WASHINGTON — The White House press secretary says President Barack Obama still struggles with a nicotine addiction, but the spokesman would not say whether the president still smokes cigarettes. Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked about the matter Friday, the same ...Read More
WASHINGTON — Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was way too small. The economy needs a second big ...Read More
WASHINGTON – Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
But the section's purpose is indisputable: ...Read More
President Barack Obama took office promising to lead from the center and solve big problems. He has exerted enormous political energy attempting to reform the nation's health-care system. But the biggest economic problem facing the nation is not health care. ...Read More
West Palm Beach, FL (AHN) – Former CNN host Lou Dobbs says he is not ruling out running for Senate or making a run for the White House in 2012.
Dobbs, 64, has been answering questions about his future since leaving ...Read More
The White House is once again distributing a statement from a Republican in support of health care reform.
On the eve of a crucial Senate vote on whether to proceed with its health bill, the Obama administration on Friday distributed the ...Read More
NEW YORK - Whether he's planning another run for the White House or a bid for senator or governor, or he just misses the spotlight, Rudy Giuliani is suddenly back and talking about the topic that made him a national ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Nov. 20) - The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. A top Obama administration official ...Read More
(NECN/ABC) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates pulled two former service chiefs out of retirement to get to the bottom of the Fort Hood massacre.
At the same time, Congress held its first hearing into the shootings -- without White House cooperation.
As ...Read More
WORCESTER — The American Cancer Society challenged smokers across the country to quit yesterday ? the day of the annual Great American Smokeout. The challenge comes at a time when Worcester's smoking rate is still well above the state. A study ...Read More
The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
A top Obama administration official on Thursday praised the ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - Hundreds of new jobs in phantom congressional districts. Nearly 500 new teaching slots in a Chicago school district that employs only 290.
As the White House tries to show that its massive stimulus package has created or ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- The government watchdog overseeing economic stimulus spending says the White House was too quick to take credit for saving or creating 640,000 jobs.
The White House trumpeted job figures released last month, saying they proved the administration is on ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- The White House stepped back Thursday evening from claims that the stimulus plan created or saved 640,329 jobs through September, in the face of mounting criticism over errors in reports by tens of thousands of recipients of stimulus ...Read More
* Acknowledges commentary stirred friction at CNN * Vows to keep expressing views in 'public arena' PHOENIX, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A week after abruptly quittinghis longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator,Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is ...Read More
The government watchdog overseeing economic stimulus spending says the White House was too quick to take credit for saving or creating 640,000 jobs. The White House trumpeted job figures released last month, saying they proved the administration is on track to ...Read More
It's rarely much fun to watch government officials testify before Congress. But Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) managed to add a charge to a hearing held Thursday morning by the Joint Economic Committee when he told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that ...Read More
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next - but will run for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News. "In the next 48 hours he will announce that he will not run for governor, but ...Read More
Every modern White House has put out news on contentious issues late on Friday in the hope that doing so will bury it, or reduce the amount of critical scrutiny it would otherwise receive. What is unusual is the degree ...Read More
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. | Sarah Palin apparently had a point to make when she chose economically ravaged Michigan as the first stop on her heavily promoted book tour. "We're Americans. We don't give up on each other," she had written in ...Read More
BEIJING — President Barack Obama on Wednesday said he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the abusive Kenyan father they share. Obama, who spent three days in China during ...Read More
