• Fix for VA health snarls veterans and doctors in new bureaucracy

    Fix for VA health snarls veterans and doctors in new bureaucracy

    May 16, 2016 03:32 PM EDT

    ... piano?” he said. “They haven’t changed the damn elevator music in over a year!” That elicits knowing chuckles from the audience. Later during an interview, he said when he gets through to a person, “They are the nicest boiler room telemarketers you have ever spoken to. But that doesn ...

  • Trump faces obstacles in bid to shake up corporate America

    Trump faces obstacles in bid to shake up corporate America

    Mar 17, 2016 08:36 PM EDT

    ... there. Pfizer's plan is known as a "tax inversion," a maneuver that allows a company to change its tax jurisdiction to a country where rates are lower. U.S.-based companies claim they are at a disadvantage because the U.S. taxes their profits made both in America and ...

  • New House GOP chairman had early democratic roots

    New House GOP chairman had early democratic roots

    Nov 08, 2015 09:39 PM EDT

    ... ideas that Ryan enjoys, has latched himself to the 45-year-old. "We're going to follow the speaker's lead," Brady said in an interview last week. He said House Republicans "want us to tackle the big issues, and they want to be involved." Involvement has been a major ...

  • What does Scott Walker believe? Where the candidate stands on 10 issues

    What does Scott Walker believe? Where the candidate stands on 10 issues

    Jul 13, 2015 03:10 PM EDT

    ... News in March that he wants much stronger border security and opposes a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the United States. In that interview, the Wisconsin governor called his position a change in view. In 2013, Walker told the Waukesha Daily Herald he could envision a path to ...

  • What does Martin O'Malley believe? Where the candidate stands on 11 issues

    What does Martin O'Malley believe? Where the candidate stands on 11 issues

    May 30, 2015 05:21 PM EDT

    ... Democrat advocated for the DREAM Act, which would give legal status to undocumented immigrants brought to America as children. As governor, O’Malley signed a bill allowing undocumented students in Maryland to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities. Obamacare and health care: Expand the Affordable Care ...

  • Reliving the fall of Saigon with Vietnam vets and journalists

    Reliving the fall of Saigon with Vietnam vets and journalists

    Apr 30, 2015 11:37 PM EDT

    ... PETER ARNETT, Former Associated Press Reporter: The reason I stayed behind was that I was there in the beginning 1962 and covered it through the intervening years. So I felt I had to stay behind to see what would happen to Saigon when the Communists arrived. MIKE CERRE: Peter Arnett ...

  • News Wrap: Thanksgiving day celebrations, 600 migrants make it to Greek shore
  • WATCH LIVE: Kentucky Senate candidates debate issues

    WATCH LIVE: Kentucky Senate candidates debate issues

    Oct 13, 2014 11:54 PM EDT

    Kentucky’s major party candidates for U.S. Senate will meet for a moderated conversation on Kentucky Educational Television’s signature politics program Monday, at 8 p.m. EDT, in what is expected to be their last face-to-face event before the Nov. 4 general election.

  • Shields and Brooks on Obama’s handling of the border crisis, Mideast violence
  • Strong jobs numbers likely to give Democrats a morale boost

    Strong jobs numbers likely to give Democrats a morale boost

    Jul 03, 2014 01:15 PM EDT

    Today in the Morning Line: Thursday’s jobs report McDaniel not backing down in Mississippi Georgia’s new gun law takes effect The advantages of incumbency Jobs numbers: The unemployment rate dropped to 6.1 percent with 288,000 jobs added in June. That unemployment rate is the lowest since September 2008. The five straight months of job gains...