By ALEX ISENSTADT, Politico There were 22 Republicans who lined up against House Speaker John Boehner’s package to raise the nation’s debt ceiling – a cast that’s almost entirely made up of tea party-backed freshmen and a few deeply conservative veterans. Of the nearly two dozen ‘no’ votes, about half were cast by freshmen who [...]
By JENNIFER JACOBS, The Des Moines Register Letters soliciting campaign donations landed in Iowa mailboxes today from presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul. She asks for help to stop President Barack Obama and “his liberal allies.” He asks for help defeating his fellow Republicans in Iowa. Bachmann says in her six-page letter: “Virtually every [...]
By MICHELLE QUINN, Politico Amazon supports a bill that would give states the ability to force online retailers to collect sales tax, but eBay does not. Those were some of the reactions to the Main Street Fairness Act, which Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced on Friday. Continue Reading Congress has considered the bill before, but [...]
BY ANJALI MULLANY, DAILY NEWS President Obama brought his debt battle to Twitter and he lost – more than 40,000 Twitter followers. Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to “keep the pressure on” lawmakers in hopes of reaching a bipartisan deal to raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit ahead [...]
By Robert Weisman, Boston Globe Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday that it plans to eliminate 1,200 to 1,400 jobs worldwide during the next 2 ½ years to free money for new investments, the Natick medical device maker’s second major round of cuts since last year. The company would not say how many jobs will be [...]
BY MIKE BLASKY, LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL A Las Vegas police officer under investigation for the videotaped beating of a man in March violated several Metropolitan Police Department policies, an internal investigation found. Mitchell Crooks’ complaint about officer Derek Colling’s excessive force was sustained, Deputy Chief Gary Schofield said Friday. The specific policy violations will not [...]
By Stephen Dinan-The Washington Times The Senate late Friday rejected yet another House Republican proposal to stave off a looming debt crisis, acting just hours after the lower chamber had approved the measure and leaving the path to a deal still in doubt with just days to go before the Tuesday deadline. Senators voted 59-41 [...]
NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley isn’t retreating from her decision to keep the Confederate flag atop the north end of the Statehouse in Columbia despite complaints from the NAACP, whose president this week said the ethnic minority governor is a “contradiction” for allowing the flag to fly.
HOBOKEN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Governor Chris Christie appeared in good spirits and good health when he left a Somerville hospital Thursday night.
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