Congress expected to reboot Internet tax issues in 2015
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress is moving this week toward putting off until 2015 any conclusive action on a tangle of Internet tax issues, including online access taxes and online state sales taxes.
U.S. Treasury’s Lew calls for terrorism insurance program renewal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Tuesday said lawmakers should not delay reauthorization of a federal terrorism insurance program over disagreements on “unrelated financial regulatory issues.”
Prosecutions for CIA torture still seem unlikely after Senate report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Minutes after a U.S. Senate intelligence panel released details of the CIA’s torture of terrorism suspects, President Barack Obama suggested the country should move on.
U.S. spending talks drag on, stop-gap extension prepared
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional negotiators raced on Tuesday to wrap up final policy disputes over a $1.1 trillion spending bill as a midnight Thursday deadline to avert a U.S. government shutdown drew closer.
Opponents of Illinois pension reform law fight fast-track appeal
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Public labor unions and others challenging a 2013 law aimed at easing Illinois’ pension burden objected on Tuesday to a fast-tracking of the state’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that the law is unconstitutional.
CIA tortured, misled, U.S. report finds, drawing calls for action
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CIA misled the White House and public about its torture of detainees after the Sept. 11 attacks and acted more brutally and pervasively than it acknowledged, a U.S. Senate report said on Tuesday, drawing calls to prosecute Am…
Republicans insist CIA methods in report helped capture terrorists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican leader of the U.S. Senate and the party’s top member on the Senate Intelligence Committee insisted on Tuesday that CIA interrogation methods detailed in a newly issued report developed intelligence that helped capt…
U.S. top court rejects worker pay for security-screening time
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to employers over worker compensation, ruling that companies do not have to pay employees for the time they spend undergoing security checks at the end of their shifts in a case …
U.N. investigator calls for prosecuting Bush-era torture crimes
GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights expert said a report that the U.S. Senate released on Tuesday revealed a “clear policy orchestrated at a high level within the Bush administration” and called for prosecution of U.S. officials who ordered crimes, …
Kansas governor seeks 4 percent in spending cuts to balance budget
(Reuters) – Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on Tuesday called for steep budget cuts and fund transfers to plug a $280 million hole in the state’s current budget.
