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Preparations are underway for Tuesday night's presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Tune in to the campaign Tuesday, and you might just think you've been transported by time portal to 1992. Yes, that's former President Bill Clinton arguing ...
... this evening's encounter. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney spoke this morning in Chandler, where he called for a 20 percent cut in income tax rates. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, meanwhile, addressed a Tea Party rally in Tucson. And our Gwen Ifill is in Phoenix, where she has been ...
... This would be a tremendous stride forward for women's health in this country." Conservative groups cried foul, noting that the government will foot the bill for a large portion of the health care reform law and adoption of the IOM recommendation to cover the "morning-after pill" would "essentially ...
The long-running debate over the value of China's currency is heating up in Washington. Last week, senators from both parties introduced a bill that would compel the Obama administration to confront China over the undervalued yuan, which many economists believe China keeps artificially low to give them an ...
... a B-. Going forward, Bernanke needs to do two things. First, he has to wean the economy and financial institutions away from excessively low interest rates. Many think that low interest rates support economic activity; indeed that is the theory. But in fact, such persistently low interest rates encourage leveraged ...
... that the economy was in a lot worse shape than he had anticipated. That's why he and his Fed colleagues rushed to cut interest rates by a steep 1.5 percentage points in January 2008. They were trying to catch up. Moreover, he and others didn't realize that ...
Energy and food prices are skyrocketing. Some people are forgoing necessities, simply because they costs too much. Some black communities have been hit particularly hard because residents pay a larger percentage of their incomes on energy costs. Jori Lewis looks at the reasons and how some homeowners are adjusting.
Correspondent Jeffrey Kaye reports from Santa Monica, California, where the city council voted businesses must pay their employees a living wage as oppose to a minimum wage.
Militants in Iraq took the city of Mosul and captured two more cities as they advanced toward their goal of taking Baghdad in an unfolding crisis that is already having political ramifications for President Barack Obama back in the United States. Conservatives jumped on the latest upheaval, blaming President Obama for pulling out of the...
The United States takes on Belgium Monday with star striker Folarin Balogun on the pitch. Balogun was given a red card in last week’s game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, meaning he would miss the next game. But President Trump intervened and FIFA reversed Balogun's suspension. Amna Nawaz discussed the World Cup controversy with Liz Landers...
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