Liberal NYC Democrat wins Obama’s backing in mayoral race
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Monday threw his support behind New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, lauding his fellow Democrat’s commitment to “an economy that works for all” and a “bold, courageous” plan to lift more New Yorkers…
Fed needs to push hard against U.S. headwinds: Dudley
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve still needs to push hard against threats to the U.S. economic recovery and fiscal uncertainties in particular “loom very large right now,” an influential Fed policymaker said on Monday.
Insight: Chamber of Commerce turns to small courts for big wins
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has long used a small team of lawyers on the U.S. Supreme Court, seeing the top court as a key battleground for business interests.
A wild week ahead as Senate confronts shutdown deadline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress begins a wild and potentially chaotic week on Monday that may or may not end with a government shutdown on October 1 but will surely do nothing to improve its low standing with American voters.
At Navy Yard service, Obama rails against ‘routine’ of gun violence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama made an impassioned plea on Sunday for Americans to overcome their “creeping resignation” about gun violence and demand tougher gun laws following the country’s latest mass shooting.
U.S. will support Kenya to bring attackers to justice: Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama called Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday to offer condolences over what the White House called a “terrorist attack” by the al Shabaab group at a Nairobi shopping mall that has killed almost 70 peopl…
Democrats, Republicans expect to avert U.S. government shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Key Democrats and Republicans said on Sunday that they expect a bitterly divided Congress to somehow come together and avert a U.S. government shutdown in eight days.
Clinton mulls idea of White House run, aware of ‘challenges’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton acknowledges that she is wrestling with whether to run for the U.S. presidency in 2016, well aware of the “political and governmental challenges” she would face if she wins.
Citing shootings, Obama says must ‘go back at’ gun-control push
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged supporters on Saturday to “go back at it” and pursue gun-control measures after mass shootings in Washington and Chicago in the past week put the spotlight back onto the problem of gun violence in the…
Even in a U.S. government shutdown, Obamacare exchanges could function
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. State officials behind the launch of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform on October 1 say they could weather a federal government shutdown, though the scenario would add new pressure to the political attacks and technic…
