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Members of the Connecticut state police during a memorial service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Dec. 16, 2012.
Newtown Shooting Spurs Legislative Response to Agencies’ Role
While the question remains whether the killings at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school will prompt major changes to U.S. guns laws, lawmakers did take action yesterday on another issue raised by the mass shooting: the role of federal law enforcement...
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A Standard Chartered Plc bank branch in Mumbai.
Breuer: Standard Chartered Probe Not the Last
The $327 million settlement reached today between U.S. prosecutors and regulators and British bank Standard Chartered over illegal transactions with sanctioned countries marks the latest in a string of resolutions with major banks — and it won’t be the last....
Read more »Boehner vs. Gingrich: Really
John Boehner was one of two nominated today for speaker of the House in the 113th Congress. The other? Newt Gingrich. That’s right. The former Georgia representative who resigned his speakership in 1998 and then left Congress a few months...
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JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, left, and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein leave the White House after they and 13 other bank heads met with President Barack Obama in this file photo.
Wall Street to Washington: Seriously — Get it Together, Bankers Say
The titans of Wall Street have a message for their counterparts in Washington: Knock it off. Fifteen bank chiefs, including JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs Group, fired off a letter to President Barack...
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Big Bird on the run in a scene from the movie "Follow That Bird."
Big Bird’s Budget: Obama’s Buddy
President Barack Obama might as well appoint Big Bird as a campaign surrogate. For a second day on the campaign trail, Obama mocked Republican rival Mitt Romney’s threat in this week’s presidential debate to pull funding from PBS, and by...
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House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy, left, and House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor during a news conference on Capitol Hill.
Romney Surrogate Goes Global in Race for Cash
A senior House Republican is willing to go halfway across the world to help out Mitt Romney. Representative Kevin McCarthy, the third-ranked House Republican, hopped on the 13-hour flight to Hong Kong from San Francisco yesterday to raise cash for...
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Mitt Romney gets a big hug from supporter Joni Scotter during a campaign rally in Marion, Iowa.
Romney: No, I’m the Candidate of the Middle Class
Mitt Romney wants to steal the mantle President Barack Obama has called his own: the candidate of the middle class. After months of attacks from the Obama campaign about pushing tax cuts for the wealthy and reducing regulations for Wall...
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'March On Wall Street South' demonstrators protest in Charlotte.
Bank Group Courting Secret Donors for Senate Campaigns: $6 Million?
American banks have been reluctant to make political waves in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. That may be about to change. In a private conference call with members yesterday, senior officials from the American Bankers Association laid out...
Read more »Romney to Make Upbeat Appeal for Obama Voters, Women and Bain
Mitt Romney’s moment will include an appeal to the people who voted against his party in 2008. “If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama?” Romney will...
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People hold signs wishing Sen. John McCain a Happy Birthday as he speaks at the Republican National Convention.
Storybook Ticket: Fox Pre-empts Palin’s Birthday Wish for McCain
Sarah Palin got a chance to wish her former running mate a happy birthday today, just not on the venue she wanted. Palin, in a Facebook post late this afternoon, said Fox News cancelled her appearances tonight — the same...
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