CHICAGO (AP) — Even in President Barack Obama’s hometown, they had hoped for more. Obama will be stumping for Senate candidate and basketball buddy Alexi Giannoulias on Thursday in Chicago, a city where every other person crossing the street seems to have a story about descending on Grant Park that historic night of the 2008 [...]
Wall Street Journal: In a year of political turbulence and upsets, the race for governor of New York was supposed to be a dull exception and a snap for Andrew Cuomo, the state’s Democratic attorney general. That was before Carl Paladino, a tea party-backed developer from Buffalo, bulldozed an established Republican rival in the party’s [...]
Fox News: NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey — A U.S. senator said Wednesday he’ll introduce legislation requiring colleges to adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment following the suicide of a student whose gay sexual encounter in his dorm room was broadcast online. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat, made the announcement at a [...]
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Wall Street Journal: Members of Pakistan’s spy agency are pressing Taliban field commanders to fight the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan, some U.S. officials and Afghan militants say, a development that undercuts a key element of the Pentagon’s strategy for ending the war. The explosive accusation is the strongest yet in a series of [...]
Politico: The Treasury Department is looking into allegations that Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee illegally snooped into the tax status of a privately held corporation run by some of the country’s biggest conservative political benefactors. Several prominent Republican senators pressed the department’s inspector general to investigate why Goolsbee claimed Koch Industries hadn’t paid [...]
Rasmussen: Perceptions about the state of black-white relations in America have fallen dramatically since the summer of 2009. But voters are still more optimistic about that relationship than they are about relations between whites and Hispanics and between blacks and Hispanics. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 36% of voters now [...]
The Hill: Two-thirds of voters in key battleground districts will be thinking about President Obama when they choose their next member of Congress, according to a 2010 midterm election poll from The Hill and ANGA. The poll surveyed likely voters in 12 competitive congressional districts held by first-term Democratic lawmakers who came into office with [...]
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) – Patricia Dye admitted Wednesday that she pretended to be a teenage boy to get close to teen girls. Just as she was set to go on trial in Warren County Juvenile Court for contributing to the delinquency of a child, sexual imposition and attempted sexual imposition, she entered guilty pleas to [...]
Fox News: Afghan police said Wednesday they had seized 22 tons of explosives stashed in boxes marked “food, toys and kitchenware” that were reportedly imported from neighboring Iran. The discovery was made Tuesday in a customs office in the western province of Nimroz on the Iranian border, deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Musa Rasouli told [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court justices, in a rare public display of sympathy, strongly suggested Wednesday they would like to rule for a dead Marine’s father against fundamentalist church members who picketed his son’s funeral — but aren’t sure they can. Left unresolved after an hourlong argument that explored the limits of the First Amendment: [...]
Washington Post: For months, companies have been sitting on the sidelines with record piles of cash, too nervous to spend. Now they’re starting to deploy some of that money – not on hiring workers or building factories, but to prop up their share prices. Sitting on these unprecedented levels of cash, U.S. companies are buying [...]
