Senator Warren calls for tough cross-border swap rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic Senator and Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren is urging federal regulators to “show some backbone” and stick to their proposal for how new derivatives rules will apply to foreign banks who do business with U.S. compa…
Support grows for U.S. offshore corporate income tax cut: lawmaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Support from U.S.-based multinational companies is coalescing around a proposal to stem offshore profit shifting and cut the tax rate on some corporate profits, a top congressional Republican working to revamp the tax code said o…
Cuban-American Democrat is Rubio counterweight on immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the Senate debates the most far reaching immigration bill in a generation, all eyes are on Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio, wondering if he might walk away from it.
Analysis: Top court’s gay marriage ruling won’t be last word
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Whatever the U.S. Supreme Court decides this month, gay marriage appears destined to face several more years of legal debate and at least one more round of argument at the high court.
Lawmakers tire of playing ’20 questions’ in surveillance briefings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some members of the Congress say that getting straight answers from intelligence agencies about top-secret surveillance is like playing the game “20 Questions,” where answers come only if a questioner knows exactly what to ask.
Exclusive: Antitrust probe of Lockheed-Boeing rocket venture
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators have opened a probe into whether a Lockheed-Boeing joint venture that launches U.S. government satellites into space has flouted antitrust laws.
Obama urges Massachusetts, Florida voters to back Democrats
MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, fighting to protect his party’s margin of control in the U.S. Senate and hoping for gains in the House of Representatives, urged Massachusetts voters and well-heeled Floridians to back Democrats….
Military doctors urged to refuse force-feeding at Guantanamo
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – U.S. military doctors should refuse orders to force-feed hunger strikers at the Guantanamo detention camp because it violates their ethical obligations, two doctors and a medical ethics professor wrote i…
NSA director says surveillance helped stop ‘dozens’ of attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the National Security Agency said on Wednesday that extensive U.S. surveillance efforts had helped stop “dozens” of possible attacks, and warned that making details of the top-secret programs public had compromised na…
U.S. eases trade restrictions to Syria rebel-held areas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday eased restrictions on exports to opposition-held areas in Syria to help rebuild shattered infrastructure in a move U.S. officials said will help facilitate oil sales from rebel-controlled areas.
