The U.N. General Assembly condemned wide-ranging human rights violations in Myanmar in a resolution adopted early on Thursday.
It also called on Myanmars military rulers to immediately release opposition leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, as well as freeing more than 2,000 other prisoners of conscience.
Senator Edward Kennedys legacy weighed heavily on the US Senate Thursday, as his former colleagues clinched a major victory toward health care reform, the cause of his life.
The dramatic early morning Christmas Eve vote capped months of bitter debate that pitted lawmakers against one another before Reid finally lined up all 58 Democrats and two [...]
The acrimonious health care debate entered its final chapter Thursday with Senate passage of a bill that would reshape the health insurance market and extend coverage to an estimated 31 million people.
If enacted after upcoming negotiations with the House, the Senate bill would prompt a near total overhaul of the American health care system — [...]
Senators gave Barack Obama a huge political boost by passing a sweeping remake of the US health care system that aims to extend coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans.
The early morning vote broke down strictly along party lines, with no support from conservatives — 39 Republicans voting against.
The Senate voted Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase over the current limit and a political problem that President Barack Obama has promised to address next year.
Obama must sign the measure into law to prevent a market-rattling, first-ever default on U.
Landmark legislation that would makethe broadest changes to the U.S. health-care system in decadesis poised to pass the Senate today, putting President BarackObamas top legislative priority a step closer to reality.
Democrats celebrated after the bill cleared yesterdaysfinal procedural hurdle, calling the vote a victory for familiesand small businesses.
Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage Wednesday, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama’s call to remake the nation’s health care system.
The Senate has met for 24 consecutive days to debate the legislation, the second-longest such stretch in history, and Democrats held a celebratory press conference.
The Senate Finance Committees leading Republican said on Wednesday he will place a hold on nominations for several U.S. Treasury Department posts unless the Internal Revenues Service eases up on penalties imposed against small businesses.
The committee is expected to vote on several Treasury nominees on Wednesday afternoon and an aide said Grassley wont try to [...]
Jubilant Democrats are ready to push President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul past one last 60-vote hurdle to final Christmas Eve passage, and Republicans concede they’re powerless to stop it.
At the White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs declared, “Health care reform is not a matter of if, health care reform now is a matter of [...]
US President Barack Obama will head to Hawaii with his family on Christmas Eve, the White House said, after lawmakers moved up a key vote on health care reform legislation.
Earlier, the president had said he would delay his traditional Christmas trip to Hawaii if it was necessary to help shepherd health care legislation through the [...]
