Israeli-Palestinian talks to intensify, greater U.S. role
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to intensify their peace talks and to increase the U.S. role, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday in a rare comment on the negotiations.
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…
U.S. 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.
U.S. to exhaust borrowing capacity by October 17: Treasury
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States would exhaust its borrowing capacity no later than October 17, at which point it would have only about $30 billion in cash on hand.
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. says “not done yet” on Syria U.N. draft resolution
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday that progress has been made in discussions among the five permanent U.N. Security Council members on a draft resolution on eradicating Syria’s chemical weapons but there was still work to b…
U.S. Senator Cruz catapults to fame with marathon anti-Obamacare speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As Ted Cruz’s anti-Obamacare U.S. Senate talkathon entered its 19th hour early on Wednesday, Tea Party Patriots leader Jenny Beth Martin said that “by the time this is over, most people in America are going to know who Ted Cruz i…
U.S. Congress turns attention to debt limit battle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress, already struggling to avert a government shutdown next week, turned its attention on Wednesday to the other fiscal bullet it had to dodge: a federal debt default.
California to raise minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) – California has become the first state in the nation to commit to raising the minimum wage to $10 per hour, with the increase to take place gradually through the start of 2016, under a bill Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed i…
Kerry signs U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, says won’t harm U.S. rights
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States signed a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty regulating the $70 billion global trade in conventional arms on Wednesday and the Obama administration sought to allay the fears of the powerful U.S. gun lobby which says the …
