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The $100 Million Health Care Vote?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Jonathan Karl - Nov. 20 (News Report) - The health care bill includes a $100 million section for increasing medicaid subsidies to the state of Louisiana. The Note, authored by ABC News' Rick Klein, covers politics, the White House, Congress, Democrats, Republicans, and all latest political campaigning for the 2012 presidential race. Washington's first and most influential tipsheet, The

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Was Fort Hood Shooter's Intentions Mass Murder, or Terrorism?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Lauren Cox - Nov. 11 (Special Report) - Some seee tis as an act of terrorism, but crime experts and fellow psychiatrists familiar with the military question whether Hasan's alleged actions compare with those of George Sodini, who is accused of shooting 11 women in a Pennsylvania gym this summer, or Seung-Hui Cho's motives in the 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre.

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Why Are the Loudest Political Voices the Most Extreme?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Lee Dye - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - Those bombastic self-appointed spokespersons who rant from both the political right and left are likely driven by the conviction that their extreme views are shared by the majority of the members of their political party, but they are probably wrong, according to new research.

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The Big Business of Swine Flu

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Dalia Fahmy - Oct. 14 (News) - Americans are still debating whether to roll up their sleeves for a swine flu shot, but companies have already figured it out: vaccines are good for business. Drug companies have sold $1.5 billion worth of swine flu shots, in addition to the $1 billion for seasonal flu they booked earlier this year. These inoculations are part of a much wider and rapidly growing $20 billion global vaccine market.

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Dollar versus Global Currency: World Leaders Deny US Dollar's Demise

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Matthew Jaffe - Oct. 07 (News Report) - Is the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency in jeopardy? How are U.S. officials responding? And should the average American be worried?

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Watchdog Says Treasury and Fed Knew Bailed-Out Banks Were Not 'Healthy'

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Matthew Jaffe - Oct. 05 (News Report) - The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve lied to the American public last fall when they said that the first nine banks to receive government bailout funds were healthy, a government watchdog states in a new report released today.

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Iran Tests Long-Range Missile, Nuclear Talks Scheduled for Thursday

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Martha Raddatz - Sep. 28 (News) - The United States, Israel and its allies are condemning Iran's missile tests, conducted a few days after world leaders called out the country for building a secret underground nuclear facility. But Iran refuses to cave under world pressure, continuing its dangerous provocation instead.

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Obama Quizzed at Health Care Town Hall: On Taxing Benefits, Single Payer System, and Costs

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Yunji de Nies, Sunlen Miller - Jul. 02 (Interview) - President Barack Obama says he does not want to raise taxes on health care benefits, but instead hopes to lower the amount of money individuals can deduct on their taxes.

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Court Rules for White Firefighters, Reversing Sotomayor Decision

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By ABC News' Jan Crawford Greenburg, Ariane DeVogue, Dennis Powell, the Associated Press contributed to this report. - Jun. 29 (News Report) - In a blow to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the Court ruled today that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge. In a case that has gone to the Supreme Court, firefighters with the New Haven, Conn., Fire Department say that they were denied promotions because the city gave preferential treatment to blacks. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Dennis Powell)The justices split down ideological lines in a 5-4 ruling. The white firefighters filed suit after the city scrapped a promotions exam when it was determined that none of the black firefighter who took the test scored well enough to be promoted. The case took on an extra layer of significance when President Obama nominated Sotomayor to fill the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court.

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Fact Check: Decoding Obama's Prescription for Health Care

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Rick Klein, Bret Hovell, Z. Byron Wolf - Jun. 25 (News Analysis) - A fact check on President Obama's main messages of Wednesday night's health care forum at the White House reveals a president eager to make his case to the public -- but sometimes glossing over the thorny details of how to achieve reform.

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Annals of Opposition: 11 Republican Party Moments to Mark Obama's First 100 Days

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Rick Klein, Jonathan Karl - Apr. 28 (News Analysis) - If the first 100 days are a test of a new president, they're a major exam for an opposition party -- particularly one that's coming off eight years in control of the White House. During the first 100 days, Republicans have witnessed battles pitting congressional leadership against White House aspirants, voices of the past against possible voices of the future, and talking heads vs. decision-makers. (AP Photo )With a few new leaders emerging -- and more than a few old leaders not going away -- Republicans have witnessed battles pitting congressional leadership against White House aspirants, voices of the past against possible voices of the future, and talking heads vs. decision-makers. Here are 11 key moments from the first 100 days of Republicans as opposition party against the White House:

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How Newspapers Must Change to Survive

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Michael S. Malone - Mar. 13 (Opinion) - What the history of technology tells is that at some point, the slaughter stops. What remains are a handful of survivors. Some, like the handful of companies that still make typewriters, will cater to a small surviving pool of traditional customers. In newspapers, USA Today seems to have the greatest chance of ending up here (while the New York Times, which wants this slot, will never make it).

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Dead Banks in '09: 17 and Counting

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By John Hendren - Mar. 08 (News Report) - Republican senators urged the White House on Sunday to let some of the nation's biggest banks go under. Republican senators urged the White House on Sunday to let some of the nation's biggest banks go under. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) agreed in an interview with Fox, saying, "Some of these banks have to fail. " (ABC News Graphic )"I think that they've got to close some big banks. They don't want to do it," Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. told George Stephanopoulos on "This Week." "Close them down, get them out of business. If they're dead, they ought to be buried."

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AIG Price Tag: $1,400 per Taxpayer Family

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Alice Gomstyn - Mar. 02 (News Report) - How much will each American family pay, on average, to bail out beleaguered insurance giant American International Group? Try more than $1,400.

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Deal of the Decade? Lehman's Fuld Gave $13.75 Mil Estate to Wife for $100

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Megan Chuchmach - Jan. 27 (Investigative Report) - Less than two months after the investment banking firm he led collapsed in the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers CEO and Chairman Richard Fuld transferred his $13.75 million ocean front estate in Jupiter Island, FL to his wife for just one Benjamin Franklin bill, Florida real estate records reveal. This home in Jupiter Island, Florida was purchased by former Lehman Brothers CEO and Chairman... This home in Jupiter Island, Florida was purchased by former Lehman Brothers CEO and Chairman Richard Fuld and his wife Kathleen in 2004 for $13.75 million. In November, less than two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed intro bankruptcy, Fuld transferred the home to his wife for $100. (ABC News)The move is garnering attention for what might be Fuld's attempt to avoid creditors as he could face civil lawsuits in the future.

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Report: Merrill Lynch CEO Spent Over $1M to Redecorate Office

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Megan Chuchmach, Justin Rood - Jan. 22 (Investigative Report) - Less than one month into his new gig at the Bank of America, Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain resigned today after it was revealed that he doled out executive bonuses a month ahead of schedule and just days before his struggling Merrill Lynch firm was acquired by the BofA.

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What Recession?? The $170 Million Inauguration

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Scott Mayerowitz - Jan. 20 (News Analysis) - The country might be in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, but that isn't stopping rich donors and the government from spending $170 million, or more, on the inauguration of Barack Obama.

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Bush Legacy: A Tale of Two Terms

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Gary Langer - Jan. 08 (News Analysis) - Sequentially hammered by the Iraq war, the bungled response to Hurricane Katrina, soaring gasoline prices and, as the coup de grace, the current economic crisis, Bush endured his second term without once attaining majority public approval – a feat unseen in 70 years of presidential approval polls.

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Only One Bank Cites a Loan From TARP Money

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Charles Herman, Dan Arnall, Lauren Pearle, Zunaira Zaki - Dec. 17 (Investigative Report) - Banks that were rescued with billions of dollars in public fundshave, in most cases, refused to provide specifics about how they have used or intend to use the money. At least one of the banks that received billions of dollars in taxpayer bailout cash appear to have used some of the money to pay executive bonuses, ABC News has learned.

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Family Fights 'Ridiculous' Benefit Denial

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Sarah Netter - Nov. 25 (News Report) - It was Taneka Talley's greatest wish to see her son head off to college. It was why she took extra shifts at work and set her sights on promotions. A store withholds benefits for son of employee who was fatally stabbed. But she was stabbed to death in the Fairfield, Calif., Dollar Tree where she worked in March 2006, by a white man who reportedly attacked her simply because she was black.

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Supreme Court Sides With U.S. Navy in Dispute Over Sonar Use, Whale Safety

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By ARIANE de VOGUE - Nov. 12 (News Report) - Roberts, who was joined in full by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, wrote, "Of course, military interests do not always trump other considerations, and we have not held that they do. In this case, however, the proper determination of where the public interest lies does not strike us as a close question."

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Missing in Action; Bin Laden Election Tape Fails to Appear

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Brian Ross, Rehab El Buri - Nov. 04 (News Report) - Since the morning of September 11, 2008, US and allied intelligence agencies have largely shut down what had been al Qaeda's routine access to certain internet sites that distributed its leaders' video messages.

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Republicans to Try Burning Obama on Coal

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Jake Tapper - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - “I’m calling on behalf of John McCain and the RNC to tell you that coal jobs, which are so important to our community are in jeopardy,” says the robocall being made to voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio, among other coal-producing states

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Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Michael Malone - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game -- with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates. The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I've found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer. But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I've begun -- for the first time in my adult life -- to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I replied that I was "a writer," because I couldn't bring myself to admit to a stranger that I'm a journalist. You need to understand how painful this is for me. I am one of those people who truly bleeds ink when I'm cut. I am a fourth-generation newspaperman. As family history tells it, my great-grandfather was a newspaper editor in Abilene, Kan., during the last of the cowboy days, then moved to Oregon to help start the Oregon Journal (now the Oregonian).

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How Obama's and McCain's Health Plans Affect You

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Imaeyen Ibanga - Oct. 08 (News Analysis) - Just what do Barack Obama's and John McCain's potential health-care plans mean for you and your family? "Good Morning America" medical editor Dr. Tim Johnson broke down the most important differences between the presidential candidates' health plans. With 62 percent of Americans younger than 65 years old getting their health care from their employers, it's a major issue.

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