For months David Axelrod, President Obama’s longtime senior strategist, has argued with evident anticipation that Mitt Romney offers a glass jaw when he boasts that his business record sets him apart as a presidential candidate. Now Mr. Romney’s Republican rivals have beaten the Obama team to the punch, and Democrats could hardly be more pleased. [...]
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A Texas abortion law passed last year that requires doctors to show sonograms to patients can be enforced while opponents challenge the measure in court, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling that signaled the judges believe the law is constitutional. When the state will begin enforcing the law was not immediately clear. [...]
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The struggling US city of Detroit is on track to run out of money in May instead of April after spending changes made by city officials, Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon said on Tuesday. Dillon addressed media following a two-and-a-half-hour meeting with a team that is looking at Detroit’s financial picture and trying to assess whether [...]
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Authorities resumed their search Tuesday for a missing Montana teacher who left her home for a pre-dawn run and never returned. The only publicized clue into Sherry Arnold’s Saturday disappearance is a single running shoe, found by a ditch along her running route in her hometown of Sidney. The FBI and local law enforcement are [...]
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The parents of a Florida university drum major killed in a hazing incident plan to sue the company that owns the bus on which he died, they said on Tuesday. Robert and Pam Champion are filing the lawsuit against Fabulous Coach Lines to force witnesses to testify under oath about what happened to their son [...]
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U.S. taxpayers are in line for a big payday, but it is not quite what it seems. The Federal Reserve is out with its year-end tally of net income Tuesday, and the central bank says it expects to return $76.9 billion to the U.S. Treasury. While that may seem like a windfall for Uncle Sam, [...]
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An estimated 400 people have been killed in Syria since an Arab League mission arrived in the country to monitor the uprising against the government of President Bashar Assad, a top U.N. official said Tuesday. United Nations political chief B. Lynn Pascoe provided the latest figures in a closed-door report to the 15-member Security Council [...]
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At a town hall in Meredith, N.H., Sunday afternoon, the libertarian-oriented phenomenon from Texas doesn’t need to raise his voice or rhetorically shape-shift to keep several hundred voters hanging on every word. He delivers the tried-and-true, small-government Paul message: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are bankrupting the country with bailouts. [...]
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Presidential candidate Gingrich made his bold pitch on his last full day of campaigning before Tuesday’s New Hampshire Primary. It was in answer to a question about Las Vegas gambling billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a longtime friend and supporter, donating $5 million to Winning Our Future, the pro-Gingrich but ostensibly independent group buying political ads in [...]
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Mitt Romney said today his remark that he likes “being able to fire people” is being taken out of context, explaining that he was trying to make a point about people having choices in health care. Romney took questions from reporters in Hudson, N.H., to deal with the backlash from his GOP rivals and Democrats [...]
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The Obama administration banned new uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon for the next 20 years, a move hailed by conservationists on Monday as key to the president’s environmental legacy but slammed by opponents as a job-killer. The decision puts more than 1 million acres of public lands outside the Grand Canyon National Park [...]
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A Florida man who went shopping for al Qaeda flags has been arrested following a sting operation in which he was allegedly caught on tape planning attacks with bombs and guns in the Tampa area. Separately, authorities in Baltimore said a former U.S. Army soldier trained in intelligence work was arrested for trying to join [...]
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In his last days in office, outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned two men convicted of murder, a state official said Monday. “David Gatlin and Joseph Ozment had received full pardons and they were released yesterday at 1 p.m.,” said Suzanne Singletary, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Both men were serving life sentences, [...]
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Mitt Romney on Monday dismissed intensifying attacks by his Republican rivals on his role at a corporate buyout firm, expressing confidence just a day before New Hampshire voters go to the polls. The attacks came as Mr. Romney’s lead in New Hampshire appears to be slipping. A Suffolk University/7News tracking poll on Monday showed him [...]
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With less than a year to go before voters head to the polls to decide whether President Obama deserves another term in office, White House chief of staff William Daley is stepping down at the end of the month, paving the way for budget director Jack Lew to take his place. “Obviously this was not [...]
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