WSJ: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Sunday said that leaders of both parties have reached an agreement to lift the U.S. debt ceiling, reduce the federal deficit and avoid a U.S. credit default, an announcement welcomed in early trading on the Asia financial markets. Both the U.S. House and Senate were expected to meet [...]
Guardian: Congress and the White House were closing in on a deal on Sunday to head off huge market falls and the prospect of America defaulting on Tuesday for the first time in its history. The Senate is scheduled to vote around 1pm (1800 BST) on a compromise thrashed out over the weekend between the [...]
Washington Times: The U.S. Secret Service does more than protect Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — the agency also pays him rent. Since April, Mr. Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency charged with protecting him and his family, for use of a rental cottage adjacent to the waterfront home he owns [...]
The Blaze: In Late May, the DOT proposed a rule change for farm equipment, and if it this allowed to take effect, it will place significant regulatory pressure on small farms and family farms all across America – costing them thousands of dollars and possibly forcing many of them out of business. The Federal Motor [...]
Washington (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, holding out hope for a last-minute compromise to raise the debt ceiling, abruptly postponed a key test vote late Saturday night to give negotiators “as much room as possible to do their work.” The Democratic leader, speaking on the Senate floor, said he wanted to let a [...]
Excerpted from the Las Vegas Review-Journal: On the night of March 20, Crooks, 36, was in his driveway, near East Desert Inn Road and South Maryland Parkway, videotaping police as they investigated a burglary report across the street. Crooks said that when he refused to stop filming, Colling arrested and beat him, with much of [...]
The Hill: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) of choosing “the dark side” in making his debt ceiling bill more amenable to House conservatives in securing passage. Pelosi also argued the Speaker had set the U.S. on a path towards default during her floor speech in favor of Senate Majority [...]
New york Times: Jamal Abdo [father of Pfc. Naser Abdo] was arrested in 2004, accused of soliciting sex from a Garland detective posing online as “Molly,” a 15-year-old girl, according to records[...] Jamal Abdo unsuccessfully appealed his conviction. He was released from a Texas prison in December 2009 and turned over to Immigration and Customs [...]
Washington Post: A high-ranking Department of Labor official appointed by President Barack Obama has resigned after an internal investigation found that he improperly steered federal contracts to friends and former colleagues. A high-ranking Labor Department official appointed by President Obama to oversee a job-training program for veterans has resigned after an inspector general’s investigation found [...]
p UPDATE,19:40 PST: Harry Reid has announced that the Senate will not vote on his bill until 1 PM tomorrow. Washington Post: The Senate is driving toward a climactic and dramatic vote at 1 a.m. Sunday that could determine whether a bipartisan deal to raise the nation’s legal borrowing limit is possible or a government [...]
Los Angeles Times: Apple Inc. may not have more money than God. But it’s got more cash than Uncle Sam. As the government struggled to reach an agreement on raising the debt ceiling, the U.S. Treasury’s cash balance fell to $74 billion this week. That’s less than the $76 billion that Apple now has in [...]
Jerusalem Post: Move reflects deep rift between military and government; dozens of generals in jail for alleged anti-government plots. ANKARA – Turkey’s top military brass resigned on Friday, in the latest and possibly decisive round of a long battle between the traditional secularist establishment embodied by the army and the Islam-rooted government of Tayyip Erdogan [...]
