It’s progressive versus progressive in Seattle mayoral primary
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Seattle’s Democratic Mayor Mike McGinn faces a tough hurdle to re-election on Tuesday as he faces off in a primary vote against a field of overwhelmingly progressive challengers, including a state legislator known for his leadership…
Florida governor plans to resume voter purge effort
MIAMI (Reuters) – Florida Governor Rick Scott is planning a new effort to purge non-U.S. citizens from the state’s voter rolls, a move that last year prompted a series of legal challenges and claims from critics his administration was trying to intimid…
Obama returns to Arizona to tout broad U.S. housing recovery
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With vacant, half-built residential developments that gathered dust after the Great Recession, the U.S. Southwest once symbolized the 2008-2012 housing bust that wiped out $7 trillion in homeowner equity and wrecked the finances …
Obama to back mortgage finance reform to speed housing recovery
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will propose overhauling the U.S. mortgage finance system in a speech on Tuesday, weighing in on a tangled and polarizing problem that was central to the devastating financial crisis in 2007-2009 and that c…
Al Qaeda intercept is just one piece of threat intelligence: U.S. sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Intercepted communication between al Qaeda leaders was one component of a broader pool of intelligence that prompted a threat alert closing numerous U.S. embassies in the Middle East and Africa, U.S. sources said on Monday.
San Diego Mayor enters therapy amid sexual harassment allegations
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – San Diego’s mayor, facing mounting pressure to resign over sexual harassment allegations from nearly a dozen women, entered an intensive therapy program on Monday, a spokeswoman said.
U.S. to review DEA unit that hides use of intel in crime cases
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department is reviewing a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit that passes tips culled from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a large telephone database to field agents, White House Press Secretar…
Republicans threaten boycott of debates over Clinton programs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republicans are threatening to boycott 2016 presidential debates sponsored by networks CNN and NBC unless the networks cancel plans for special programs on Democrat Hillary Clinton, a possible 2016 White House contender.
Republicans threaten boycott of debates over Clinton programs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republicans are threatening to boycott 2016 presidential debates sponsored by networks CNN and NBC unless the networks cancel plans for special programs on Democrat Hillary Clinton, a possible 2016 White House contender.
New U.S. envoy to U.N. grilled on first day – by refugee students
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power faced some tough questions during her first day on the job on Monday, but they did not come from other U.N. Security Council envoys – instead she was grilled by refugee stu…
