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Schumer asks airlines to drop seat fee for kids
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Charles E. Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra. Mr. Schumer, New York Democrat, was reacting to an Associated...
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Gingrich offers O'Malley advice on running for presidency
Former Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich, looking rested and at ease before TV cameras, had some succinct advice Sunday morning for Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, the head of the...
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Panetta warns against automatic defense cuts
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Sunday said more than $500 billion in defense-related cuts scheduled to kick in early next year would be "disastrous" to national security and begged lawmakers to...
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McCain: Don't count on Russia to force out Assad
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States can't count on Russia — a major arms supplier to Syria — to force Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, Sen. John McCain said Sunday, blaming President Obama for...
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Inside Politics: NLRB member accused of leaks resigns
A member of the National Labor Relations Board accused of leaking inside information has resigned. The board says Republican Terence Flynn submitted his resignation Saturday. He had been under pressure...
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Warren claim of Indian ancestry spurs queries on identity
What, exactly, makes someone American Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, whose disputed claim of Indian identity is shining a rare...
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ZOGBY: President Obama's weekly report card (May 21-27)
Grade: C"This brief column is supposed to assess the 'presidency' of Barack Obama each week, but since the campaign is on permanent spin cycle, I have to comment on the campaign as well. More than 18...
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Texan aims to ride second tea party wave
One by one, several candidates hoping to be Texas' next GOP Senate nominee made their pitches to the Republican Party's forum in Erath County, just west of Fort Worth — but the few dozen voters packed...
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Inside the Beltway: Campers alert
The summer breeze calls: Children of disabled or wounded military service members still have time to sign up for Camp Corral, a free weeklong summer camp sponsored by the Golden Corral restaurant...
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Polls on gay marriage not reflected in votes
NEW YORK — Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 32 states where gay marriage has been on the...
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Defense chief Panetta: Looming cuts would be 'disastrous'
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Sunday that more than $500 billion in defense-related cuts scheduled to kick in early next year would be "disastrous" to national security and begged lawmakers to...
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Thunder had to roll fast with president
Rolling Thunder made it to the White House this year, but the experience for the motorcycle-riding patriots was more pro forma photo oppportunity than heartfelt meeting with President Obama, the group...
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Long battle to get Civil War officer Medal of Honor in final charge
When the House this month voted to waive the time constraints on issuing the Medal of Honor for Lt. Alonzo Cushing, it brought the artillery officer and hero of the Union stand at Pickett's Charge one...
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Inside Politics: McCain rips Memorial Day heckler
SAN DIEGO — Sen. John McCain, appearing with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, had a one-word retort to a heckler who was hustled out of the...
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Inside the Beltway: Mitt + The Donald = Vegas
A veritable royal flush of Republicans will be in Las Vegas on Tuesday when presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney journeys to Nevada for a pair of private events, one at a local furniture...
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Catholics' mandate suit draws dividing line for Obama
Three years ago, President Obama gave the University of Notre Dame's commencement address, pleading for common ground with Catholics on thorny issues and vowing to seek a "sensible conscience clause"...
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Obama ducks calls to release his collegiate transcripts
When President Obama gave the commencement address last week at the Air Force Academy, he congratulated the cadets for excelling at one of the most demanding schools in the country. But decades after...
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After Lugar's loss, Hatch not taking Senate race for granted
Orrin G. Hatch appeared to be coasting to victory in Utah's Republican Senate primary, and then Richard G. Lugar happened. The loss by the six-term Mr. Lugar in the Indiana Republican primary May 8 to...
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Romney camp says Obama has failed students on rising debt
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire isn't just first in the nation when it comes to hosting presidential primaries. It also ranks first in student-loan debt, and now the winner of the state's Republican...
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Tea partyers down on Upton in Michigan primary
DETROIT — He chairs one of Capitol Hill's most powerful committees, won his 2010 race with 62 percent of the vote and even boasts a niece who graced Sports Illustrated's swimsuit-edition cover. But all...
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