As Obama’s Asia ‘pivot’ falters, China steps into the gap
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – When then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared two years ago “We are back to stay” as a power in Asia, the most dramatic symbol of the policy shift was the planned deployment of 2,500 U.S. Marines in northern Austra…
Pentagon recalls most civilian defense employees idled by shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Saturday it would recall the vast majority of around 350,000 civilian Defense Department employees sent home during the U.S. government shutdown, a move that could greatly lessen the impact of Washington infi…
Obama says Iran a year or more from nuclear weapon capability
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States believes Iran is a year or a more away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon, President Barack Obama said in an interview with the Associated Press released on Saturday, although he described the estimate …
Pentagon to recall most furloughed workers, easing shutdown pain
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Saturday it would recall most of the roughly 400,000 civilian Defense Department employees sent home during the government shutdown, in a move that could greatly lessen the impact of the shutdown on America’s…
Obama calls impact of government shutdown ‘heartbreaking’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Saying the U.S. government shutdown was having a “heartbreaking” impact on ordinary Americans, President Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his call on congressional Republicans to end the five-day stalemate and pass a funding bill…
Analysis: IT experts question architecture of Obamacare website
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Days after the launch of the federal government’s Obamacare website, millions of Americans looking for information on new health insurance plans were still locked out of the system even though its designers scrambled to add capacit…
U.S. House passes bill to retroactively pay furloughed government workers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill on Saturday that would retroactively pay 800,000 furloughed workers once the now 5-day-old government shutdown ends.
Obama says expects Congress will raise debt ceiling before deadline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said he does not expect to have to take any unusual steps to prevent the United States from defaulting on its debt because he believes Congress will raise the debt ceiling before a looming October 17 deadli…
Kerry calls government shutdown a brief disruption
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – The partial shutdown of the U.S. government, which entered its fifth day on Saturday, is a “momentary episode” and does not change the U.S. commitment to Asia or elsewhere, Secretary of State John Kerry said.
Former NYPD sergeant questions sister’s killing by police in Washington
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police in Washington could have avoided shooting dead a woman pursued by officers in a car chase that led to the lockdown of the Capitol this week, the driver’s sister, former New York police sergeant Valarie Carey, said late on Fr…
