Obama administration warns money low to deal with migrant crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration warned lawmakers on Thursday that U.S. border control agencies would run out of money and migrant children would run out of beds if Congress did not approve $3.7 billion in funds to address an influx of p…
Border Patrol suspends transfer of undocumented migrants to San Diego
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The federal government has suspended its plan to send the San Diego area hundreds of the Central American migrants who have been flooding into Texas illegally from Mexico, U.S. Border Patrol officials said on Thursday.
Florida judge throws out 2012 congressional redistricting plan
TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) – A Florida judge threw out the state’s 2012 congressional redistricting plan on Thursday, saying Republicans conspired to manipulate the boundaries to protect the party’s majority in Washington and “made a mockery” of the rules o…
Judge asked to block North Carolina voting changes before midterms
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. (Reuters) – North Carolina’s overhauled election law should be halted before the midterm elections in November to avoid discrimination against African Americans and young voters, lawyers for the Justice Department and civil rights gr…
U.S. House Republicans to focus Obama lawsuit on Obamacare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Republicans said on Thursday they intend to make President Barack Obama’s changes to his signature health insurance law the focus of a forthcoming lawsuit accusing him of overstepping his legal autho…
Obama lets rip on trip out of Washington
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – President Barack Obama may look back on this week as the time when he dropped all pretense of political decorum and let all his frustrations with Washington gridlock spill forth.
U.S. Republican warns of ‘death by a thousand cuts’ from China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States must respond more aggressively to China’s territorial claims in Asia, an influential U.S. Republican said on Thursday, warning that failure to do so would bring “death by a thousand cuts.”
U.S. Senate tax-writers agree on $10.8 billion transport funding plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Democratic and Republican tax writers in the U.S. Senate announced on Thursday a $10.8 billion plan to extend federal funding for transportation projects into the summer of 2015, roughly matching legislation moving throug…
U.S. Senate confirms Donovan as White House budget director
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate confirmed former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan on Thursday to take over as President Barack Obama’s budget director.
U.S. prosecutors decline criminal probe in CIA-Senate dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have declined to pursue criminal investigations into a heated dispute between Senate investigators and the Central Intelligence Agency over documents related to its use of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” the…
