The chairman of the Republican party is accusing President Barack Obama of conducting “risky experimentation” with his health care proposals, saying they will hurt the economy and force millions to drop their current coverage.
“Obama-Pelosi want to start building a colossal, closed health care system where Washington decides.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce Monday that his department is temporarily barring the filing of new uranium mining claims on about 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, an Obama administration official said.
The announcement comes ahead of Tuesday’s congressional hearing on a bill to set aside more than 1 million acres of federal lands [...]
The astronauts who first landed on the moon aren’t dwelling on their small lunar steps. Instead, two of them on Sunday urged mankind to take a giant leap to Mars.
On Monday, the three astronauts will get another chance to make the pitch for a Mars trip, this time to someone with a little more sway: [...]
The United States this week marks the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon walk, with President Barack Obama kicking off events by meeting at the White House Monday with the crew of the Apollo 11 mission.
“Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” said astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped down [...]
Friends and family of an Idaho soldier who was captured in Afghanistan prayed for his safe return Sunday, shaken by the image of the frightened young private in a Taliban video posted online.
Bergdahl is from Hailey, a town of about 7,000 people in central Idaho where he worked as a barista and was active in [...]
The United States this week marks the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon walk, with President Barack Obama kicking off events by meeting at the White House Monday with the crew of the Apollo 11 mission.
“Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” said astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped down [...]
Few in Nevada legal circles believe O.J. Simpson has any real chance at freedom when the state’s Supreme Court justices consider letting him trade a prison cell in rural northern Nevada for a golf course in Miami while he appeals his conviction in a gunpoint hotel room heist.
“It’s unusual. This is a situation where the [...]
WASHINGTON Dr. David Blumenthal , the Obama Administrations national coordinator for health information technology, can recall the day he became a true believer in the potential of electronic health records. He was about to order a lung scan when the computer in his Boston hospital alerted him to a similar image already in the file.
Administration officials defended President Barack Obama’s broad health care proposals on Sunday and urged a skeptical public not to judge the Democrats’ overhaul until Congress writes a final version.
“This is a work in progress,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, trying to calm nervous lawmakers whose re-elections could hinge on the legislation.
The State Department says a helicopter used to protect U.S. diplomats in Baghdad has crashed outside the Iraqi capital and a U.S. official says that two crew members were killed.
Wood said he could not comment on the survivors’ condition due to privacy concerns.
Department spokesman Robert Wood said the MD-530 chopper went down during a training [...]
