The U.S., which is sitting on a glut of cheap natural gas, stands to gain economically by exporting, concludes a long-awaited Energy Department report released on Wednesday. The report appears to pave the way for approval in 2013 of up to 20 permit applications by companies seeking to build export...
You know the presidential election is over when today’s monthly jobs report is far from the top political story of the day. The monthly jobs numbers: 146,000 jobs created in November; unemployment rate drops to 7.7%: The Wall Street Journal calls today’s report the “Least important jobs report in 5...
President Obama is considering nominating Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue (and decidedly not thought of as warm and chatty) as his next ambassador to either the U.K. or France as he looks to reward his biggest fundraisers with embassies never out of fashion, according to two people familiar with the...
Fix readers identified the best presidential biographies for each of the nation’s 43 presidents. Here’s a comprehensive list, with plenty of time left in the holiday shopping season in case you’re looking for holiday presents.
Former Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas, who was in the motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, died on Tuesday night from a sudden illness, the AP reported. He was 89 years old. Brooks, who was considered one of the more influential members of the House at the...
NBC’s Kyle Inskeep notes that this 112th Congress is headed to achieve a dubious distinction: the least productive Congress since 1947 (which first earned the moniker “Do-Nothing” Congress). With just weeks left, this Congress has passed only 196 bills into law (and many of those have been ceremonial pieces of...
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