Jul
31
2005
Doctors Give Bush High Marks on Physical photo
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) – President Bush was pronounced “fit for duty” after an annual checkup Saturday that showed that the 59-year-old commander in chief, an avid mountain bike rider, has lost 8 pounds since his last physical exam in December. “I’m feeling pretty good,” Bush said as he left the…
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Feinstein Gears Up for Roberts Hearings photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – John Roberts would replace the first woman on the Supreme Court at a time when interest groups are more focused than ever on the court’s position on abortion. Only one female lawmaker will question Roberts publicly and then vote on whether his nomination should advance to the…
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Bush Urges Congress Not to Rest on Laurels photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush on Saturday celebrated victories Congress handed him this week, but he urged lawmakers not to rest on their laurels and to quickly approve his nomination of John Roberts to serve on the Supreme Court. Senators should use their August recess “to prepare to act on my…
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Congress Sends Bush Two Hard-Fought Bills photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Wrapping up work before their summer vacations, Congress shipped President Bush hard-fought bills overhauling energy policies, providing nearly $300 billion for highway and mass transit projects and rescuing funds-depleted veterans health care programs with a $1.5 billion…
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Inouye: GOP Not Doing Enough for Troops
WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, an Army veteran who lost his right arm in World War II, criticized Republicans on Saturday for not doing enough to help troops fighting in or returning from Iraq. In the Democrats’ weekly radio address, Inouye said Senate Republicans were focusing on…
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Carter: Guantanamo Detentions Disgraceful
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) – Former President Carter said Saturday the detention of terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base was an embarrassment and had given extremists an excuse to attack the United States. Carter also criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq as “unnecessary and unjust.” “I…
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Image Woes Dog Bloomberg in NYC Election photo
NEW YORK (AP) – Does a mayor with a private plane, a sprawling Manhattan townhouse, ritzy vacation homes and a personal fortune worth billions understand the woes of average people? New Yorkers aren’t convinced. While Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s approval ratings have ballooned and his poll margins…
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CAFTA Expected to Benefit U.S. Consumers photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. shoppers should get a price break on shirts and pants made in Central America. American farmers and manufacturers are hoping to gain new sales in the region. U.S. sugar growers, however, are fretting about increased competition now that Congress has passed and sent to the…
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Ex-Ohio Mayor Target of Corruption Probe
CLEVELAND (AP) – The city’s longest-serving mayor, who turned around a rustbelt city known for a river that once was so polluted that it caught fire, now finds himself at the center of federal allegations that corruption that permeated his administration. Documents leaked in a case involving an…
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Teele’s Legacy in Doubt After Suicide photo
MIAMI (AP) – Former city and county commissioner Arthur Teele Jr. has long been regarded as the political force behind a public transportation system and many minority-owned businesses, but his legacy is now overshadowed by corruption charges and his public suicide. The Vietnam veteran and…
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Frist Breaks With Bush on Stem-Cell Bill photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist endorsed government-funded research on human embryonic stem cells Friday, breaking with President Bush and the religious conservatives he’s been courting for a 2008 presidential bid. He drew praise from former first lady Nancy Reagan. “It isn’t…
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Jul
30
2005
Congress Sends Bush Hard-Fought Bills
WASHINGTON (AP) – Wrapping up work before their summer vacations, Congress shipped President Bush hard-fought bills overhauling energy policies, providing nearly $300 billion for highway and mass transit projects and rescuing funds-depleted veterans health care programs with a $1.5 billion…
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Frist Breaks With Bush on Stem-Cell Bill photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist endorsed government-funded research on human embryonic stem cells Friday, breaking with President Bush and the religious conservatives he’s been courting for a 2008 presidential bid. He drew praise from former first lady Nancy Reagan. “It isn’t…
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Officials: Bush Plans to Install Bolton photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Administration officials say President Bush is preparing to use constitutional powers rarely employed for major appointments to bypass the Senate and install – if only temporarily – John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Bush intends to use a recess appointment to…
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Senate to Begin Roberts Hearings Sept. 6 photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts will begin the day after Labor Day, but Senate Democrats say the White House must release more documents to ensure he’s wearing a justice’s black robes before the new term begins in October. “There is no reason why the…
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Congress Passes Far-Reaching Energy Bill photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Four years after President Bush called for an overhaul of the nation’s energy agenda, Congress presented him with a mammoth plan he said he was eager to sign – even though it costs twice as much as he wanted and won’t open an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling. The Senate…
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Senate Votes to Guard Gunmakers From Suits
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate voted Friday to shield firearms manufacturers, dealers and importers from lawsuits brought by victims of gun crimes, a measure opponents said had been ordered up by the gun lobby. The 65-31 vote passed a bill that supporters said protects the industry from financial…
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Senate Confirms Hughes, Cox for Posts photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate on Friday approved the nomination of Karen Hughes, a former political adviser to President Bush, as the State Department’s top public relations official, and Rep. Christopher Cox to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hughes’ main assignment as undersecretary…
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Libertarians Propose Taking Breyer’s Land
PLAINFIELD, N.H. (AP) – Libertarians upset about a Supreme Court ruling on land taking have proposed seizing a justice’s vacation home and turning it into a park, echoing efforts aimed at another justice who lives in the state. Organizers are trying to collect enough signatures to go before the…
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Goldwater’s Nephew to Run for Arizona Gov.
PHOENIX (AP) – The nephew of Barry Goldwater, the right-wing U.S. senator who was the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, said Friday that he is running for governor of Arizona. Don Goldwater confirmed his candidacy to seek the nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, but he…
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N.C. Republican Switched Vote on CAFTA photo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – For weeks, Rep. Robin Hayes, R-N.C., was colorfully adamant in his opposition to the Central American Free Trade Agreement. “What does CAFTA sound like? NAFTA,” Hayes declared. “It’s not in the best interests of a core constituency I represent. Every time I drive through…
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Bush Holds Fast to Stem-Cell Veto Threat photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush went out of his way Friday to show he had no hard feelings with Bill Frist after the Senate majority leader broke with him on human embryonic stem cell research. But Bush held fast to his veto threat. Frist had called Bush Thursday evening and said he was going to… |
Jul
29
2005
Kennedy Questions Roberts on Civil Rights photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – After days of Democratic deference to John Roberts, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Thursday that documents made public so far indicate the Supreme Court nominee holds a “rather cramped view of the Voting Rights Act.” Materials that Roberts drafted while at the Justice Department and…
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State Dept. Now Says Bolton Interviewed
WASHINGTON (AP) – John Bolton, President Bush’s nominee for U.N. ambassador, mistakenly told Congress he had not been interviewed or testified in any investigation over the past five years, the State Department said Thursday. Bolton was interviewed by the State Department inspector general in 2003…
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Senate Rejects Move to Sue Gun Dealers
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate sparred Thursday over legislation to shield the firearms industry from some lawsuits, rejecting an argument that gun makers and others are liable if they irresponsibly allowed a criminal to obtain a weapon and use it to kill or wound. “We should not protect those folks…
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Gonzales Urged to Rescind FOIA Rules photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Associated Press and other news organizations are encouraging Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to rescind a policy restricting public access to government information. The change was put in place by Gonzales’ predecessor, John Ashcroft, shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11,…
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Frist to Back Funding of Stem Cell Study
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, breaking with President Bush, plans to announce support of legislation to expand federal financing for embryonic stem cell research, increasing the possibility Congress will enact the measure, a Senate aide knowledgeable about Frist’s plans said…
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GOP Holdouts Made CAFTA Vote Dramatic photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – A lot of effort went into passing a trade pact so small that the House Republicans’ top vote counter compared it to “having a free trade agreement with New Jersey.” The Central American Free Trade Agreement squeaked to passage Thursday just after midnight with a 217-215 vote that…
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GOP Puts Up First Senate Campaign Ad
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans accuse West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd of sharply changing his priorities over the last five decades in the first television ad purchased by either of the campaign committees in a warmup to the 2006 congressional campaign. The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee…
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Ethics Charges Filed Against Ex-Ohio Aide
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Gov. Bob Taft’s former top aide was charged Thursday with failing to report staying at the Florida home of a coin dealer who is at the heart of a state investment scandal. Brian Hicks, Taft’s chief of staff before leaving in 2003 to become a lobbyist, was accused of failing…
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Fla. Ex-Commissioner Said Upset Over Story photo
MIAMI (AP) – A former city commissioner who committed suicide was distraught about an online story that detailed his alleged contacts with drug dealers, reputed homosexual affairs and the corruption charges he faced, acquaintances said Thursday. Arthur E. Teele Jr. killed himself Wednesday in the…
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Spokane Mayor Wants Recall Effort Blocked
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Lawyers for Mayor James West, accused of offering city jobs to men he met in a gay online chat room, asked the state Supreme Court on Thursday to reject a recall effort seeking to remove him from office. They argued that a Superior Court judge erred in allowing a recall…
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Newsview: Bush Gets Wins Under His Belt photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – After a rocky start, President Bush is scoring legislative wins that could be important tests of his ability to push laws through Congress in his second term. While his centerpiece proposal to restructure Social Security continues to languish, Bush’s close victory on a trade bill… |
Jul
28
2005
Democrats Want More Documents on Roberts photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats gave no ground Wednesday on their demands for more of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ legal documents, saying the limited release by the White House could delay a vote to put him on the bench. “The Senate will need the White House’s full cooperation to expedite the…
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White House Postpones Bush Visit to Scouts photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Bad weather forced the cancellation of President Bush’s trip Wednesday to the Boy Scouts’ national jamboree where tens of thousands of youngsters have been saddened by the deaths of four of their leaders in a tragic accident. The president was to have flown by helicopter to the…
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Rice Asked if Bolton Testified in Leak Case photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Democratic opponent of John Bolton asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday whether the nominee for U.N. ambassador had testified to a grand jury about the leak of CIA operative’s identity. Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee say they want to…
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Miami Ex-Official Kills Himself at Paper photo
MIAMI (AP) – A former city commissioner recently indicted on corruption charges fatally shot himself Wednesday in the lobby of The Miami Herald building, authorities said. Arthur E. Teele Jr. shot himself in the head shortly after 6 p.m., police said. He had just asked a security guard if he could…
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Senate Leader Takes No Chance on NRA Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) – Until lawmakers vote on a top-priority gun rights bill, nothing else happens in the Senate. And that includes Congress’ prized monthlong vacation. That’s the way Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has toughened up his style in the final days before the August break was to begin,…
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McCain Revives Straight Talk America PAC
WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. John McCain, often mentioned as a possible GOP presidential candidate in 2008, has reactivated his political action committee, known as Straight Talk America. “He’s inundated with invitations and requests from candidates at all levels of the ballot as well as state and local…
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Roberts Would Be Fourth Catholic on Court photo
If John Roberts is confirmed, he will be the fourth Roman Catholic on the Supreme Court, an all-time high that is focusing attention on how faith might influence law on the high court. From abortion to capital punishment to physician-assisted suicide, the upcoming term offers plenty of issues in…
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Santorum Now Open to ‘08 White House Run
WASHINGTON (AP) – Two days after saying he had no intention of running for president in 2008, Republican Sen. Rick Santorum said Wednesday there was a slight possibility he could run after all. “There’s a remote chance that that could change, but that’s not my intention,” Santorum told The…
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Pataki Says He Won’t Run for Re-Election photo
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Republican George Pataki, who brought down Democratic icon Mario Cuomo in 1994 to become governor of New York, said Wednesday he will not seek a fourth term next year and “come 2007, I will follow a new path, find new challenges.” While Pataki is eyeing a possible run for the…
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San Diego Mayoral Campaign Gets Aggressive photo
SAN DIEGO (AP) – The two candidates heading into a November runoff for mayor of this troubled seaside city set an aggressive tone a day after the election Wednesday, with the Republican former police chief accusing the Democratic surf shop owner of being part of politics as usual. As a member of…
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NASA Halts Shuttle Flights Over Foam Issue photo
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) – NASA grounded future shuttle flights Wednesday because a big chunk of insulating foam flew off Discovery’s fuel tank during liftoff – as it did in Columbia’s doomed mission – but this time apparently missed the spacecraft. “Until we’re ready, we won’t go fly again. I… |
Jul
27
2005
AG: High Court Not Bound by Roe V. Wade
WASHINGTON (AP) – The legal right to abortion is settled for lower courts, but the Supreme Court “is not obliged to follow” the Roe v. Wade precedent, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday as the Senate prepared to consider John Roberts’ appointment that would put a new vote on the high…
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GOP Presses for Timetable on Roberts Vote photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Frustrated Senate Democrats struggled to unearth Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ elusive views on abortion, civil rights and other controversial issues Tuesday, digging through newly released government documents while criticizing the White House for refusing access to…
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Frist Delays Showdown With White House
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Republican-run Senate postponed fights with the Bush administration over the treatment of terror suspects and military base closings Tuesday after GOP leaders failed to derail proposals opposed by the White House. The decision by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., to…
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Documents Show Roberts Aiding O’Connor
WASHINGTON (AP) – As a young Justice Department lawyer, John Roberts helped guide Supreme Court nominee Sandra Day O’Connor through the Senate confirmation process he now confronts as the choice to replace her. Roberts was just six weeks into his job when he drafted a memo to Kenneth Starr…
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Senate Changes Line of Succession
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate approved a bill Tuesday to raise the homeland security secretary from last to eighth place in the presidential line of succession, just after the attorney general. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, passed without objection just before the chamber…
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Panel OKs Karen Hughes for State Dept.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved the nomination of Karen Hughes, a former political adviser to President Bush, as the State Department’s top public relations official. The Senate is expected to complete the confirmation process this week…
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Bush Celebrates Shuttle’s Launch photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush celebrated Tuesday’s launch of the space shuttle Discovery, applauding the mission after watching the crew’s takeoff on television and wishing them “a safe and successful mission.” “I thank the men and women of NASA who have dedicated themselves to putting our…
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Romney Says Abortion Views Have ‘Evolved’ photo
BOSTON (AP) – Abortion. Stem cell research. Emergency contraception. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican from a liberal state who is flirting with a 2008 presidential bid, has begun carefully redefining his positions on these hot-button social issues. When he ran for governor in 2002,…
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Some Papers Pull, Edit ‘Doonesbury’ Strip
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – It may be President Bush’s nickname for key political adviser Karl Rove, but some editors don’t think it belongs in their newspapers. About a dozen papers objected to Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s “Doonesbury” comic strips, and some either pulled or edited them. The strips…
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Pataki to Announce Campaign Plans in Sept.
TROY, N.Y. (AP) – Gov. George Pataki, eyeing a possible 2008 bid for the Republican presidential nomination, said Tuesday he’ll announce by the end of September whether he will seek re-election to a fourth term next year. Pataki said he has a timetable for making his decision, but he declined to…
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San Diego Voters Choose Mayor – Again photo
SAN DIEGO (AP) – The nation’s seventh-biggest city held its second mayor’s election in nine months Tuesday, trying to fill the void created when the former leader resigned in scandal and his interim replacement was convicted of corruption. The leading candidate was maverick City Councilwoman Donna…
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Jul
26
2005
White House Said to Block Roberts Papers photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House intends to deny the Senate Judiciary Committee documents from Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ work in the solicitor general’s office from 1989-93, a senior Bush administration official said Monday. “They will not be released,” the official said, speaking on…
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Campaign 2008 Begins, Led by Clinton photo
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the nation has “gone off track” in Republican hands since the prosperous years of her husband’s presidency, making her case along with other potential 2008 Democratic candidates to a group that helped Bill Clinton win the White House. Sen….
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Bush to Hold Summit on Giving to Charities photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush said Monday that he will hold a White House summit next spring to encourage corporations and foundations to give more money to churches and religious charities. Bush announced the summit as he met behind closed doors with 17 leaders of black churches and community…
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Cheney, in NYC, Plugs Roberts Nomination photo
NEW YORK (AP) – Vice President Dick Cheney urged the U.S. Senate on Monday to put partisan politicking aside as it considers whether to confirm Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Speaking at a campaign fundraiser on Staten Island, Cheney praised Roberts, a federal appeals court judge, as one of…
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GOP Senators Push Detainee Treatment Rules photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republicans pushed ahead Monday with legislation that would set rules for the treatment and interrogation of terrorism suspects in U.S. custody, despite a White House veto threat. The Bush administration, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, is working to kill the amendments…
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House, Senate Near Deal on Energy Bill photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – House and Senate negotiators moved close to agreement late Monday on the non-tax portion of a sweeping energy bill, tackling a series of last-minute amendments that included one aimed at slowing China’s attempt to buy U.S. energy companies. The conferees, despite Senate…
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Democratic Senators Press CIA Leak Probe
WASHINGTON (AP) – More than two dozen Democratic senators on Monday asked Congress to investigate the leak of a CIA officer’s identity. “Americans deserve a Congress that holds Washington accountable for the truth about our national security,” said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who authored the…
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Mass. Governor Vetoes Contraception Bill photo
BOSTON (AP) – Gov. Mitt Romney vetoed a bill Monday expanding access to emergency contraception, angering abortion rights advocates while pleasing anti-abortion activists crucial to a 2008 presidential run. The veto could end up being overturned by lawmakers because the bill passed with veto-proof…
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House Requests FTC Probe of ‘GTA’ Game
WASHINGTON (AP) – An uproar over hidden, sexually explicit scenes in the video game “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” spread to the halls of Congress on Monday. On a 355-21 vote, the House passed a resolution asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the game’s manufacturer, Rockstar Games,…
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Appeal Filed on Schwarzenegger Measure photo
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Supporters of a ballot measure aimed at redrawing congressional and legislative districts filed an appeal Monday and were granted a temporary suspension of a lower court ruling ordering the proposal off the ballot. The measure, one of three backed by Gov. Arnold…
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GOP Sen. Santorum Rules Out 2008 Bid photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Sen. Rick Santorum said Monday he has no intention to seek the presidency in 2008. The Pennsylvania conservative, who recently wrote a book titled “It Takes a Family,” said he couldn’t imagine putting his family through another campaign after his re-election bid in… |
Jul
25
2005
Roberts Vote Fraught With 2008 Politics photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Among the senators deciding whether to put John Roberts on the Supreme Court, no one may have more at stake than those with designs on the White House in 2008. For those harboring the slightest interest in a presidential bid, the debate over the first high-court nominee in more…
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White House Won’t Show All Roberts Papers photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Citing privacy and precedent, the Bush administration indicated Sunday it does not intend to release all memos and other documents written by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts when he worked for two Republican presidents. The leading Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee,…
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Teamsters, SEIU Decide to Bolt AFL-CIO photo
CHICAGO (AP) – Jolting organized labor, the Teamsters and a massive service employees’ union decided Sunday to bolt the AFL-CIO, paving way for two other labor groups to sever ties in the movement’s biggest schism since the 1930s. The four dissident unions, representing nearly one-third of the…
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Senate to Vote on Repealing Estate Tax photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republicans will push for a vote this week on permanently repealing the estate tax even though the GOP appears to lack enough support to get past Democrats’ objections. The tax has fallen as a result of gradually escalating exemptions and decreasing rates since President…
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Gonzales Says He Told Card About CIA Probe
WASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday that he notified White House chief of staff Andy Card after the Justice Department opened an investigation into who revealed a covert CIA officer’s identity, but waited 12 hours to tell anyone else in the executive mansion. The White…
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Centrist Dems Urge Military Enlargement
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Centrists who contend Democrats cannot retake the White House until voters trust the party to protect them said Sunday the Army should expand by 100,000 soldiers and that colleges should open their campuses to military recruiters. “A Democrat has to show the toughness to…
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Angry Americans Want to Take Souter’s Land photo
WEARE, N.H. (AP) – Near the foot of an unmarked, dead-end dirt road sits a humble, mud-colored farmhouse. A sign on a mailbox jutting from a tilted post spells “SOUTER.” Some folks want to make that “Hotel Souter.” People from across the country are getting behind a campaign to seize Supreme Court…
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San Diego Mayoral Hopefuls See Dark Times photo
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Candidates bidding to replace Mayor Dick Murphy, who resigned amid a wave of scandal, offer nothing but bitter medicine for the nation’s seventh-largest city. Their debates are filled with dark talk about filing for bankruptcy, slashing jobs and turning over the city’s beleaguered…
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Lawmakers Remove Roadblock to Energy Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) – House and Senate conferees abandoned giving makers of the gasoline additive MTBE liability protection against environmental lawsuits on Sunday, removing the major roadblock to enactment of broad energy legislation. Senate negotiators rejected a House proposal for an $11.4 billion…
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Gonzales: Blasts Show Patriot Act Needed photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday that bombings in London and Egypt make a strong case for renewing the post-9/11 law that critics say infringes on civil liberties. Gonzales also credited the Patriot Act with preventing a follow-up to the domestic terrorist attack on…
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Kerry Sees Armstrong As a Politician photo
SAINT-ETIENNE, France (AP) – Sen. John Kerry thinks Lance Armstrong would make a terrific politician – but fears he’d be running for the other party. Watching Armstrong during his warmup for Saturday’s time trial, the Democrat from Massachusetts listed the Texan’s winning qualities. “What’s made… |
Jul
24
2005
Bush Hails Court Pick As Wise and Decent photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – From a distinguished legal pedigree to a belief in strict interpretation of the Constitution to summers working in a steel mill, President Bush on Saturday reviewed the reasons he chose federal appellate judge John Roberts for the Supreme Court. Although Roberts’ Senate…
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Ex-CIA Officer Rips Bush Over Plame Leak photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush is jeopardizing national security by not disciplining Karl Rove for his role in leaking the name of a CIA officer, and has hampered efforts to recruit informants in the war on terror, former U.S. intelligence officers say. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson used the…
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Schwarzenegger Cuts Ties With Competition photo
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has cut business ties with an annual bodybuilding competition that bears his name, taking another step to distance himself from makers of nutritional supplements. The governor was paid a fee each year to attend the bodybuilding event called the…
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Obama a Celebrity Despite Low-Key Approach
PEKIN, Ill. (AP) – The line forms the moment Sen. Barack Obama is done speaking, a procession of admirers clutching copies of his book, magazines, scraps of paper, disposable cameras and one homemade American flag. It doesn’t take long before someone pops the question. An elderly woman, dressed in…
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Roberts’ White House Papers Show Sly Wit photo
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) – John Roberts was not afraid to jab an elbow on policy or dispense opinion with a dash of sarcasm when he was a young lawyer in the Reagan White House. President Bush’s Supreme Court nominee was a stickler for legal nuance who used a finely tuned political radar to steer…
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Poll: Many in U.S., Japan Oppose Iraq War photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Despite many disagreements, people in the United States and Japan have the same general view of how their governments are handling Iraq: More than half in each country disapprove. An Associated Press-Kyodo poll found that 55 percent in the U.S. disapprove of their government’s…
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Feud Shows Organized Labor at Crossroads photo
CHICAGO (AP) – Labor’s toughest negotiators are turning their bruising tactics on each other, playing a high-stakes game of chicken inside the AFL-CIO at a perilous time for the long-fading union movement. A politically charged feud over the future of organized labor comes to a climax this week…
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Washington Insider Takes on Envoy Role photo
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – He is virtually unknown to most Americans. Yet since the day of the Sept. 11 attacks, Zalmay Khalilzad has handled some of his country’s most-delicate diplomatic assignments. Now, the man known at the White House and CIA as just “Zal” takes on his biggest challenge – running…
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Spoof of Bush Wins Faux Faulkner Contest photo
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A scathing parody that likens President Bush to the “idiot” in William Faulkner’s novel “The Sound and the Fury” has won this year’s Faulkner write-alike contest – and touched off a literary spat. Organizers of the Faux Faulkner competition are accusing Hemispheres, the…
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POW and VP Candidate Stockdale Buried photo
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Retired Navy Vice Adm. James Stockdale, one of the country’s most decorated Vietnam war veterans and a one-time vice presidential candidate, was buried Saturday at the Naval Academy. About 500 people, including several Medal of Honor recipients and fellow former prisoners of…
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Detroit Mayoral Challenger Raises $1.5M
DETROIT (AP) – Former deputy mayor Freman Hendrix has raised about $1.5 million so far this year for his campaign for mayor – three times the amount raised by incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick raised $482,051 from Jan. 1 to July 17, according to campaign finance reports obtained by the… |
Jul
23
2005
Kerry Seeks Release of Roberts’ Documents photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic Sen. John Kerry urged the White House on Friday to release “in their entirety” all documents and memos from Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ tenure in two Republican administrations. “We cannot do our duty if either Judge Roberts or the Bush administration hides…
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Bush, Mom Pitch Social Security Overhaul photo
ATLANTA (AP) – Former first lady Barbara Bush teamed up with her son the president on Friday in trying to drum up support among older Americans for his Social Security and Medicare plans. He called his 80-year-old mother “my favorite senior citizen,” and she tartly reminded him that at age 59 he…
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Kerry Film Did Not Violate Election Law
BALTIMORE (AP) – Sinclair Broadcasting did not violate federal election law by running portions of a documentary critical of John Kerry’s Vietnam-era anti-war activities, the Federal Elections Commission announced Friday. Suburban Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., owner of 62…
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Bush Chooses Two Democratic Members of SEC
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush nominated two people Friday to fill Democratic positions on the Securities and Exchange Commission. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had asked Bush to nominate Annette Nazareth, the SEC’s director of market regulation, to fill one of the vacancies and to…
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Electricity Initiative Off Calif. Ballot
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A Sacramento court on Friday ordered another initiative off California’s November ballot – an attempt by consumer advocates to re-regulate the state’s electricity market. A three-judge appeals court panel ruled that Proposition 80 was “unquestionably invalid on its face”…
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Ex-CIA Officers Rip Bush Over Rove Leak photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Former U.S. intelligence officers criticized President Bush on Friday for not disciplining Karl Rove in connection with the leak of the name of a CIA officer, saying Bush’s lack of action has jeopardized national security. In a hearing held by Senate and House Democrats examining…
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Tom Tancredo Eyes White House Run photo
DENVER (AP) – Tom Tancredo has been called a one-trick pony of a politician, a man out of step with his party, a bigot. The Republican congressman vehemently opposes illegal immigration, and he created an uproar last week when he talked about nuking Muslim holy sites. No matter, Tancredo is…
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Jeb Bush Recounts Meeting With Roberts photo
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Gov. Jeb Bush blasted a Florida congressman Friday for suggesting that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts be disqualified because of a brief meeting the governor and Roberts had during the 2000 presidential recount. An expert in constitutional law then in the private…
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Dean Urges Dems to Court Pro-Life Voters photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats need to reach out to voters who oppose abortion rights and promote candidates who share that view, the head of the party said Friday. Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told a group of college Democrats that their party has to change its…
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White House Threatens Defense Bill Veto photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Bush administration is threatening to veto a sweeping defense bill if lawmakers try to delay the latest round of military base closures to spare installations back home. In a statement, the administration said it would “strongly oppose any amendment to weaken, delay or…
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Karen Hughes on Track to Confirmation photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – A scaled-back Senate Foreign Relations Committee showered praise Friday on Karen Hughes and put the former political adviser to President Bush on a fast track to confirmation as the State Department’s top public relations official. Only two senators attended the hearing. In the… |
