Politics

 A potential government shutdown next week would have no material impact on the timing of the federal government reaching the debt limit, experts said Friday. Steve Bell, the senior director of economic policy for the Bipartisan Policy Center, told TIME that a shutdown — of any length — wouldn’t alter the pressure on Congress to […]

President Barack Obama on Friday heralded the international agreement requiring Syria to give up its chemical weapons as a “potentially huge victory for the international community.” Speaking after an Oval Office meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Obama said the United Nations Security Council deal would not have happened without the credible threat of […]