Nov 23 Health exchanges’ finances face test in second year By Associated Press The federal government shelled out billions of dollars to get health insurance marketplaces going in the 14 states that opted to run their own. Now they must act like true marketplaces and start paying for themselves. Continue reading
Nov 22 Fired nuke commander now linked to counterfeit poker chips By Robert Burns, Associated Press The admiral fired last year as No. 2 commander of U.S. nuclear forces may have made his own counterfeit $500 poker chips with paint and stickers to feed a gambling habit that eventually saw him banned from an entire network… Continue reading
Nov 22 Obama quietly broadens U.S. mission in Afghanistan By Julie Pace, Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press President Barack Obama has quietly approved guidelines in recent weeks to allow the Pentagon to target Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, broadening previous plans that had limited the military to counterterrorism missions against al-Qaida after this year, U.S. officials said late… Continue reading
Nov 20 Obama says time for immigration changes is now By Julie Pace, Associated Press Spurning furious Republicans, President Barack Obama unveiled expansive executive actions on immigration Thursday night to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation and refocus enforcement efforts on "felons, not families."… Continue reading
Nov 20 Watch Special Report: President Obama announces immigration reform By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 16 State Department shuts down email system after suspected hacker attack By Matthew Lee, Associated Press The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected hacker attack. Continue reading
Nov 14 Watch Shields and Brooks on the China carbon deal, Obama’s immigration action By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s news, including the carbon deal between the United States and China, legislative action on the Keystone XL pipeline and how Republicans may… Continue watching
Nov 14 Same-sex couples ask Supreme Court to legalize gay marriage nationwide By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Same-sex couples seeking the right to marry are asking the Supreme Court to settle the issue of gay marriage nationwide. Appeals being filed Friday urge the justices to review last week's lower court ruling that upheld anti-gay marriage laws in… Continue reading
Nov 13 Who are the incoming members of Congress? By Laura Santhanam, Vanessa Dennis Nearly three-quarters of incoming representatives and about 90 percent of all new senators will be Republican in the 114th Congress. In both the House and the Senate, about 80 percent of newly elected politicians will be men, and the new… Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch Shields and Brooks on Republican victory, immigration confrontation By PBS News Hour Continue watching