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- Immigration suddenly roiling presidential contest
- Obama faces growing GOP super PAC financial power
- THE RACE: Deficit panel report gets new attention
- Mubarak health drama adds to Egypt uncertainty
- Factbox: History of U.S. executive privilege
- Hollande prepares French civil service cuts: paper
- Summer poses toughest test for Afghan force
- Celebrities, activists risk losing Assange bail money
- US probes Afghan tax on companies doing rebuilding
- Obama faces growing GOP super PAC financial power
- Poll showing Obama 13 points ahead raises eyebrows
- ICRC worker killed in Yemen air strike - ICRC
- Senate votes to retain sugar program
- If You're Rich and Republican and Support Romney…
- Contempt of Congress: What?
- Romney campaign fends off immigration questions
- Obama Campaign: We Will Be Outspent in 2012
- Hamas signals ready for truce after Israel kills 2
- Obama campaign says it expects to be outspent
- Controversial U.N. Congo report delayed, not blocked: envoys
- Struggling jury pauses in Philadelphia church sex abuse trial
- Obama makes condolence call to Saudi King Abdullah
- Analysis: U.S. budget axe may spare costly crop insurance
- House committee holds AG Holder in contempt
- House panel votes Holder in contempt of Congress
- Fate of Romney's Candidacy 'Could Hang in the Balance' With Thursday Speech to Latinos
- Issa, House Charge Forward with Contempt Citation for Attorney General Eric Holder
- Ex-GM plants for sale; must create jobs
- Italy's Monti asks parties to speed labor reform
- Liberals urge Obama to go after Wall Street harder
- Immigration suddenly roiling presidential contest
- U.S. conference highlights slaves' southern path to freedom
- Obama campaign predicts Romney June fundraising win
| Immigration suddenly roiling presidential contest Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:31 PM PDT
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| Obama faces growing GOP super PAC financial power Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:47 PM PDT Donors supporting President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have helped them raise hundreds of millions of dollars in their bids for the White House. |
| THE RACE: Deficit panel report gets new attention Posted: 20 Jun 2012 11:14 AM PDT
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| Mubarak health drama adds to Egypt uncertainty Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:29 PM PDT
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| Factbox: History of U.S. executive privilege Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:16 PM PDT June 20 - President Barack Obama invoked executive privilege on Wednesday for the first time since taking office, withholding from a congressional panel some documents related to a botched operation to track guns smuggled to Mexico. Presidents have invoked the privilege for years, but the U.S. Supreme Court first acknowledged a constitutional basis for the practice in its 1974 United States v. Nixon decision. But courts have never given presidents absolute authority to defy congressional subpoenas. ... |
| Hollande prepares French civil service cuts: paper Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:14 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande's government, under pressure to honor European debt-reduction commitments, is eyeing cuts in the staff and operational costs of the civil service over the years 2013, 2014 and 2015, a newspaper said on Wednesday. While not yet set in stone, government deliberations over recent days have focused on broad targets for spending restraint, to be fine-tuned in coming weeks, the daily Le Figaro said. Citing a source in the Budget Ministry, the newspaper said government meetings had focused on cutting civil service staffing by an average 2. ... |
| Summer poses toughest test for Afghan force Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:03 PM PDT This summer's fighting in Afghanistan will be the toughest test for the country's evolving security forces as they try to root out insurgents in the more heavily populated regions, senior defense officials told skeptical lawmakers on Wednesday. |
| Celebrities, activists risk losing Assange bail money Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:58 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The founder of Wikileaks knows how to keep a secret. Two days before claiming asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, Julian Assange partied with some of his most famous and well-heeled supporters. He did not mention that, in order to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual-assault charges, he was about to potentially forfeit the bail money they had posted. Among the well-known figures who stand to lose some or all of whatever they pledged for Assange's bail are London socialite Jemima Khan, British film director Ken Loach and the U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore. ... |
| US probes Afghan tax on companies doing rebuilding Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:52 PM PDT A government watchdog is looking into Afghanistan's practice of taxing U.S. companies involved in America's multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild the war-torn nation. |
| Obama faces growing GOP super PAC financial power Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:47 PM PDT Donors supporting President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have helped them raise hundreds of millions of dollars in their bids for the White House. |
| Poll showing Obama 13 points ahead raises eyebrows Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:44 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After weeks of national polls showing the U.S. presidential race as a near dead heat, a survey on Wednesday raised eyebrows by giving President Barack Obama a commanding 13-point lead over his Republican rival Mitt Romney. The Bloomberg poll showed Obama leading Romney 53 percent to 40 percent among likely voters. Most polls show the two candidates tied, or within a couple of points of one another. An average of polls compiled by RealClearPolitics.com has Obama leading Romney by 2.2 percentage points, at an average of 46.6 percent to 44.4 percent for Romney. ... |
| ICRC worker killed in Yemen air strike - ICRC Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:42 PM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - A Yemeni man working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was killed by an air strike in Abyan province on Wednesday while carrying out humanitarian work, the agency said. Yemeni troops backed by air power last week retook several towns in the southern province of Abyan that Islamist militants allied to al Qaeda had seized last year. The troops are supported by the United States, which has also been using drones to kill suspected militants on what it sees as a front line in its own war against al Qaeda. ... |
| Senate votes to retain sugar program Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:38 PM PDT The Senate voted Wednesday not to tamper with the Depression-era program that protects U.S. sugar growers as it sped toward completion of a $500 billion bill to operate farm and food programs over the next five years. |
| If You're Rich and Republican and Support Romney… Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:20 PM PDT Park City, Utah, will be the place to be this weekend. That is, if you might be Mitt Romney's running mate, if you want to be considered as his No. 2, or if you are massively wealthy. The who's who of Romney donors and the... |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:15 PM PDT Eric Holder is the first member of the Obama administration to be held in contempt of Congress. A House panel led by the GOP's chief White House instigator Darrell Issa voted along party lines against the attorney general, who has refused to turn over documents... |
| Romney campaign fends off immigration questions Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:12 PM PDT
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| Obama Campaign: We Will Be Outspent in 2012 Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:06 PM PDT President Obama smashed fundraising records in 2008, collecting $746 million to win what turned out to be the most expensive presidential contest in history. But four years later, the president's senior campaign advisers say they expect to be outspent by pro-Republican outside groups, including nonprofit... |
| Hamas signals ready for truce after Israel kills 2 Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:02 PM PDT
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| Obama campaign says it expects to be outspent Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:02 PM PDT President Barack Obama's campaign said Wednesday it expects the president to become the first incumbent to be outspent by his opponent, outlining the potential for $1 billion in spending from Republican-leaning outside groups supporting Mitt Romney. |
| Controversial U.N. Congo report delayed, not blocked: envoys Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:00 PM PDT KINSHASA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States is delaying but will not block release of a United Nations expert report on Congo, diplomats said of a dispute over a document likely to implicate Rwanda in its neighbor's conflict and test ties between the former arch-foes. The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused the United States of blocking the so-called Group of Experts report to protect its ally but diplomats at the U.N. said they expected the report to be published in full once Rwanda had been given a chance to respond to the accusations. ... |
| Struggling jury pauses in Philadelphia church sex abuse trial Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:57 PM PDT
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| Obama makes condolence call to Saudi King Abdullah Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:56 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama called Saudi King Abdullah on Thursday to offer condolences on the death of Crown Prince Nayef and welcomed the appointment of Prince Salman as next in line to the throne, the White House said. It was Obama's second phone conversation in less than a week with the ruler of the world's largest oil exporter. They spoke last Thursday amid concerns about escalating violence in Syria and plans to widen sanctions on Iran. ... |
| Analysis: U.S. budget axe may spare costly crop insurance Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the U.S. Congress on the brink of passing the most sweeping farm spending cuts in a generation, critics are riled the budget axe will spare billions of dollars in federal subsidies for private companies that reap double-digit returns for insuring crops. Two years of wrangling over the next farm bill has cut $23 billion over the coming decades from crop subsidies, conservation programs, food stamps and a range of rural economic development programs. ... |
| House committee holds AG Holder in contempt Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:52 PM PDT A House committee has voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Justice Department documents. |
| House panel votes Holder in contempt of Congress Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:46 PM PDT
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| Fate of Romney's Candidacy 'Could Hang in the Balance' With Thursday Speech to Latinos Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:42 PM PDT For the first time in this presidential election both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney this week will directly address Latinos, a crucial voting bloc that could swing this fall's race for the White House. On Thursday, Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, will speak to... |
| Issa, House Charge Forward with Contempt Citation for Attorney General Eric Holder Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:39 PM PDT
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| Ex-GM plants for sale; must create jobs Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:39 PM PDT YPSILANTI, Michigan (Reuters) - Bruce Rasher runs the third-largest portfolio of industrial property in the United States, but with holdings made up of unwanted plants that General Motors Co got rid of during its 2009 bankruptcy, he will need a great deal of patience to sell them all. The redevelopment director of the Racer Trust and his team were charged with selling 89 former GM buildings in 14 states, using $770 million in federal funding for environmental cleanup and upkeep. ... |
| Italy's Monti asks parties to speed labor reform Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:38 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mario Monti on Wednesday asked Italy's political parties to swiftly approve his contested labor reform so that it is law by the time he attends a crucial European Union summit in Brussels on June 28. The legislation, which proposes easing firing restrictions, discouraging the use of temporary contracts and handing out unemployment benefits to more people, is still being reviewed by parliament three months after it was presented by the cabinet. ... |
| Liberals urge Obama to go after Wall Street harder Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:32 PM PDT
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| Immigration suddenly roiling presidential contest Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:31 PM PDT
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| U.S. conference highlights slaves' southern path to freedom Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:26 PM PDT ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla (Reuters) - With the North Star as the guiding light for runaway slaves and Canada as the Promised Land, the underground railroad that U.S. schoolchildren read about in textbooks points to freedom in just one direction - the north. But scholars gathering this week for the National Underground Railroad Conference will head south to St. Augustine, Florida, home to the former capital of Spanish Florida and a flight-to-freedom story rooted in the 17th century that is unknown to most Americans. ... |
| Obama campaign predicts Romney June fundraising win Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:21 PM PDT
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