Illinois primary voters pick candidates for governor, senate
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois Republicans are voting on Tuesday to pick a candidate to challenge a Democratic incumbent governor they say is weak enough to give their party a shot at taking back an office long held by Democrats.
U.S. Labor’s Perez details Obama’s overtime rules overhaul
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez offered details this week about the Obama administration’s push to revise overtime pay regulations, confirming the Labor Department may close a “loophole” in the test used to determine which workers…
Republicans tout Hispanic outreach, but focus on Obamacare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A year after a party review urged Republicans to embrace immigration reform to attract Hispanic voters and boost support, the party finds itself banking on the unpopularity of Obamacare for success in November’s congressional ele…
Illinois primary voters pick candidates for governor, Senate
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois Republicans are voting on Tuesday to pick a candidate to challenge a Democratic incumbent governor they say is weak enough to give their party a shot at taking back an office long held by Democrats.
FBI evaluating complaints about hacking by CIA, Senate panel: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI is evaluating separate criminal referrals sent to the Justice Department by the CIA in its dispute with Senate investigators over access to documents about the agency’s “enhanced interrogation” practices, officials famili…
NSA records all calls in targeted foreign nation -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has created a surveillance system that is recording all the phone calls in an undisclosed foreign country, allowing it to play back any conversation up to 30 days later, the Washington Post repor…
Obama manufacturing hubs face uphill struggle to create jobs
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Along the banks of the Mahoning River in the struggling Ohio steel town of Youngstown sits a once-abandoned furniture warehouse that has been converted into a sleek new laboratory.
U.S. Labor’s Perez details Obama’s overtime rules overhaul
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez offered details this week about the Obama administration’s push to revise overtime pay regulations, confirming the Labor Department may close a “loophole” in the test used to determine which workers…
Senators urge Obama to block Iran’s path to nuclear weapons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of U.S. senators on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to insist a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program contains a measure to prevent Tehran from ever having a path to nuclear weapons, as talks on the deal resum…
Merkel, Obama agree annexing Crimea violates Ukraine’s integrity
BERLIN (Reuters) – Angela Merkel and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed in a call on Tuesday that Crimea’s declaration of independence and Russia’s annexation of the peninsula was an “unacceptable blow to the territorial integrity of Ukraine”, her offi…
