Should Saturday Night Live wish to run a sketch featuring First Lady Michelle Obama they’ll have to hang a Help Wanted shingle outside the NBC studio. The cast lacks a black female comic again this season, and one of the
House GOP Leadership was finalizing language Tuesday afternoon for another proposal to end the government shutdown and lift the debt ceiling. They are scrambling to identify a mix of provisions that could attract enough conservative votes to pass the House.
Deadline reports that during her first full month as the new co-host of “Fox & Friends,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck has lifted the Fox News’ number-one morning show by double digits. Over the past month, F&F has averaged 1.226 million viewers, a
On Thursday, the US will exhaust its borrowing authority, according to the Treasury Department. With both parties and the White House far apart on any deal to end the government shutdown and increase the debt ceiling, the fiscal stand-off will
NBC has given the greenlight for a new sitcom pilot titled Growing Ivy starring long-time left-winger Susan Sarandon and her daughter, Eva Amurri Martino. The pair will play a mother and daughter “working on their relationship.” Martino is to play
Word on the Hill is that a Senate deal to end the partial government shutdown and lift the debt ceiling will be reached on Tuesday. Although specific details are murky and subject to change, the broad outlines of the deal
(AP) Around world, threat of US default induces shrugsBy BERNARD CONDONAP Business WriterNEW YORKWarren Buffett likens it to a nuclear attack. Economists warn that government spending on programs like Social Security would plunge. The Treasury says the economy would slide
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Rand Paul called Barack Obama “irresponsible” for scaring the American people with his strident warning about the debt ceiling battle. Crowley asked: Senator Paul, I know you said that you
House Republicans have sent the White House a revised proposal to lift the debt ceiling for six weeks, as well as reopen government through December 15th, which was their original spending proposal before the partial shutdown. The revised GOP plan
(AP) Kerry in Afghanistan for urgent security talksBy MATTHEW LEEAP Diplomatic WriterKABUL, AfghanistanU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Afghanistan Friday for urgent talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai as an end of October deadline looms for completing a
With only weeks to go before the roll out of the Nevada health care exchange, developers knew they were in trouble. In August 2013 the governor was made aware of serious “readiness concerns.” In September, with the first TV commercials
The Obama fundraising machine is the latest casualty of the government shutdown, but not for the reason one might expect. The First Lady won’t be coming to Tinsel Town Friday after all, making it the latest Obama fundraiser to suffer
(AP) Obama says talks OK _ after default threat avertedBy DAVID ESPOAP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTONAfter weeks of gridlock, House Republicans floated broad hints Tuesday they might be willing to pass short-term legislation re-opening the government and averting a default in exchange
As the government shutdown enters its second week, House Republicans are pushing for another “supercommittee” to negotiate a deal to restore government funding and raise the debt ceiling. The House is set to vote on the proposal Tuesday and send
We keep hearing how much better the economy is getting under President Barack Obama, yet all we see and hear is bad news. The facts just don’t support the administration’s claim, unless they are influenced in various ways to look
(AP) Prospect for quick end to shutdown is remoteBy DAVID ESPOAP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTONProspects for a swift end to the 4-day-old partial government shutdown all but vanished Friday as lawmakers squabbled into the weekend and increasingly shifted their focus to a
House Republicans will meet today to determine how to proceed on the continuing resolution/debt ceiling negotiations. Speaker John Boehner has said he will not dictate strategy at the meeting, but members are looking to him to for direction and strategy
One of the featured speakers on an Organizing for Action (OFA) conference call Wednesday night designed to generate enthusiasm for President Obama’s signature health care legislation among community organizers around the country, admitted on the call that Obamacare is unpopular
(AP) Pressure mounts to fix health insurance exchangesBy JULIET WILLIAMS and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressThe pressure is on for the federal government and states running their own health insurance exchanges to get the systems up and running after overloaded websites and
(AP) Glitches persist as gov’t blames high demandBy CARLA K. JOHNSONAP Medical WriterCHICAGOComputer glitches frustrated more Americans checking out their options under President Barack Obama’s health care law, and administration officials said Wednesday the problems are mainly due to high
Only just over a year into his tenure as Executive VP of NBC Digital, Rob Hayes is laying off five percent of his workforce. Hayes replaced former chief Vivi Zigler in June of 2012 and was expected to put NBC
The House first tried to defund ObamaCare. Then, it tried to delay the whole law and then just the individual mandate. In the final hours before the midnight deadline, the House ended with a simple proposal. It would agree to
The government’s official Obamacare Facebook page has been inundated with hundreds of questions and complaints from individuals experiencing myriad technical problems while trying to enroll in Obamacare online. One user wrote on the government’s HealthCare.gov Facebook: “Says cannot create account
The online customer information chat feature on the government’s main Obamacare page, www.HealthCare.Gov, is not working. Users are receiving error messages that read: Sorry, Health Insurance Marketplace Live Chat isn’t available right now. We’re having technical problems. We apologize for
