WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Despite a battle over birth-control policy between the White House and Roman Catholic leaders, U.S. Catholics’ political views differ little from those of non-Catholic voters, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll results released on Monday. About four in 10, or 37 percent, of Catholic voters approve of Democratic President Barack Obama’s performance, and 48 [...]
LONDON?? The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a U.N. report warned on Monday. As the world’s population looks set to grow to [...]
Larry Downing / Reuters Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has been a dominant force in pushing for more openness at the central bank. By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer New normal, meet the new Fed. The Federal Reserve took two major new steps Wednesday to assure businesses and consumers that it intends to keep borrowing costs [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Job discrimination complaints in the United States rose to an all-time high last year, led by an increase in bias charges based on religion and national origin. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received nearly 100,000 charges of discrimination during the 2011 fiscal year, the most in its 46-year history. That’s a slight [...]
LOS ANGELES Jan 11 (TheWrap.com) ? Mitt Romney wasn’t the only one to walk away with a victory at the New Hampshire primary. As it did with the Iowa caucus last week, Fox News Channel scored a handy win over its competitors with its coverage of Tuesday’s primary in the 8 to 11 p.m. slot, [...]
(Reuters) ? Unemployment rates in almost all states dropped in November, and 45 states had jobless rates lower than the year before, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday. States followed the national trend — the U.S. unemployment rate fell to a 2-1/2 year low of 8.6 percent in November — with 43 states and the [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Housing starts and building permits jumped to a 1-1/2 year high in November as demand for rental apartments rose, suggesting the housing market was entering a tentative recovery. Tuesday’s data, which also showed gains in groundbreaking for single-family homes, was the latest sign of a quickening of an economic recovery that still [...]
WASHINGTON ? Setting a new bar for the nation’s economy, President Barack Obama said the United States unemployment rate could fall to 8 percent before he faces re-election next November. The unemployment rate, currently at 8.6 percent, hasn’t been at or below 8 percent since he took office in January 2009 amid a global economic [...]
Alexey Nikolsky / EPA The United Russia party of President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suffered a setback in Sunday’s election. By Msnbc.com staff and wire services Updated at 4:50 a.m. ET Prime Minister?Vladimir Putin’s United?Russia received nearly one-third fewer votes than in 2007, Reuters reported. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganovm, whose [...]