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Jun 17 2012
News
Recovery Slows as Global Risks Rise
The U.S. economy is continuing to lose momentum just as global events that could derail the recovery gather steam.
New data this week provided more evidence that the economic recovery is sputtering for the third year in a row. Layoffs are rising, factory output is falling and consumers are cutting spending amid rising uncertainty. Moreover, those warning signs mostly predate the worst
Wall Street Journal (News)
Feb 14 2020
News
Trump says he may stop allowing top officials to listen to his calls with foreign leaders
President Trump says he's considering ending the standard protocol of having top administration officials listen to his calls with foreign leaders, following his conversation with Ukraine's president, a call that culminated in his impeachment. Mr. Trump floated the possibility in an interview with Geraldo Rivera.
Rivera asked the president why so many people are allowed to listen to his
CBS News (Online)
Jun 13 2012
News
Obama Seeks New Taxes on Rich
President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to enact new taxes on the wealthy, restructure the tax code and approve short-term spending measures as part of an election-year budget plan aimed at boosting job growth and helping the middle class.
Mr. Obama's $3.8 trillion budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 was quickly dismissed by congressional Republicans and GOP presidential
Wall Street Journal (News)
Mar 02 2020
Opinion
Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer drop out. Other Democrats also should do the right thing.
With the Super Tuesday primaries rapidly approaching, a broad swath of Democratic voters are less interested in the political "revolution" promised by front-runner Bernie Sanders than they are in someone who would simply restore decency to the White House and provide stable leadership without wrecking the economy.
So far, however, those non-Sanders votes have been fragmented among half
USA TODAY
Sep 17 2019
News
6 Years Ago, Democrats Failed on Guns. Have They Learned From Their Mistakes?
Beto O’Rourke reshaped the national gun debate when, in response to a string of deadly mass shootings, he called for a mandatory buyback of the military-style assault weapons used in the massacres. “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” he said during last week’s debate. “We’re not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.”
Gun rights advocates
Mother Jones
Oct 17 2019
News
US picks Trump resort for G-7; critics call choice ‘brazen’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s suggestion that his Miami golf resort host next year’s Group of Seven summit became a reality Thursday, sparking an outcry from critics who called it the most blatant example yet of him using the power of his office to boost his business empire.
“There are folks who will never get over the fact that it’s a Trump property, but we’re still going
Associated Press
May 23 2013
News
Obama speech to focus on drones, Guantanamo prison
From the targeted killing of Americans overseas to the future of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama will lay out the framework and legal rationale for his administration's counterterrorism policy in a widely anticipated speech Thursday. Administration officials tell CNN that Obama will use the National Defense University speech to continue to call on engagement with
CNN (Online News)
Apr 23 2020
News
4.4 million Americans sought jobless benefits last week, as economic pain continued across the United States
More than 4.4 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, according to the Labor Department, a signal that the tidal wave of job losses continues to grow during the coronavirus pandemic.
It’s the fifth-straight week that job losses were measured in the millions. From March 15 to April 18, 26.5 million have likely been laid off or furloughed. Jobless figures on this
Washington Post
Feb 25 2015
News
Obama meets with immigration activists ahead of Florida town hall
President Obama plans to highlight aspects of his executive actions on immigration not subject to a ruling by a Texas judge that temporarily blocked the administration's deferred-deportation program, according to some immigration advocates who met with Obama on Wednesday.
Obama met with 17 advocates at the White House, hours before a town hall-style forum in Miami. Obama will push those
Washington Post
Jan 02 2014
News
Obamacare Effects Begin to Hit Home
The hangovers from New Year's Eve have gone and now millions of Americans are waking up to headaches from Obamacare sticker shock.
Middle-class families are finding out the exact cost of the Affordable Care Act to their weekly budget, and they are realizing they have to make cutbacks in their lifestyles to afford higher healthcare insurance premiums, The Week reports.
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Newsmax (News)