Dec 19 Watch What the budget deal means for Americans The bipartisan budget plan passed by Congress will avert another government shutdown, give the Pentagon some relief from automatic spending cuts and restore billions of dollars to domestic programs. Gwen Ifill talks to Lori Montgomery of The Washington Post about… Continue watching
Oct 15 UPDATE: U.S. House panel postpones hearing on fiscal bill Updated 6:25 p.m., ET | According to a committee aide, a panel that was scheduled to debate U.S. House of Representatives bill to raise the debt limit and temporarily fund federal agencies has been postponed. Updated 4:52 p.m. ET… Continue reading
Oct 15 Furloughed NASA employee-actors have more time to rehearse Sondheim musical Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The show must go on, even in the face of a government shutdown. Without work, furloughed NASA employees have more time to learn their lines and rehearse for their dinner theater… Continue reading
Oct 11 Arizona tribes see boost in tourism from shutdown Since the shutdown closed the Grand Canyon National Park, northern Arizona Tribes have seen a spike in tourism at places such as the Navajo's Antelope Canyon. Photo by Laurel Morales/Fronteras PAGE, Ariz. -- American Indian tribes are feeling the… Continue reading
Oct 10 #shutdown White House: Obama signs bill to provide benefits to families of fallen troops during shutdown: http://t.co/wJBzF4NEAN— The Associated Press (@AP) October 11, 2013… Continue reading
Oct 10 UPDATE: Obama and GOP fail to reach deal on shutdown and debt limit Updated 7:30 p.m. EDT | The New York Times has stepped back on its initial report that Obama rejected House GOP's short-term proposal. The report now says that Obama and GOP "fail to agree."… Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch Will Obama's absence from key Asia summit impact U.S. global interests? Will Obama's absence from key Asia summit impact U.S. global interests?… Continue watching
Oct 10 42 hanged as 'terrorists' in Iraq in the past week Iraq executed 42 people this week for "terrorist crimes," Reuters reports. Hassan al-Shimary, Iraq's minister of justice, said in a statement that those hanged were guilty of "deaths of dozens of innocent citizens, as well as other crimes… Continue reading
Oct 09 Shutdown strands refugees en route to U.S. When the government shut down on Oct. 1, one of the agencies immediately affected was the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program. The shutdown forced the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration to delay the arrivals of refugees from… Continue reading
Oct 09 Shutdown threatens grades, hopes of graduation for some furloughed interns Photo by Flicker user Laura Fries.com Have a Netflix marathon. Learn a language. Make bread. Those are all options for furloughed interns as they wait out the government shutdown. The shutdown has lasted nine days now and along… Continue reading