Apr 21 New $100 Bill Gets a Facelift By Tom LeGro In the appropriately named Cash Room of the Department of the Treasury, Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios, along with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, unveiled a new design of the $100 bill… Continue reading
Apr 21 Tea Party Mapped: How Big Is It and Where Is It based? By Dante Chinni If you turned to a cable news channel in recent weeks, you may have seen a large group of "tea party" protesters, signs in hand, expressing outrage over government tyranny. But how big are those groups really? The tea party… Continue reading
Apr 21 Wednesday: Obama to Discuss Supreme Court Pick; GM to Pay Off Loans A day after President Barack Obama took time out to wish retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens a very happy 90th birthday, he will resume the search for Stevens' successor Wednesday when he invites senators from both… Continue reading
Apr 21 Watch News Wrap: At Least 11 Missing After Oil Explosion In other news Wednesday, at least 11 people were missing after an oil rig explosion off of Louisiana's Gulf Coast. Also, Pope Benedict promised the Catholic Church would take action in the sex abuse scandal after he met with victims… Continue watching
Apr 21 Watch Obama Begins to Scrutinize Potential Supreme Court Nominees As President Barack Obama reaches out to potential replacements for Justice John Paul Stevens on the bench, Gwen Ifill gets three points of view from legal experts on the politics behind the president's second nomination to the Supreme Court and… Continue watching
Apr 20 Government Should Set Limits on Salt in Food, Report Says Americans consume unhealthy amounts of salt, and in order to help them cut back the government needs to begin regulating sodium levels in processed food, according to a new report by the National Academies of Science's… Continue reading
Apr 20 Congress Grills Regulators, Executives at Lehman Brothers Hearing Federal regulators and former executives from Lehman Brothers faced renewed criticism from lawmakers in the House on Tuesday during a hearing examining the policy implications of the investment bank's collapse in September 2008. Some of the toughest criticism… Continue reading
Apr 20 Politico Reporter: Lawmakers Leery of Financial Reform's Potential Pitfalls By Hari Sreenivasan Politico reporter Eamon Javers, who "covers the intersection of Wall Street and Washington," stopped by The Rundown Tuesday afternoon to talk about financial reform legislation advancing through Congress. President Barack Obama is headed to New York City on Thursday… Continue reading
Apr 20 Supreme Court Strikes Down Law on Animal Cruelty Videos By Quinn Bowman The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 1999 federal law banning videos of animal cruelty violates the First Amendment's free speech protections. The court voted 8-1 to overturn the law. Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal explained the… Continue reading
Apr 20 Civil Rights Icon Dorothy Height Dies; Former Lehman CEO to Face Questions Dorothy Height attends a 2006 congressional hearing about voting rights in the District of Columbia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.) The civil rights movement lost its founding matriarch early Tuesday morning. Dorothy I. Height, who fought for most of… Continue reading