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- Frustrated liberals want more from Obama
- Romney and GOP raise more than Obama and Democrats
- Pitfalls, promise for Obama and Romney in Nevada
- U.N. monitors shot at in Syria, Annan plan crumbles
- U.N.'s Ban warns of "imminent" threat of Syrian civil war
- Jury breaks without verdict in Philadelphia church abuse case
- House votes to upend parts of Obama health law
- Maxine Waters Continues to Question Misconduct by Ethics Committee
- U.N. watchdog to press Iran for access in atom probe
- House approves GOP bill repealing medical tax
- Rep. Waters demands disclosure in ethics case
- U.S. condemns Syria killings, urges end to Assad backing
- Annan urges more U.N. Security Council "pressure" on Syria
- U.N. condemns new Syria massacre, hopes fade for Annan plan
- Assad's blood-soaked battle for Syria
- Assad's ghost militia strikes fear into Syria revolt
- U.N. monitors fail to reach site of Syria killings
- Romney's Coin, Ben Bernanke's So-Called Fiscal Cliff, Bill Clinton's Wall Street, Dancing Joe Biden, Boo or Dew (PM Note)
- U.S. losing patience with Pakistan, says Panetta
- Philippines president visits U.S. as allies eye China
- Reid offers new plan on student loan deadlock
- Boehner floats six-month transport funding extension
- TSA says it's working to improve poor reputation
- New York officials, DOJ meet over stop-and-frisk
- JPMorgan trading loss shows danger in bank size: Volcker
- Factbox: A guide to the world of campaign financing
- Frustrated liberals want more from Obama
- Romney and GOP raise more than Obama and Democrats
- U.S. space agency pulls plug on astronomy probe
- Pulitzer Prize-winner Trethewey named U.S. poet laureate
- Lauryn Hill failed to file tax returns on $1.8 million in income: DOJ
- Panetta: Patience with Pakistan 'reaching limits'
- Panetta's remarks "unhelpful": Pakistan envoy
| Frustrated liberals want more from Obama Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:31 PM PDT
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| Romney and GOP raise more than Obama and Democrats Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:30 PM PDT
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| Pitfalls, promise for Obama and Romney in Nevada Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:46 AM PDT
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| U.N. monitors shot at in Syria, Annan plan crumbles Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:11 PM PDT
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| U.N.'s Ban warns of "imminent" threat of Syrian civil war Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:11 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - There is a growing threat of full-scale civil war erupting in Syria, where more than a year of violence between government forces and opposition fighters shows no signs of abating, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday. "The Syrian people are bleeding," Ban told reporters after addressing the U.N. Security Council behind closed doors. "They are angry. They want peace and dignity. Above all, they all want action." "The danger of a civil war is imminent and real," he said, adding that "terrorists are exploiting the chaos. ... |
| Jury breaks without verdict in Philadelphia church abuse case Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:08 PM PDT
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| House votes to upend parts of Obama health law Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:06 PM PDT
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| Maxine Waters Continues to Question Misconduct by Ethics Committee Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:06 PM PDT Within 24 hours of the House Ethics Committee's dismissal of her assertions that her constitutional rights were violated, Rep. Maxine Waters began to fight back. Waters is accused of steering $12 million in TARP funds to a minority-owned bank with ties to her husband in 2008. The ethics committee's trial... |
| U.N. watchdog to press Iran for access in atom probe Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:06 PM PDT VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog will press Iran on Friday for a deal that would enable its inspectors to visit a military complex where they suspect atom bomb research has taken place, but Western diplomats are skeptical a breakthrough will be reached. World powers will be watching the IAEA-Iran meeting in Vienna closely to judge whether the Islamic Republic is ready to make concessions before its broader talks with them later this month in Moscow on their decade-old nuclear dispute. Both Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. ... |
| House approves GOP bill repealing medical tax Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:05 PM PDT Scoffing at a White House veto threat, the House voted Thursday to repeal a tax on medical device makers that Republicans cast as a job-killing levy that would stifle an innovative industry. |
| Rep. Waters demands disclosure in ethics case Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:04 PM PDT Rep. Maxine Waters and dozens of House colleagues demanded Thursday that the House Ethics Committee make public an outside counsel's findings that her rights were not violated in her ethics case. |
| U.S. condemns Syria killings, urges end to Assad backing Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday condemned a reported new massacre in Syria as "outrageous targeted killings of civilians" and again called on other countries to halt support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and to join in backing a political transition there. The White House, in a statement, also described the Syrian government's refusal to let U.N. monitors into the area as "an affront to human dignity and justice." Opposition activists said up to 40 women and children were among at least 78 people killed in the Sunni Muslim village near Hama on Wednesday. ... |
| Annan urges more U.N. Security Council "pressure" on Syria Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:01 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - International mediator Kofi Annan warned the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that the Syria crisis will soon spiral out of control and called for "substantial pressure" on Damascus and consequences for undermining his peace plan, diplomats said. Annan briefed the closed-door session of the Security Council along with U.N. ... |
| U.N. condemns new Syria massacre, hopes fade for Annan plan Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:01 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ratcheted up the pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday to end his 15-month onslaught against an opposition seeking to oust him, condemning a reported new massacre in Syria as an "unspeakable barbarity." Ban and international mediator Kofi Annan both criticized Assad for failing to implement Annan's six-point peace plan, and Ban later told the U.N. Security Council it may be time to reassess the U.N. observer mission, which has done little to stop the violence. ... |
| Assad's blood-soaked battle for Syria Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:01 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - His opponents paint him as a butcher, dripping with the blood of thousands killed in a crackdown aimed at maintaining his family's four-decade rule over Syria. But President Bashar al-Assad, who has stemmed what many saw as an unstoppable tide of popular protest, says he is fighting to save his country from foreign-backed "terrorists" bent on destroying a proud Arab nation. ... |
| Assad's ghost militia strikes fear into Syria revolt Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:01 PM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Tattooed youths with AK-47s descend from hilltops onto villages pounded by Syrian artillery and break into homes, slit the throats of women and children or hack them to death. They leave, sometimes carrying bodies to hide traces of the massacre. Accounts like this from witnesses and opposition campaigners are heard with mounting frequency in north and central Syria, centers of the 15-month revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. Invariably, activists blame the feared "shabbiha" militia, the most ruthless opponents of the uprising. ... |
| U.N. monitors fail to reach site of Syria killings Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:01 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - United Nations monitors were unable to visit the village of Mazraat al-Qubeir on Thursday where activists say at least 78 people were massacred, and will continue efforts to reach the site on Friday in daylight hours, a spokeswoman said. "They are going back to their base in Hama and they will try again tomorrow morning," spokeswoman Sausan Ghosheh said. Chief observer General Robert Mood said earlier they had been turned back by Syrian soldiers and also stopped by civilians. U.N. ... |
| Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:01 PM PDT In Clinton, a Surrogate From the World of the Romneys - Clinton today apologized for his call to extend tax cuts. And while he says a Romney presidency would be calamitous, he won't back off his defense of Romney's business career. And why not –... |
| U.S. losing patience with Pakistan, says Panetta Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:58 PM PDT
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| Philippines president visits U.S. as allies eye China Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:57 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Philippines President Benigno Aquino is in the United States for a visit that will highlight the Southeast Asian archipelago's growing importance in U.S. strategic thinking, as the White House "pivots" to Asia and both countries worry about China's intentions. Aquino, well-regarded by the U.S. government, not least for fighting corruption, arrived on Wednesday and will be accorded a White House meeting on Friday with President Barack Obama. ... |
| Reid offers new plan on student loan deadlock Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:56 PM PDT Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday sought to defuse a partisan standoff over how to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling next month for 7.4 million students. |
| Boehner floats six-month transport funding extension Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:55 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Signaling that hopes for a deal on a transportation construction bill may be fading, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday floated the idea of a six-month extension of current funding to push the issue past the November elections. Boehner told reporters that if House and Senate negotiators fail to agree on new long-term funding by June 30, when the latest stop-gap authority for road, bridge and rail transit projects expires, he would not want another short-term extension. ... |
| TSA says it's working to improve poor reputation Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:51 PM PDT Just in time for the summer travel season, House lawmakers gave an earful Thursday to the chief of the Transportation Security Administration with complaints about post-9/11 restrictions on carry-on items aboard planes. |
| New York officials, DOJ meet over stop-and-frisk Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:43 PM PDT
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| JPMorgan trading loss shows danger in bank size: Volcker Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:39 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said JPMorgan Chase's recent multibillion-dollar trading loss may show that the nation's largest banks are too big to manage. JPMorgan revealed last month that its London office had executed a failed hedging strategy that has so far produced at least $2 billion in trading losses. The news has rattled Wall Street and Washington and raised questions about whether banks are still taking too many risks following the 2007-2009 financial crisis. ... |
| Factbox: A guide to the world of campaign financing Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:33 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney outpaced President Barack Obama in fundraising last month, as the race for cash speeds up five months before the November 6 election. Outside of the candidates' own efforts lies a satellite system of fundraising - a dizzying array of surrogates, parties and interest groups, subject to complicated and controversial U.S. campaign finance rules. ... |
| Frustrated liberals want more from Obama Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:31 PM PDT
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| Romney and GOP raise more than Obama and Democrats Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:30 PM PDT
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| U.S. space agency pulls plug on astronomy probe Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:10 PM PDT
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| Pulitzer Prize-winner Trethewey named U.S. poet laureate Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:08 PM PDT
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| Lauryn Hill failed to file tax returns on $1.8 million in income: DOJ Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:02 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Singer Lauryn Hill on Thursday was charged with failing to file federal income tax returns for three years during which she earned more than $1.8 million, officials said. Hill did not file an income tax return to the Internal Revenue Service from 2005 to 2007, the Department of Justice said in a statement. During this time her income, which primarily comes from recording and film royalties, totaled more than $1.8 million dollars. The three counts against Hill each carry a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine, the department said. ... |
| Panetta: Patience with Pakistan 'reaching limits' Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:57 PM PDT
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| Panetta's remarks "unhelpful": Pakistan envoy Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:57 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan's ambassador to the United States branded as "unhelpful" U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's latest stab at Islamabad's failure to tackle militant safe havens, saying it would make it harder for the two countries to narrow their differences. Panetta, speaking in Kabul on Thursday, said the United States was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens the country offered to insurgents fighting in neighboring Afghanistan. ... |
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