WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration accused China on Thursday of abusing its citizens’ rights and maintaining currency policies that cost millions of U.S. jobs, a double-barrel attack that comes amid a growing willingness to confront and even antagonize the Asian power.
President Barack Obama spent his first year in office arguing that China was [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.
In doing so, they are all but counting out a small [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – With one eye on the calendar and the other on elusive bipartisanship, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd plans to offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support.
Dodd said Thursday he would release his proposal on Monday and begin the committee’s work on the bill [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken.
What remains unclear is whether Congress will send him a bill this year.
Obama also met separately later in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife and daughter were being treated in a hospital Thursday for serious injuries they sustained when their vehicle was rear-ended by a truck, a spokesman said.
Reid’s wife, Landra, 69, broke her back and neck in the accident, Reid spokesman Jim Manley said.
She and the couple’s [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Government vehicle safety regulators may seek greater authority to investigate defects in cars and trucks and are weighing a range of new safety requirements in response to Toyota’s recall of more than 8 million vehicles over brake and acceleration problems.
David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said Thursday [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Democrats on Thursday stopped a Republican bid to force an investigation of Democratic leaders aimed at determining whether they covered up sexual harassment allegations against ex-Rep. Eric Massa.
Even in failure, Republicans planted questions about when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned about allegations from Massa’s employees that he sexually harassed male [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama sought Thursday to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to work. But doubts remain about how many net jobs his trade agenda will create—and how he will get it done.
In [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The roads today are full of hazards: Runaway Toyotas, teen drivers texting, commuters using the rearview mirror to check their hair while juggling cups of scalding coffee. Nonetheless, the number of people dying on the highway is the lowest since the 1950s.
The Transportation Department said Thursday that its projections show total [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate is pushing to strengthen pilot training and hiring requirements in an effort to improve the safety of regional airlines, a problem exposed by an air crash last year that killed 50 people.
Debate began this week on a two-year, $34 billion bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration while imposing [...]
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