Impeached Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich may no longer testify at his corruption trial. Hiss attorneys dropped that bombshell Tuesday when they said they could rest their case without calling a single witness. (July 21)
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Republicans are accusing President Barack Obama of hypocrisy after the recess appointment of Donald Berwick to be the administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (July 17)
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President Barack Obama is taking aim at Senate Republicans, accusing them of playing politics with measures that would extend benefits to the unemployed and increase lending to small businesses. (July 17)
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The Vatican has revised its guidelines on how the Roman Catholic Church will handle sex abuse cases. The rules include a significant lengthening of the time period a victim can lodge an abuse complaint.
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By JULIE PACE
2010-07-29T10:06:24Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is defending his administration's education policies, responding to criticism that so far they have not substantially helped minority students....
By JULIE PACE
2010-07-29T10:06:24Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is defending his administration's education policies, responding to criticism that so far they have not substantially helped minority students....
By LARRY MARGASAK
2010-07-29T07:06:23Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A jury of Rep. Charles Rangel's congressional peers is ready to publicly discuss charges of ethical misdeeds. But the political discussions outside the room will be far more significant....
By KIMBERLY DOZIER
2010-07-29T07:03:15Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Call it the big information chill, looming across the military and intelligence communities. After the massive Afghan war data spill by WikiLeaks, some veteran intelligence officers and experts are calling for a tightening of access to information and more monitoring in the spy community's lower levels....
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
2010-07-29T07:02:21Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In 1969, Sen. Gaylord Nelson was so moved after seeing the devastation of an oil spill off the California coast near Santa Barbara that he called for a national teach-in on the environment. The resulting "Earth Day" the following year kick-started the modern environmental movement and shaped the way Americans thought about their air, water and soil....
By KIMBERLY DOZIER
2010-07-29T02:06:45Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's nominee to be chief of U.S. intelligence, James R. Clapper, is expected to be approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee when the panel meets Thursday....
By LARRY MARGASAK and LAURIE KELLMAN
2010-07-28T23:34:31Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The calls from fellow Democrats for New York Rep. Charles Rangel to resign could quickly turn from a trickle to a flood unless he can quickly negotiate a plea bargain to prevent a congressional trial on allegations of ethical misconduct....