Pat Dollard

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – San Francisco has a long history of bold public health and environmental stances, going after everything from plastic bags in grocery stores to cigarettes to sugary drinks. The latest target: Ronald McDonald. A proposed city ordinance would ban McDonald’s from putting toys in Happy Meals unless it adds fruit and vegetable [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Tapping into anger as the tea party movement has done, a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups marched by the thousands Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial and pledged to support Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill. “We are together. This march is about the power to the people,” said [...]

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — If John McCain hadn’t made it clear before, he’s leaving no doubt that the presidency is a dream gone by. Addressing a veterans rally for a Republican Senate candidate in Nashua on Saturday, the Arizona senator was reminiscing about his presidential campaigns in New Hampshire, where he won the Republican primaries [...]

The Hill: Syria’s president accused President Obama of launching the latest round of Middle East peace talks for his own political gain. Paying a visit to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made the comments as the month-old peace process is in danger of collapsing. “Nothing has changed in the Palestinian [...]

The Hill: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is planning to wage a television campaign against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and other Democratic colleagues. The Senate Conservatives Fund, a political action committee that DeMint helms, has produced an anti-Reid television ad and will raise money to launch it in Nevada. The Senate Conservatives Fund’s first [...]

Fox News: The Obama administration will issue a warning Saturday to U.S. travellers in Europe to avoid places frequented by Westerners based on new intelligence suggesting an attack by Al Qaeda could be imminent, a senior U.S. intelligence official told Fox News. The travel warning is expected to be announced at 4 p.m., pending Secretary [...]

TEHRAN (AP) — Iran’s intelligence minister said on Saturday authorities had arrested several “nuclear spies” who were working to derail Tehran’s nuclear programme through cyberspace. Without saying how many people were arrested or when, Heydar Moslehi was quoted on state television’s website as saying Iran had “prevented the enemies’ destructive activity.” His remarks came against [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Postal Service expects to lose about $6 billion this year