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... Department is allocated $47 billion, not including $8.7 billion for operations in certain countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. We'll talk to Kay Granger on Thursday's NewsHour. Watch Judy Woodruff's interview Laura Bush, Melinda Gates and Helene Gayle of CARE on aid for women's programs here.
In an interview last month with The Associated Press, King's mother, Claudine Gates, said her son had "so many reasons" to want to come home. "I just can't see him ever wanting to just stay in Korea when he has family in America. He has so many reasons ...
... in New York, the state attorney general launched a civil rights probe into The Weinstein Company. As it happens, this weekend, Jeffrey Brown recorded an interview with actor Tom Hanks about a new project, his first book, a collection of short stories. We're going to be airing that interview ...
... unthinkable when I was young.” In 2011, he offered his last name in replacement of the word "gay" when the Tennessee state legislature passed a bill that prohibited school teachers or students from talking about sexuality with students, including language that alluded to gay people. He suggested people instead say ...
... American Free Trade Agreement. Backtracked, in essence. A draft of his administration's plan for NAFTA proposes only a mild rewrite. But in his AP interview, he threatened anew to terminate the deal if his goals are not met in a renegotiation. Direct his commerce secretary and trade representative to ...
... funded nearly one hundred exceptional students who came up with their ideas while they were still in college — as did Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates, the most famous dropouts of all. It is telling that an early-stage fund that Thiel later launched, Breakout Labs, invests in start ...
... preventing a government closure when a temporary funding measure expires Dec. 11. The House and Senate Appropriations committees are negotiating a $1 trillion-plus spending bill for the budget year that began Oct. 1 and are promising to have it ready by the week of Dec. 8. The tax-writing ...
Obama-Boehner relationship hits a new low: Over the years the rapport between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner has been described at times as “topsy-turvy,” “complicated,” and “soured.” But their relationship might have hit a new low Thursday with the president and House speaker publicly rebuking one another at dueling events in Texas...
Nonprofit leader Bill Hobson is personally supportive of a $15 an hour minimum wage. But he knows his human services agency doesn't have the resources to pay their employees more without trimming staff and ultimately, cutting services Seattle's homeless depend on -- unless, he says, the tax structure changes.
Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images One of President Barack Obama's biggest allies in the 2012 campaign became a thorn in his side Tuesday as former President Bill Clinton waded into the roiling debate over the rollout of the health care law. "I personally believe even if it takes a change in the law, the president...
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