Wisconsin Governor Walker signs bill limiting union heft
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican presidential hopeful, signed a bill into law on Monday that stops private sector workers from being required to join a union or pay dues as a condition of employment.
Supreme Court rejects cases on Guantanamo detainee treatment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday spurned two appeals involving U.S. treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees, barring a Syrian man from suing the United States over alleged torture and blocking the release of images purported to show evi…
A different sort of Bush: policy wonk Jeb faces campaign image test
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In Republican Jeb Bush, Americans are seeing a different sort of Bush on their TV screens: a policy wonk who wears horn-rimmed glasses and has neither his brother’s famous Texas swagger nor his father’s patrician air.
Democratic Representative Donna Edwards to seek Maryland U.S. Senate seat: Washington Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic Representative Donna Edwards is expected to announce on Tuesday she will seek Maryland’s U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Democrat Barbara Mikulski, the Washington Post reported, citing two Democrats familiar wit…
Senate leader McConnell promises no default on debt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress will be in no hurry to raise the federal government’s borrowing limit, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday, but will act in time to avoid Washington defaulting on its debt.
‘Huge gaps’ in Clinton email record, Benghazi probe chief says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Huge gaps exist in the emails former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has provided to a congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the panel’s chairman said on Sunday.
U.S. Senate leader McConnell promises no default on debt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress will be in no hurry to raise the federal government’s borrowing limit, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday, but will act in time to avoid Washington defaulting on its debt.
Obama says learned about Clinton’s emails from news reports: CBS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said he learned through news reports that Hillary Clinton used a personal email account for official business while she served as his secretary of state, CBS News reported on Saturday.
Bill Clinton defends his charity’s foreign government donors
MIAMI (Reuters) – Former U.S. president Bill Clinton on Saturday defended donations his family’s charity receives from foreign governments after renewed criticism that they would create conflicts of interest should his wife, Hillary Clinton, run for pr…
Jeb Bush calls Clinton’s State Department email storage ‘baffling’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush on Friday stepped up his criticism of Hillary Clinton, calling it “baffling” that she stored official U.S. State Department emails on a personal server rather than safer government systems…
