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... fraud charges. The Wall Street firm was accused of misleading buyers of its mortgage-related securities. For the record, Goldman Sachs is a sponsor of PBS online. On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones industrial average gained more than 42 points to close just under 13,208. The Nasdaq rose ...
... NewsHour polled a few other states on this issue to see where they stand and here is what we found: Alabama: too early to tell. Wisconsin: Republican Gov. Scott Walker said recently "Wisconsin will not take any action to implement Obamacare." Virginia: Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli called the Medicaid expansion ...
Mitt Romney campaigns in Ohio. Photo by Gwen Ifill/PBS NewsHour. President Obama's move to loosen deportation rules for nearly 1 million young, undocumented immigrants has brought immigration back to the political stage, as both sides continue to battle for the hearts and minds of the growing Hispanic population ...
... All right, Cecilia Munoz, thanks very much. CECILIA MUNOZ: Thank you. JEFFREY BROWN: And for a different take, Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner joins us from Wisconsin. He is a past chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and an opponent of the DREAM Act. Well, welcome, Congressman. Cecilia Munoz and the ...
... be concerned about their standing in the Rust Belt," writes National Journal's Josh Kraushaar under a subheadline Team Romney will like, "Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are looking increasingly within reach." Politico's Alexander Burns reported that the Obama campaign "has pumped nearly $14 million into a new, multi-week ...
... potential potholes when they see them. Neither President Obama nor Romney was particularly interested, for instance, in tying himself too closely to the outcome of Wisconsin's failed, partisan effort to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker. "I don't know if at the end of the day, it helped or ...
... out that the story no longer begins and ends in Florida, Texas and California. "We are surprised to hear that Latinos count in places like Wisconsin," he said, "or Pennsylvania or Virginia -- places that we don't think of as Latino-intensive states but where there's a growing Latino ...
on Team Romney. TOP TWEETS Ask me whatever. Chat today at 1 pm EST via @washingtonweek ! pbs.org/weta/washingto... — gwen ifill (@pbsgwen) May 24, 2012 White House reporter @donovanslack is pretty handy with a camera phone, wouldn't you say? She's in Colorado today: politi.co/Lqah1g — POLITICO ...
Mitt Romney campaigns in Michigan, which holds its primary Feb. 28. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. The next seven days might feel like an eternity for the man hoping to reclaim the spot atop the presidential pack. Mitt Romney was matter of fact when he dismissed the prospect of losing his native state of Michigan...
President Obama speaks about economic struggles of the middle class Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kan. Photo by Julie Denesha/Getty Images. On Tuesday, President Obama called the debate about restoring fairness the "defining issue of our time." And, if the president has his way, that debate will also be the defining issue of the 2012 campaign. With...
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