GOP Lawmakers Get Involved In Local Issues
Updated: 11:39 AM Republican lawmakers in some states are reaching into local affairs of cities and counties.
Updated: 11:39 AM Republican lawmakers in some states are reaching into local affairs of cities and counties.
Posted: 12:30 PM A judge is refusing to suspend his ruling that gives women of all ages broad access to the so called morning-after pill.
Posted: 12:17 PM Kentucky’s freshman GOP senator Rand Paul is boosting his profile with an eye on the White House in 2016.
Posted: 10:52 AM The Fed has broadened its oversight, Chairman Ben Bernanke says.
Posted: 10:47 AM The post office lost $1.9 billion over the last three months.
Updated: 1:00 PM The IRS is apologizing for targeting conservative groups for additional review during the 2012 election.
Updated: 6:47 PM The economy is “poised for progress,” President Barack Obama said Thursday during a visit to Texas.
Posted: 12:48 PM The number of Americans seeking jobless benefits has fallen to a 5-year low, the government said Thursday.
Posted: 12:27 PM A U.S. Senate committee Thursday defeated a border-security provision in an early test of a far reaching immigration bill.
Posted: 12:24 PM Republican congressional leaders say they won’t submit names for a health care advisory board.
Posted: 5:34 PM Blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, a historic first.
Posted: 5:23 PM The food stamp program escaped automatic cuts, but it’s likely to be trimmed nonetheless.
Posted: 2:50 PM President Barack Obama’s new spokesman is on the job.
Posted: 4:00 PM Republican House leaders have gone on record as favoring spending cuts of almost 20 percent for most domestic agencies.
Posted: 4:43 PM The president is stepping up efforts for his 2012 reelection bid.
Posted: 12:24 PM Senate Majority Harry Reid predicts the tea party movement will falter as the economy improves.
Updated: 3:35 PM The findings of a yearlong review of the war in Afghanistan support a drawdown of U.S. troops next summer.
Updated: 6:24 PM Former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager has moved to New York City.
Posted: 3:04 PM The U.S. Supreme Court is wrestling with the question of whether to enforce an appeals deadline for benefits for military veterans who may be mentally or physically challenged.
Posted: 11:04 AM Fewer people applied for jobless benefits last week, the government said Thursday.
Posted: 4:35 PM The first lady will join her husband on the campaign trail in Ohio.
Updated: 7:39 AM More revelations emerged Monday about BP's cost and safety decisions on the days leading up to the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico but Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens says investigators should to leave BP alone for now while the oil company works to stop the spewing oil.
Updated: 10:24 AM Caroline Kennedy has pulled out of the running to be the next U.S. senator from New York.