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... 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 ...
... The answer was: In 1986 with the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act, which called for the end of apartheid. LINE ITEMS Sheldon Adelson, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates teamed up for a joint New York Times op-ed to call on Congress to act on comprehensive immigration reform. “The current stalemate ...
... employees get a raise, so that’s why I say the devil is in the details. Paul Solman: You’re a very curious person to interview because you are really of two minds about a specific policy, no? Bill Hobson: No, I think I’m very clear on what I ...
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...
An unexploded mortar shell fired by Syrian Army sits, half buried in the ground, in a suburb of Damascus, January 25, 2013. With the United States concluding that the Syrian government crossed President Barack Obama's red line by using chemical weapons against rebel forces in the country's civil war, the question now becomes what is...
Shields, Brooks on Bin Laden Politics, Chen Guangcheng, Jobs Report
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks weigh in on the week's top political news, including the breakdown in bipartisan budget and deficit talks, the House's rebuke of President Obama over war powers and the Libya mission, and the president's new troop withdrawal timetable for the Afghan war.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, left, and House Speaker John Boehner speak to reporters outside the White House following a meeting with the president. Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Congressional leaders have taken budget negotiations to the brink of a federal government shutdown, and Thursday is almost certainly the point of no return....
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