The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit set a 90- day period to allow President Donald Trump and the U.S. Senate to constitutionally validate the appointments or reconstitute the board. U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is hearing the island's bankruptcy, ruled in July that the creation by the U.S. Congress of the oversight board under a law...
"I don't want to speak for him, but I believe he would've gone to war with North Korea. I think he was ready to go to war. In fact he told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea," Trump said of Obama.
President Trump takes questions from reporters after speaking at the Rose Garden on the declaration that would avoid a government shutdown and his plan to declare a national emergency in order to allocate military funding to build a border wall. He also speaks on the U.S. economy and the progress of U.S.-China trade talks.
Feb 14- More than a year of work to bring Amazon.com Inc's headquarters and tens of thousands of jobs to New York City ended on Thursday with a couple of phone calls. Jay Carney, the company's top policy executive, told New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that the world's biggest online retailer would not go ahead with plans to invest $2.5 billion to build a second head...
This decision is about economics, "said President and Chief Executive Bill Johnson, who is retiring from the TVA. The 870- megawatt Bull Run coal plant in Tennessee will close by December 2023 and the 971- MW Paradise 3 plant in Kentucky will be shut by December 2020. Johnson told Reuters in December that TVA will keep cutting carbon emissions in future years after...
This decision is about economics, "said President and Chief Executive Bill Johnson, who is retiring from the TVA. The 870- megawatt Bull Run coal plant in Tennessee will close by December 2023 and the 971- MW Paradise 3 plant in Kentucky will be shut by December 2020. Johnson told Reuters in December that TVA will keep cutting carbon emissions in future years after...
WASHINGTON, Feb 13- A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill on Wednesday that would impose stiff new sanctions on Russia over its meddling in U.S. elections and aggression against Ukraine, the latest congressional effort to push President Donald Trump to ratchet up Washington's response to Moscow. The new bill, which was first reported by Reuters,...
Biden recently signaled to donors he is leaning toward running but had not made a final decision, according to people speaking on condition of anonymity.
WASHINGTON, Feb 12- U.S. senators from both parties introduced a resolution on Tuesday requiring that any deal to share U.S. nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia block the kingdom from making a nuclear weapon. Under the measure, any U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, or 123 agreement, with Saudi Arabia would prevent enrichment of uranium or...
Former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew sits down with "Squawk Box" to argue that the economic policies under President Obama laid the foundation for the current economy two years into the Trump presidency.
2020 candidates are using merchandise sales to raise small-dollar donations and separate their brand from a crowded field of fellow Democrats, nearly all of whom are shunning typical sources of big-dollar donations.
The top 1-percent—and even more specifically the top 0.1-percent, "aren't paying their fair share," says Hughes, an advocate for wealth equality.
Now the stage is set for an abortion battle at the high court during the most heated months of the 2020 presidential election next year.
A new report from the White House tries to shift the Trump administration's combative rhetoric on health care, suggesting changes to the Affordable Care Act under President Donald Trump do not fundamentally undermine the health law.
Hispanic voters are more likely to vote for Democrats, and they are projected to be the largest minority group in 2020. But the picture is a lot more complicated.
Castro supports a higher minimum wage and a "Medicare-for-all" health-care system. His "first executive order" would be to return the U.S. to membership in the Paris climate agreement, which President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2017.
President Donald Trump is widely expected to address infrastructure when he delivers his State of the Union address — but he'll have"three pretty tough bars to get over" to strike a deal, says Gene Sperling.
Federal Reserve shifted policy along the lines urged by President Donald Trump in a series of critical comments and tweets last year, Fed chairman Jerome Powell turns up at the White House for a steak dinner and an informal audience with the president, seemingly back in his good graces. "Readouts" of such meetings are typically left to the White House, but in this...
The Fed is likely to hold interest rates steady for the entire year after hiking four times in 2018, predicts the Allianz chief economic advisor.
Gillibrand has shifted some of her positions since her days in the House, when she took more moderate and conservative positions on issues such as illegal immigration and guns.
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