Exclusive: Despite Hillary Clinton promise, charity did not disclose donors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In 2008, Hillary Clinton promised Barack Obama, the president-elect, there would be no mystery about who was giving money to her family’s globe-circling charities. She made a pledge to publish all the donors on an annual basis to e…
Presidential hopeful Jindal’s Louisiana budget does not fund primary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Louisiana scrambling to find the money to stage a primary election next year after Governor Bobby Jindal, a potential presidential candidate, did not provide funding in his annual budget.
Emails sought of nearly a dozen U.S. State Department workers under Clinton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congress has subpoenaed the emails of “close to a dozen” people who worked in the State Department for Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, the chairman of the U.S. House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi atta…
Obama, Netanyahu talk by phone after election spat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama spoke by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, and the two leaders agreed to continue discussing the “difficult path forward” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the White H…
U.S. Secret Service director pledges to get tough on possible hush-ups
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy pledged on Thursday to get tough on his agency for keeping quiet about officers allegedly driving drunk on White House grounds, but he also knocked down reports that the incident involve…
Obama to sign order cutting U.S. government greenhouse gas emissions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will sign an executive order on Thursday that sets a goal for the U.S. government to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2025, the White House said.
Ex-Im bill would stop discrimination by energy source: document
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Senate bill to extend the term of the U.S. Export Import Bank would ban discrimination “against any type of energy source,” according to a summary released on Thursday, effectively ending current limits on financing for coal-fi…
U.S. Treasury secretary says ‘dangerous’ not to pass IMF reforms
(This story corrects CBO estimate of IMF reform costs in paragraph 7 to $300 million from $3.1 billion)
U.S. needs offensive strategy to deter cyber attacks: NSA chief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States needs to step up its offensive cyber capabilities, a top security official said on Thursday, warning that looming defense budget cuts could hurt efforts to bolster the nation’s cyber military facilities and make…
‘Bill for First Lady’ campaign puts ‘va-voom’ in U.S. election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A political group pushing Democrat Hillary Clinton to run for U.S. president has taken a novel approach: rallying people around making her husband the country’s First Lady.
