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... as governor from 2002 to 2004, had six. Budget analysts cite the administration’s consistently overly optimistic revenue forecasts and the failure to implement long-term revenue solutions (like raising property taxes above 2 percent). The state’s fiscal hole is a political problem for Christie beyond the Garden State ...
... watching. GWEN IFILL: Yellen also said the job market remains far from satisfactory, and she told lawmakers the Fed has no intention of raising short-term interest rates any time soon. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 117 points to close at 16,518. The Nasdaq was ...
... hadn’t looked for work in at least a year. The big question, of course, is whether they were thoroughly fed up with the job search – “hyperdiscouraged,” you might call them – or by contrast, all too happy to hang up their 9-to-5 shoes. And if you’ve been ...
... GWEN IFILL: A sitting member of Congress, New York Representative Michael Grimm, was arrested today on a range of federal charges. The two-term Republican pleaded not guilty to a 20-count indictment, including mail fraud, wire fraud and tax fraud. It alleges he under-reported and concealed wages ...
... The Obama administration and California, defending the searches, say cellphones are no different from anything else a person may be carrying when arrested. Police may search those items without a warrant under a line of high court cases reaching back 40 years. What's more, said Donald Verrilli Jr., the ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Search crews in the Indian Ocean failed today to pick up more underwater pings from a Malaysian jetliner, one month after it disappeared. Officials acknowledged time is short, since locator beacons on the two black box recorders were designed to transmit just a month before their batteries ...
... and planes quickly radioed in new discoveries. John Sparks of Independent Television News reports from Perth, Australia. JOHN YOUNG, Australia Maritime Safety Authority: The AMSA search for any sign of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been shifted 1,100 kilometers to the northeast of the existing search area ...
... from a massive mudslide in Washington State rose to eight today. Another 108 people were listed as missing, but authorities said that figure could drop. Search-and-rescue continued on the ground and from the air over the one-square-mile area an hour north of Seattle. About 30 homes ...
In our news wrap Wednesday, acting leaders in Kiev announced a plan to evacuate troops from Crimea after Russian forces seized part of the Ukrainian naval headquarters in Sevastopol. Also, Malaysian authorities have turned to the FBI to help analyze electronic files deleted from a flight simulator at the pilot’s home.
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