8 hours, 26 minutes ago
(AP) It will take a compromise on a government option for insurance if the Senate is to agree on a health care overall before next month's break, two senators said Sunday.President Barack Obama is pushing for an Aug. 8 deadline for the Senate and House to vote on proposals that would ...
9 hours, 5 minutes ago
(AP) The nation's top military officer said Sunday he has advised President Barack Obama to move "in a measured way" in changing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bans gays from serving openly in the military.Obama as a candidate pledged to end the ban. As president, he has not said ...
9 hours, 5 minutes ago
(AP) Vice President Joe Biden signaled that the Obama administration would not stand in the way if Israel chose to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, even as the top U.S. military officer said any attack on Iran would be destabilizing.Biden's remarks suggested a tougher U.S. stance against Iran's nuclear ambitions. Nonetheless, administration ...
9 hours, 26 minutes ago
(AP) President Barack Obama says he doesn't like his golf swing and the ball never goes where he wants.Obama told Russian state-run Rossiya TV and ITAR-TASS news agency that he's been working on his golf game lately. However, he disclosed in the interview that he hasn't had much success.The president, who ...
10 hours, 26 minutes ago
(AP) Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with each declaring his determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly damaged relationship.Both sides appear to want to use progress on arms control as a pathway to possible agreement on trickier issues, ...
11 hours, 26 minutes ago
(AP) The Obama administration "misread" the depth of the economic troubles it inherited and still expects more new jobs in the long term as the spending pace from the $787 billion stimulus plan quickens, Vice President Joe Biden said.Republican congressional leaders expressed disappointment about the impact of stimulus spending. "I'm very ...
11 hours, 44 minutes ago
(AP) A White House official says he expects President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to announce a deal Monday that could lead to a new nuclear arms reduction treaty by year's end.Gary Samore _ Obama's top adviser on arms control _ would not give specifics about the agreement. But ...
13 hours, 5 minutes ago
(AP) Vice President Joe Biden seemed to give Israel a green light for military action to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat, saying the U.S. "cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do."Israel considers Iran its most dangerous adversary and is wary of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who ...
13 hours, 29 minutes ago
(AP) One of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's potential presidential rivals said Sunday that her abrupt resignation won't help her dodge scrutiny. President George W. Bush's chief political adviser said her strategy is, at best, unclear.Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Palin's announcement that she would not seek a second term _ ...
13 hours, 44 minutes ago
(AP) Vice President Joe Biden says the U.S. will not stand in Israel's way if Israel believes military action is needed to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat.Biden says the U.S. "cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do."Israel considers Iran its most dangerous adversary and is wary of ...
13 hours, 50 minutes ago
(AP) The official in line to be Alaska governor when Sarah Palin resigns this month says she talked to him about the toll that ethics investigations has taken on her.Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell says Palin cited the millions of dollars being spent to deal with document requests and other matters. ...
14 hours, 8 minutes ago
(AP) One of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's potential presidential rivals says her abrupt resignation won't allow her to dodge scrutiny over her family.And George W. Bush's former chief political aide says Palin's strategy is unclear, at best.Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Sunday that Palin's announcement that she is resigned while ...
14 hours, 44 minutes ago
(AP) Colin Powell, one of the nation's most prominent African-Americans, is going after people who attacked Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of her stand in favor of affirmative action.Powell, who's from the same Bronx neighborhood in New York as Sotomayor, said she should face "a spirited set of hearings" in ...
14 hours, 44 minutes ago
(AP) Colin Powell says the U.S. took too long to strengthen its forces in Iraq after Baghdad fell early in the war.Powell, the nation's top military officer under President George H.W. Bush and secretary of state for President George W. Bush, said the decision to use a lighter force to defeat ...
15 hours, 26 minutes ago
(AP) They are the biggest of the big _ the Citigroups, the Goldman Sachses, the AIGs and other financial behemoths. The Obama administration doesn't want so many around anymore.Financial regulations proposed by the president would result in leaner and simpler institutions that don't carry the weight of the system on their ...
15 hours, 26 minutes ago
(AP) A week before her Senate hearings, Republicans are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, unable to find an effective message about why she's not fit to serve.Blame the tricky politics of opposing the woman who would be the first Hispanic justice, especially for a ...
16 hours, 44 minutes ago
(AP) Vice President Joe Biden says the Obama administration "misread how bad the economy was" but stands by its stimulus package and believes the plan will create more jobs as the pace of its spending picks up.Biden, in an interview airing Sunday on ABC's "This Week," says the nation's 9.5 percent ...
18 hours, 5 minutes ago
(AP) Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with both men declaring their determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly damaged relationship.Both sides appear to want to use progress on arms control as a pathway into possible agreement on other, ...
18 hours, 44 minutes ago
(AP) President Barack Obama is embarking on his next foreign mission.He leaves late Sunday on a weeklong trip that takes him to Russia, Italy and Ghana. The mission is anchored around the G-8 economic summit in Rome. High on the agenda are international efforts to confront climate change.Obama will be accompanied ...
20 hours, 38 minutes ago
(AP) Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father's birthplace.And when in Rome? Obama will go to ...
20 hours, 38 minutes ago
(AP) A civil rights group on whose board Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor served filed racial bias lawsuits over employment examinations that resemble a Connecticut case in which she ruled against white firefighters, documents released by the Senate show.The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund represented Hispanic sanitation workers in ...
20 hours, 41 minutes ago
(AP) National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won't find the patent file for the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in ...
20 hours, 41 minutes ago
(AP) Vice President Dick Cheney talked with top White House officials about how to respond to reporters' inquiries into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative, according to a court filing.Cheney told the FBI about his recollection of discussions with his former top aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and other ...
20 hours, 41 minutes ago
(AP) Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support.The seating of Minnesota Sen. Al Franken will give Democrats the filibuster-proof 60-40 majority in the Senate, but only on paper. Absences by two ailing senators ...
20 hours, 41 minutes ago
(AP) In a slap at President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton will headline a fundraiser for a New York congresswoman challenging White House-backed Sen. Kristen Gillibrand in the state's Democratic primary.Clinton has not endorsed in the race, but his efforts to help Rep. Carolyn Maloney could be seen as a ...
