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Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at voters Sunday, killing 36 people in attacks aimed at intimidating those taking part in an election that will determine whether the country can overcome the sectarian divisions that have plagued it since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Baghdad - Bombs, mortar rounds and rocket attacks killed 38 people and wounded 110 as Iraqis voted Sunday in an election Al-Qaeda threatened to sabotage, the interior ministry said.
Share + Feb 27, 2010 10:30 am US/Eastern House GOP Bill Senate Dems Bill President Barack Obama said Saturday he is ready to compromise with Republicans on health care if they are serious about it, but that an overhaul must go forward.
Something has gone very wrong. Was it just a year ago that Democrats assumed more control in Washington than the party has had in my lifetime? It was.
“I am not an ideologue,” protested Barack Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last month.
By Ben Pershing President Obama is counseling his fellow Democrats to stay aggressive on both the political and legislative fronts, even as the party is divided internally over how to proceed on their biggest priorities.
The city’s Fire Department will receive much-needed safety upgrades after it was awarded a $94,525 federal grant Wednesday.
Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili says he has proposed to the United States that his country become a logistics hub for the expanding U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama Saturday endorsed a bipartisan plan to name a special task force charged with coming up with a plan to curb the spiraling budget deficit, though the idea has lots of opposition from both his allies and rivals on Capitol Hill.
President Barack Obama phoned Senate allies Saturday as two key senators predicted that embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be confirmed for a second term.
By DAVID ESPO and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama’s campaign to remake healthcare is barreling into the final days.Democrats, led by Obama, deployed this weekend to salvage an unpredictable Senate race in Massachusetts, while senior White House and congressional staff members in Washington hurry to finish work on …
Health care reform may have been President Barack Obama’s signature issue for his first year in office, but for patrons at Heather’s Coffee and Cafe, it’s an issue they wish he’d leave alone.
President Barack Obama is promising that U.S. support for Haitian relief would continue long after the scenes of death and destruction fade from the headlines.
More than five decades have passed since America heard a voice calling for freedom and justice for all.
The window was closing as search teams tried to rescue the dying victims of Haiti’s earthquake before they become the dead, and governments around the world were rushing to get in aid supplies.
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Brian Sandoval, who is challenging Gov. Jim Gibbons, has reported $903,000 in contributions.
To all those kind-hearted folks who want to protect my feelings as an African American from the insult that Sen.
President Barack Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaida affiliate for a Christmas Day terrorist plot that has led to a review of how intelligence agencies failed to prevent the botched bombing aboard a Detroit-bound airliner.
The Christmas Day attack on a jetliner over Detroit, combined with technological improvements to protect people’s sense of modesty, could lead to dramatically wider use of full-body scanners that can see through travelers’ clothing.
Barack Obama claims the suspect who tried to blow up a transatlantic flight on Christmas Day was a member of Al-Qaeda. The president said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was a student in the UK, was trained and equipped by an al Qaeda affiliate while in Yemen.
An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens.
Robert Morgenthau has been cast in many roles during his decades in office. The inspiration for the district attorney on TV’s “Law&Order.” A taker-on of mobsters, misbehaving celebrities and corrupt CEOs.
Football fans and “American Idol” devotees can breathe a sigh of relief. Fox and Time Warner Cable have reached a deal in principle that will keep the network on the cable provider after Fox threatened to pull the plug over a fee dispute.
Philadelphia’s first black district attorney will take the oath of office on Monday.
Richard Preston Howe, 63, died, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. He was born in Detroit, Maine on Oct.
In his weekly address, President Barack Obama discussed his solemn responsibility to protect the nation and the steps the administration has taken to that end.
Months ago, a delegation of Republican senators went to the White House with a request for President Barack Obama to take a more gradual approach to health care.He demurred, according to one official familiar with the meeting, saying that’s not what he promised when he ran for the White House.Now, with multiple trade-offs made, Obama and his …
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, stars of TLC’s “18 Kids and Counting,” recently welcomed their 19th child Josie Brooklyn, who weighed 1 pound, 6 ounces at birth.
For higher education, 2009 was a time of lofty goals and harsh realities, of major policy shifts in Washington and financial struggle on campuses nationwide.
The split between Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich over health care mirrors the situation in the country, where Democrats and Republicans are acting like polar opposites.
Democrats scrambled over the weekend to stave off defeat in a closer-than-expected Massachusetts Senate race that has raised Republican hopes of dealing a crippling blow to President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform agenda and other top domestic policy priorities.
While many hailed U.S. President Barack Obama’s attention to the high unemployment rate in the country, some experts argued that the jobs bill he had proposed lacks the strength needed to spark significant employment growth.
Mexico’s foreign minister met with Cuban President Raul Castro for three hours Friday, the latest sign her country and the island have repaired recently chilly relations.
The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year’s Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession.
The House of Representatives approved the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression on Friday, marking a win for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.
Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery.
The Obama administration’s pay czar is limiting the cash compensation for executives at companies that received the largest taxpayer bailouts to $500,000. The 25th through the 100th top earners at Citigroup, GMAC, American International Group and General Motors also must take more than half their compensation in stock, and at least half must be …
Pakistan’s prime minister Thursday signaled his country’s cautious response to President Barack Obama’s new policy for Pakistan and Afghanistan by declining to endorse the U.S.-led troop surge.
Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., said Wednesday that he would agree to a six-month extension of the existing highway spending program if the Senate and White House agree to use the time to craft new legislation to reform the Department of Transportation and provide money for a new six-year program.
Senator John F. Kerry, a key ally for President Obama on his Afghanistan plan, offered guarded praise for the president’s speech as he opened a hearing this morning on the troop surge plan.
Of course, the fact that she’s compiling a new list is no surprise. Airing Dec. 9 at 10 p.m. EST on ABC, “Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009″ is her 17th edition.
Despite misgivings, members of Congress seem poised to back President Barack Obama’s plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan after getting assurances the commitment isn’t open-ended. The surge-and-exit strategy that Obama announced Tuesday night marks the largest expansion of the war since it began eight years ago.
Last week’s presidential debate was supposed to cover foreign policy issues, but the ongoing market meltdown was too big to ignore.
Russia will join any consensus on more sanctions against Iran, a senior Russian diplomatic source said yesterday after Tehran declared it would expand nuclear activity in defiance of a U.N. rebuke.
The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it’s time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.
But the 413-page tome doesn’t contain a single reference to the father of her grandson, soon-to-be nude online model Levi Johnston.
The accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks and four of his suspected co-plotters will be tried in a civilian court in New York, a military lawyer told AFP Friday.
The Obama administration is alerting domestic agencies to expect their budgets will be frozen or even cut by 5 percent, part of an election-year push to rein in record deficits that threaten the economy and Democrats’ political prospects next fall.
A couple of Brazil’s more famous political and cultural leaders have decided to make complete asses out of themselves in the past few weeks.
McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - The Obama administration’s internal debate over Afghan policy has escalated into a battle of media leaks that’s straining relations between officials who’re seeking a major troop increase and those who want a more limited approach and a greater focus on domestic priorities.
