by Olivia Marcus & Tal Axelrod | Feb 16, 2011 | National Security
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense Robert Gates supported moderate cuts in the defense budget Wednesday but warned Congress that “short-sighted cuts could well lead to costlier and more tragic consequences later – indeed as they have in the past.” Gates, joined by...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Feb 16, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON—Two men with a history of unabashed sparring sat together on Capitol Hill Wednesday to push the need for a strong transportation bill that helps America upgrade its lagging infrastructure. Thomas J. Donahue, the president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of...
by Alex Campbell | Feb 15, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his proposed budget as “step number one” of a long deficit-fixing process which he said would require a bipartisan commitment to entitlement reform. “We’re not going to be running up the credit card...
by Peter Larson | Feb 15, 2011 | Health & Science, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the U.S. continues to support the protection of such basic human rights as speech and assembly, whether online or off. However, Clinton did not say if the ability to access the Internet at all was a...
by Rebecca Cohen | Feb 15, 2011 | Politics
What do George H. W. Bush, Stan Musial and Maya Angelou have in common? The former president, baseball legend and Pulitzer-nominated poet are among 15 people who received the 2010 Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in a presentation ceremony earlier this...
by Nina Lincoff | Feb 15, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON —More than nine years following the mailing of anthrax letters that killed five people and sickened 17, a National Research Council committee reported Tuesday that the F.B.I. overstated the connection between the anthrax in the letters and spores from a...
by Elisa Santana | Feb 15, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner faced heat from House Republicans Tuesday as he sought to defend President Barack Obama’s 2012 budget proposal. A day after the White House unveiled a budget plan for Congress to consider, Geithner faced the...
by Alanna Autler | Feb 15, 2011 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON –The Middle East and North Africa represent the two most-underserved areas in the world in HIV/AIDS research and prevention despite a sharp increase in infections over the past 10 years, according to a World Bank report released Tuesday. The report,...
by Alex Campbell | Feb 15, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican senators lashed out at the White House budget chief during a hearing on Tuesday, with Sen. Jeff Sessions calling President Barack Obama’s proposed budget “a very unserious response to a very serious problem.” Jacob Lew, director of the...
by Elena Schneider | Feb 15, 2011 | Politics
The exhibit celebrates the Italian influence on American culture, including it’s architecture. The central rotunda of the Capitol Building is based on the Pantheon in Rome, Powell said in his speech. (Photo: Elena Schneider/Medill News Service)WASHINGTON —...
by Alex Campbell | Feb 9, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House and Republican House leaders agree: It’s time to trim the budget, scale back useless regulation and be honest with the public about the government’s deficit problem. The devil, of course, is in the details — and the...
by Elisa Santana | Feb 9, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — Testifying to Congress for the first time since Republicans took control of the House, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday he’s confident with the Fed’s fiscal and monetary policies. But he was pressed hard in a series of tough...
