Posts Tagged ‘government’

Kerry says Assad would not be part of transitional government

ROME (Reuters) – The United States still believes that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would not be part of transitional government in the country, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday. Kerry made his comments to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh in Rome. … Politics News Headlines [...]

Berlusconi sentence won’t shake Italy government: center-right minister

ROME (Reuters) – Italy's governing coalition will not fall because of a decision by an appeals court to uphold a four-year jail term against Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud, a minister close to the center-right leader said on Thursday. Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi, a member of Berlusconi's party, said the hybrid center-right/center-left coalition would stand [...]

Pentagon: Chinese government waging cyberattacks

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon for the first time used its annual report on China to directly assert that Beijing’s government and military have conducted computer-based attacks against the U.S., including efforts to steal information from federal agencies. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

U.S. government may not hit debt limit until October: analysts

By Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States might not hit the statutory limit on its debt until October, a policy research group said on Friday, giving Republican lawmakers more time to extract spending cuts from the Obama administration in return for extending the borrowing cap. After giving into Democratic demands in December to [...]

Federal government reviewing prison phone charges

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Black Caucus pressed the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday to move swiftly to cut the costs that prison inmates and their families are paying for phone calls, an issue that has been tied up with the regulatory panel for a decade. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Lawmaker Says Government Planned Boston Bombing

New Hampshire state Rep. Stella Tremblay (R) posted on Glenn Beck’s Facebook page that “the Boston Marathon attack and the subsequent search for suspects was playing out how Beck had suggested. She said the bombings were a plot by the federal government, and included a link to a video from another conservative talk show host [...]

The End of Government As We Know It

A year ago, I wrote about the decline of American institutions through the eyes of Johnny Whitmire, an unemployed construction worker, who lost his home due to systematic failures of his bank and employers as well as city, state and federal governments. “You can’t trust anybody or anything anymore,” Whitmire said, standing outside the $ [...]