Sen. Coburn wants NYC museum funds cut
Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma, isn't backing down from his decision to block $20 million a year in new funding for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City, despite...
View ArticleRepublicans accuse White House of Solyndra stonewall
House Republicans accused the White House on Thursday of stonewalling a congressional probe into the failed $535 million loan guarantee to bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra LLC and threatened to...
View ArticleBachmann says Obama tolerates radical Islamists
In one of her first speeches since dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Rep. Michele Bachmann on Thursday ripped President Obama's foreign policy agenda, saying the...
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SENATE Lawmakers renew push for campaign amendment Two senators say the campaign finance system is so broken that a constitutional amendment is needed to rein in runaway spending in elections....
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CAN'T MAKE CPAC? A certain melancholia can descend upon conservatives who just can't get to the annual CPAC gathering, when some 10,000 political luminaries, grass- roots patriots, old school...
View ArticleConservatives fancy the idea of a long nomination fight
Conservatives gathered in Washington this week are increasingly relishing the prospect that the Republican presidential nomination fight will extend for months, and could even lead to a brokered...
View ArticleObama: Public accepts efforts for equal rights for gays
President Obama told supporters at a gay fundraiser Thursday night that the public "readily accepts" his administration's efforts to grant equal rights to gay citizens. "The work that we've done with...
View ArticlePostal Service loses $3 billion
The U.S. Postal Service lost more than $3 billion during the last three months of 2011 as continued declines in volume of first-class mail wiped out good news about the shipping and packaging business....
View ArticleFirst new nuclear plant since 1978 approved
The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted...
View ArticleU.N. marks week seeking interfaith links
The role of religion in promoting links and dialogue across cultures and across continents moved into the spotlight earlier this month as the U.N. General Assembly marked the second annual World...
View ArticlePaul, Obama collect most military donations to run
Enlisted personnel and civilian military employees are donating more to presidential campaigns than in previous elections, and they overwhelmingly prefer two candidates: Ron Paul, the long-shot...
View ArticleMore fruit, low-fat dishes coming to military mess halls
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Hold the mystery meat: Military mess halls soon will be serving more fruits, vegetables and low-fat dishes under the first program in 20 years to improve nutrition standards across...
View ArticleGiffords' aide seeks to replace his boss in special election
PHOENIX - Ron Barber, a top aide to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was shot in the leg and face in the Tucson rampage that also left the congresswoman severely wounded, said Thursday...
View ArticleForeign donations at risk in super PAC landscape
WASHINGTON (AP) — Money pouring into the presidential election from super political action committees and nonprofit campaign groups appears so far to be strictly American in origin, donated by U.S....
View ArticleObama: Birth control policy meets everyone's needs
WASHINGTON — President Obama declared Friday he's found a solution that will protect religious liberty but also ensure that women have access to free birth control, as he rushed to defuse an...
View ArticleGroups demand new probe into Marine photo
SAN DIEGO — A leading Jewish organization and others outraged by a photo showing Marine snipers in Afghanistan posing with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol are demanding President Barack Obama...
View ArticleEthics panel looking at chairman's stock trades
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says he's cooperating with an Office of Government Ethics investigation into his stock trades and expects to be exonerated. Alabama...
View ArticleSurging Santorum woos CPAC conservatives
Carrying momentum from his three recent electoral wins, Rick Santorum cast himself Friday as the reliable conservative in the GOP presidential race, arguing that he offers a bolder contrast than rival...
View ArticleObama signs Giffords' final bill into law
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed into law a final bill authored by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded in an Arizona shooting rampage a year ago. Giffords was taking part in...
View ArticleObama backtracks on contraception mandate
Reacting to an election-year firestorm, the White House on Friday shifted course on its health care contraception mandate, announcing that religious employers will not have to cover free birth control...
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