House Republicans demand Obamacare delay in debt limit hike
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the House of Representatives will demand a one-year delay of full implementation of the 2010 healthcare law known as Obamacare in its opening offer to increase the U.S. debt limit, their leaders announced on Thursd…
Kerry to travel to Japan, Indonesia for meetings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Japan next week for a security meeting before joining President Barack Obama in Bali for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation economic meeting, the State Department said on Thurs…
Kerry looks forward to ‘good meeting’ between major powers, Iran
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he looked forward to a “good meeting” with Iran and major powers on Thursday but would not address what Iran needed to do to show a genuine desire to address its nuclear program.
Ex-President George H.W. Bush serves as witness at same-sex wedding
(Reuters) – Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, were the official witnesses of a same-sex marriage between two women in Maine over the weekend, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
IRS struggles to track its ‘Obamacare’ spending: watchdog
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job tracking its spending related to President Barack Obama’s new healthcare law, an IRS watchdog said on Wednesday.
Ex-Washington state campaign director charged with embezzling to feed gambling habit
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) – The former head of a Democratic Party fundraising committee in Washington state has been charged with embezzling up to $300,000 in campaign contributions to feed a gambling habit, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Not running for president (yet), Hillary Clinton keeps the spotlight
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The question was being asked in hallway whispers and excited chatter in many languages this week at the Clinton Global Initiative conference. It’s the question that follows Hillary Clinton everywhere – will she run for U.S. preside…
U.S. lawmakers seek to end bulk NSA telephone records collection
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic and Republican U.S. senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ communication records and set other new controls on the government’s electronic eaves…
Congress moves toward extending worldwide anti-AIDS program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday to extend for another decade a successful and popular program to combat AIDS worldwide launched 10 years ago by former President…
U.S. congressional panels agree on bill to regulate drug compounding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives and Senate committees have agreed on legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration greater authority to regulate companies that compound sterile drugs and ship them across state lines.
