WASHINGTON (AP) – The House voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a U.S. district judge from Louisiana, who lawmakers said avoided likely criminal charges related to payoffs charges in part because the statute of limitations expired. The House approved four impeachment articles charging him with taking payoffs and lying under oath. The unanimous vote reflected the [...]
Politico: Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are headed to the White House for a meeting on jobs Thursday, and they’ll have a few words to say about how President Barack Obama is doing his. The 43-member caucus is fighting through one of the most difficult periods in its 39-year history, and some members and [...]
Renegade leftist judge Nina Gerson NEW YORK — A federal judge who found it unconstitutional that Congress tried to cut funding to the activist group ACORN has rejected a government request to change her mind and has ordered government agencies to make it clear the funding isn’t blocked. In a written ruling Wednesday, U.S. District [...]
Washington (AP) – – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered committee chairmen to postpone their hearings Thursday so lawmakers can meet to chart a course for one last sales job on President Obama’s signature health care overhaul. Whether it’s expanding Medicaid or Medicare, tax-funded abortion service, special kickbacks for resistant lawmakers or the untallied costs, [...]
The Hill: Cindy Sheehan is about to start another anti-war camp. This one will be in Washington, and it could conceivably last for months. The problem? “I’m kind of over the whole camping thing,†she admits. It’s a fair enough statement for Sheehan, who gained international attention in 2005 for “Camp Casey,†a five-week protest [...]
Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON — Aides to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew of concerns about the behavior of former Rep. Eric Massa months earlier than Pelosi previously acknowledged, a senior Democratic leadership aide said Wednesday. In October, Massa’s chief of staff told Pelosi’s office the then-congressman was living in a townhouse with some of his [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Minority Leader John Boehner wants the House ethics panel probe of former Rep. Eric Massa to be reopened. The Ohio Republican said Thursday there are many unanswered questions surrounding the sexual harassment allegations that were made against the New York Democrat. Boehner (BAY’nur) said he plans to file a House resolution [...]
VALPARAISO, Chile (AFP) – A 7.2-magnitude aftershock and four other tremors rocked disaster-hit Chile Thursday, triggering a tsunami alert just minutes before billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president. The quake was the strongest aftershock of more than 200 which have shaken the South American nation since the massive 8.8-quake of February [...]
Fox News: The health care reform bill passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve appears to be dead on arrival in the House, as seven anti-abortion Democrats intend to join the ranks of lawmakers who plan to vote against the legislation, Fox News has confirmed. Seven new no votes would be enough to kill the [...]
USA Today: WASHINGTON — Is President Obama losing his base? Liberal and progressive organizations that helped propel him to the White House are turning on him now, little more than a year after he took office. Their collective discontent, on issues from health care to nuclear energy to the handling of terror suspects, could mean [...]
US Marine guarding Iraqi ballots BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Initial results from Iraq’s national election are likely to be released by Thursday, Iraqi and U.N. officials said on Wednesday, as further signs emerged of a strong showing for Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The Iraqi National Alliance (INA), a largely Shi’ite group that is challenging Maliki’s [...]
Fox News: In an apparent slap at the embattled chief of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ordered a newly formed outside scientific panel to review its “procedures and practices” — and more significantly, its management. The hastily assembled panel will be headed by Prof. Robbert H. Dijkgraaf, head [...]
Washington Times: The Show Me State briefly became the No Show State on Wednesday as some prominent Missouri Democrats decided they’d rather be somewhere else when President Obama came to St. Louis to push his massive health care overhaul plan. Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the all-but-certain Democratic nominee for the Senate seat being [...]
(Reuters) – California’s revenue in February was $480 million or 8.7 percent above the estimate in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s state budget plan, so tax refunds should be paid on time, State Controller John Chiang said on Wednesday. There had been some talk in the state capital of Sacramento that tax refunds could be delayed, as [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico’s Carlos Slim, the son of an immigrant shopkeeper who amassed a $53.5 billion fortune and bought a major stake in the New York Times, became the first person from a developing nation to be named the world’s richest person. Slim, a telecom magnate, edged out U.S. billionaires Bill Gates and [...]
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – On his first day as Dodgers interim manager, hitting coach Don Mattingly said Wednesday that the team has made overtures about him eventually becoming Joe Torre’s permanent replacement. With Torre en route to Taiwan to manage a Dodgers split squad for three exhibition games, Mattingly is in charge of the team [...]
