Reporting from Washington – The most heated controversy over the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down parts of the nation’s campaign-funding laws has focused on whether the decision frees foreign corporations to pour money into American electio…
Item one: There was a vote in the Senate yesterday to establish pay-as-you-go budgeting principles, which are just what they sound like they are. You’d think Reps would like this sort of thing. In the past, at least four sitting GOP senators have said they support this. So what was the vote? 60-40 in support, [...]
President Barack Obama is essentially grounding efforts to return astronauts to the moon and instead is sending NASA in new directions with roughly $6 billion more, according to officials familiar with the plans.
He was not wrong about intervention. It was his political judgment that went badly awry. If only this was Chilcot’s focusTony Blair does not make it easy for those who still insist on trying to judge him and his era in the round. The money has become disturbing. The lapses into solipsism, even sanctimony, strike [...]
A lottery winner who was struck and killed by a car in northern Ohio on the day she got her check had just spent some of the money on wedding rings for her and her husband.
A Wisconsin woman who tried to extort money from an upscale restaurant by putting a rat in her lunch has entered no-contest pleas to two criminal charges.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly one in five U.S. households ran out of money to buy enough food at least once during 2009, said an antihunger group on Tuesday, urging more federal action to help Americans get enough to eat.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An electronic security program at New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority will cost more than expected but there is not enough money and it may never be completed, the state comptroller said on Tuesday.
“We are going to see now an inundation of special-interest money into political campaigns,I think that diminishes the influence of average citizens.” On “Face the Nation,” Jan. 24, 2010. Senator John McCain, who helped rewrite the nat…
Shareholder Resolution Filed Early As Company “Rushes to Pay Huge Bonuses”Goldman Sachs is issuing its much anticipated earnings announcement on Thursday (October 15, 2009), and is expected to set aside up to $20 billion for executive …