PROMISES, PROMISES: OBAMA KEEPS PART OF TAX PLEDGE
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER FILE – In this Oct. 6, 2011, file photo, Carol Gay, of Brick, N.J., holds a sign saying “Tax the Rich,” as several groups including the Peoples…
Government business and finance
NTSB: PILOT’S TEXTING CONTRIBUTED TO COPTER CRASH
By JOAN LOWY This photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed near Mosby, Mo., on Aug. 26, 2011. The pilot of…
OBAMA AIDE: BUDGET WILL MAKE BOTH PARTIES UNHAPPY
By PHILIP ELLIOTT FILE – In this Jan. 16, 2013 file photo President Barack Obama, and White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, right, react to a reporter’s question as they…
UN: CHEMICAL INVESTIGATORS READY TO GO TO SYRIA
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, attends a breakfast meeting with Netherlands’ Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, not in the photo, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2013. Ban is on…
SWEEPING ANTI-ABORTION BILL GOES TO KANSAS GOV.
By JOHN HANNA Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick, right, a Stilwell Republican, watches the chamber’s electronic tally board as it approves a sweeping anti-abortion bill, Friday, April 5, 2013, at…
FAA FUNDED AIRPORT TOWERS USING 30-YEAR-OLD DATA
By JOAN LOWY FILE – Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood, left, listens as Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta, right, speaks during a news conference in this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo…
UN ADOPTS TREATY TO REGULATE GLOBAL ARMS TRADE
By EDITH M. LEDERER FILE – In this Sept. 13, 2005 file photo, the flags of member nations fly outside the General Assembly building at the United Nations headquarters in…
UK MINISTER ASKED TO MAKE GOOD ON WELFARE PLEDGE
FILE – In this Dec. 4, 2012 file photo, Britain’s Secretary for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith looks to the media as he walks past the Christmas tree in…