaming Senate Democrats for blocking Repu…
Hillary Clinton backs local taxes on Internet sales
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Thursday she supported allowing cities and states to tax online purchases, but she would not mandate it.
Key Democratic senator: U.S. negotiators ‘got an awful lot’ in Iran talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Thursday he has not yet decided how he would vote on the nuclear agreement with Iran but said he felt U.S. negotiators had made significant p…
U.S. to review Burundi aid in next two months over crisis: envoy
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – The United States will review its relations and level of aid to Burundi over the next two months after the central African nation held elections that Washington says were not credible, the U.S. ambassador said on Thursday.
Republicans seek probe of abortion rules after Planned Parenthood videos
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers are calling for Planned Parenthood to be investigated and its federal funding eliminated after two videos that critics said showed the reproductive health care group is involved in…
New York moves to raise state minimum wage to $15 for fast-food workers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York moved on Wednesday to raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 an hour by the end of 2018 in New York City and by mid-2021 in the rest of the state.
