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Gehry refines design for Eisenhower Memorial in DC
WASHINGTON -- Stone or bronze carvings depicting Dwight D. Eisenhower's accomplishments as Army general and president mark the latest creative change Architect Frank Gehry has made to his design for an Ike memorial park in Washington.Early last year, Gehry planned to use bas reliefs carved on stone blocks to depict Eisenhower's achievements. He added 9-foot-tall bronze sculptures to ...
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Wine and water Deep aquifer trouble in Californias North County
The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's ...
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Mueller urges caution on NSA program changes
FBI Director Robert Mueller is leaving the law enforcement agency that he has run every day since the week before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the same way that he entered it: being grilled about how the FBI is carrying out the most high-profile criminal investigations in the ...
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Decline and fall how American society unravelled
Thirty years ago, the old deal that held US society together started to unwind, with social cohesion sacrificed to greed. Was it an inevitable process - or was it engineered by self-interested ...
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We were told to lie - Bank of America employees open up about foreclosure practices
USA Employees of Bank of America say they were encouraged to lie to customers and were even rewarded for foreclosing on homes, staffers of the financial giant claim in new court documents. Sworn statements from several Bank of America employees contain a number of damning allegations, the latest claims entered as evidence in a multi-state class action lawsuit that challenges the ...
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First Read Minute Easier to be a candidate than president
NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro discuss the significance of President Obama's speech in Germany and compare the reception he received Wednesday to the one he received as a candidate in ...
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FBI director Drones seldom used for domestic surveillance
By Michael O'Brien , Political Reporter, NBC News FBI director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that the nation's top law enforcement bureau uses drones to conduct surveillance on U.S. soil, though only on a "very, very minimal basis."Mueller, the FBI director since 2001 who is set to retire this year, acknowledged that his agency uses drones in its investigative and law ...
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Sen. Menendez Immigration reform will cut the deficit
Republican opponents of the immigration bill are staging a six hour news conference on Wednesday to voice their dissent. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a member of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" weighs in on the status of the bill and its chance of ...
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GOP holds 6-hour anti-immigration reform news conference
MSNBC's Mark Murray joins Thomas Roberts to discuss the latest in the battle for immigration reform and Sen. Daniel Coats, D-Ind., gives his take on NSA ...
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Boehner to meet with Hispanic Caucus on immigration
As the immigration debate rages on in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner is meeting Wednesday with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a member of the bipartisan House immigration group, discusses his upcoming meeting with the ...
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The Agenda Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings calls the GOP’s bluff on the IRS scandal
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., released a full 200 transcript with an IRS manager that supposedly proves the White House was not involved in targeting conservative groups. Mother Jones' David Corn and American Prospect's Jamelle Bouie discuss the debunking of the scandal and the misleading information Rep. Darell Issa, R-Calif., leaked during his ...
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Mayors Against Illegal Guns We don’t need to match NRA’s money
we need to make sure that the voices of those we lost are the loudest ones we hear in this fight. we need to make sure that everyone in the country knows that this fight isn't over. far from it. we got a majority but not ...
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Taliban kills four Americans ahead of Thursday’s peace talks
taliban confirm not just in words but in action that they have renounced all terrorist activity and support, we should not reward them by participating in any reconciliation efforts. so, i guess the question is, what do we get out of these talks? can they ...
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House passes most restrictive abortion bill in a decade
Strategists Emily Tisch Sussman and John Feehery talk about the passing of the bill and the decision of some House Republicans to continually push social issues, despite efforts by party leaders to steer ...
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Rep. Grijalva CBO report proves budget arguments have no standing
reform movement got good news, the much-anticipated report from the budget office concludes the gang of eight's bill would cut the deficit by $197 billion and i want to play what ...
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Arizona construction collapse kills one injures one
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Temporary framing beneath a freeway overpass in Mesa, Arizona, collapsed on Wednesday, killing one construction worker and injuring another, a fire department spokesman ...
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Obesity as a disease What does it mean for Americans
Now that obesity has been officially classified as a disease by the American Medical Association (AMA), many are wondering how this will affect the 35.7 percent of Americans who are described as obese by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Will this decision help facilitate better treatments for people who are currently obese? And will this new classification help combat the ...
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FBI director says IRS tax exemption probe a top priority
FBI Director Robert Mueller speaks before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 19, ...
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An American City Govt. Seeks the Cruel Power to Keep People off the Streets in... Vermont
Burlington Vt.'s city ordinance allows the immediate and arbitrary banishment of people from public streets with no due process of law and no effective appeal ...
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More Charges Planned Against Castro
Ariel Castro, center, sits before a judge with his defense attorney's, Craig Weintraub, left, and Jaye Schlachet during a pretrial hearing, June 19, 2013, in Cleveland, ...
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Watch Mom Day Care Owner Denies Drugging Kids
-- see as many as six children who attended daycare at the so called caterpillar clubhouse may have -- doped up. But the woman who runs the home child care center says the charges ...
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Fremont-Based Men’s Wearhouse Dismisses Founder George Zimmer
Mens’ Wearhouse founder and CEO George Zimmer (R) shakes hands with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff as he delivers the keynote address during the Dreamforce 2012 conference at the Moscone Center on September 19, 2012 in San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty ...
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Google Challenges Government Gag Order On Internet Surveillance Program
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Israel honors Bill Clinton for work on two-state solution
Bill Clinton said "there are no perfect solutions" for Middle East peace as he received Israel's highest civilian honor Wednesday. Israeli ...
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Combined agents of America Elects New 2013 Leadership
Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, has elected an new management committee for 2013-14, led by Chairman Bill Kliewer. CAA member agencies are located in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. Each CAA management committee member is elected to serve a staggered two-year term and is selected by its board of members based on their leadership abilities and contributions to the ...
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