Tag: Joseph Lawler

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Sanders trumpets campaign’s growth at Iowa State Fair

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 9:00 pm

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., arrives before Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, and Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew, arrive to testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, July 23, 2015, to review the Iran nuclear agreement. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sen. Flake announces opposition to Iran deal

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 8:26 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a campaign stop at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H., Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump says he will spend $1 billion on campaign if necessary

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 6:13 pm

President Barack Obama looks to Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as he and first lady Michelle Obama leave services honoring the life of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Friday, June 26, 2015, at the College of Charleston TD Arena, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama, Clinton to meet Saturday at Martha’s Vineyard party

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 6:03 pm

In this May 30, 2013, photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Jo. L. Keener )

National Security

American captive Kayla Mueller was raped by ISIS leader

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 5:08 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Surf Ballroom Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, in Clear Lake, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Clinton taunts: Snapchat ‘messages disappear all by themselves’

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 4:48 pm

Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson laughs during a campaign stop at the American Legion Post 37 Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, in Hooksett, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Ben Carson defends research on fetal tissue

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 4:28 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a campaign stop at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H., Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump to serve jury duty Monday

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 2:25 pm

House Energy and Commerce Committee members, from left, Rep. William "Bill" Cassidy, R-La., Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., and Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., listen as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

GOP: Focus will be on Obamacare, Iran deal

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 10:00 am

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, from left, with Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, and Gov. Daniel Tarullo, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System presides over a meeting in Washington, Monday, July 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Expectations firm for the Fed to hike rates in September

Joseph Lawler · August 14, 2015 9:36 pm

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Bill in Washington. President Obama's economic advisers are calling on Congress to redirect funding from the Social Security retirement trust fund into the separate disability trust fund.Â (AP Photo, File)

White House marks Social Security’s 80th with call to fund disability

Joseph Lawler · August 14, 2015 4:08 pm

The rule would encourage those offering retirement advice to act in the best interests of their clients, a move supporters say is needed as people switch from work-sponsored to personal retirement plans. (AP)

Who won this week’s battle over 401k savings plans?

Joseph Lawler · August 14, 2015 4:01 am