It may be the only bipartisan agreement that Congress reaches this year on overhauling health care.
Had the full debate continued, the Senate would have voted at around 9 p.m. Thursday , too late for many lawmakers and their staff members to get home in time for the holiday. Instead, the vote is set for 8 [...]
Dr. Mark Weinberger had a one-size-fits all practice, lawyers say.
Now, hundreds of patients are hoping that Weinberger’s arrest this week on an Italian mountain after he disappeared while on a European vacation five years ago will mean their lawsuits claiming the doctor misdiagnosed them, botched surgeries or hastily performed the wrong procedures can finally get [...]
Democratic Sen. Al Franken took the unusual step Thursday of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor.
Franken was presiding over the Senate Thursday afternoon as Lieberman spoke about amendments he planned to offer to the bill. Lieberman asked for an additional moment to finish - a routine request - but Franken refused to [...]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that a U.N. panel looking into the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto needed more time to complete its investigation.
“They need more time to continue their investigation,” Ban said. “I think this is reasonable and Im positively considering to extend it for another three months.
Israel’s defense minister urged the world Monday to agree to tough new sanctions on Iran, suggesting that military strikes remained a final option should Tehran refuse to heed U.N. Security Council demands to curb its nuclear activities.
“We still believe that its time for diplomacy, tough diplomacy,” Barak told reporters during an official visit on the [...]
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has told a group of Afghan soldiers that the U.S. will be their partner for a long time despite plans to begin pulling troops out in 2011.
He said the U.S. relationship with Afghanistan is “forged in blood” and said the U.S. “will see it to the end.”
Addressing a crowd of Afghan [...]
Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., will not seek re-election in 2010. He is the third veteran House Democrat to announce that he will not seek re-election in as many weeks, and his retirement from the competitive 3rd District creates a pickup opportunity for Republicans.
Baird has always won re-election with comfortable margins, even though his district has [...]
National security adviser James Jones says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan.
Jones says the U.S. military and its allies in Afghanistan are “going to have to get after that” to ensure bin Laden is “once again on the run or captured or killed.”
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With mugs of beer and a calm conversation, President Barack Obama tried to push himself and the nation beyond a political uproar Thursday, hailing a “friendly, thoughtful” conversation with the black professor and white policeman whose dispute had ignited a fierce debate over race in America.
Under the canopy of a magnolia tree in the early [...]
President Barack Obama says he’s gone from praying nightly before going to bed to praying all the time because he has a “lot of stuff” on his plate and needs “guidance all the time.”
Obama says he thinks every president has been humbled by the number of issues they have had to deal with. He says [...]
