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 13 Mar 2010 at 4:09pm AP - A group representing Catholic hospitals Saturday rallied behind President Barack Obama's health care bill ahead of a House vote in which anti-abortion lawmakers could play a decisive role.  13 Mar 2010 at 5:31pm AP - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.  13 Mar 2010 at 4:37pm AP - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries. 13 Mar 2010 at 4:45am Politico - The blueprint he is sending to Congress will flesh out details of his plan. 13 Mar 2010 at 4:44am Politico - Liberals are looking to Obama for leadership, but complain he is falling short.  13 Mar 2010 at 4:31pm AP - For all the evidence of a divided GOP, the Democratic Party has its own widening cracks that could make a potentially bleak election year even more dour.  13 Mar 2010 at 5:25pm AP - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.  13 Mar 2010 at 5:05pm AP - Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is attempting to win over California Republicans by attacking two of their strongest dislikes — incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer and a federal government she says is broken. 12 Mar 2010 at 10:45am AP - Good evening sunshine, America says hello, you light up our evenings, we light charcoal below.  12 Mar 2010 at 12:44pm AP - The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of decades-old campaign spending limits gives states scant time to face an election-year dilemma: brace for a flood of new money in politics, or find new ways to rein it in. 12 Mar 2010 at 1:52pm AP - A law enforcement official says the U.S. government knew about the New Jersey man charged in Yemen with being a member of al-Qaida, even before Yemeni officials arrested him. 13 Mar 2010 at 4:56am AP - Serbian police have detained nine former paramilitary fighters suspected of killing civilians and looting homes during the Kosovo war, a war crimes prosecutor said Saturday.  12 Mar 2010 at 7:07pm AP - Both sides negotiating a new completion plan for the World Trade Center site say they're continuing to talk despite a deadline.  13 Mar 2010 at 5:32pm AP - Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous. 12 Mar 2010 at 5:52pm McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Schools may be gun-free zones, but the U.S. Department of Education is locked and loaded. |
13 Mar 2010 at 11:45am Instead of requiring schools to meet annual benchmarks, President Barack Obama's plan would encourage school improvement based on a system of incentives for the best schools and teachers. 13 Mar 2010 at 12:17pm For all the evidence of a divided Republican Party, the Democratic Party has its own widening cracks that could make a potentially bleak election year even more dour. 13 Mar 2010 at 12:39pm Jonathan Alter on why the Republican "repeal the bill" approach will likely backfire during the midterm elections. 13 Mar 2010 at 4:09pm Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an auto accident. 12 Mar 2010 at 4:50pm Under White House pressure to act swiftly, House and Senate Democratic leaders reached for agreement Friday on President Barack Obama's health care bill, sweetened suddenly by fresh billions for student aid and a sense that breakthroughs are at hand. 12 Mar 2010 at 3:11pm How Senate Republicans could trip up Democrats in the final stages of the legislation's passage 13 Mar 2010 at 8:36am Israel's relationship with the U.S., a defining feature of the troubled Middle East, is under severe strain with diplomats trying to save newborn peace talks with the Palestinians. 13 Mar 2010 at 4:52pm Utah's House majority leader has resigned from the Legislature, two days after his confession about sitting nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago. 13 Mar 2010 at 5:24am Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is hospitalized after complaining of stomach pains, according to reports. 12 Mar 2010 at 6:19pm A former aide to past presidential candidate John Edwards has avoided jail again in a dispute over a tape that allegedly shows Edwards and his lover in a sexual encounter. 12 Mar 2010 at 12:44pm President Barack Obama’s decision on Friday to delay an overseas trip came after reports that an impartial Senate umpire is likely to push House and Senate Democrats into a legislative leap of faith. 12 Mar 2010 at 3:31pm The White House spokesman came to his daily on-camera briefing on Friday wearing a red-and-white Canadian hockey jersey — the result of not one, but two losing bets on the U.S.-Canadian rivalry at the recent Winter Olympics. 12 Mar 2010 at 12:03pm President Barack Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces at once: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections. 12 Mar 2010 at 12:10pm A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity. 11 Mar 2010 at 3:19pm New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he has recused himself and appointed an independent counsel in his office's investigation of Governor David Paterson. |
13 Mar 2010 at 5:02am WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, already battling for healthcare reform, jobs and financial regulation, said on Saturday he was also about to push forward on a major overhaul of U.S. education. 13 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and President Barack Obama are satisfied with the "high level of consensus" on a new pact to cut nuclear arms and it is now possible to talk of a firm date for signing a treaty, the Kremlin said on Saturday. 12 Mar 2010 at 7:33pm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday delayed an overseas trip to focus on the final drive for healthcare reform as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on the sweeping overhaul next week. 13 Mar 2010 at 2:01pm JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's relationship with the United States, a defining feature of the troubled Middle East, was under severe strain as diplomats scrambled on Saturday to save newborn U.S.-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians. 12 Mar 2010 at 12:17pm NEW YORK (Reuters) - In mid-January, a who's who of Wall Street gathered to hear Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman whose role in the White House seemed at best unclear. 12 Mar 2010 at 3:10pm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's stalled bid to overhaul the federal student loan program by cutting subsidies to private lenders and increasing aid to students received a boost on Friday. 12 Mar 2010 at 5:39pm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Moscow next week for a meeting of the quartet of Middle East mediators and talks with Russian officials about arms control and Iran's nuclear program. 12 Mar 2010 at 4:34pm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen, a monetary policy dove, tops President Barack Obama's list to be No. 2 at U.S. central bank, the White House said on Friday. 12 Mar 2010 at 3:38pm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder failed to tell the Senate about seven legal briefs he signed when lawmakers considered his nomination to his current job, according to a letter released on Friday. 12 Mar 2010 at 5:58pm UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday the United Nations needs more women in top positions as it strives to raise the profile of women's issues and fights gender-based violence. 13 Mar 2010 at 3:21pm If a yearlong struggle to pass sweeping health care reform that will affect every American wasn't enough for Democrats, they have now decided to add a sweeping overhaul of student aid to the bill. 13 Mar 2010 at 1:55pm The chief executive of the Catholic Health Association, Carol Keehan, wrote on the group's Web site that although the legislation isn't perfect, it represents a "major first step" toward covering all Americans and would make "great improvements" for millions of people. 13 Mar 2010 at 1:30pm Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after his confession about sitting nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago stunned this conservative state. 13 Mar 2010 at 12:40pm Mari Carmen Aponte, who was nominated by Obama in December for ambassador to El Salvador, withdrew her nomination to another diplomatic post in the Clinton era following questions about her past relationship with someone who had apparently caught the attention of the FBI. 13 Mar 2010 at 10:49am A hospital official says former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is recovering after being hospitalized in the South Korean capital with stomach pains. 13 Mar 2010 at 10:07am A GOP lawmaker says that the White House committed a "crime" if it offered Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak a federal job in exchange for dropping his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. by Stephen Clark 13 Mar 2010 at 8:03am Georgia lawmakers are poised to take up a controversial bill that would outlaw abortions prompted by the baby's race or gender, an issue that has inspired a billboard campaign claiming a racial conspiracy is behind the termination of pregnancies. 13 Mar 2010 at 5:16am The president said in his weekly radio and Internet address he would send Congress his proposed overhaul of the 2001 education law that focused on accountability in the classroom but has fallen short of its original goals. 13 Mar 2010 at 5:12am Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts says in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address that 'an entire year has gone to waste.' 13 Mar 2010 at 4:36am Obama's proposal to eliminate state-specific items in the health care bill comes with polls finding heightened public opposition to backroom political deals. by Major Garrett 12 Mar 2010 at 9:58pm Former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich is laying the foundation for a rematch against Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley and is likely to announce his candidacy as early as March 25 12 Mar 2010 at 8:45pm Passage of health care reform bill is "still a jump ball," official tells Fox News, as Democratic leaders point to progress by James Rosen 12 Mar 2010 at 3:47pm With the fate of President Obama's top legislative priority so uncertain, a number of prominent Democratic strategists have begun questioning whether the president's aides should have scheduled more domestic travel during his first year in office, starting soon after Inauguration Day. 12 Mar 2010 at 3:07pm President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 46 percent in the latest Gallup poll 12 Mar 2010 at 12:04pm The pro-life Democrat leading the charge in the House against passage of the Senate health insurance reform bill said Friday that a key committee chairman told him that Democrats want abortions to be paid by a federally-funded nationalized health insurance system. |
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