WASHINGTON (AP) – What’s all the fuss about? After all the noise over Democrats’ push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers, coverage numbers are finally in: Two percent.
That’s the estimated share of Americans younger than 65 who’d sign up for the public option plan under the health care bill that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Saturday doled out presidential M&Ms and dried fruit mixes to more than 2,000 trick-or-treaters, marking their Halloween at a White House event partly aimed at honoring military families.
Dressed as superheroes, pirates, fairies and skeletons, the kids came in with their parents from [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the economic recovery “could be a little choppy” and it’s going to take a while.
Geithner told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that bringing back jobs and confidence of investors will be the real test of recovery. He declined to say whether the recession is over, saying economist [...]
Republican Dede Scozzafava’s decision Saturday to drop out of the New York special congressional election gave conservatives a big win, but may present a challenge for Republicans heading into next year’s mid-term elections.
The long-term implications from Scozzafava’s Halloween surprise will depend on what lessons Republicans take from the race, where Conservative Party nominee [...]
As conservative activists scored a political scalp, mainstream Republicans wasted no time in grasping at the coat tails of Conservative Doug Hoffman.
The much-watched off-year special election in upstate New York’s 23rd Congressional District that had Republicans scrambling to pick the right side turned into a stampede rightward Saturday, as stragglers rushed to endorse Hoffman after [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – At a former al-Qaida stronghold southeast of the Afghan capital, a state-owned Chinese company is at work on a $3 billion mine project to tap one of the world’s largest unexploited copper reserves, a potential financial boon for an impoverished country mired in war.
The promise of a bright future at Aynak, [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that Israel is making “unprecedented” concessions on West Bank settlement construction—a position clearly at odds with the prevailing Palestinian view.
Palestinian leaders have said they will not return to peace talks with Israel unless it halts all settlement building on lands they claim [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – Third party candidates are shaking up two major races in elections Tuesday, and the success of those candidacies is a warning shot fired at both major parties by voters angry at government and disillusioned by politics as usual.
In New York’s 23rd Congressional district, where longtime Republican Rep. John McHugh stepped [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that Israel is making “unprecedented” concessions on West Bank settlement construction.
The Palestinians have said they will not return to peace talks with Israel unless it halts all settlement building.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Israel is making “unprecedented” concessions on West Bank settlement construction.
The U.S. administration had previously demanded Israel halt all settlement building before negotiations could resume.
But speaking at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, Clinton said “there has [...]
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