Politics

Calif. lawmakers set budget vote as deadline looms

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:42
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers have scheduled a Friday budget vote on their plan to balance a $15.7 billion deficit as they run up against a constitutional deadline or risk losing their pay....

Calif. lawmakers set budget vote as deadline looms

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers have scheduled a Friday budget vote on their plan to balance a $15.7 billion deficit as they run up against a constitutional deadline or risk losing their pay.

With Gov. Jerry Brown refusing to sign off on their plan, Democratic leaders said they would work ...

New Obama policy will spare some from deportation

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:42
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says his plan to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children will make the system "more fair, more efficient and more just."...

Rand Paul Confronted on Mitt Romney Endorsement

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:42
Luke Rudkowski | Is playing politics a good enough reason for endorsing a Goldman Sachs-funded, flip flopping, warmongering Bilderberg puppet?

Niagara Falls crowd builds for Wallenda wire walk

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The Wallenda family likes challenges.

Nik Wallenda will have plenty of them Friday night when he attempts what nobody has done before: A high wire walk directly over the precipice at Niagara Falls and 190 feet above the churning torrent below. Though tethered to the wire ...

Report: Don't worry much about quakes and fracking

WASHINGTON — The controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas does not pose a high risk for triggering earthquakes large enough to feel, but other types of energy-related drilling can make the ground noticeably shake, a major government science report concludes.

Even those man-made tremors large enough to ...

Former Goldman Sachs director convicted in NYC

NEW YORK — A former Goldman Sachs director was found guilty Friday of feeding confidential information to a corrupt hedge fund manager, becoming the most prominent defendant convicted so far in a wide-ranging probe conducted by investigators armed with wiretaps.

Rajat Gupta — born in India, educated at Harvard and ...

THE RACE: Presidential slogan wars are heating up

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:42
Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans....

THE RACE: Presidential slogan wars are heating up

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:42
Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans....

Joy, skepticism at immigration policy shift

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:42
Jose Luis Zelaya shed tears of joy Friday morning.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Obama: Immigration policy change 'the right thing to do'

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:42
President Obama said Friday his administration will stop deporting young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children if they meet certain requirements.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Administration sparing some from deportation

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:42
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies....
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