Hillary Clinton criticizes House Republicans for using the debt ceiling as a political weapon, warning that it undermines the U.S.'s global credibility and plays into the hands of adversaries like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and warns of the potential danger of playing games with the debt ceiling to the U.S. dollar's pre-eminent position in the global economy.
Samuel Brinton, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, is to have a mental health evaluation after stealing luggage from an airport and avoiding incarceration.
A new report, issued by an international group of legal experts and backed by the United Nations, says that children under the age of 18 have the right to make sexual decisions.
"There is risk when we use financial sanctions that are linked to the role of the dollar that over time it could undermine the hegemony of the dollar," Yellen said, adding that implementing sanctions against Russia "does create a desire on the part of China, of Russia, of Iran to find an alternative."
