Politics

Obama, Democrats raise $60 million in May

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have raised a combined $60 million in May for his re-election effort....

Obama raises $53M for campaign, Democrats in March

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama raised a combined $53 million for his campaign, the Democratic Party and other campaign funds in March, his campaign said Monday as it prepared to face Mitt Romney and a rejuvenated GOP in the general election....

Obama raises $53M for campaign, Democrats in March

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama raised a combined $53 million for his campaign, the Democratic Party and other campaign funds in March, his campaign said Monday as it prepared to face Mitt Romney and a rejuvenated GOP in the general election....

Obama's Buffett rule impact on taxes, jobs

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's proposal to impose a "Buffett rule" tax on the rich is generating enormous political wattage, but the plan itself would directly affect only a tiny fraction of Americans....

Obama defends typically GOP states in race to 270

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
President Barack Obama begins his re-election campaign defending traditionally Republican territory that he carried when he won the White House four years ago. Republican Mitt Romney is looking to reclaim any combination of these GOP strongholds now in flux....

Long political fights ahead over dueling tax plans

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans are forcing votes in Congress this coming week on competing tax plans that affect millionaires and smaller businesses, and they know the proposals are doomed from the start....

Maine voters seek female senator. Enter Angus King

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- Independent Senate candidate Angus King of Maine has a woman problem. He's not one....

Maine voters seek female senator. Enter Angus King

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- Independent Senate candidate Angus King of Maine has a woman problem. He's not one....

Gay, lesbian supporters cheer Obama at fundraiser

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- President Barack Obama basked in the support of his gay and lesbian backers Wednesday night, revving up an enthusiastic crowd with a pledge to block any attempt to roll back rights that gay Americans have gained under his administration....

ND: Frantic woman asked police to enter house, so that was consent

FourthAmendment.com - News - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59

A frantic woman was worried about her children locked in the house with defendant. The district court’s finding of consent to enter was supported by the evidence. Moreover, there was sufficient evidence of exigency and the entry was not made to arrest or investigate a crime. State v. Morin, 2012 ND 75, 2012 N.D. LEXIS 80 (April 10, 2012).*

On staleness, “evidence of the manufacture of methamphetamine is closer to a regenerating conspiracy than a chance encounter in the night. On the continuum of long-versus short-term criminal operations, the manufacture of methamphetamine lies somewhere between growing marijuana and selling or consuming drugs.” It was at a residence, “the alleged criminals were entrenched rather than nomadic.” United States v. Redmond, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 7504, 2012 FED App. 0405N (6th Cir. April 13, 2012).*

Michael J. Boskin: A Passage to India-Pakistan Peace

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
A free trade agreement would give each country a stake in the other's success.


American Scene: Auction house sells off Titanic-related memorabilia

NEW YORK — A New York auction house has sold an original ticket to the launch of the Titanic and a dinner menu from the ill-fated ocean liner.

On the block Sunday at Bonhams were various items offered to mark the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. The historic ...

Dueling reasons for the falling teen birthrate

The good news that U.S. teen birthrates are continuing to fall has resurrected the debate about how much credit for the trend should go to contraception and how much to abstinence.

The recent declines in teen birthrates can be linked "almost exclusively" to improvements in teens' contraceptive use, the Guttmacher ...

States make headway on abortion restriction

At least 75 bills to restrict abortion passed one state legislative chamber in the first quarter of 2012, the Guttmacher Institute said Friday.

While this wasn't quite the flurry seen in 2011, when a record 127 abortion-restricting bills passed one chamber, it was "still higher than usual for an election ...

Vietnamese man buys U.S. town

HANOI — Vietnamese businessman Pham Dinh Nguyen flew to the U.S. for the first time, drove to a tiny, frigid trading outpost and bought his own piece of the American dream: Buford in Wyoming - population 1.

Mr. Nguyen's name was not released when he won the auction for Buford ...

Rodney Mock and Nancy Shurtz: The TurboTax Crime Wave

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
Taxpayers deserve the same defense from IRS penalties as Tim Geithner.


Andrew von Eschenbach: Toward a 21st-Century FDA

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
Congress has starved the agency of funds, limiting its scientists' ability to keep up with peers in private industry and academia.


O'Grady: What's Behind Brazil's Slow Growth

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
Politicians in Brasília are depressing investment by placating manufacturers.


Obama 'hopeful' about transition in Cuba

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he is "hopeful" about the prospect of a transition in Cuba and says there may be an opportunity in the coming years for communist-run island to start "loosening up."...

Obama 'hopeful' about transition in Cuba

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 04:59
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he is "hopeful" about the prospect of a transition in Cuba and says there may be an opportunity in the coming years for communist-run island to start "loosening up."...
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