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... and what to leave for next year in hopes of getting a better deal with Trump. Here are the highlights of the agenda of the lame-duck Congress which returns on Monday: SPENDING Fighting and dysfunction have stalled 11 of the 12 annual agency spending bills, leaving more than $1 ...
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, the Nobel Prize Foundation released the full audio recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 Peace Prize acceptance speech.
President Obama is planning widespread international travel and may use executive actions on gun laws and the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in an effort to avoid lame-duck status in his final year in the White House.
The so-called mastermind of the Paris attacks was killed in a battle with police in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday, confirmed authorities. While the French Assembly voted to extend a national state of emergency for three months, Belgian police made more arrests in a neighborhood with ties to the attackers. Judy Woodruff speaks...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Everywhere we look these days, there's evidence of the tech boom, supposedly exciting, thrilling, wonderful for us all. Well, maybe not for all of us. One of San Francisco's legendary figures, who celebrates a birthday today, laments what it's done to his city. Jeffrey ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: This Christmas brought all the traditional celebrations of the day, but along with them, new calls for an end to suffering. The most ardent of those appeals came from the Vatican. The crowds who filled St. Peter's Square heard a holiday lament from Pope Francis. "There ...
Today in the Morning Line: Congress has two weeks left and some hefty legislating to do. Spending bill, Ebola, IS funding, military reauthorization, tax extenders top list of priorities Republicans do not want a shutdown Mary Landrieu accuses GOP opponent of preferring slavery to welfare for African Americans Two weeks to go - Congress likely...
I’ve spent so many years talking about lame ducks in the White House and Congress, and it’s never occurred to me to find out what the heck it means. It turns out it’s an old English hunting term -- something about firing at a duck without quite killing ...
WASHINGTON — A political gambit by an endangered Senate Democrat broke loose long-stalled legislation to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline as the lame-duck Congress returned to a Capitol where results of last week's GOP blowout are still sinking in. The move by Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu ...
... nearly 95 percent of its limes from Mexico, so when those damaging rains were coupled with an outbreak of a citrus-killing bacterium in the lime producing state of Colima, this year’s lime yield began to cause headaches for bar owners and tequila connoisseurs alike. Joe Hargrave, owner of ...
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