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Kerry assures CEOs on US role in Asia-Pacific
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is seeking to assure Asia-Pacific business leaders that nothing will shake America's commitment to the region and that the current government shutdown in Washington will soon be over and forgotten. Kerry told executives at an Asian economic summit in Indonesia on Monday that the ...
Supreme Court term begins amid government shutdown
The Supreme Court is opening for business in the midst of a partial government shutdown. The justices take the bench Monday for the start of their new term with important cases about campaign contributions, housing discrimination, government-sanctioned prayer and the president's recess appointments already on tap. Abortion, contraceptive coverage under ...
Gov't shutdown enters 2nd week, no end in sight
The government shutdown entered its second week with no end in sight and ominous signs that the United States was closer to the first default in the nation's history as Speaker John Boehner ruled out any measure to boost borrowing authority without concessions from President Barack Obama. Washington will be ...
Afghan presidential candidates finish registration
A slew of political heavyweights, along with the Afghan president's brother and a number of former warlords, will take part in next year's election for top office in a critical vote that that could determine the future course of Afghanistan and the level of foreign involvement here after 12 years ...
Boehner to Obama: No debt hike without concessions
The United States moved closer to the possibility of the first-ever default on the government's debt Sunday as Speaker John Boehner adamantly ruled out a House vote on a straightforward bill to boost the borrowing authority without concessions from President Barack Obama. With no resolution in sight, Treasury Secretary Jack ...
Supreme Court term begins with contentious topics
The Supreme Court is beginning a new term with controversial issues that offer the court's conservative majority the chance to move aggressively to undo limits on campaign contributions, undermine claims of discrimination in housing and mortgage lending, and allow for more government-sanctioned prayer. Assuming the government shutdown doesn't get in ...
Boehner: No idea when government shutdown ends
House Speaker John Boehner (BAY-nur) says he doesn't know when the government shutdown will end and says it's up to President Barack Obama to start negotiations. The Ohio Republican said Sunday that he will not allow his GOP-led House to vote on a bill reopening the government without serious talks ...
Use of force to be studied in DC police chase
Police in Washington are reviewing the use of officers' deadly force in the killing of a woman who tried to ram her car through a White House barrier, a shooting her family says was unjustified. The investigation will reconstruct the car chase and shooting, which briefly put the U.S. Capitol ...
Karen weakens to depression off La. coast
Karen lost more of its punch late Saturday and fell below tropical-storm status while stalling off the Louisiana coast. Even as a tropical depression with top sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kph), the system threatened to bring strong wind and heavy rain to vulnerable low-lying areas. However, all watches ...
How the impasses in Washington might play out
Key lawmakers and aides on Capitol Hill say they don't know how the battles over funding the government and increasing the nation's debt limit might be resolved. In interviews, they lay out several possibilities, all of which face huge political impediments: BOEHNER YIELDS House Speaker John Boehner could pass bills ...
DOD recall, back-pay bill mark Day 5 of shutdown
For days lawmakers have debated which federal workers should be put back to work. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ended the argument Saturday for most Pentagon civilian employees, ordering nearly all 350,000 back on the job. That's a large chunk of the estimated 800,000 federal workers on furlough because of the ...
Pentagon: Most furloughed civilians ordered back
The Pentagon is bringing back to work at least 90 percent of the estimated 350,000 defense civilian employees who were furloughed in the partial government shutdown. The move takes a big bite out of the impact of the political impasse in Washington that has left the government without a budget. ...
Obama open to name change for Washington Redskins
President Barack Obama says he would "think about changing" the Washington Redskins' name if he owned the football team as he waded into the controversy involving a word many consider offensive to Native Americans. Obama, in an interview with The Associated Press, said team names such as the Redskins offend ...
Even amid furloughs, some Texans cheer Cruz
Thanks to Texas' new senator, Dale Huls is out of a job — at least for now. Yet Huls has never been prouder that he voted for him. "Without Ted Cruz this doesn't happen," said Huls, a NASA systems engineer who was among roughly 3,000 federal employees furloughed from Houston's ...
Obama says he expects Congress will raise debt cap
President Barack Obama says he doesn't expect Congress to breach the deadline to increase the nation's borrowing limit. He says he's willing to negotiate changes to his signature health care law and to find ways to reduce spending, but stresses he will not bargain until after Congress reopens the government ...
Obama: Senators seeking controversy bad for gov't
Americans are poorly served by first-term senators who seek controversy to boost their own profiles, President Barack Obama said, drawing a contrast with his own tenure as a freshman senator who then ran for president. Locked in fight with Congress that's forced a partial government shutdown, Obama said he has ...
US pushes Pacific trade agenda despite shutdown
Talks on a Pacific trade pact are forging ahead with hopes of meeting a year-end deadline still intact, officials said Saturday, despite President Barack Obama's absence due to the government shutdown. Obama had intended to thrash out issues with leaders of the 11 other trans-Pacific Partnership member countries on the ...
Parties race to use shutdown for 2014 leverage
Republicans and Democrats have wasted little time trying to use the first federal government shutdown in a generation for political advantage ahead of next year's midterm elections, seizing on the plight of furloughed workers and shuttered government services to cast blame on each other. A year out from Election Day ...
Kerry: US will stay the course despite shutdown
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Congress on Saturday to think "long and hard" about the negative message that the partial government shutdown is sending around the world, even as he disputed the perception that the deadlock in Washington is a sign of weakness. The seemingly contradictory points underscored ...
Clinton: Shutdown shows 'scorched earth' politics
Hillary Rodham Clinton is deriding the partial government shutdown, saying dysfunction and gridlock are emblematic of too many people in politics choosing "scorched earth over common ground." The former senator and secretary of state said during a speech Friday night at Hamilton College in upstate New York that it was ...
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