Politics

Arizona Democrat drops out of Senate race

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don Bivens, a top Democratic challenger in Arizona's U.S. Senate race, announced Wednesday that he was ending his campaign because a competitive primary battle was draining resources the party needed to win in November....

Arizona Democrat drops out of Senate race

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don Bivens, a top Democratic challenger in Arizona's U.S. Senate race, announced Wednesday that he was ending his campaign because a competitive primary battle was draining resources the party needed to win in November....

Arizona Democrat drops out of Senate race

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don Bivens, a top Democratic challenger in Arizona's U.S. Senate race, announced Wednesday that he was ending his campaign because a competitive primary battle was draining resources the party needed to win in November....

Arizona Democrat drops out of Senate race

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don Bivens, a top Democratic challenger in Arizona's U.S. Senate race, announced Wednesday that he was ending his campaign because a competitive primary battle was draining resources the party needed to win in November....

Memos reveal strategy against gay marriage

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
A national group opposed to same-sex marriage aimed to fight it by driving "a wedge between gays and blacks" and identifying "glamorous" Latino artists and athletes to advocate traditional marriage, according to newly released confidential memos.
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Toobin: Verrilli stumbles were 'awful'

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin discuss yesterday's health care hearing and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli's performance.
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Women's groups target 'gyno-governors'

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
If anyone is comfortable speaking openly and boldly about women's bodies, it's Eve Ensler. The playwright and activist behind "The Vagina Monologues" has been at it for years.
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Federal fire crews taking over Colo. wildfire

CONIFER, Colo. (AP) — Federal fire crews are planning to take the offensive in containing a 7-square-mile blaze that may have claimed two lives and destroyed dozens of homes in the mountains southwest of Denver.

Authorities on Wednesday will try to determine if a prescribed burn in tinder dry conditions ...

Obama nominates new FAA chief

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
Michael Huerta, who was thrust into the job of acting chief of the Federal Aviation Administration following the arrest of the agency's leader on drunk driving charges, has been nominated to head the agency.
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Saudi diplomat kidnapped in southern Yemen

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Saudi diplomat was kidnapped on his way to work Wednesday in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, a Yemeni security official said.

It was the first kidnapping of a Saudi diplomat in this impoverished country, where abductions are frequent and where armed tribesmen and ...

Court shows big differences over health care law

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
The Supreme Court wraps up its last day of hearings Wednesday over the future of health care reform with renewed focus on an issue once dismissed by many legal and political analysts as trivial.
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Poll: Republicans want Gingrich, Paul to drop out

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
While none of the Republican candidates have heeded the increasing calls for them to drop out and cede the race to front-runner Mitt Romney, news broke late Tuesday that Newt Gingrich has replaced his campaign manager and is laying off one-third of his staff.
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Supporters of Fla. shooter fearful of speaking out

Trayvon Martin's supporters pack churches, swarm rallies and wear hooded sweat shirts in solidarity while friends and family of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot the unarmed teen to death, remain largely out of sight. The few that have defended Zimmerman did so reluctantly, most fearing public backlash.

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Friends in Gulf fishing tragedy; only 1 survives

HOUSTON (AP) — For hours after their boat sank, Ken Henderson and Ed Coen treaded water in the Gulf of Mexico, talking about life and death while struggling to survive. For more than 30 hours, it worked.

Then Henderson was forced to make a decision that would save his life, ...

JetBlue passengers recount fears during captain's breakdown

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Passengers aboard an early morning flight bound from New York to Las Vegas first noticed something wrong when the plane's top pilot came out of the cockpit, didn't close the door and tried to force his way into an occupied restroom.

The JetBlue captain's co-workers tried ...

Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....

Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....

Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....

GPB News: "Welfare Drug Testing Bill Moves Forward"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47

GPB News: Welfare Drug Testing Bill Moves Forward by Jeanne Bonner:

ATLANTA—Georgia lawmakers have passed a bill that would require welfare recipients to take a drug test before receiving benefits. GOP supporters of the measure say it would save taxpayers money but opponents say it’s unconstitutional and uncharitable.
Georgia lawmakers have passed a bill that would require welfare recipients to take a drug test before receiving benefits. GOP supporters of the measure say it would save taxpayers money but opponents say it’s unconstitutional and uncharitable.

The bill would target what supporters call abuse of a government benefit, namely the federal welfare program.

It’s similar to a Florida law a federal judge has blocked because it violates the Fourth Amendment’s protection from unlawful search.

I hope when the Arkansas legislature comes back into session they will adopt such a law. I can use the money after suing them for adopting something so fundamentally unconstitutional.

SPIN METER: President embraces 'Obamacare'

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now that President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has lifted an unofficial ban on using the opposition's term for his health care law, Democratic activists have been chanting "We love Obamacare" in front of the Supreme Court....
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