By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
Lending to homebuyers in the U.S. remains little above the depressed levels hit during the recession because banks are wary about lending amid a slew of regulations coming out next year and proliferation of enforcement actions by state and federal regulators, a top mortgage banking official told The Washington Times. Published December 20, 2012 Comments
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
A majority of Americans didn’t just cast a vote for President Obama on Nov. 6. They also came down firmly on the side of renewable energy and the federal government’s efforts to “level the playing field” with fossil fuels, argues the chairman of the solar power industry’s leading trade group. Published December 5, 2012 Comments
By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times
Grover Norquist says Republicans will emerge victorious from the “fiscal cliff” fight if they put television cameras in the negotiating room and smoke out Democrats over their reluctance to cut entitlement programs — the biggest drivers of federal spending and the national debt. Published December 2, 2012 Comments
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Obama’s re-election on Tuesday smoothed the way for states to implement his signature health-care reforms, a challenge the District took on with vigor while other states waited to see if Republican opponent Mitt Romney could deliver on a promise to unravel the controversial law. Published November 8, 2012 Comments
By Shaun Waterman and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
A senior adviser to the Taiwanese government on Wednesday downplayed the likelihood that a war will erupt in the festering dispute between Taiwan, China and Japan over a chain of tiny islands in the East China Sea. Published October 17, 2012 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said the rise of the tea party and Rep. Ron Paul’s supporters within the Republican Party will push the GOP platform this year to focus more on matters such as the deficit and constitutional liberties. Published July 29, 2012 Comments
By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Monday that he won’t release his tax returns, joining his voice to that of presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who has declined to release more than the two most recent years. Published July 23, 2012 Comments
By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times
The government of Cyprus will rely on a combination of austerity measures and growth programs to dig its way out of a financial crisis that has forced it to turn to its European Union partners for aid, the Cypriot ambassador in Washington said Tuesday. Published July 3, 2012 Comments
By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times
Maldives’ first democratically elected president says the United States must acknowledge that he was ousted in a coup and press the current government of the Indian Ocean island nation to hold presidential elections this year. Published June 27, 2012 Comments
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
Morocco may have avoided the upheaval of an Arab Spring revolution, but it faces other challenges due to its economic closeness to crisis-riddled Europe and heavy reliance on remittances. Published June 14, 2012 Comments
By S. Smithson - The Washington Times
The boss of an upstart Virginia company said Wednesday that his firm is on the cusp of solving technical problems that have dogged its effort to build a nationwide high-speed wireless network that critics worry will cripple military and commercial navigation systems. Published September 14, 2011
By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times
Former Congressman Steve Largent, now a leader in the wireless communications business, is urging Congress to repackage unused spectrum space for mobile Internet devices — such as smartphones and tablet computers — by the end of the year to avoid stunting the growth of the booming industry. Published August 15, 2011
By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times
Republican presidential primary candidate Herman Cain says front-runner Mitt Romney cannot win the party's White House nomination next year because of his religion. Published July 18, 2011
By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times
Despite President Obama's pledge to cut red tape for job-creating industries, regulations and other delays are holding up billions of dollars in investments and thousands of jobs for oil and gas producers, the head of the American Petroleum Institute tells The Washington Times. Published July 12, 2011
By Michael Gormley - Associated Press
Hundreds of protesters for and against gay marriage in New York chanted, sang and sought out TV cameras Monday while the state Senate again came to no resolution on the issue in a closed-door session that barely touched on the nationally divisive topic. Published June 20, 2011
By Associated Press
Former Sen. John Edwards, a two-time presidential candidate, has testified under oath in a lawsuit over a videotape that purportedly depicts him in a sexual encounter, a lawyer for a former Edwards aide said. Published February 14, 2011
By Benjamin Birnbaum - The Washington Times
Taiwan tested its readiness to repel a Chinese invasion with a computerized war game on Monday, less than three weeks after signing a historic trade agreement with the communist-run mainland. Published July 19, 2010
By Eli Lake - The Washington Times
The president's most senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security says in an exclusive interview that citizens who pose a threat to the country are being tracked. Published June 24, 2010
Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's former foreign minister, says he is concerned that militants locked up at a Bagram Air Base could be released after the U.S. detention facility is handed over to Afghans next year. Published May 19, 2010
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Finally, after a deluge of books about what's wrong with conservatism and how to cure it - the solution usually being for conservatives to transmogrify into liberals - comes a conservative book by a genuine card-carrying conservative whose credentials span nearly five decades. Published April 8, 2010
By Eli Lake
The U.S. agreed to broker disputes between Kurds and the Iraqi government in exchange for a reduced percentage of Kurds in parliament. Published December 16, 2009
Nearly a year into the Obama administration and two years into the "great recession," a tech industry leader is endorsing the way the White House is managing the U.S. economy. Published December 7, 2009
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Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, the newly appointed Italian ambassador to the United States, objected to the term "war" to describe the conflict in Afghanistan, but he said Italy had dropped restrictions that had kept its troops away from the fighting. Published November 20, 2009
Jerusalem is a ticking time bomb where an attack by Jewish extremists on Muslim holy places could erase any chances for Israeli-Palestinian peace and undermine stability in the entire Muslim world, Jordan's ambassador to Washington said Wednesday. Published November 12, 2009
The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on Monday said the unpredictable H1N1 flu pandemic is not over and implored parents to get their children vaccinated, rapping "misperceptions" about its safety. Published November 10, 2009
