Senate confirms new U.S. top telecom regulator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved Tom Wheeler to be the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), enabling the agency to start operating under a permanent leader after a holding period of several months.
U.S. Obamacare data hub ‘experiencing an outage’, Connecticut says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government’s Obamacare data hub was “experiencing an outage” on Tuesday evening, the Connecticut state healthcare exchange, “Access Health CT”, announced. It was the second such outage in three days.
NSA chief defends agency amid U.S. spy rift with Europe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the National Security Agency defended his beleaguered organization on Tuesday, saying it acts within the law to stop militant attacks and calling reports that the NSA collected data on millions of phone calls in Europ…
Alabama, rights groups reach settlement on immigration law
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – The state of Alabama and a coalition of civil rights groups reached a settlement on Tuesday that discarded several important sections of the state’s immigration law, widely considered the most stringent in the country.
In Boston speech, Obama seeks to reset ideas about his health law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After four rocky weeks while his landmark health insurance law has been disparaged as poorly managed, expensive and disappointing, President Barack Obama will travel to Boston on Wednesday to try to reset expectations about Obama…
Analysis: On healthcare, spying, questions on what Obama knew and when
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – To his critics, President Barack Obama often has seemed to be conveniently distant when trouble has hit his administration.
Once turned away, Jesse Jackson Jr. finally in prison
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. began his first day of a 30-month sentence in a North Carolina federal prison on Tuesday, a day after he had attempted to report early and was turned away.
Obama under fire as Americans lose prior health plans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is facing fresh attacks for his pledge that Americans who like their current healthcare plans can keep them under Obamacare after reports that thousands of Americans facing cancellation notices.
U.S. nuclear arms overhaul needed to ensure reliability: officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. nuclear arsenal needs a multi-billion dollar overhaul in the coming decade to ensure the weapons’ safety and effectiveness, defense officials said on Tuesday, despite warnings from arms control groups that the effort is …
U.S. senators seek to cut Iran’s oil sales in half – again
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fresh U.S. sanctions over Iran’s disputed nuclear program being debated behind closed doors in the Senate aim to slash the country’s oil sales in half within a year of the plan being signed into law, an influential senator said t…
