Noticias de Hoy

By Mark Felsenthal and Steve Holland MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U. S. President Barack Obama gave his blessing on Thursday to a new security arrangement with Mexican leader Enrique Pena Nieto, in which Mexico will make reducing violence a priority over hunting drug cartel kingpins in the war against organized crime. The two presidents said they also want to step up trade and business ties that have been overshadowed by the battle against drug trafficking. . . .

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By Mark Felsenthal and Steve Holland MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U. S. President Barack Obama arrived in Mexico on Thursday for a visit he hopes will draw attention to Mexico’s emerging economic might, even as worries about containing drug-trafficking and related violence remain an inescapable subtext. Obama meets with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and is then due to hold a news conference at 4:10 p. m. CDT (4. 10 p. m. EDT). The U. S. . . .

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By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) – The nation’s largest health insurers are far from leaping at the chance to join new state health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama’s reform law, making it likely that some markets will have little or no competition next year. These new insurance marketplaces are due to open their doors on October 1 to enroll millions of Americans who have not been able to buy coverage on their own. . . .

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By Jeff Mason and Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Thursday will nominate Mike Froman and Penny Pritzker for the last two vacant Cabinet slots on his economic team, turning to a law school classmate who is already one of chief advisors and a billionaire businesswoman who helped put him in the White House. White House officials said Obama would announce the selections shortly before leaving on a trip to Mexico. Froman, Obama’s pick to be U. S. . . .

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A few dozen words rushed into law days after the September 11, 2001, attacks have been used to justify U. S. counterterrorism efforts from the war in Afghanistan to warrantless wiretapping and drone strikes, all on orders of the White House – and with little congressional oversight. Now, as criticism grows that the law has been stretched well beyond its original intent to go after militant groups that did not even exist on 9/11, some Democrats and Republicans have begun writing legislation to update the nearly 12-year-old resolution. . . .

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By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated venture capitalist and former wireless and cable lobbyist Tom Wheeler to be the top U. S. media and telecommunications regulator. If approved by the Senate, Wheeler would become chairman of the Federal Communications Commission at a time when the agency is preparing for a major reshuffling of ownership of radio airwaves and trying to catch up to rapidly changing technology. . . .

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By Margaret Chadbourn WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday will nominate Democratic Representative Mel Watt, a longtime consumer advocate, to oversee mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a White House official said. Watt, who has served in the House of Representatives for two decades, was likely to face a confirmation battle in the Senate, where Democrats may need to secure some Republican votes to approve his nomination. . . .

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By Karen Pierog CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan on Tuesday proposed a comprehensive plan to fix the state’s sagging public pension system – the worst-funded state pension system in the country – with only a month to go in the legislature’s spring session. The 271-page measure sets a cap on salaries used to determine pensions, limits cost-of-living adjustments on pensions for future retirees, increases retirement ages for workers currently under 45 years old, and hikes worker pension contributions by 1 percent over each of the next two fiscal years. . . .

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By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – A Democratic Massachusetts lawmaker who has spent more than three decades in Congress will face off against a Republican who is a political novice and former Navy SEAL in the race to fill the state’s open U. S. Senate seat. Primary voters on Tuesday picked Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez as their candidates in the June 25 special election, the second such race the state has seen in three years. A Gomez victory could help Republicans move toward their goal of retaking a majority in the Senate, where they currently have 45 seats. . . .

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By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Saying it was damaging to U. S. interests to keep holding prisoners in legal limbo at Guantanamo, President Barack Obama renewed an old vow on Tuesday to close the camp, where about 100 inmates are on hunger strike to protest against their years in detention without trial. Human rights groups welcomed Obama’s recommitment to shutting the prison, but some activists called for action, not just words. Criticism of the camp, set up at the U. S. . . .

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