Stoppa identified the men being held as Brian Church, 20, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Jared Chase, 24, of Keene, N.H.; and Brent Vincent Betterly, 24, of Oakland Park, Mass.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Saturday pointed again to the multi-billion-dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase as a reason Congress should retain and continue to implement Wall Street reforms to prevent the kinds of practices that he says led to the financial meltdown in 2008.
Clemens is charged with lying to Congress in 2008 when he said he never used steroids or human growth hormone.
The long-running struggle to figure out the future of a federal program that provides insurance to homeowners in flood-prone areas is continuing, apparently without any end in sight.
Is Mitt Romney an out-of-touch elitist and bully who led a rapacious business that killed common folks’ jobs? That portrayal of the presumptive Republican presidential candidate is the most frequent one painted by President Barack Obama’s campaign and its allies, but their line of attack has yet to hit home.
Vice President Joe Biden said he and President Obama are “in the same place” on same-sex marriage, just more than a week after his comments on the issue forced the president to hasten his public declaration of support.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin after their meeting at the State Department in Washington May 17, 2012.
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It’s never easy to re-enter the dating pool after years away – probably especially so if you’re one of the most famous men in the world.
It’s never easy to re-enter the dating pool after years away – probably especially so if you’re one of the most famous men in the world.
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That was the final message from John Edwards’ defense team Thursday as both sides made closing arguments in the month-long corruption trial that threw open the blinds on his once-secret affair with Rielle Hunter.
SPOTTED: Country Music Hall of Famer Glen Campbell , along with his wife, Kim , and Congressional Alzheimer’s Caucus Co-Chairman Rep.
The story of the day is clearly going to be the New York Times blockbuster on the plans to turn Jeremiah Wright into a 2012 political issue, so you’ll probably need to read it: The $10 million plan, one of several being studied by Mr Ricketts, includes preparations for how to respond to the charges of race-baiting it envisions if it highlights Mr … (more)
They knocked off six-term Sen. Dick Lugar in Indiana, then followed up with an encore this week in Nebraska, lifting an obscure state senator to a stunning last-minute victory against the Chamber of Commerce-backed favorite.
Myanmar’s political reforms over the past year or so have seen it emerge from decades of diplomatic isolation, and Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin’s visit Thursday has intensified debate in Washington on how and at what pace the U.S. should ease policies that have long punished the impoverished country for rights abuses and suppression of … (more)
Ron Barber, an aide to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was wounded in the shooting that seriously injured the Congresswoman.
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Members of NARAL Pro-Choice America protest with Etch A Sketches outside a hotel in Washington where Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was holding a political fundraiser March 22, 2012.
For the second day in a row, Mitt Romney trashed President Obama’s record on government spending, suggesting the growing federal debt is going to lead to a “dramatic” tax increase and drag down an already sluggish economy.
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* Gay judicial candidate rejected in Va.; George Huguely police interview made public; D.C.’s Kenyan McDuffie wins Ward 5 seat Gay judicial candidate rejected in Va.; George Huguely police interview made public; D.C.’s Kenyan McDuffie wins Ward 5 seat Openly gay judicial candidate rejected by Virginia legislature.
Republican congressional candidate Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as “Joe the Plumber,” talks with supporters in Rocky River, Ohio, in February.
U.S. President Barack Obama walks towards supporters after he arrives at King County International Airport Boeing Field in Seattle, May 10, 2012.
His murder was ignored in his agency then, but the government now is honoring his memory.
A three-judge panel on Tuesday handed down a death penalty verdict for an Ohio man after he pleaded guilty to killing a woman he lived with and her two children on Thanksgiving Day in 2010.
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Our interview: http://t.co/cedUKcNS Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday cautioned Republicans not to raise questions about whether the U.S. will once again raise its legal debt limit late this year, saying the economy is already starting to feel the effects of the potential fiscal cliff confronting Congress at the end of the year.
Obama calls Dimon ‘one of the smartest bankers we got’ while Mitt Romney goes on the attack against the stimulus – live Barack Obama said during a visit to the The View that JP Morgan was ‘one of the best managed banks’. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Presidential daughters Malia and Sasha don’t have Facebook pages, and are not allowed to … (more)
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Jamie Dimon was once the silver-haired hero of Wall Street, scooping up failing banks during the worst of the financial crisis and avoiding the kind of toxic mortgage bonds that sent competitors into bankruptcy and pushed the American economy to the brink.
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Louisiana Rep. Jeff Landry has officially thrown his hat into the ring, setting up one of the country’s most-watched GOP-on-GOP primary fights this year.
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At left is first lady Rosario Murillo. Borge, the country’s powerful interior minister from 1979 to 1990 and Sandinista hard-liner died on April 30 at age 81 after being hospitalized for pneumonia and other ailments.
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As she prepares to visit the Smithsonian Institution and National Zoo next week, White told The Associated Press she “very, very much favors” President Barack Obama in the election.
Mitt Romney spoke at a controversial Christian university Saturday to make a bid for Evangelical voters – and touted his conservative credentials by slamming same-sex marriage.
President Obama ‘s endorsement of gay marriage may have been historic — but it doesn’t seem to be changing many minds in his favor.
Jan van Lohuizen -A an ex-Bush researcher – says commitment between gay couples can be part of a libertarian agenda A leading Republican pollster has pushed for a party rethink on gay marriage, stressing the conservative nature of encouraging commitment between same-sex couples.
Rebecca Jarvis speaks with Rep. Peter King about the leak of word a terrorist plot to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner had been broken up, by a double agent.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon was Wall Street’s most visible opponent of stricter federal oversight.
Kansas state Sen. Ty Masterson, left, an Andover Republican, speaks in favor of a bill meant to prevent Kansas courts government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, as Sen.
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Jalaluddin Haqqani , the Taliban’s Minister for Tribal Affairs, points to a map of Afghanistan during a visit to Islamabad, Pakistan while his son Naziruddin looks on in this October 19, 2001 file photograph.
Norah O’Donnell previews the May 13th edition of Face the Nation with a same-sex marriage panel, Rep.
Two girls kidnapped in Tennessee have been rescued after, police say, their abductor and the killer of their mother and sister shot himself to death.
US government investigators interviewed the Colombian woman at the centre of a secret service prostitution scandal, which has cost eight officers and supervisors their jobs and become an election-year embarrassment for the Obama administration .
That’s scientist and researcher Peter Gleick, speaking toward the end of “Last Call at the Oasis,” a galvanizing documentary about water and its impending urgencies – the harrowing lack of it and the deadly contamination of what remains.
Nearly half the students at Quitman County’s High School in Marks, Mississippi live in poverty.
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House Speaker John Boehner speaks Thursday at his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill.
Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock speaks to supporters in Indianapolis on Tuesday after defeating Sen.
If anything could predictably induce torrents of Internet reaction, it would be a U.S. president making the surprise disclosure that he supports same-sex marriage.
A former policy adviser to John Edwards testified Thursday about the candidate’s desperate attempts to be tapped as a running mate as his own campaign for the White House crumbled.
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian fire fighter extinguishes burned cars after two bombs exploded, at Qazaz neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday, May 10, 2012.
WASHINGTON – Fresh from declaring his support of same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama is diving into the embrace of Hollywood’s wealthy elite at the gala event of the political season – a sold-out, record-setting fundraiser at the Los Angeles home of movie star George Clooney.
Joe Biden has such power over evolution he might make an amoeba get up and walk.
May. 9, 2012 – The Hispanic vote will be a deciding factor in the upcoming Presidential election.
President Obama leads Mitt Romney by seven points in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, but voters are almost evenly divided over who is better equipped to create jobs and boost the economy.
It’s a historic day for gay rights activists: Obama has just announced his support for gay marriage.
I’m by no means the first to note a curious thing about the 2012 American presidential election race: namely, the near-total absence of curious things.
National Journal White House correspondent Major Garrett talks to Charlie Rose and Erica Hill about Vice President Joe Biden’s recent comments concerning same-sex marriage.
A disgraced John Edwards practiced how he would reveal to the nation that he fathered a child out of wedlock and was in love with baby mama Rielle Hunter, according to testimony yesterday.
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Mitt Romney issued a broad attack on President Obama on Tuesday night, criticizing everything from the president’s position on women’s issues to his foreign policy stance to his politicization of the killing of Osama bin Laden while framing himself as the “underdog” fighting against a behemoth of a campaign.
A top senator investigating the Colombian prostitution scandal on Tuesday detailed three “significant” lapses by the Pentagon following the report that several Secret Service and military personnel cavorted with hookers in Cartagena.
The danger for Obama is that any debt crisis caused by chaos in Greece and a change of leadership in France will spill over to the United States, slow an already weak recovery and jeopardize his re-election. For Mitt Romney, Obama’s all-but-certain Republican presidential challenger, the results in Europe underscore how deeply economic unease … (more)
Voters at Belville elementary school in Brunswick county, North Carolina, decide on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman.
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., campaigns in Frankfort, Ind., on Monday. Lugar is being challenged in Tuesday’s Republican primary by State Treasurer Richard Mourdock.
A bill in Congress would task certain private businesses with increasing their cybersecurity to stave off attacks aimed at harming U.S. cyber infrastructure.
After a nearly three-month absence, longtime Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel returned to Capitol Hill on Monday night and vowed to win another term in November.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gestures after giving a speech regarding the Obama administration’s foreign policy record at New York University in New York, April 26, 2012.
With six months to go before Election Day, a new poll finds Mitt Romney in a dead heat with President Barack Obama in 12 key political battleground states.
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on Wednesday on a bipartisan deal to renew the U.S. Export-Import Bank for three years, a House leadership aide said on Monday.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the United States will have a female president in her lifetime – but it won’t be her.
Alex D. Forger testified last week that Edwards’ then-lawyer Wade Smith told him in the fall of 2008 that the former candidate agreed that $725,000 given by 101-year-old Rachel “Bunny” Mellon had been provided to help him.
“My life is in your hands, Mr. President,” Weinstein said in the video. “If you accept the demands, I live; if you don’t accept the demands, then I die.” Weinstein was abducted last August in Lahore, Pakistan, after gunmen tricked his guards and broke into his home.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he supported holding an early general election in four months’ time, a ballot polls say could strengthen his hand as Israel confronts Iran’s nuclear ambitions.