Time to Act on the Transportation Bill (Video)
President Obama calls on Congress to pass a clean extension of the transportation bill to keep America moving and avoid costing nearly one million workers their jobs.
President Obama calls on Congress to pass a clean extension of the transportation bill to keep America moving and avoid costing nearly one million workers their jobs.
The Labor Department’s monthly report is the worst showing in a year and offers stark evidence that hiring has stalled. About 14 million people were officially unemployed in August, and many of those who do…
CNN’s Dan Rivers gets inside Moammar Gadhafi’s intelligence headquarters and finds thousands of dossiers intact.
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Welcome to West Wing Week, your guide to everything that happens at 1600 Pennslyvania Avenue. This week we are broadcasting dispatches from Vice President Joe Biden’s trip through China, Mongolia and Japan. In between meeting with world…
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The agency that oversees mortgagemarkets is preparing to file suit against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgages they packaged and sold during the housing bubble, The New York…
Throughout our history Americans have used petitions to unite around issues they care about. We the People provides you with a new way to petition the federal government to take action on a range of…
Twenty-five of the 100 highest paid U.S. CEOs earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax, a pay study by a Washington think tank said on Wednesday. At a time when…
Imagine waking up as your alarm’s going off, reaching over and opening a window…and gazing out at terra firma in repose. No, not a poster of planet earth affixed to your window, but the real…
On Sept. 18, 2001, I landed in Cairo on an extended assignment in the Islamic world. It was nearly impossible to find an Egyptian who believed foreign news accounts of the events that had rocked…
President Obama today praised the extraordinary decade of service rendered by the 9/11 Generation of our military, the more than five million men and women — all of whom voluntarily joined the armed forces over…
Nisreen lies listless curled under a blanket, an armed rebel guard at her door. She looks vulnerable, and younger than her age – 19. She has soft features, a heart-shaped face, large brown eyes and…
The Los Angeles County Weights and Measures Bureau tests scales at airports once a year. Here are its latest findings at LAX, Long Beach Airport and Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport. Now that most airlines charge…
JAKARTA – It is a seemingly unending conflict in a part of the world famous for both its awesome remoteness and the incredible wealth on and beneath the ground. For half a century, Indonesian troops…
LOS ANGELES — A report by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) details the major policy, budget and organizational changes that have occurred in the U.S. immigration system as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.…
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