Schumer Criticizes Senate GOP On Tax Cut Measure
The NY senator accused Republicans of siding with "millionaires and billionaires" after they rejected proposals that would have let tax cuts expire for those making $200,000 and above.
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The NY senator accused Republicans of siding with "millionaires and billionaires" after they rejected proposals that would have let tax cuts expire for those making $200,000 and above.
In an interview in December's issue of GQ Magazine, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that President Barack Obama has broken campaign promises and needs better advisers.
But 58 percent of those surveyed in the Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind poll out Monday believe the country is on the wrong track.
Federal authorities say a 78-year-old South Carolina man with more than a dozen weapons in his home told a nurse he was thinking about killing President Barack Obama.
As the controversy over new full-body scanners at airports heats up, elected officials in the Tri-State Area and Washington D.C. are weighing in and speaking out.
LeBron James has been nominated for Time Magazine's annual 'Person of the Year.' Did I hear that correctly?
The weatherization program is designed to residents save on energy costs through the installation of insulation, sealing ducts and stopping heat loss through leaky windows and doors.
Millions of metropolitan area residents might want to scale back on their Christmas shopping this year because the taxman could be taking a much bigger bite out of your income than you think.
Did Mayor Michael Bloomberg describe President Barack Obama as the "most arrogant man" he's ever met? Billionaire Rupert Murdoch told the Australian Financial Review that's exactly what Bloomberg said to him.
Late on Thursday afternoon, two years to the date after his election as the 44th president, "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft sat down with him in the Oval Office - and the mood was different.
After suffering a "shellacking" in the midterm elections, President Obama acknowledges what many have seen as his chief weakness - failing to sell the importance of several legislative milestones to the American people.
Republicans have independents to thank for many of their wins. In 2008, President Obama won 52-percent of the independent vote. That has flipped.
Republicans racked up dozens of victories. As of Wednesday morning they gained six seats in the Senate and 58 seats in the House, more than enough to give the GOP control of the lower house.
American inspectors were expected in Yemen Monday, where investigators said the plot originated, to examine security practices.
The young Yemeni woman arrested on suspicion of mailing the powerful bombs was released on bail Sunday, and a Yemeni official said authorities no longer believe she shipped the bombs.
Sorensen, the studious, star-struck aide to President John F. Kennedy whose crisp, poetic turns of phrase helped immortalize a tragically brief administration, died Sunday.
Yemeni authorities arrested a woman Saturday and searched for other suspects linked to al-Qaida's Persian Gulf faction in the plot to mail bombs powerful enough to down a cargo plane.
President Barack Obama told voters in Bridgeport that in three days they could set the direction of Connecticut and the nation for years to come.
In light of Friday's bomb plot, Kelly revealed the difficulty of the screening cargo entering the U.S. "Some of it is screened, but most of it is not screened," Kelly said.
Authorities on three continents thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States from Yemen on Friday.
Americans, and especially New Yorkers, have been grappling with one terror attempt after another for decades. Will it ever stop, or is what happened Friday simply an inevitable reality?
The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage, but last week a leading manufacturer told workers their costs will jump partly because of the law.
There are new predictions that as many as 100 seats held by Democrats in the House of Representatives could be won by Republicans, and that includes 10 seats in New York.
For the third time in about a month, Connecticut's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal is looking to the White House for campaign support.
The mayor has been traveling around the country this election season endorsing candidates and backing issues, and there are more trips in prospect.
