Argentina nationalizes oil company YPF
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's Congress nationalized the country's biggest oil company, YPF, by an overwhelming lower house vote on Thursday that underscored broad popular support for a measure that threatens to scare off foreign investment. The Chamber of Deputies voted 207-32 in favor of expropriating YPF, clearing the way for President Cristina Fernandez to sign the bill into law. The Senate last week approved the measure by a similarly overwhelming margin. ...
Report: Newt Gingrich to officially drop out of race next week
Newt Gingrich is likely to officially suspend his bid for the presidency on Tuesday, May 1, Fox News reports. Gingrich, who was considered Romney's chief rival at the start of the official Republican primary season in January, won two states, South Carolina and Georgia. (He represented Georgia in Congress for two decades.) The former House [...]
Obama courts young voters with student loan push
President Barack Obama escapes the stuffy confines of Washington on Tuesday, traveling on a two-day swing through major universities in the electoral battlegrounds of North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa. His mission: To push Congress to keep a lid on student loan costs — and reconnect with young voters who helped him win in 2008.
President Obama courts young voters with student loan push
President Barack Obama escapes the stuffy confines of Washington on Tuesday, traveling on a two-day swing through major universities in the electoral battlegrounds of North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa. His mission: To push Congress to keep a lid on student loan costs — and reconnect with young voters who helped him win in 2008.
Merkel’s FDP ally eyes poll comeback, doubts persist
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) - Poll figures may be low and forecasts gloomy, but Martina Reuter felt certain things were looking up for her party - Germany's Free Democrats (FDP), the junior partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition. "At the moment there is a real mood of change ... There is a return to the old, fundamental values," the 50-year-old party member told Reuters at a weekend FDP congress in Karlsruhe, western Germany. Her comments were in tune with the atmosphere of determined bonhomie among the hundreds of delegates at the gathering. ...
A divided Congress confronts a rising cyberthreat
The mysterious caller claimed to be from Microsoft and offered step-by-step instructions to repair damage from a software virus. The electric power companies weren't falling for it.
Secret Service to face Congress grilling next week
Lawmakers will grill Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano about the US Secret Service next week, as the Senate's top Democrat blasted the "stupid" agents at the heart of the scandal Thursday.
Obama targets oil speculators: Is it just smoke and mirrors?
Obama raised the ante on his efforts to limit the rise in oil prices. The president, joined by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Attorney General Eric Holder, called on Congress to adopt tougher rules on speculators in the oil market.
Dog days in jury selection for Clemens retrial
One potential juror was questioned for 68 minutes. Another for 64 — and he didn't even make the cut. Along the way, Roger Clemens' lawyer offered some clues as to his strategy once testimony gets under way, including a challenge to whether Congress had a legitimate purpose in holding the hearing at which the seven-time Cy Young Award winner testified — and whether Clemens' testimony was voluntary.
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