McCain improves voting record
UPI - 37 minutes agoWASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- U. S. Sen. John McCain, criticized for missing votes regularly while campaigning for president, has greatly improved his record in 2009, an analysis shows.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- U. S. Sen. John McCain, criticized for missing votes regularly while campaigning for president, has greatly improved his record in 2009, an analysis shows.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service says it's delaying permits needed for a northern Arizona ski resort to install snowmaking equipment while American Indian tribes talk with resort owners about their concerns.
Sarah Palin, who says the 2012 presidential election isn't on her radar, took her "Going Rogue" book tour to the biggest of the battleground states Tuesday, including a stop in the retirement community where tens of thousands of people gave her star treatment in the 2008 presidential election.
District 13 state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos will sit on Gov.-elect Chris Christie's transition team, a group of 10 people who will oversee the passing of the torch between administrations.
Several House and Senate leadership aides have confirmed the Afghanistan meeting at the White House on Tuesday. Read more...
Rick Eakle died - his heart stopped four times - because he lacked health insurance, but he lived to tell about it. “None of it needed to happen,” the Hamilton man said tearfully about his disfiguring facial tumor, congestive heart failure, diabetes, depression and massive bed sore.
The former Alaska governor is doing what many authors do: Choosing the right words to sell her book, says USA TODAY founder Al Neuharth.
Halifax, Nova Scotia (UPI) Nov 25, 2009 - Convened for the first time by the Canadian Ministry of National Defense and the German Marshall Fund -- a thank tank established by the German government in honor of Gen. George Marshall and the plan for European recovery that bore his name -- the Halifax International Security Forum met over the weekend. The purpose was to discuss trans-Atlantic ...
IT'S BEEN a rather tawdry week of Sarah Palin mania as the former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee has taken to the Lower 48 to promote her highly anticipated memoir, Going Rogue , which was written with evangelical co-author Lynn Vincent--though you won't see that rather significant fact included anywhere on the cover or even on the book's title page.
Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site. The offensive image is doctored to make the first lady appear to look almost like a primate. Google placed a text ad above the image titled "Offensive Search Results" that states "Sometimes our search results can be ...
Last year at this time, Bar ack Obama was fresh off his historic election, riding a honeymoon high that would see him hit 70 per cent approval. Voters gave his party control of Washington, and media acolytes were force-feeding the nation syrupy comp...
Democratic Rep. John M. Spratt Jr. is in his 14th term representing South Carolina's 5th District and usually has little trouble winning re-election. But it appears that national Republicans are set on giving the Budget Committee chairman more than simply a token challenge this cycle.
McCain says the swipes at his former running mate are unlike anything he has ever seen.
WASHINGTON - The Obama White House is addicted to the “unprecedented.” Perhaps it was a sign when President Barack Obama sat down in January to record his first weekly address and announced: “We begin this year and this administration in the midst of an unprecedented crisis that calls for unprecedented action." What has followed is declaration after declaration of “unprecedented” milestones ...
Big banks are roaring back.
The whole phenomenon of Sarah Palin, I admit, is a mystery to me. She has built a large following. She has powerful supporters in talk radio. She is incontestably sincere. She is driven and gutsy. In Alaska, she took on the old bulls in her own party and won.