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It wasn't so long ago that politicians had the luxury to bicker over how to spend a record budget surplus, Barack Obama was a state senator trying unsuccessfully to get a foot in the door of the U.S. Capitol, and George W. Bush went to sleep with visions of a dominant Republican majority dancing in his head.
Wells Fargo to sell stock to reimburse U.S. for aid package Citigroup Inc. said Monday that it is repaying $20 billion in public bailout money, freeing the banking giant from the close scrutiny and pay restrictions that came with the rescue program. The government also will sell its one-third stake in the company.
A wacky conspiracy theorist repeatedly drove from Philadelphia to Manhattan to make death threats against Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly via pay phones, officials said yesterday. Jeffrey Fisher, 48, of Philadelphia, was charged ...
Former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III, widely regarded as a traditional conservative, is taking over the reins of the Free Congress Foundation -- a major outside influence on Republican Party policy and especially in moving the party to a new emphasis on traditional social and religious values. The foundation's board elected Mr. Gilmore earlier this month to fill the roles of president and ...
Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush, and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record-keeping system. The two private groups ...
OY TO THE WORLD The White House Hanukkah party is Wednesday night; it follows weeks of public discussion over some tone-deaf gaffes -- such as the decision to bill the event as a "holiday reception" and pare down the guest list, interpreted as a "snub" by some Jewish Democrats. But hey. It's party time now, and one with a teachable moment. "Those in attendance should have fun, but they should ...
OPINION/ANALYSIS: Barack Obama is eager to return to Copenhagen, where he couldn't rescue the Olympics for Chicago, for a dramatic last-minute liberation of the world just before we all sink into a boiling sea with the polar bears. Money is no object, of course. On Monday, the "developing countries" of the world - these countries were once called "the Third World" until someone came up with ...
President Obama has revived a cold war liberal doctrine — that evil must be fought without succumbing to the sinfulness within — and tried to apply it to a different world.
TEWKSBURY - Call it the economy, good weather, polling location consolidation or just sheer advertising, whatever it was, the turnout for Tuesday’s primary election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat was higher than expected with just over 24 percent of Tewksbury’s voters going to the polls. And like the rest of the state, Tewksbury overwhelmingly chose Martha Coakley and Scott Brown to go forward to ...
Associated Press - December 15, 2009 6:15 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is making another pitch Tuesday to save energy and help the economy by encouraging people to make their...
While driving on the New York State Thruway last week, I passed a car with a bumper sticker that said, "I Vote Pro-Life." Always on...
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The White House has reached agreement with two watchdog groups that sued to see certain e-mails that the Bush administration had said were lost. Computer technicians have found 22 million of them, and the deal lets the groups pick 94 specific days to recover. Still, it could take years to sort them out.
THREAT TO MEXICO Mexicans are beginning to realize that drug violence is spreading into society at all levels and is no longer an isolated conflict along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual. "And as that understanding penetrates into society and into political life, I think we're seeing a greater, growing consensus that there must be a fight, not just from the ...
PARIS -- Europeans are coming to terms with the fact that President Obama is not a miracle worker, and with the reality that everything he does is not magic. Oh yes, most Europeans are still happy Obama is president. They remain fascinated by him and grateful for the direction of his policies.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai used a keynote anti-corruption speech on Tuesday to defend the first of his top officials convicted of graft in years, a move that could anger Western backers who demand more accountability.
The second-highest ranking U.S. general in Afghanistan said Monday the planned rapid escalation of American troops would take longer than expected to carry out, indicating it will probably be nine to 11 months before they are all in place.
MADISON – The journey from Afghanistan to Drew University in Madison has been a long one for Shamila Kohestani.
In 1944, a plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces, disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris.
NEW YORK — A federal judge has ruled that the New York Police Department must release 2,000 pages of documents related to its surveillance of protesters before the 2004 Republican National Convention. Judge Richard Sullivan's ruling was made public Monday.
By Tom Raum Associated Press Writer President Barack Obama implored top bankers Monday to help keep the fragile recovery from faltering by boosting lending to small businesses and getting behind an overhaul of financial regulation. “We rise and fall together,” Obama declared.
