Republican-led House passes bill restricting abortion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation that would ban late-term abortions, a move that could alienate women from the conservative party.
Massachusetts Senate candidates spar on surveillance programs
BOSTON (Reuters) – The candidates fighting for Massachusetts’ open seat in the U.S. Senate staked out contrasting positions on recent revelations that the National Security Agency was tracking Americans’ use of phones and the Internet in a debate on Tu…
Missouri senator joins effort urging Hillary Clinton to seek presidency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not committed to a run for president in 2016 but on Tuesday she picked up an endorsement from Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, who announced she is supporting a group encouragi…
Mississippi leans on Google to crack down on illegal products
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mississippi’s attorney general said on Tuesday he would subpoena documents from Google Inc as part of a probe into allegations the Web search company facilitated the sale of drugs without a prescription and other illegal products…
Enroll America sets private outreach for Obamacare sign-up
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Enroll America, a nonprofit group at the center of the political fight over President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law, launched a multi-state grassroots campaign on Tuesday to help sign up millions of uninsured Americans for…
Gaps widen between House, Senate on immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Work intensified on Tuesday to revamp the U.S. immigration system, but gaps widened between the Democratic-led Senate and Republican-led House of Representatives over what proposed changes should become law.
United States to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peace
WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) – The United States will meet the Taliban this week for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan, where U.S.-led forces and the insurgents have fought a bloody and costly war for the past 12 years, U.S. officials said on…
Protesters jailed as they decry Republican shift in North Carolina
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – A conservative shift by North Carolina’s first Republican-led government in more than a century is drawing weekly protests to the state capital of Raleigh, but some lawmakers are defiantly standing their ground.
NSA chief: agency programs prevented over 50 potential terrorist acts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – General Keith Alexander, the director of the U.S. National Security Agency, said on Tuesday that the NSA’s data gathering programs had prevented potential terrorist attacks more than 50 times since September 11, 2001.
U.S. groups form alliance to push for Indian trade reforms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A coalition of U.S. business groups on Tuesday demanded President Barack Obama’s administration increase pressure on India to change trade policies that they said threaten U.S. exports, jobs and innovation.
