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Frustrated liberals want more from Obama

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- They are trying to be hopeful, but the Democratic Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Barack Obama....

Frustrated liberals want more from Obama

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- They are trying to be hopeful, but the Democratic Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Barack Obama....

Frustrated liberals want more from Obama

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- They are trying to be hopeful, but the Democratic Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Barack Obama....

Frustrated liberals want more from Obama

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- They are trying to be hopeful, but the Democratic Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Barack Obama....

Motorists in tunnel could get refund of speed fines

The Metropolitan Police Department has issued some 7,000 speeding tickets and demanded more than $1.2 million in fines since November from speed cameras in the Third Street Tunnel in Northwest D.C.

But the tickets and the fines could be subject to legal challenge and a refund based on a technical ...

I'll Have Another takes shot at Triple Crown

ELMONT, N.Y. — There's nothing in sports quite like the roar and electricity as horses turn for home in the Belmont Stakes with a Triple Crown on the line.

If I'll Have Another crosses the finish line first Saturday night, it would mean a sport soaking in jubilant celebration like ...

Lobbyist tied to Sen. Harry Reid pleads not guilty

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A former developer and lobbyist with ties to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Nevada's political elite pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges involving campaign contributions....

Noonan: What's Changed After Wisconsin

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
The Obama administration suddenly looks like a house of cards.


Jeffrey Katz: Google's Monopoly and Internet Freedom

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
When one company controls nearly 82% of the global search market and 98% of the mobile search market, it's time for serious changes.


Bernanke's Cliffhanger

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
The 2013 fiscal danger is a tax increase, not spending cuts.


American Scene: Court says HIV-infected saliva not legally a weapon

ALBANY — New York's top court said Thursday that the saliva of an HIV-infected man who bit a police officer doesn't constitute a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument under state law.

In dismissing the aggravated-assault conviction of David Plunkett, the Court of Appeals is sending the case back to a ...

Schilling's 38 Studios files for bankruptcy

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's troubled video-gaming company, lured to Rhode Island with a $75 million state loan guarantee two years ago, filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday, and federal authorities have begun an investigation into the firm.

The filing by Providence-based 38 Studios, which laid ...

LGBT teens find fitting in difficult

A first-of-its-kind survey of 10,000 American youth who say they are a sexual minority finds that most feel accepted by their families, but they often struggle with community acceptance and even believe they will have to leave their hometowns to be happy someday.

This survey is "a stark wake-up call ...

A Bipartisan Tax Repeal

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
Thirty-seven House Democrats join Republicans in voting to rescind ObamaCare's medical-devices levy.


A Bayou Legal Brawl

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
Jindal says he'll sign bills limiting legacy drilling lawsuits.


Strassel: Scott Walker's Education Victory

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
Union reforms have freed more money for classrooms in Wisconsin. And not only in Wisconsin.


Romney and GOP raise more than Obama and Democrats

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney outraised President Barack Obama in May, the first time the Republican presidential challenger has jumped ahead of Obama and his prodigious fundraising apparatus. The numbers illustrate how Romney and the Republican Party have jelled as a force after a protracted GOP primary....

Analysts: 'Ship of state always leaks'

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
Presidential election years amplify controversies over leaks of classified information, but it's unclear how egregious the leak about an alleged U.S. cyberwar against Iran may be to national security, presidential historians and analysts say.
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David Gibson: U.S. Bishops Still Stonewall on Sex Abuse

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 07:57
Ten years after the 'Dallas charter,' church leaders keep dodging accountability.


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