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Oct 16 2013
News
House conservatives sabotage Boehner plan to end shutdown
Conservatives in the House sabotaged Speaker John A. Boehner's plan Tuesday to dent Obamacare while reopening the government and raising the debt ceiling, leaving senators scrambling to kick-start their own deal before Thursday's deadline for a potential default.
Washington TimesJul 07 2020
News
New U.S. Visa Rules Threaten to Deport 369,000 Chinese Students
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students enroll at U.S. colleges and universities each year, and right now, a lot of them are concerned.
As schools try to figure out how to start the fall semester amid the coronavirus pandemic, some -- including Harvard University and the University of Southern California -- are opting for online-only instruction. And that means their foreign students
BloombergDec 30 2020
News
McConnell Blocks Vote on $2,000 Checks Despite G.O.P. Pressure
Senator Mitch McConnell instead provided vague assurances that the Senate would “begin the process” of discussing the checks and two other issues that the president demanded lawmakers address.
Senator Mitch McConnell blocked an attempt by Democrats on Tuesday to hold an immediate vote on increasing stimulus checks to $2,000 from $600, leaving the fate of the measure unclear as President
New York Times (News)Dec 30 2020
News
Strong early-vote turnout gives Dems hope in Georgia runoffs
Democrats are encouraged by stats that show their voters are overperforming with early voting set to conclude later this week.
Early voting in the Georgia Senate runoffs is breaking records — and Democrats have reasons for hope in the numbers.
More than 2.3 million people have voted as of Tuesday morning through mail-in ballots or in-person early voting for the two races, already
PoliticoMar 07 2013
News
Obama Looks For A Spring Thaw With Congress To Start Melting Deficit
President Obama is hoping for a spring thaw in White House-congressional relations.
The president had dinner Wednesday night with a small group of Republican lawmakers. He's also planning rare visits to Capitol Hill next week to discuss his agenda with both Democrats and Republicans.
Aides say Obama is trying to locate what he calls a "caucus of common sense" in Congress to
NPR (Online News)Nov 25 2020
News
Trump Reportedly Planning To Pardon Michael Flynn, Start Of Spree
President Donald Trump is planning to pardon Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, according to several media reports on Tuesday evening.
Both Axios and The New York Times said Trump has privately told aides Flynn will benefit from a series of pardons the president will issue before he leaves office. The move would continue Trump’s
HuffPostOct 24 2019
News
Major Donor to Trump, Clinton to Plead Guilty in Campaign-Finance Case
A major donor to both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton made hundreds of thousands of dollars of illegal campaign contributions, some from foreign sources, to help cultivate influential U.S. politicians, according to charging documents filed Tuesday by federal prosecutors in California.
California businessman Imaad Zuberi, 49 years old, capitalized on his access to U.S. politicians to
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 29 2020
Opinion
Is it any wonder liberal states are shrinking?
For an entire human lifetime, the state of Illinois has been a laggard in population growth. It has lost eight congressional districts since the 1950s. But new census estimates released last week show that this decade, something very special has happened.
The state, affectionately referred to by many as either the “Deadbeat State” (for its practice of handing out IOUs in place of
Washington ExaminerAug 29 2019
News
Immigration in America Is Increasingly Asian, Female, and Middle-Class. Why Don’t We Talk About It?
In the late 1980s, a young journalist named Jason DeParle moved in with a Filipino family in Manila to learn more about global poverty. Now a veteran New York Times reporter and author of the 2004 book American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare, DeParle followed the family he met as they have grown to include more than four dozen people over three generations,
Mother JonesMar 30 2019
News
U.S. judge scraps Trump order opening Arctic, Atlantic areas to oil leasing
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A federal judge in Alaska has overturned U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to open vast areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans to oil and gas leasing.
The decision issued late Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason leaves intact President Barack Obama’s policies putting the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea, part of the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea and a large
Reuters