WASHINGTON, July 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Treasury Department announced Monday that the federal government expected to borrow 592 billion U.S. dollars from the market to fund its operation in the second half of this year, fresh evidence of the budgeta...
Vice President Calvin Coolidge became president in nineteen twenty-three following the death of President Warren Harding. Coolidge quickly gained the trust of most Americans by investigating the crimes of Harding's top officials. The conservative eco...
by Adam Freedman Todays topic: Nullification. Can states opt out of federal laws they dont like? And now, your daily dose of legalese: This article does not create an attorney-client relationship with any reader. In other words, although I am a lawye...
by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although I am an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Further, I...
April 15 deadline looms Adam Phillips | New York 14 April 2010 Americans fill out forms at an Internal Revenue Service office in 1920, seven years after the personal income tax was introduced. Related Links NYU Stern School of Business Professor Rich...
The ink is dry, the pens are down, the gloves are off. And Jill Dougherty is filling us in on where health care reform goes next. And remember the government program that helped save you from foreclosure? Well, guess what? The program itself might ne...
So how's this for an example of Broken Government? No more time, no more money. And if you're depending on unemployment benefits to get by, forget about it. Christine Romans joining me now live from New York. Not good news, Christine. CHRISTINE ROMAN...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Craig Windham. An Afghan immigrant is slated to appear in a federal courtroom in New York within the hour and Najibullah Zazi is expected to plead guilty to terrorism charges. Hes accused of plotting a bomb attack on N...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Americas eighteenth president, Ulysses Grant, was elected to his second term in eighteen seventy-two. Grant had led the Union army of the North to victory over the Confederate...
The United States has launched a major civilian and military response to the massive earthquake in Haiti, which has flattened buildings in much of the capital, and left a devastating toll of death and destruction. We have details of the American resc...
