Print Wynton Hall Read Full Bio Cyprus Bailout Calls For up to 40% Seizure of Bank Customer Cash Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has struck a deal with the European Union and International Monetary Fund that will seize up to 40% of uninsured funds from wealthier depositors with over 100,000 euros and will not siphon funds from those below that amount. 25 Mar 2013 Opponents Call Rahm Emanuel Chicago School Closing Plan 'Racist' Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision to close 53 public schools and 61 buildings in largely minority neighborhoods to help close a $1 billion budget shortfall has some opponents calling the Emanuel plan “racist.” 24 Mar 2013 Pakistani Firm Seeks U.S. Taxpayer-Subsidized Loans An estimated 80% of the roadside bombs that have killed or injured U.S. forces in Afghanistan were made with chemicals manufactured by Pakistani fertilizer maker Fatima Group. Now the company wants U.S. taxpayer funds to open a plant in Indiana. 24 Mar 2013 U.S. Still Making Payments to Relatives of Civil War Vets The U.S. government spends over $40 billion a year to compensate veterans and their family members for service in conflicts as far back as the Civil War. 21 Mar 2013 24 Guantanamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike Twenty-four of Guantanamo Bay’s 166 inmates are on a hunger strike to protest President Barack Obama’s broken promise to close the detention facility. 21 Mar 2013 U.S. Carries Out Simulated Nuclear Bombing Raids on North Korea On Monday, Pentagon officials confirmed that U.S. B-52 bombers carried out simulated nuclear bombing raids on North Korea. 21 Mar 2013 Economists: Obama Exaggerated Sequester Job Losses President Barack Obama’s dire warnings that the across-the-board sequester cuts would spawn massive unemployment—losses of up to 750,000 jobs—were exaggerated, say top economists. 20 Mar 2013 Senate Democratic Budget Increases Debt $50,000 per Household The Senate Democratic budget will increase America’s gross federal debt per household by more than $50,000 over the next decade, according to GOP Senate Budget Committee staff. 20 Mar 2013 AP: 45% of K-12th Grade Students Minorities Last year, more U.S. babies were born to minorities than whites. Today, over 45% of kindergarten through 12th grade students are minorities, a figure projected to tip to a nonwhite majority in just five years, according to the Census Bureau. 19 Mar 2013 'Underwater' Mortgages Decline by 1.7 Million Over Last Year The number of U.S. homeowners owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth declined by 1.7 million from a year earlier, according to recently released data from research company CoreLogic. 19 Mar 2013 Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next
Cyprus Bailout Calls For up to 40% Seizure of Bank Customer Cash Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has struck a deal with the European Union and International Monetary Fund that will seize up to 40% of uninsured funds from wealthier depositors with over 100,000 euros and will not siphon funds from those below that amount. 25 Mar 2013
Opponents Call Rahm Emanuel Chicago School Closing Plan 'Racist' Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision to close 53 public schools and 61 buildings in largely minority neighborhoods to help close a $1 billion budget shortfall has some opponents calling the Emanuel plan “racist.” 24 Mar 2013
Pakistani Firm Seeks U.S. Taxpayer-Subsidized Loans An estimated 80% of the roadside bombs that have killed or injured U.S. forces in Afghanistan were made with chemicals manufactured by Pakistani fertilizer maker Fatima Group. Now the company wants U.S. taxpayer funds to open a plant in Indiana. 24 Mar 2013
U.S. Still Making Payments to Relatives of Civil War Vets The U.S. government spends over $40 billion a year to compensate veterans and their family members for service in conflicts as far back as the Civil War. 21 Mar 2013
24 Guantanamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike Twenty-four of Guantanamo Bay’s 166 inmates are on a hunger strike to protest President Barack Obama’s broken promise to close the detention facility. 21 Mar 2013
U.S. Carries Out Simulated Nuclear Bombing Raids on North Korea On Monday, Pentagon officials confirmed that U.S. B-52 bombers carried out simulated nuclear bombing raids on North Korea. 21 Mar 2013
Economists: Obama Exaggerated Sequester Job Losses President Barack Obama’s dire warnings that the across-the-board sequester cuts would spawn massive unemployment—losses of up to 750,000 jobs—were exaggerated, say top economists. 20 Mar 2013
Senate Democratic Budget Increases Debt $50,000 per Household The Senate Democratic budget will increase America’s gross federal debt per household by more than $50,000 over the next decade, according to GOP Senate Budget Committee staff. 20 Mar 2013
AP: 45% of K-12th Grade Students Minorities Last year, more U.S. babies were born to minorities than whites. Today, over 45% of kindergarten through 12th grade students are minorities, a figure projected to tip to a nonwhite majority in just five years, according to the Census Bureau. 19 Mar 2013
'Underwater' Mortgages Decline by 1.7 Million Over Last Year The number of U.S. homeowners owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth declined by 1.7 million from a year earlier, according to recently released data from research company CoreLogic. 19 Mar 2013
Obama orders Justice Department review after Fox News, AP phone records seized23 May 2013, 11:46 AM PDT
Obama orders Justice Department review after Fox News, AP phone records seized23 May 2013, 11:46 AM PDT
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