After Syria, U.S. Congress wary of Obama’s Iran thaw
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After balking at President Barack Obama’s plan to attack Syria, the U.S. Congress is also stirring in opposition to his latest foreign policy goal: an effort to improve relations with Iran.
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. Senator John McCain takes talkathoner Ted Cruz to woodshed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator John McCain lashed out at fellow Republican Ted Cruz on Wednesday over a Nazi appeasement comparison he made during his all-night, anti-Obamacare marathon on the U.S. Senate floor.
Obamacare’s average monthly cost across U.S.: $328
(Reuters) – Americans will pay an average premium of $328 monthly for a mid-tier health insurance plan when the Obamacare health exchanges open for enrollment next week, and most will qualify for government subsidies to lower that price, the federal go…
In nearly empty Senate, Ted Cruz talks and talks and talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was precisely eight o’clock Tuesday night and the Senate chamber was nearly empty when Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz started reading “Green Eggs and Ham,” aloud.
No verification that Americans involved in Kenya attack: U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday there had been no verification that Americans were involved in a deadly attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
Exclusive: Hundreds of U.S. security clearances seen falsified
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors have documented at least 350 instances of faulty background investigations done by private contractors and special agents for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in recent years, illustrating what some law…
After Syria, Congress wary of Obama’s Iran thaw
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After balking at President Barack Obama’s plan to attack Syria, the U.S. Congress is also stirring in opposition to his latest foreign policy goal: an effort to improve relations with Iran.
Obamacare sign-up effort finds urban allies in ‘red’ states
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Behind the political battle lines on Obamacare, the three-story headquarters of Change Happens rises like a fortress in a blighted southeast Houston neighborhood of tiny wood-frame shacks, empty lots and crack houses.
Obama pledges diplomacy with Iran, but he and Rouhani don’t meet
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday cautiously embraced overtures from Iran’s new president as the basis for a possible nuclear deal, but a failed effort to arrange a simple handshake between the two leaders underscored en…
