U.S. goal: Alzheimer's treatments by 2025
Effective treatments for Alzheimer's disease by 2025? That's the target the government is eyeing as it develops a national strategy to tackle what could become the defining disease of a rapidly aging...
View ArticleCongress revisiting bruising payroll tax cut fight
WASHINGTON (AP) — With television lights glaring, 20 lawmakers will gather next week to revisit the fight that consumed Congress before Christmas over renewing a Social Security payroll tax cut and...
View ArticleWikipedia editors question site's planned blackout
NEW YORK (AP) — Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of...
View ArticleRep. Scott: GOP survivor will be a better candidate
South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott hasn't given his highly-coveted endorsement in this week's Republican presidential primary in his state, but the first-term congressman said in an interview Wednesday he...
View ArticleRepublicans fume as Obama rejects Keystone pipeline
In an election-year decision that divided the Democrats' twin pillars of big labor and environmentalists, the Obama administration Wednesday rejected the proposed route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline...
View ArticleTSA admits errors in searches of elderly women in N.Y.
NEW YORK (AP) — Security screeners at Kennedy International Airport violated procedures this fall when they asked two elderly women to show them medical devices concealed beneath their clothing, senior...
View ArticleRomney attacks, Gingrich parries ahead of S.C. primary
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With polls showing Newt Gingrich gaining ground on Mitt Romney, his campaign Wednesday accused the former House speaker of being too "chaotic" to lead the Republican Party or the...
View ArticleInside the Beltway
DEBATE NO. 18 "I take this process seriously, I respect these candidates. This is their debate, and they will decide the tenor and tone of it, and anyone suggesting otherwise hasn't spoken to me," CNN...
View ArticleInside Politics
NEW YORK ABC interviewed ex-wife of Gingrich NEW YORK — ABC News interviewed Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich's second wife with whom he's said he has no relationship and is likely to...
View ArticleChristie touts 10% tax cut far and wide
VOORHEES, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hit the road and the airwaves Wednesday to sell his proposed across-the-board 10 percent income-tax cut to the people, both at home and across the...
View ArticleAdministration says health care overhaul on track in dozens of states
President Obama's health care overhaul is on track in many states, the White House asserted Wednesday. But officials said the administration is preparing a federal backstop anyway for states in which...
View ArticleNelson will be absent for Obama's visit to Florida
When President Obama arrives in Orlando, Fla., on Thursday for a quick one-day visit, two-term Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson won't be among those there to greet him. As Democrats in tough races...
View ArticlePublisher called layoffs 'painful' while pocketing bonus
Virginian-Pilot newspaper Publisher Maurice Jones in September delivered the sort of somber news heard lately in newsrooms across the country: more layoffs, a move he called "difficult and painful."...
View ArticleHouse nixes $1.2T hike in debt limit in symbolic gesture
In its first real bit of business to mark the new year, the House passed a symbolic Republican measure against President Obama's request to increase the federal debt limit by $1.2 trillion. Last...
View ArticleFemale turnout critical in South Carolina primary
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Now the women get their say. Female voters generally turn out at a lower rate than men in Republican primaries, but not in South Carolina, where in past elections estimates say...
View ArticleMany Bush-era hard-liners are Romney security advisers
GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has assembled a cast of conservative George W. Bush-era veterans as his key national security advisers. Some of them played important roles in the war on...
View ArticleRecount gives Santorum edge in Iowa caucuses
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Rick Santorum claimed a victory in Iowa's caucuses Thursday after a recount of the Jan. 3 votes gave him a 34-vote advantage over Mitt Romney, who earlier had been declared the...
View ArticleEx-wife says Gingrich wanted 'open marriage'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dredging up a past that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has worked hard to bury, the GOP presidential candidate's ex-wife says Mr. Gingrich asked for an "open marriage" in which he...
View ArticleGingrich downplays Santorum's taking lead in Iowa
EASLEY, S.C. (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday he's still the best conservative alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination,...
View ArticlePerry pulls out of race, backs Gingrich
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday morning and endorsed rival Newt Gingrich, further crystallizing the race for the...
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