[1]Less than a week to go to reach an agreement on the debt ceiling and no deal is in sight. Late last night, House Speaker John Boehner postponed a vote on his plan to cut spending and raise the borrowing limit. Conservative and Tea Party Group had...
The White House is threatening to veto debt ceiling legislation that's pending in the House.Speaker John Banner is laboring the line-up enough vote to pass the measure aimed up avoiding government default. Smith David Wu is resigning amid allegations...
1. Republicans in the House released a two-track plan, increasing the nation's borrowing cap by a trillion dollars and then a larger increase next year. All depending on Congress passing cuts to programs like Medicaid. 2. The NFL Players Association...
The hotel housekeeper accusing former IMF leader Dominique Strauss Khan of sexual assult has spoken out publicly for the first time.In an interview with News Week Magazine,the woman said she wanted to tell her story because she wants Strauss Khan beh...
1. The man charged following a bombing and mass shooting in Norway will make his first court appearance Monday. A YouTube video and 1,500-page anti-Muslim manifesto believed to be written by Anders Breivik have appeared online. 2. Gay couples began m...
Norwegian police say a gunman fired at young people on an island retreat for an hour and a half before surrendering to police. Police say he has admitted firing weapons on the island. Hes also linked to a car bombing in XX. More than 90 people are de...
1. For the first time in more than 30 years, there is no space shuttle in orbit or waiting to take off. The program ended today with the return of the shuttle Atlantis to Earth. NASA's long-term goal now is to send people to asteroids and to Mars. 2....
[1]Shuttle Atlantis touchdown the Kennedy Space Center put the final time early this morning. The landing ended NASA's 30-year space shuttle program. The shuttle grand finale comes 50 years to the day after Gus Grissom became the second American in s...
Some Senate Republicans may be softening the opposition to new tax revenues as part of the deficit cutting plan .Many of them are giving a warm reception to the bipartisan plan put forward by the gang of six senators from both parties.President Barac...
1. Rupert Murdoch says he is not responsible for a phone hacking scandal that has rocked his global empire. Still, Murdoch and his son apologized to the crisis during an appearance before British lawmakers. And in one dramatic moment a prankster trie...
Progress but no deal yet, the efforts to bring budget agreement that for an August second debt ceiling deadline. The leader of the Senate says the chamber will meet every day including weekends until Congress sends president Barack Obama legislation...
1. London police chief has quit over his links to a former News of the World editor caught up in the phone hacking scandal. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson denies any wrongdoing. Hours earlier, Rupert Murdoch's former British CEO Reb...
1. President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans are again pushing opposing positions in the debate over deficit reduction. Obama says a combination of spending cuts and tax increases is needed while Senator Orrin Hatch is pushing for a balanc...
1. Almost as soon as it began former baseball star Roger Clemens's perjury trial ended Thursday. In a mistrial, the judge blamed on prosecutors and said a first-year law student would have known to avoid. The question of a new trial is still up in th...
[1]More than 20 people were dead and more than 100 hurt after a series of bombings in Indian's financial capital during evening rush hour. Indian officials say the close timing of these explosions suggested it was a coordinated attack by terrorist. [...
