• Is President Obama too cautious?

    Is President Obama too cautious?

    Sep 09, 2014 01:00 PM EDT

    ... were in control of the House), and Republicans gained 63 seats in the House (a post-World War Two record) and six in the Senate. Ferguson under the microscope: Congress is back and so are the committees. Post-Ferguson, the Senate Homeland Security Committee holds a hearing at 10:30 ...

  • The issue that could roil the midterms

    The issue that could roil the midterms

    Aug 28, 2014 01:03 PM EDT

    ... politician? The answer was: LBJ was a teacher. LINE ITEMS Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told the audience at a private Koch brothers’ event this June that should the Republicans win control of the Senate, he’d use the budget process to chip away at Mr. Obama’s legislative accomplishments ...

  • News Wrap: Russian convoy rolls into Ukraine without Kiev’s consent

    News Wrap: Russian convoy rolls into Ukraine without Kiev’s consent

    Aug 23, 2014 12:29 AM EDT

    ... 600 cases are confirmed in four affected countries, Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and now Nigeria. More marches are planned tonight and through the weekend in Ferguson, Missouri, as street violence subsides. About a hundred people peacefully protested in the Saint Louis suburb last night. They carried signs and chanted slogans ...

  • Federal officials reconsider giving military equipment to police

    Federal officials reconsider giving military equipment to police

    Aug 16, 2014 03:31 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON -- After a decade of sending military equipment to civilian police departments across the country, federal officials are reconsidering the idea in light of the violence in Ferguson, Missouri. The public has absorbed images of heavily armed police, snipers trained on protesters and tear gas plumes. Against that backdrop, Attorney ...

  • From Michael Brown to the Central Park Five, race changes how victims are portrayed

    From Michael Brown to the Central Park Five, race changes how victims are portrayed

    Aug 14, 2014 08:30 PM EDT

    The photos of military vehicles dispatched in the streets could have come from a war zone, but it’s Ferguson, Missouri. Community members are in a tense stand-off with law enforcement days after an unarmed African-American 18-year-old named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a ...

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    Health Care Law goes live Tuesday, despite glitches and critics

    Sep 30, 2013 04:56 PM EDT

    ... start shopping right away for subsidized private coverage. Or they can wait to sign up as late as Dec. 15 and still get coverage by Jan. 1. Many will probably want to see how it goes for the first wave of applicants before they jump in. Glitches are likely to ...

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    Will Government Probes Crowd Out Policy Debates?

    Jun 03, 2013 01:45 PM EDT

    Tea party activists protest against the IRS last month in West Palm Beach, Fla. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Official Washington begins the month of June with a massive agenda set against a backdrop of scandal politics that have kept the White House on the defensive and won't be letting up any time soon. On...

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    Economic Woes Raise Questions on Bernanke

    Jan 22, 2010 05:00 AM EDT

    David Wessel of the Wall Street Journal explains how the Massachusetts election affected Fed Chief Ben Bernanke's chances at a second term.

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    Bernanke: U.S. Economy Poised for Recovery

    Aug 21, 2009 04:00 AM EDT

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered an optimistic assessment of the U.S. economy's chances for recovery Friday in a much-anticipated speech to fellow central bankers and top economists.

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    Brown v. Board of Education

    May 12, 2004 04:00 AM EDT

    In May of 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. KTWU, the Topeka PBS station, produced a look back at the decision through the eyes of some of the people who made it happen.