• News Wrap: Crowds turn out nationwide to protest police conduct

    News Wrap: Crowds turn out nationwide to protest police conduct

    Dec 06, 2014 12:14 AM EDT

    ... him the highest ranking figure to be prosecuted so far in President Xi Jinping's corruption crackdown.  Zhou had been a key rival to Xi. Back in this country, Congress has voted to block suspected Nazi war criminals from getting Social Security benefits.  The Senate approved the bill last night ...

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    LaHood, Rendell make bipartisan push to revitalize America's infrastructure

    Jan 08, 2014 11:45 PM EDT

    ... has expired now, the president has continued to press Congress for more spending. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We have still got too many roads that are in disrepair, too many bridges that aren't safe. We don't have to accept that for America. We can do better. We can build ...

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    Despite Votes Today, Sequester Deadlines Will Come and Go

    Feb 28, 2013 02:00 PM EDT

    ... broad authority to the White House for the remainder of this fiscal year to implement the $85.3 billion in reductions. The final 10-page bill, released Wednesday evening, would require Obama to come back to Congress by March 15 with his own plan to achieve the same level of ...

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    Obama Pitches Insurance Rate Agency in Run-up to Summit

    Feb 22, 2010 05:00 AM EDT

    ... the two parties. And they are fairly substantive. And they could do a lot to make health care better in this country, make delivery system better. Let's start with those items which we know we have agreement on, rather than build off of a bill which basically was rammed ...

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    White House Touts New Signs of Job Growth

    Feb 11, 2010 05:00 AM EDT

    ... work with both houses of Congress to get the best kind of a hiring credit. You know, our forecast, the one that is reported both in the budget and here in the economic report of the president, was done way back in November, before sort of the specifics of any ...

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    Boom and Bust: The Telecommunications Industry

    Aug 31, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... to death, and they're going to create too much in the beginning, and then they're going to fall apart. It's inefficient to build five times what you need and then wait to grow into it as a society. TOM BEARDEN: Goldstein says the telecom industry is going ...

  • Could laid-off coal workers change Pennsylvania from blue to red?

    Could laid-off coal workers change Pennsylvania from blue to red?

    Jul 24, 2016 04:19 PM EDT

    ... longer am I going to have medical and what happens after that?’ And it’s a worry, it really is. CHRIS BURY: He’s worried the pension the company promised him could be in jeopardy, too. DAVE WHIPKEY: All the years that you work to build your pension. And then ...

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    How Will Obama-Karzai Pact Affect Afghans' Future?

    May 02, 2012 10:37 PM EDT

    Ray Suarez, former Afghan Interior Minister Ali Jalali and The Atlantic's Steven Clemons discuss how the new pact between Presidents Karzai and Obama is expected to affect everyday life in Afghanistan and relations between the two countries.

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    In Wake of Disputed Election, Russian Middle Class 'Finding its Voice'

    Dec 13, 2011 11:29 PM EDT

    In Russia Tuesday, Vladimir Putin faces political turmoil as vote fraud protests become more widespread. Margaret Warner discusses the country's changing political landscape with Matthew Murray of The Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance and the Brookings Institution's Fiona Hill.

  • James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's $8.8 billion successor, faces lengthy delay

    James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's $8.8 billion successor, faces lengthy delay

    Mar 27, 2018 05:24 PM EDT

    On Tuesday, NASA officials revealed James Webb Space Telescope’s launch date has slipped from spring of 2019 to approximately May 2020 — a delay that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.