The Hill: The White House apologized on Wednesday to Shirley Sherrod over her forced resignation, but deflected blame over who was responsible to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the White House was informed of the decision to ask Sherrod to resign and did not give an order, [...]
The Hill: President Obama on Wednesday signed the Wall Street reform bill, putting another major item on his domestic agenda into law. Obama, flanked by congressional leaders including House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), noted the bill’s supporters had to “overcome the furious lobbying of [...]
Politico: The Republican path to a Senate majority runs through a handful of hostile states, most of which are so deep blue that they haven’t sent a member to the upper chamber in more than a decade. Boiled down, the problem is this: The first six or seven seats of the 10 necessary for a [...]
The Hill: Senate Republicans have forced Democrats to wait another 30 hours before final passage of extended unemployment benefits, derailing a plan to move quickly to comprehensive energy reform legislation. The Senate voted at 2:31 p.m. Tuesday to cut off a GOP filibuster of the legislation but chamber rules require that 30 hours of post-cloture [...]
Wall Street Journal: It was a year ago this month that President Barack Obama began losing voters. In the 12 months since, he has had legislative victories that appear – especially in the case of health care – to have cost him large amounts of both political capital and political support. A comparison of the [...]
ABC News: Those already outraged by the president’s health care legislation now have a new bone of contention — a scarcely noticed tack-on provision to the law that puts gold coin buyers and sellers under closer government scrutiny. The issue is rising to the fore just as gold coin dealers are attracting attention over sales [...]
A huge star in a neighbouring galaxy is believed to be the most massive star ever discovered, scientists said on Wednesday.
The Useless Sanctions Times: Reporting from Seoul, South Korea —Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced new U.S. sanctions against North Korea Wednesday focused on halting money-making schemes employed by the regime to fund its nuclear program. “These measures are not directed at the people of North Korea, who have suffered too long due to the [...]
CBS2Chicago: Rod Blagojevich Defense Rests Without Calling Any Witnesses; Closing Arguments On Monday The trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is coming to a sudden and unexpected end on Wednesday, as defense attorneys announced that Blagojevich was not taking the stand, despite repeated promises over the past 19 months that he would. The former governor’s [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government’s spill chief said a relief tunnel should finally reach BP’s broken Gulf of Mexico well by the weekend, meaning the three-month-old gusher could be snuffed for good within two weeks. After several days of concern about the well’s stability and the leaky cap keeping the oil mostly bottled [...]
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WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – Increased housing commitments swelled U.S. taxpayers’ total support for the financial system by $700 billion in the past year to around $3.7 trillion, a government watchdog said on Wednesday. The Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said the increase was due largely to the government’s pledges to [...]
Sample file photo, not officer involved Arizona Republic: The video has the feel of a confessional. Phoenix police Officer Paul Dobson appears apprehensive, his voice filled with uncertainty, as he offers his opinion about Arizona’s controversial new immigration law known as Senate Bill 1070. “This law will make me feel like a Nazi out there,” [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The woman at the center of a racially tinged firestorm involving the Obama administration and the NAACP said Wednesday she doesn’t know if she’d return to her job at the Agriculture Department, even if asked. “I am just not sure how I would be treated there,” Shirley Sherrod said in a nationally [...]
The Celebrities Get Off Easy Times: Lindsay Lohan is expected to be released from a Lynwood jail on Aug. 2, serving only 14 days of her 90-day sentence, according to a Sheriff’s Department booking document. Until now, Sheriff’s Department officials have said they were not sure how many days Lohan would spend behind bars. Even [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday he will reconsider the department’s decision to oust a black employee over racially tinged remarks after learning more about what she said. Vilsack issued a short statement early Wednesday morning after Shirley Sherrod, who until Tuesday was the Agriculture Department’s director of rural development in Georgia, [...]
The Hill: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday rebuffed calls from the Senate for a full investigation of BP’s involvement in the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Cameron restated his opposition to the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, whom the prime minister repeatedly called a “mass murderer†during a press conference at the White [...]
