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Congressional Republicans lashed out at Attorney General Eric Holder last week over the Justice Department’s rejection of voter photo identification laws in South Carolina and Texas and for ordering Florida to halt purging its voter rolls. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, Holder heard from Republican after Republican who called him everything but a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — It sounds like a silver lining. Even if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama's health care law, employers can keep offering popular coverage for the young adult children of their workers. But here's the catch: The parents' taxes would go up. That's only one of the messy potential ripple effects when […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Catharine Leach is married and has two boys, age 2 and 8. She has a good job with a federal contractor and smokes pot most every day. While she worries that her public support for marijuana decriminalization and legalization could cost her a job or bring the police to her door, […]
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's government has pulled TV public service announcements that warned against talking to foreigners because they might be spies after critics charged the spots fueled xenophobia and aimed to tarnish those behind last year's uprising. The two spots ran on state and private television stations for a few days before Minister of […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused his estranged wife, Mary, of abusing his children from an earlier marriage, including stealing items from his young daughter, showing up uninvited on trips he took after they separated and sometimes calling him dozens of times a day, according to a legal filing revealed Sunday. Mary […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The heads of the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Justice Department must move quickly and ignore politics in investigating possible unauthorized disclosures of classified information. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Republican Rep. Mike Rogers suggested on CBS' "Face the Nation" that they're willing to see how prosecutors conduct their investigation […]
The young men who accuse former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky of molesting them have been allowed to remain anonymous through months of intense news coverage and water-cooler conversation about the scandal. That's about to change. When they take the witness stand in a packed Pennsylvania courtroom as early as next week, the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Federal Reserve is prepared to take further steps to lift the U.S. economy if it weakens. But he didn't signal any imminent action in testimony before a congressional panel Thursday. Bernanke said the European debt crisis poses significant risks to the U.S. financial markets. He noted that […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A total of four private planes entered restricted airspace during President Barack Obama's visit to the Los Angeles area. North American Aerospace Defense Command Lt. Cmdr. Bill Lewis says three of the planes that entered the restricted airspace Wednesday and Thursday were buzzed by F-16s and forced to leave the area […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides are surging among America's troops, averaging nearly one a day this year — the fastest pace in the nation's decade of war. The 154 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 155 days of the year far outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan — about 50 percent more […]
New York high school students protested against their school’s conservative dress code by observing “Slutty Wednesday.” The teens say that the Stuyvesant High School dress code bans them from wearing comfortable clothing for warmer temperatures including short-shorts and tank tops. “It’s called Slutty Wednesday to symbolize that we’re not actually slutty,” senior Benjamin Koatz said. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney outraised President Barack Obama in May, the first time the Republican presidential challenger has jumped ahead of Obama and his prodigious fundraising apparatus. The numbers illustrate how Romney and the Republican Party have jelled as a force after a protracted GOP primary. Romney and his party raised more than $76 […]
