The Hill
The agreed-upon stopgap will help both parties avoid a major conflict before voters head to the polls, when a government shutdown would pose a significant electoral risk to incumbents on both sides of the aisle...This agreement reached between the...
DAWN
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday imposed new economic sanctions on Iran's oil export sector and on a pair of Chinese and Iraqi banks accused of doing business with Tehran. In a statement released by the White House, Obama said the new measures...
Washington Post
The administration also announced expanded restrictions on the purchase of Iranian petrochemical products, such as methanol and xylene. Iran's petroleum industry already faces tough U.N. sanctions and a Europewide embargo on crude exports. Iran has...
The New York Times
The new sets of measures, which target Iran's oil and petrochemical sectors as well as its shipping trade, intensify existing sanctions intended to choke off the revenue that Iran reaps from its two largest export industries. While they do not...
The New York Times
Congress is nearing another budget deadline, and Republicans still want to cut spending. But this time, the presidential and Congressional elections are just months away. As a result, House and Senate leaders on Tuesday, with little fanfare and no...
Channel NewsAsia
Congressional leaders and the White House announced a deal Tuesday to keep funding the US government through next March, avoiding a potential partisan shutdown fight ahead of November's election. Harry Reid, the Senate's Democratic majority leader,...