The Hill: Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) is the toast of conservatives across the country, but he will soon have to confront some difficult decisions that will go a long way in defining his Speakership. Boehner has said he has learned from prior Speakers from both sides of the aisle, and has vowed to run the [...]
Fox News: McConnell to meet with him on Nov. 18. The meeting is also to include current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The president said he wants the bipartisan meeting to be a substantive discussion on the economy. He also wants the Senate to pass a nuclear-arms treaty with Russia [...]
PARIS (AP) — One of two mail bombs sent from Yemen last week was defused just 17 minutes before it was set to explode, the French interior minister said Thursday. Brice Hortefeux provided no other details in an interview on France’s state-run France-2 television, or say where he got the information about the timing. When [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal authorities in San Diego have made one of the largest marijuana seizures in the United States, confiscating more than 20 tons of pot that was smuggled into the country through an underground tunnel connecting warehouses on either side of California’s border with Mexico, officials said Wednesday. Mexican authorities seized more [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Environmental groups and industry seem headed for another battle over regulation of greenhouse gases, as President Barack Obama said he will look for ways to control global warming pollution other than Congress placing a ceiling on it. “Cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way,” [...]
NDTV: New Delhi: The White House will, of course, stay in Washington but the heart of the famous building will move to India when President Barack Obama lands in Mumbai on Saturday. Communications set-up, nuclear button, a fleet of limousines and majority of the White House staff will be in India accompanying the President on [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s Republican leader says congressional lawmakers can and should vote to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, repeatedly if necessary. If Obama should veto laws repealing the health care overhaul, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says, the House should cancel funding for its programs. As for the Senate, he says [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans say they’ll repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, but tinker and tweak is as far as they’re likely to get. And that might not be a bad thing if you’re a GOP strategist. It keeps the issue Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell calls the “tipping point” in the [...]
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — A U.S. university student died Wednesday from a shooting attack on a car in Ciudad Juarez, making him the fifth American slain in the violent border city in six days. Eder Diaz, 23, a student across the border at the University of Texas at El Paso, was attacked Tuesday evening [...]
