The News Headline | Daily News Magazine » POLITICS http://thenewsheadline.com Daily News Magazine Wed, 22 May 2013 02:20:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Analysis: Russian politics hits “Putin” stocks http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/analysis-russian-politics-hits-putin-stocks/ http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/analysis-russian-politics-hits-putin-stocks/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:37 +0000 TheNewsHeadline.com http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/analysis-russian-politics-hits-putin-stocks/ MOSCOW (Reuters) – Call it the Putin sell-off. Shares in Russian companies perceived to have ties to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, or to have profited from the economic system he has built, have sold off hardest on a spike in political risk following this month’s parliamentary election. The biggest faller in a declining market has been gas firm Novatek, in which oil trader Gennady Timchenko, a friend from Putin’s days in St Petersburg’s city hall in the early 1990s, is a major shareholder. …
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]]> http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/analysis-russian-politics-hits-putin-stocks/feed/ 0 Pakistani fertilizer ignites tensions with U.S. http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/pakistani-fertilizer-ignites-tensions-with-u-s/ http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/pakistani-fertilizer-ignites-tensions-with-u-s/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:36 +0000 TheNewsHeadline.com http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/pakistani-fertilizer-ignites-tensions-with-u-s/ MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – Whenever a homemade bomb kills a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, the chances are its main ingredient came from a factory in Pakistan, a trend that has emerged as the latest source of friction in already frayed U.S.-Pakistan relations. A U.S. Congressional panel has frozen $ 700 million in aid to Pakistan until it gives assurances it is helping fight the spread of bombs in the region by regulating the distribution of calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer from the Pakarab company. U.S. …
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]]> http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/pakistani-fertilizer-ignites-tensions-with-u-s/feed/ 0 Retail sales rise less than expected in November http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/retail-sales-rise-less-than-expected-in-november/ http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/retail-sales-rise-less-than-expected-in-november/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:36 +0000 TheNewsHeadline.com http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/retail-sales-rise-less-than-expected-in-november/ photoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Retail sales rose less than expected in November as a drop in receipts for food and beverages weighed against stronger sales of motor vehicles, tempering some of the expectations of a strong holiday shopping season. Total retail sales increased 0.2 percent after rising by an upwardly revised 0.6 percent in October, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales climbing 0.6 percent last month. …



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]]> http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/retail-sales-rise-less-than-expected-in-november/feed/ 0 U.S. retail sales rise less than expected in Nov http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/u-s-retail-sales-rise-less-than-expected-in-nov/ http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/u-s-retail-sales-rise-less-than-expected-in-nov/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:35 +0000 TheNewsHeadline.com http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/u-s-retail-sales-rise-less-than-expected-in-nov/ photoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. retail sales rose less than expected in November as a drop in receipts for food and beverages weighed against stronger sales of motor vehicles, tempering some of the expectations of a strong holiday shopping season. Total retail sales increased 0.2 percent after rising by an upwardly revised 0.6 percent in October, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales climbing 0.6 percent last month. …



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]]> http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/u-s-retail-sales-rise-less-than-expected-in-nov/feed/ 0 NTSB focuses on driver texting in Missouri crash http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/ntsb-focuses-on-driver-texting-in-missouri-crash/ http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/ntsb-focuses-on-driver-texting-in-missouri-crash/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:35 +0000 TheNewsHeadline.com http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/ntsb-focuses-on-driver-texting-in-missouri-crash/ photo A texting pickup truck driver who caused a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year has federal accident investigators taking a hard look at the use of distracting devices behind the wheel.



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]]> http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/ntsb-focuses-on-driver-texting-in-missouri-crash/feed/ 0 Romney grilled on gay marriage by gay NH veteran http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/romney-grilled-on-gay-marriage-by-gay-nh-veteran/ http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/romney-grilled-on-gay-marriage-by-gay-nh-veteran/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:34 +0000 TheNewsHeadline.com http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/romney-grilled-on-gay-marriage-by-gay-nh-veteran/ photo When Mitt Romney sat down next to a patron wearing a Vietnam veteran’s cap, Romney wanted to ask him about his military service.



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]]> http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/romney-grilled-on-gay-marriage-by-gay-nh-veteran/feed/ 0 Ron Paul runs edgy new ad in Iowa and New Hampshire http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/ron-paul-runs-edgy-new-ad-in-iowa-and-new-hampshire/ http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/ron-paul-runs-edgy-new-ad-in-iowa-and-new-hampshire/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:33 +0000 TheNewsHeadline.com http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/ron-paul-runs-edgy-new-ad-in-iowa-and-new-hampshire/ photoDES MOINES, IOWA– Ron Paul’s presidential campaign released a comparatively edgy new ad Monday that will air on local and cable networks across Iowa and New Hampshire. The spot touts Paul’s call to cut a trillion dollars from federal budget in his first year in office. Played over a rock track, a man’s voice in the [...]



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]]> http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/ron-paul-runs-edgy-new-ad-in-iowa-and-new-hampshire/feed/ 0 Romney attacks on Gingrich raising stakes in Iowa http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/romney-attacks-on-gingrich-raising-stakes-in-iowa/ http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/romney-attacks-on-gingrich-raising-stakes-in-iowa/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:33 +0000 TheNewsHeadline.com http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/romney-attacks-on-gingrich-raising-stakes-in-iowa/ photo Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s surprise rise has disrupted rival Mitt Romney’s carefully laid plan to lower expectations in Iowa, where Romney fought aggressively in 2008 but ended up losing.



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]]> http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/romney-attacks-on-gingrich-raising-stakes-in-iowa/feed/ 0 Obama’s health care law was born in Iowa. Will it die there? http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/obama%e2%80%99s-health-care-law-was-born-in-iowa-will-it-die-there/ http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/obama%e2%80%99s-health-care-law-was-born-in-iowa-will-it-die-there/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:32 +0000 TheNewsHeadline.com http://thenewsheadline.com/2011/12/obama%e2%80%99s-health-care-law-was-born-in-iowa-will-it-die-there/ photoThe road to health care reform—what the Republican presidential candidates routinely call “Obamacare,” and likely the central issue of the fall 2012 campaign—began in Iowa. In May 2007, Barack Obama was a United States senator and Democratic presidential candidate who was losing to Hillary Clinton by double digits in national polls, when he unveiled the [...]



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