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A long-running effort to allow the import of lower-cost prescription drugs faces a new twist — President Barack Obama's administration is raising safety concerns that could effectively scuttle it, even though Obama backed the plan as a senator.
BILLINGS — It was a lovefest. Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin descended on Billings and left no book unsigned Tuesday during a 2½ hour blitz of Borders bookstore.
Seeking to resolve two contentious issues blocking health-care reform in the Senate, lawmakers began consideration Monday of an amendment to restrict abortion coverage, while Democrats closed in on alternatives to the public-insurance option.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, joins U.S. ambassador Karl Eikenberry in testimony to Congress a week after President Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy. McChrystal said there are no "silver bullets" for success in Afghanistan.
A town hall meeting featuring former Republican presidential nominee John McCain and two other GOP lawmakers has been canceled. Rep. John Boozman's office said Tuesday that Sunday's planned event was canceled because of an expected Senate vote this weekend on health care reform legislation.
WASHINGTON - Questioned by skeptical lawmakers, the U.S. general running the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday he did not get as many troops as he wanted and must work under a schedule he did not recommend, but he insisted the Obama administration's revamped strategy is the best way to win.
RESERVE, N.M. (AP)-- A federal program that began as a safety net for Pacific Northwest logging communities hard-hit by battles over the spotted owl in the 1990s has morphed into a sprawling entitlement -- one that ships vast amounts of money to states with little or no historic connection to timber, an analysis by The Associated Press shows.
Small business, infrastructure, energy efficiency to be focus -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday presented the broad outlines of a new government effort to spur the creation of jobs, but he left the work of hammering out the specifics to Congress.
Questioned by skeptical lawmakers, the U.S. general running the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday he did not get as many troops as he wanted and must work under a schedule he did not recommend, but he insisted the Obama administration's revamped strategy is the best way to win.
Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be in Reno for a book-signing event Wednesday.
During a recent vote in the Senate, 30 Republican Senators voted against the amendment (SA.2588) to the FY2010 Defense Appropriations Bill that would stop funding defense contractors who deny sexual assault victims their day in court. The legislation was inspired by the story of Jamie Leigh Jones, a 19-year-old employee of defense contractor KBR (formerly a Halliburton subsidiary), stationed in ...
President Obama exhorted Senate Democrats to put aside their fierce policy differences and to make history by passing landmark health care legislation.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, the former Republican presidential candidate, is scheduled to participate in a town hall meeting on health care Sunday in Springdale.
COEUR d'ALENE -- In spite of a call from one North Idaho Republican to drop out on the same day he began his campaign for the 1st Congressional District GOP nomination, Raul Labrador said his conservative values make him the best man for the job.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Youth is what the climate change conference in Copenhagen is supposed to be all about. The advertising campaign for the United Nations Climate Change Conference on global warming that opens this week is even called “ Hopenhagen ,” to suggest that young people need to push their governments to save the Kyoto Treaty if they are going to prevent environmental apocalypse.
NEW YORK (NNPA) - For a little more than a half hour at the Military Academy at West Point Dec. 1, President Barack Obama put his stamp on the war in Afghanistan.
