Speaker John Boehner said Monday that he agrees with President Barack Obama that the nation’s borrowing limit must be raised to avoid a government default but insists that House Republicans won’t back any deal with tax increases.
This is the first in a daily series illustrating how MSNBC relies on Media Matters (the Soros-funded non-profit organization whose dubious tax-exempt status is currently under fire) as their research department. In this inaugural video, we illustrate how David Shuster
The President lectures GOP leadership during a press conference at the White House. The White House press corps seem amused and delighted by his presentation.
Editor’s note: AFP has changed out the video that originally accompanied this post. As you can see from AFP’s own headline, it is supposed to refer to a witness’ testimony in the Rachel Corrie civil suit. For the full article
In light of the banning of “religious signs” in public schools across France, some Muslim groups are financing new Islamic Faith Schools — giving girls who want to wear the veil at school a space to do so.
Three-time AL MVP Alex Rodriguez is going to have surgery Monday to repair the torn meniscus in his right knee, and is expected to miss four to six weeks.
The White House meeting between President Obama and congressional leaders on a debt and deficit reduction deal ended with little progress on Sunday. The lawmakers plan to keep meeting daily until a deal is struck, officials said.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tells NBC’s David Gregory that for a lot of people “it’s going to feel very hard, harder than anything they’ve experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come.”
British royalty mingled with the Hollywood kind yesterday as Prince William and new wife Kate took to the red carpet in Los Angeles.
A U.S. space shuttle has pulled up for the last time at the International Space Station. Emotions were running high Sunday, in orbit and on Earth, as Atlantis arrived at the space station.
Teams of inspectors have been examining a 208-foot-tall upstate New York amusement park roller coaster after a U.S. Army veteran who lost his legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq was thrown from it to his death.
Of course, the world thinks we’re pretty grown-up when they need us to fight their wars for them.
Another priceless moment from Ann Coulter. This is why she is the very best.
That’s one phrase for it.
Britain’s Prince William and his new bride Catherine arrived in Los Angeles for a weekend of Hollywood glamour and Californian sun, after a nine-day tour of Canada. The three-day stay, Catherine’s first ever trip to the United States, began with
Amazing use of the language.
In the weekly GOP radio and Internet address, Washington state Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers says the economy is actually creating fewer jobs month-to-month despite talk of economic recovery.
South Sudan’s parliament speaker has proclaimed the fledgling state’s independence, marking its birth as the world’s newest nation and splitting Africa’s largest country in two. Images of the ceremony.
