US Senate leaders have agreed to vote on Thursday on competing proposals to end a government shutdown now in its second month, but the chances are ...
With the US government shutdown dragging into its 26th day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to reschedule his ...
The circus that was the partial government shutdown and debt ceiling debate in the U.S. Congress was hard to watch. The ring master, John Boehner the ...
After their devastating defeat and humiliating surrender in the fight over the government shutdown and debt ceiling, many Republicans, instead of ...
In the summer of 2011, President Obama negotiated with Republican leaders over the terms for raising the federal government’s debt ceiling. He ...
The world got a close-up look at U.S. democracy during Washington's debt default showdown, and was traumatized by what it saw. Foreign commentators ...
Over the past few years, television channels and publications affiliated to the March 8 Alliance in Lebanon—the principal ally of the ...
The International Monetary Fund appealed to Washington for more stable management of the nation’s finances as Asian stock markets rose after U.S ...
President Barack Obama signed a bill early Thursday that ends the U.S. government shutdown and extends the country's borrowing authority, following a ...
U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that the government shutdown had “encouraged” America’s enemies ...
Tea Party favorites Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Larry Klayman spent most of last week bashing Muslims and introducing the “Quran” ...
U.S. senators scrambled together an eleventh hour compromise Wednesday that they hoped might protect Washington’s battered financial standing by ...
The United States Wednesday stood hours from a fateful fiscal deadline, with a chaotic political standoff threatening to trigger a debt default and ...
U.S. Republican and Democratic leaders announced a bipartisan deal on Wednesday to end a government shutdown and raise the country's debt limit. The ...
With a potential debt default looming, Senate leaders are nearing completion on a deal to stave off a self-inflicted political calamity that would ...
The United States might not make the 2014 list of Failed States, but it might as well try if Congress and the president don’t stop playing a ...
Oil prices edged lower in Asian trade Monday as the United States faces a potentially devastating sovereign debt default as lawmakers remain unable to ...
The Senate will hold a rare Sunday session as U.S. politicians grapple with how to reopen the shuttered government and avoid a potentially calamitous ...
President Barack Obama on Saturday came out against a proposal to extend for just weeks the country’s authority to borrow money as crisis talks ...
Taliban militants fighting foreign troops in Afghanistan taunted the U.S. on Wednesday over the recent government shutdown, reported Agence ...
Oil prices declined Monday as a partial U.S. government shutdown entered a second week and a possible default on government debt approached. Benchmark ...
The Pentagon is ordering most of its approximately 400,000 furloughed civilian employees back to work. The decision announced Saturday by Defense ...
When I am asked why I became an American citizen, I usually say, in a moment of bliss I saw in the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and everything ...
As the U.S. government shutdown went into a fifth day, Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Saturday that the lingering political stalemate could ...
U.S. lawmakers took a break from bitter debate over government spending to save a program granting special visas to civilian interpreters who risked ...
At the first glance it seems ludicrous to be comparing the legislative body of the world’s number one political and economic power, with that of ...
A top U.S. official on Thursday held out the prospect of limited sanctions relief for Iran if it takes steps to address concerns about its nuclear ...
On the second day of the U.S. government shutdown, there is no drastic effect as of yet on the U.S. military, said officials in Tuesday. If the ...
As of Oct. 1, 2013, the U.S. government began to shut down due to the absence of an agreed funding bill by the Senate and the House. If you call up ...
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