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, as reports pile up of thousands of Americans facing cancellation notices.
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…
Trayvon Martin’s mother asks Senate to curb ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws
(Reuters) – The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin urged a Senate panel to help rescind “Stand Your Ground” laws that have proliferated in state legislatures, granting gun owners wider latitude to use their weapons in self-defense.
U.S. passes up firms’ offers to help healthcare website: committee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration appears to have passed up offers from Amazon and Microsoft to help fix the federal government’s troubled healthcare enrollment website, according to documents released on Tuesday by a Republican-led congr…
Senate confirms Obama labor board nominee
(Reuters) – A divided Senate on Tuesday confirmed a former union lawyer picked by President Barack Obama to be the top prosecutor at the National Labor Relations Board.
U.S. lawmakers call for action to curb Internet child trading
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers called Tuesday for federal action to prevent parents from giving unwanted adopted children to strangers met on the Internet, and the Illinois attorney general urged Facebook and Yahoo to police online groups where chi…
In New York mayoral race, Republican Lhota struggles to connect
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York’s Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota has served as the city’s budget director and deputy mayor, led the mass-transit agency’s aggressive response to superstorm Sandy and boasts a wife who is a prodigious Republican fundraiser.
In new U.S. budget talks, Republican proposal has flipped the script
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the Congress are taking a new tack in the budget wars that have convulsed Washington for the past three years: They want to soak the rich, or at least get them a little damp.
Slow Obamacare site repairs may limit coverage, savings
(Reuters) – If technical problems with the U.S. government’s new healthcare website are not fixed in November, hundreds of thousands of Americans could lose easy access to lower-cost coverage, jeopardizing the Obama administration’s goal of making affo…
U.S. lawmakers criticize Egypt aid cuts, consider changing law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday they were unhappy about cuts in Washington’s aid to Egypt announced earlier this month after authorities in Cairo used violence to put down protests.
