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President Barack Obama and a top House Republican acknowledged in holiday messages Thursday the economic struggles facing Americans this Thanksgiving but offered starkly different recipes for relief.
Giant balloons, floats, marching bands and clowns with confetti brought smiles to hundreds of thousands of revelers eager to catch a glimpse of a parade as steeped in Thanksgiving Day tradition as turkey and pumpkin pie. Crowds six to seven people deep lined the streets of Manhattan on Thursday for the 83rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as merrymakers gathered nationwide for massive ...
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama enjoyed a quiet first Thanksgiving at the White House, telephoning U.S. servicemen and women stationed around the world and spending time in the company of his family and friends.
Daniel T. KildeeGENESEE COUNTY — County Treasurer Daniel T. Kildee, a former county commissioner and Flint Board of Education member, says he will resign his position here to lead a Washington, D.C.-based think tank focused on land use across the...
Giant balloons, floats, marching bands and clowns with confetti brought smiles to hundreds of thousands of revelers eager to catch a glimpse of a parade as steeped in Thanksgiving Day tradition as turkey and pumpkin pie.
(AP:WASHINGTON) Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement.
Life for Edna Bonham changed forever three years ago, when she stood up from her bedside to get on her wheelchair and heard her ankle pop. The ankle broke, forcing Bonham, who suffers from severe osteoporosis, to become bedridden.
The couple who crashed a White House dinner shouldn't need legal help, an attorney who knows them said Thursday, as the Secret Service remained quiet publicly about the eye-catching security breach.
The Associated Press President Barack Obama and a top House Republican acknowledged in holiday messages Thursday the economic struggles facing Americans this Thanksgiving but offered starkly different recipes for relief.
Americans are attending college in record numbers. According to a Pew Research Center study, 11.3 million Americans ages 18 to 24 attended college in 2008, continuing an upward trend that began 30 years ago.Now, because of the deep economic downturn, high student debt, the failure of many students to graduate in four years and President Barack Obama ’s call for every American to get at least one ...
It’s irrelevantI find it somewhat amusing that all of a sudden the replacement for Ventura County Treasurer-Tax Collector Larry Matheney needs a background in finance and such. I suspect the same people now raising a hue and cry voted a short while ago to elect a man with just about zero experience to be president of the United States.Since that time, Barack Obama has put people in positions of ...
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Pledges by China and the U.S. to set numerical targets for their greenhouse-gas emissions through 2020 may improve chances for a global climate agreement at negotiations next month in Copenhagen.
More than 50 guests enjoyed a feast that included six different types of pies.
A key state lawmaker wants to fast-track hearings on the possible sale of the Thomson Correctional Center to the federal government, a move made easier when the Quinn administration filed its recommendation for closing the prison. The Thomson prison has emerged as a leading site for a U.S. detention center to house terrorism suspects now detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Quinn's Department of ...
LARCHMONT — Republican village Mayor Liz Feld says she’s weighing a run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated this year by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
CANBERRA -(Dow Jones)- Australia's opposition leader, Malcolm Turnbull, said Friday he would consider another vote over leadership of the Liberal Party.
