WASHINGTON – President Obama used the college commencement season Saturday to get behind Senate Democratic legislation that would let college graduates with heavy debts refinance their loans. The Senate is expected to debate the legislation next week, but it faces significant obstacles. READ MORE: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/07/in-radio-address-obama-promotes-college-debt-refinancing-bill/
MADISON, Wis. – Same-sex couples began getting married in Wisconsin on Friday shortly after a federal judge struck down the state’s gay marriage ban and despite confusion over the effect of the ruling. Clerks in Madison and Milwaukee began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples shortly after 5 p.m. Friday, a little over an hour […]
The man blasting away with a shotgun paused to reload, and Jon Meis saw his chance. The 22-year-old building monitor pepper-sprayed and tackled the gunman Thursday in Seattle Pacific University’s Otto Miller Hall, likely preventing further carnage, according to police and university officials. Meis and other students subdued him until officers arrived and handcuffed him […]
The Taliban found Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl walking alone, acting abnormally and cursing his countrymen before they captured him in Afghanistan in 2009, two men who were Taliban commanders at the time told NBC News on Thursday. They said that Afghan locals first informed fighters about the soldier, and then the fighters rushed to capture him. […]
President Obama, facing rising bipartisan criticism over his handling of the Taliban-for-Bergdahl prisoner swap, dug in his heels Thursday and declared he would make “absolutely no apologies” for bringing an American soldier home — as his administration stepped up its defense of the controversial deal. The president fielded a question on the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl […]
By Sally J. Clark (CNN) — The Seattle City Council just voted to put low-wage workers on a path over the next several years to earning a $15-per-hour minimum wage. You may think, “There goes the crazy upper left corner of the country again” — but there’s method to our madness. This historic measure came after a […]