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The Hill: The fate of a Senate bill that would revamp the nation’s financial regulatory system could hinge on a Republican centrist from Maine. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) may end up being the deciding vote next week on a Democratic Wall Street reform plan touted by the White House. While Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) attracted [...]
Washington (AP) – – A candid President Obama vowed Thursday evening that he would continue to reach out to Republicans and take their ideas into consideration, even as he took a light jab at some of his conservative critics in the Tea Party movement. The president, speaking a Democratic fundraiser in Miami, urged lawmakers on [...]
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) – A long-awaited compromise bill to reduce U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming will be unveiled by a group of senators on April 26, sources said on Thursday. The legislative language to be sketched out in 11 days, according to government and environmental sources, is [...]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – A South Korean official says an external explosion most likely sank a South Korean naval ship three weeks ago with more than a hundred crew members on board. Chief investigator Yoon Duk-yong told reporters Friday there’s a “high possibility” the explosion that split the ship in two came from outside [...]
Fox News: The National Day of Prayer, honored in the United States for more than a half-century, is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled. In a 66-page opinion issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb said the holiday violates the “establishment clause” of the First Amendment, which creates a separation of church and [...]
CNN: (CNN) — Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said. The fireball was visible for about 15 minutes beginning about 10 p.m., said the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wisconsin, just west of Milwaukee. “The fireball was seen [...]
Fox News: Being a superpower ain’t all that, at least according to President Obama. In a little-noticed remark at the close of the two-day nuclear security summit in Washington, D.C., this week, President Obama suggested the United States is somehow burdened by its military might — a comment that drew a stern rebuke from his [...]
Fox News: The Navy’s decision to name a ship for the late Rep. John Murtha has outraged some critics who have not forgiven the Pennsylvania Democrat for accusing U.S. Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians “in cold blood” five years ago. The Navy is naming its newest San Antonio-class amphibious transport-dock LPD 26 for Murtha, the [...]
The Sun UK: UK scientists have created “designer embryos” containing DNA from a man and TWO women. The breakthrough gives hope of healthy children to couples with genetic disorders in their families. It also offers the prospect of eradicating fatal genetic diseases. But the procedure – dubbed three person IVF – sparked controversy last night. [...]
The Hill: The Tea Party is hosting a Tax Day rally on Thursday in Washington, but the Republicans leaders in the House and Senate are not invited. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) were not asked [...]
Washington Times: The Obama administration is warning that the danger of a terrorist attack with nuclear weapons is increasing, but U.S. officials say the claim is not based on new intelligence and questioned whether the threat is being overstated. President Obama said in a speech before the 47-nation Nuclear Security Summit, which concluded Tuesday, that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders, responding to growing resistance in their party to a financial regulations overhaul being pushed by President Obama, are considering ways to potentially block the legislation if it makes it to the Senate floor without more bipartisan input. The options being discussed include sending a letter to the Democratic leadership signed [...]
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) – Mexico’s drug violence has invaded the heart of one of its most famous beach resorts, with six people shot to death and five wounded during a raging gunbattle on the main boulevard in Acapulco’s tourist zone. No tourists were among the casualties, but the shooting killed at least three bystanders and [...]
SYDNEY (AP) – A company in Australia came under a cyberattack from China that was intense enough to slow traffic on part of the country’s second-largest broadband network, company officials said Thursday. Among companies affected were Australian Associated Press, the national news agency, and the Australian branch of Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd., but they were [...]
