WASHINGTON (AP) – Two thousand federal transportation workers will be furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it.
Federal reimbursements to states for highway programs will also be halted, the Transportation Department said in a statement late Sunday. The reimbursements amount to about $190 [...]
US commanders are taking a second look at policies that bar women from ground combat, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have thrust female soldiers into the thick of the fight.
The Army chief of staff, General George Casey, told lawmakers last week that it was time to review the rules in light of [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday takes a new look at the right to bear arms in a case that could impact the growing push by President Barack Obama’s opponents to loosen gun laws.
The nation’s top court will decide whether its landmark June 2008 decision recognizing the right of every US citizen to possess [...]
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Democrats took heat over the “Louisiana Purchase,” and ultimately disavowed the “Cornhusker Kickback.”
Now, they are racing to keep Republicans from defining the only legislative tool left to salvage the health care reform bill as yet another tactic hatched in a Democratic back room.
During a year in which “deal” is a dirty word, Democratic congressional [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama owes his Canadian counterpart a case of beer.
Obama made the friendly wager with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper before Sunday’s U.S.-Canada gold medal game. Canada beat the United States 3-2 on Sidney Crosby’s overtime goal.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama had a case of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department on Sunday urged Americans to avoid tourist trips and other nonessential travel to Chile, one day after the South American country was struck by a magnitude-8.8 earthquake.
American citizens who are currently in Chile were asked to contact family and friends in the United States, whether by telephone, Internet [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department is urging Americans to avoid tourist trips and other nonessential travel to Chile, one day after the South American country was struck by a magnitude-8.8 earthquake.
American citizens who are currently in Chile are being asked to contact family and friends in the United States, whether by telephone, Internet [...]
BOSTON (AP) – Joseph P. Kennedy III, the son of a former congressman and the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, said Sunday he had decided against running for the U.S. House from Massachusetts this year.
Kennedy told The Associated Press that he wants to remain in his new job as a prosecutor in Cape Cod’s [...]
BOSTON (AP) – The grandson of Robert F. Kennedy has decided against running for the U.S. House from Massachusetts this year.
Joseph P. Kennedy III told The Associated Press on Sunday that “I’ve got a job I love being an assistant district attorney on the Cape, and I want to get better at it at [...]
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