Conservative Republican group offers more austere U.S. budget plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House Republican conservatives and defense hawks dissatisfied with their party’s budget plan will get to vote on a more austere alternative that eliminates deficits faster and shifts more spending to the military from domestic pr…
Indiana House passes controversial ‘religious freedom’ bill
(Reuters) – A controversial Indiana bill that could protect business owners who don’t want to provide services for same-sex couples moved closer to law on Monday, after passage by the state’s House.
Lawsuit vs anti-Iran group is dismissed over U.S. state secrets
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Monday won the dismissal of a private defamation lawsuit against an influential anti-Iran advocacy group, after claiming that the case could jeopardize U.S. national security by revealing state secrets.
U.S. attorney general nominee seen on hold until at least mid-April
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s nomination of Loretta Lynch to become the next attorney general is likely to be put on hold in the U.S. Senate until at least mid-April, congressional aides said on Monday, as Republicans and Democrats sq…
U.S. to fund Afghan forces at peak level through 2017: officials
CAMP DAVID, Md. (Reuters) – The United States will keep funding Afghan security forces at the targeted peak personnel level of 352,000 at least through the 2017 fiscal year, extending a financial commitment that has cost about $4 billion annually, U.S….
U.S. business group urges Senate to back Export-Import Bank bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A leading U.S. business lobby group on Monday urged senators to support a bipartisan plan to save the U.S. Export-Import Bank and warned that closing the bank would hurt jobs.
Florida Rep. Patrick Murphy announces bid for U.S. Senate seat in 2016
(Reuters) – Democratic Florida congressman Patrick Murphy said on Monday he would run in 2016 for the U.S. Senate seat held by Marco Rubio, a high-profile Republican who is considering a presidential bid.
At liberal venue, Clinton urges better deal for urban poor, youth
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Likely presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for better access to jobs and improved opportunities for the urban poor and the young on Monday at an event hosted by a left-leaning think tank.
U.S. top court rejects challenge to Wisconsin voter ID law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to Wisconsin’s Republican-backed law requiring voters to present photo identification to cast a ballot, a measure Democrats contend is aimed at keeping their supporters from v…
Clinton aides used personal emails to communicate with her: NYT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Private emails that Hillary Clinton turned over to a House committee investigating the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, show her aides sometimes used their personal email accounts to communicate with her, the Ne…
