President Barack Obama says he will not compromise over his insistence that Congress lift the federal debt ceiling. The nation's credit rating was downgraded the last time lawmakers threatened inaction on the debt ceiling, in 2011. (Jan.
Published on Jun 10, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM The average person graduating from college in 2013 borrowed nearly $30,000 in student debt. To help Americans overburdened by their loans, President Obama signed a new executive ord
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Founded in 1964, the President's Commission on White House Fellowships is one of America's most prestigious programs for leadership and public service. White House Fellowships offer exceptional young men and women first-hand experience work
A group of 10 mortgage providers have agreed to pay a total of $8.5bn as compensation to end a US government-mandated review of housing crisis foreclosures. Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc, JPMorgan Case & Co, Wells Fargo & Co, Met
Brazilian sex workers will be offered free English lessons ahead of the 2014 World Cup. CNN's Shasta Darlington reports.
A key part of the NYPD's controversial stop and frisk tactic has been ruled unconstitutional. Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin ordered police to refrain from making some trespass stops outside private residential buildings
A new set of federal guidelines on mortgage lending has been released in efforts to protect banks and potential homeowners from the risky practices that caused the 2008 housing crisis and economic collapse. Margaret Warner talks to Richard
Published on Sep 9, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Lawmakers said Tuesday they were considering doing more to monitor and hold accountable police departments across the United States that obtain sophisticated military equipment from
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Four robbers burst into a New York City jewelry and point guns at the workers inside. A customer tries to get away but is grabbed and thrown to the floor. All of this is caught on tape. The robbers
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PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Jan 14, 2016 Some militia clowns in Oregon, lead by Ammon Bundy, are still in the federal building they took over with guns. They’re still getting mail and packages. Apparently they’re thinking of
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For more news coverage go to: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ A federal appeals court ruled President Obama's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board made during a congressional recess were unconstitutional. Hari Sreenivasan talk
2/5/13 Steven VanRoekel, Federal Chief Information Officer, discusses the goals of the digital government strategy
2/5/13 Steven VanRoekel, Federal Chief Information Officer, discusses the power of people and the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program.
2/7/13 It's not a heist: Germany is making a withdrawal, but won't say how it's going to move its gold from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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2/14/13 The State of the Union proposal with by far the most political juice is going to be a call to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 and index it to inflation. That would put it, in inflation-adjusted terms, back up to its 1981 leve
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3/2/13 Federal regulators consider allowing horse slaughterhouses to begin production in the U.S. Joe Johns reports.
3/6/13 Thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank work in Israel. For them this bus is an advantage. It's a cheap, fast service. And most of the workers say they prefer not to be on the same bus as Israeli settlers. The Palestinian Aut
3/12/13 A New York police officer was convicted on Tuesday in a bizarre plot to kidnap, torture, kill and eat women. The officer, Gilberto Valle, 28, could be sentenced to life in prison for one count of kidnapping conspiracy. The verdic
3/16/13 Federal agents detained a train in Chicago after a passenger unwittingly triggered a nuclear scare. WBBM reports.
3/26/13 On China host Kristie Lu Stout discusses the problems migrant workers face due to the discriminatory hukou system. For more CNN videos, visit our site at http://www.cnn.com/video/
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http://www.euronews.com/ Votes making Colorado and Washington the first US states to legalise marijuana for recreational use could be short-lived victories if the federal government decides to challenge them. In Colorado, Amendment 64 garn
President Obama announces he is nominating Mel Watt to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Tom Wheeler to chair the Federal Communications Commission. May 1, 2013.
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Seattle is a step closer to setting up legal marijuana zoning. Where can it be grown, sold, baked and delivered? Every Seattle household will be allowed to grow up to 45 plants or the equivalent of 72 ounces. Big scale growing oper
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Aug 4, 2015 There’s a beast in south Brooklyn — a yawning sinkhole appeared without warning Tuesday and looks to be at least a dozen feet deep. It’s at the corner of 5th Ave. and 64th St. in Sun
This week, the President urged Congress not to let student loan rates double and to confirm three judges for the federal appeals court in Washington, held bilateral meetings with the NATO Secretary-General and the President of Chile, kicked
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Could the sprawling surveillance state enable government or its legion of private contractors to abuse their technology and spy upon domestic political targets or judges This is not a far off possibility. Two years ago, a batch of stolen e-
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promoted on http://cnnnext.com like us http://facebook.com/cnnnext follow us http://twitter.com/cnnnext Marijuana has only been legalized for recreational use in two states: Colorado and Washington. But that hasn't stopped the ArcView
Published on Jun 21, 2013 US federal prosecutors have filed sealed criminal charges against Edward Snowden, the man behind a huge leak of surveillance secrets. They have also asked Hong Kong to detain him, as he is believed to be hiding
Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario says a fact-finding team has confirmed certain allegations of abuse and sexual molestation of distressed Filipina workers in the Middle East. provided by http://cnnnext.com like us http://fac
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Aubrey Lee Price appeared before a federal judge in Brunswick, Georgia Thursday. Prosecutors say Price raised $40 million from investors, and lost much of the money, then disappeared. He was arrested Tuesday
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Jan 27, 2016 Shots were fired during the arrest of militia members occupying federal land at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
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Published on Feb 10, 2014 Feb. 10 -- Marijuana for medicinal or recreational uses is now legal in 20 states and the District of Columbia but it is still illegal in the eyes of the federalgovernment. Banks, which are overseen by federal re
provided by http://cnnnext.com like us http://facebook.com/cnnnext follow us http://twitter.com/cnnnext Hundreds of workers are busy around the clock at the $4 billion World Trade Center transportation hub project. The project's direct
Provided by http://cnnnext.com Officials say the nose gear of a plane landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport collapsed as the aircraft touched down on the runway. The Federal Aviation Administration says the plane landed safely and no inj
Provided by http://cnnnext.com Walmart and McDonalds are some of the country's biggest employers but they make it nearly impossible for their workers to earn a living wage. We look at some of the numbers in this Buzzsaw news clip with Ty
Provided by http://cnnnext.com Sarah Jaffe, Independent Journalist/The Atlantic, joins Thom Hartmann. Fast food jobs were once thought to be transition jobs for teenagers and college kids - but now - Americans of all ages are relying on th
Provided by http://cnnnext.com Also, Paula Deen has won a major legal victory. A federal judge has thrown out a racial discrimination suit brought by a former employee.
Provided by http://cnnnext.com Residents of Brownsville, Brooklyn, were divided over the policing strategy after a federal judge ruled that it violated the constitutional rights of minority New Yorkers.
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provided by http://cnnnext It is illegal under federal law to prevent a student from attending school based on perceived HIV status, but an Arkansas school district has banned three students, all siblings, from returning to class until th
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Stressing the desire for basic fairness for Americans under the Affordable Care Act, House Speaker John A. Boehner spoke to the media after Congress failed to avert a federal government shutdown.
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Published on Mar 23, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM More and more money is going into U.S. elections without any disclosure of where it's coming from. Spending by dark money groups -- organizations that do not have to disclose
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New research shows more than half of low-wage workers at fast-food restaurants rely on public assistance to survive -- a rate double that of the overall workforce. According to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, low wage
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PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM In this week’s address, the President underscored the importance of continuing to grow our economy and support good-paying jobs for our workers by opening up new markets for American goods and services.
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PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Apr 7, 2015 host of The Young Turks discusses Rand Paul and his store that is based around his 2016 presidential campaign. Of course Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul's campaign store is a
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PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Jun 19, 2015 In May, the U.S. economy added 280,000 new jobs, one of the best months we’ve seen for private sector job growth in a long time. But before we get too excited about those numbers, we
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PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Jan 8, 2016 At the start of the year, an armed right wing militia group took over a federal building in Oregon, inspiring an uprising of anti-government groups to come join this armed insurrection
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