NY Senate leader Skelos to resign amid corruption charges
(Reuters) – New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Monday said he would resign his leadership post a week after being charged in a corruption scheme involving his son, and was replaced by a fellow senator from Long Island, two lawmakers s…
NY Senate leader Skelos to resign amid corruption charges
(Reuters) – New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Monday said he would resign his leadership post a week after being charged in a corruption scheme involving his son, and was replaced by a fellow senator from Long Island, two lawmakers s…
Jeb Bush: I would have authorized Iraq invasion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Potential Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he would have authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq, just as his brother George W. Bush had done.
Full picture of Clinton charities’ foreign government funding remains elusive
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Clinton Foundation has acknowledged that the government funding totals omitted from their tax returns cannot be found on their website either, despite the foundation’s acting chief executive officer earlier suggesting they were…
McConnell defends support of Patriot Act, NSA program
BOSTON (Reuters) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday defended his support for a measure in the USA Patriot Act that has anchored a National Security Agency program to collect Americans’ phone data. 
Republican candidates talk tough on Islamic State, offer few specifics
GREENVILLE, S.C. (Reuters) – Seeking an edge on the national security issue, Republican presidential hopefuls on Saturday seized on the attack in Texas this week for which Islamic State claimed responsibility as an example of the threat they say the mi…
In pension battle, Illinois governor faces constitutional fight
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner faces a formidable challenge in his bid to reform public worker pensions by changing the state constitution, and even if he succeeds the move may not resolve the state’s pension funding woes for years …
U.S. presidential candidate Fiorina spins web around interviewer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina apparently has learned something about registering website domain names.
Republican candidate Ben Carson takes a biblical approach to taxes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said on Sunday his proposed flat-tax plan of about 10 percent was inspired by the biblical practice of tithing.
Warren ‘absolutely wrong’ on trade pact threat to Dodd-Frank: Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama dismissed a liberal senator’s warning that “fast-track” trade authorization being considered by Congress could weaken U.S. financial regulations he helped put in place after the 2007-2008 crisis that trigge…
