Today in History - Dec. 15
AP - Tue Dec 15, 12:01 am ETToday is Tuesday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2009. There are 16 days left in the year.
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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2009. There are 16 days left in the year.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman's abrupt announcement that he will sink the health-care bill if it includes a provision to expand Medicare has spurred a torrent of angry recriminations from Democrats -- and confusion among those trying to divine his motives.
Tiger Woods' nearly $100-million-year business empire could crumble. Accenture said Sunday it was terminating its 6-year relationship with the world's No. 1 golfer. That makes it the first corporate sponsor to drop Woods since reports began swirling of his alleged extramarital affairs with multiple women.
If Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren's Barbados wedding cost $1.5 million, we can only imagine what the golf champion paid for the now MIA wedding ring. And it's probably safe to...
Washington Post-ABC News poll | More than four in 10 Americans hold unfavorable view of golfer.
Using a Garden City Park split-level home built in 1951 as his backdrop, Sen. Charles Schumer Monday called for the proposed federal program "Homestar" to model itself after the Town of Babylon's home-energy retrofit program.
It's surely a recency effect, but conservatives rate Obama lower than Bubba
Even before she became the swing vote that forced consideration of Obamacare onto the Senate floor, two-term Arkansas senator Blanche Lambert Lincoln had a dubious distinction: "For 2010, she may be the most endangered Democratic senator in the country," says Public Policy Polling head Dean Debnam.
Democratic senators and congressmen have been trying to convince each other, particularly their more conservative colleagues, that they'll all be better off in the 2010 elections--and will avoid a repeat of their 1994 debacle--if they pass Obama-care.
Democratic health care reform--Obamacare, that is--in either its House or Senate form is unpopular both in general and in most of its particulars. Not only that, it's become ever more unpopular as Obama has drawn more public attention to it. Yet the operating assumption of the president and congressional Democrats is that enacting Obamacare will increase their popularity and improve their ...
East Brunswick, New JerseyOn the surface, the race in New Jersey doesn't make much sense: Jon Corzine is a Democratic millionaire incumbent in a very blue state. He is outspending his Republican opponent, Attorney General Chris Christie, by more than 3-to-1. He has behind him the stars of the Democratic firmament. And yet Corzine has run behind Christie from day one.
In 1993, a newly elected Democratic president and a Democratic Congress pushed through a tax increase on a party-line vote. The next year Democrats lost control of Congress, with House Speaker Tom Foley defeated in his reelection bid and the Senate seat of retiring majority leader George Mitchell going Republican.
Calls Charges Against Three Americans "Totally Unfounded"; Renews Call for Their Release
“The world is worse off than a year ago,” says Gao Shangtao, a professor of international relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, when asked about Iran and North Korea’s defiance.
From the snapshot we saw this morning, Stephanopoulos needs to study up on dumbing it down.
It's beginning to look a lot like the winter of President Barack Obama's discontent. Among other problems, his slow and steady slide in opinion polls is matching the nation's slow and steady rise in joblessness. That makes Democrats in Congress fearful of their own potential joblessness.