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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Who pays when prez politicks?

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama flies Air Force One when he leaves town. So does Candidate Barack Obama....

INSIDE WASHINGTON: Who pays when prez politicks?

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama flies Air Force One when he leaves town. So does Candidate Barack Obama....

INSIDE WASHINGTON: Who pays when prez politicks?

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama flies Air Force One when he leaves town. So does Candidate Barack Obama....

INSIDE WASHINGTON: Who pays when prez politicks?

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama flies Air Force One when he leaves town. So does Candidate Barack Obama....

INSIDE WASHINGTON: Who pays when prez politicks?

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama flies Air Force One when he leaves town. So does Candidate Barack Obama....

INSIDE WASHINGTON: Who pays when prez politicks?

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama flies Air Force One when he leaves town. So does Candidate Barack Obama....

Report: Fla. troopers erred before Jan. crashes that killed 11

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant didn't have any formal training or know the procedures before he reopened a fog- and smoke-shrouded highway where a series of crashes killed 11 people in January, investigators said in a report released Thursday.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement report ...

Cash-strapped R.I. city backing down in cross fight

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Wisconsin group challenging the constitutionality of a cross on a war memorial in Rhode Island says it expects to prevail without the type of long legal battle that unfolded over a prayer banner ordered removed this year from a public high school.

The Freedom From ...

Crane owner cleared in deadly 2008 collapse in NYC

NEW YORK — A construction crane owner was acquitted of manslaughter and all other charges Thursday in the May 2008 collapse of his 200-foot-tall rig that snapped apart and killed two workers, which fueled concerns about crane safety.

James Lomma sat expressionless, looking frozen, as a judge announced his verdict ...

Watchdog expanding ethics probe at labor board

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Democratic congressman says a government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe at the National Labor Relations Board after finding more inside information was leaked to an adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney....

U.S. official acknowledges past Secret Service misconduct

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
A day after U.S. lawmakers were briefed on an alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia involving Secret Service members, a report emerged Thursday of similar allegations, this time in El Salvador.
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Quick response averts market scare in mad cow case

DES MOINES, Iowa — The announcement that mad cow disease was found in a California cow drew a rapid response this week from the beleaguered American beef industry, which has been enduring one crisis after another for more than a year.

First, a severe drought in the Southwest cut cattle ...

EPA official apologizes for viral 'crucify' quip

A top official at the Environmental Protection Agency apologized Thursday after being caught on video bragging that his agency's method of enforcing oil and gas regulations was to find a few bad actors to "crucify" and hold up as examples.

But his mea culpa didn't satisfy some Republicans in Congress, ...

Why Rubio can't save the GOP

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
Marco Rubio has been entrusted with pulling the GOP out of the hole it has dug with Latinos because of harsh rhetoric on immigration. But his hardline views on the issue clash with his family history.
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FACT CHECK: Romney on his dad growing up poor

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney likes to talk about how his father "grew up poor." But that's not the whole story....

FACT CHECK: Romney on his dad growing up poor

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney likes to talk about how his father "grew up poor." But that's not the whole story....

FACT CHECK: Romney on his dad growing up poor

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney likes to talk about how his father "grew up poor." But that's not the whole story....

Noorani: When Romney faces Latino voters

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-07 04:43
Ali Noorani says that if Republicans can't come up with a smart immigration policy, they will see the consequences in the fall election
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Senator seeks to allow goose kills near N.Y. airport

NEW YORK (AP) — The problem of birds living near some of the nation's busiest airports is coming under renewed scrutiny after two emergency landings in a week and more than three years after the famous ditching of a jetliner in the Hudson River.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Democrat, ...

Secret Service investigating another trip

WASHINGTON — Expanding the prostitution investigation, the Secret Service acknowledged Thursday it is checking whether its employees hired strippers and prostitutes in advance of President Barack Obama's visit last year to El Salvador.

The disclosure came not long after the Homeland Security secretary assured skeptical senators that the recent prostitution ...

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