Senate leaders appear close to US debt ceiling deal
Senate leaders appear close to a deal to avoid a self-inflicted political calamity that would shred US credibility and rock the global economy.
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Over 865,200 Gallons of Fracked Oil Spill in ND, Public In Dark For Days Due to Government Shutdown
Tioga, North Dakota in one of the biggest onshore oil spills in recent U.S. history.
Read MoreJon Stewart hammers Republicans on shutdown: ‘You burned the f*cking store down’ to fight Obamacare
“So they’re willing to let people lose their government paycheck so that they don’t lose their government paycheck,”
Read MoreExperts called back from shutdown furlough to fight drug-resistant salmonella
The CDC issued a public health warning about the outbreak on Tuesday, October 8. The CDC has called in 10 salmonella experts who were furloughed because of the Republican shutdown of the federal government, now in its eighth day.
Read MoreWith Rise of American Fascism, Shutdown Politics 'Predictable'
Can new progressive era rise from ashes of ‘era of obstructionism’ or is the descent of US democracy just beginning?
Read MoreHouse of Representatives unanimously approves back pay for federal workers
U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously on Saturday to provide back pay to federal workers furloughed by the Republican shutdown of the federal government
Read MoreGovt shutdown likely to affect LPFM radio applications
the FCC website has been down since Tuesday when the government shutdown went into effect.
Read MoreFrozen by shutdown, US warns of 'catastrophic' default
The US Treasury meanwhile warned of “catastrophic” consequences if there is no deal within weeks to raise the country’s debt ceiling
Read MoreJon Stewart destroys callous Fox News host: F*ck you for mocking the poor
Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes, who dismissively said Democrats would start getting their “potted meat and Tang and get in [their] survival bunker,” to the amusement of Sean Hannity and other cohorts.
Read MoreTreasury: US to exhaust funds Oct 17 without debt hike
The US Treasury said Tuesday that it would still run out of funds on October 17 without a debt ceiling hike.
Read MoreJon Stewart rips Constitution-hugging Republicans: They’re like ‘an as*hole causing a head-on collision’
“If it turns out that President Barack Obama can made a deal with the most intransigent, hardline, unreasonable, totalitarian Mullahs in the world, but not with Republicans, maybe he’s not the problem.”
Read MoreUS federal government shuts down
The United States federal government shut down for the first time in 17 years on Tuesday,
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