• Koch group plans to spend $125 million on midterms

    Koch group plans to spend $125 million on midterms

    May 09, 2014 01:23 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Court forces Thai leader out of office for abuse of power

    News Wrap: Court forces Thai leader out of office for abuse of power

    May 08, 2014 12:22 AM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Where are the April showers in the jobs report?

    Where are the April showers in the jobs report?

    May 02, 2014 03:53 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Egyptian court sentences hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death

    News Wrap: Egyptian court sentences hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death

    Apr 28, 2014 11:24 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Supreme Court takes on police searches of cellphones

    Supreme Court takes on police searches of cellphones

    Apr 27, 2014 03:59 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Hagel, Chinese defense minister discuss disputed islands

    News Wrap: Hagel, Chinese defense minister discuss disputed islands

    Apr 08, 2014 11:45 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Gov. Christie defends internal review exonerating him from bridge scandal

    News Wrap: Gov. Christie defends internal review exonerating him from bridge scandal

    Mar 29, 2014 12:32 AM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Egyptian court issues death sentences to 529 Morsi supporters

    News Wrap: Egyptian court issues death sentences to 529 Morsi supporters

    Mar 25, 2014 12:10 AM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Ukraine announces plan to pull troops from Crimea

    News Wrap: Ukraine announces plan to pull troops from Crimea

    Mar 19, 2014 11:39 PM EDT

    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.

  • News Wrap: Germany’s Merkel warns neighbor Russia about potential damage from Ukraine crisis