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READ: Poll says most disapprove of Obama’s handling of ISIS Though they came out of 2014 enjoying their largest majority since 1928, House Republicans will have to play offense if…
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READ: Poll says most disapprove of Obama’s handling of ISIS Though they came out of 2014 enjoying their largest majority since 1928, House Republicans will have to play offense if…
SRIPERUMBUDUR, India — China’s economy is slowing. Brazil is struggling as commodity prices plunge. Russia, facing Western sanctions and weak oil revenue, is headed into a recession. As other big…
The Pink and White Terraces of Lake Rotomahana were the world’s largest silica towers and the South Pacific’s biggest 19th-century attraction until a massive eruption at Mount Tarawera that momentous…
Students at Auburn University may be turning their home-building expertise into real-world housing market solutions. Since 1993, the university’s Rural Studio Design Workshop has allowed students to ditch the comforts…
Across Europe, it has been an enduring tension between the clamor for seven-day-a-week shopping and stores that close on Sundays in a nod to earlier times of greater religious faith…
A Mississippi lawmaker says racist comments recently attributed to him were taken out of context and supposed to be off the record. State Rep. Gene Alday, a Republican, told The…
WASHINGTON — The House speaker, John A. Boehner, said Sunday that he was “certainly” prepared to allow funding for the Department of Homeland Security to lapse, raising the possibility that…
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The stream of requests to the White House from Jeb Bush, a young but well-connected Republican leader in South Florida, ranged from the weighty and urgent to the parochial and…
The political world was shocked to learn that a governor whose existence had just come to its attention moments prior was resigning. Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted she was a little…
The mother of a girl raped and murdered five years ago was allowed to burn down the house where her daughter was killed. On Thursday afternoon, Diena Thompson set fire…
The White House on Friday pushed back against House Republicans who want to limit the federal government’s role in education. – In a conference call with journalists, a senior White…
WASHINGTON — One of the few bipartisan goals that President Barack Obama and Republicans agree on is comprehensive reform of the tax system, but Democrats cried foul Friday as GOP…
A group of firefighters is helping one of their own start over after a tragedy. Mike Heim, a volunteer fireman in Soloman, Maryland, answered a call about a house fire…
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Meant to unite industry brass with top U.S. law enforcement officials, the White House cybersecurity summit on the campus of Stanford University has attracted only one major Silicon Valley CEO:…
McCaul, speaking on CNN’s The Lead, declined to confirm a report from the Daily Beast that the White House had intelligence on U.S. citizens held by ISIS but acted too…
WASHINGTON — In a historic step for the rights of dog owners, legislation that would instruct Amtrak to develop a pet-friendly policy is on the verge of passing the House…
House Speaker John Boehner, pressed Thursday if he’d guarantee DHS wouldn’t be shut down, sidestepped the question, and instead repeated his mantra: The House had done its job. READ: Boehner…
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he couldn’t rule out a possible shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security. The AP reports Boehner said it “would be bad” if the…
READ: Down with ‘Notorious R.B.G.’ “As we look toward the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, it is certainly fitting to honor the brave individuals who against brutality and oppression, took…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House education committee approved a partisan bill Wednesday to update the No Child Left Behind education law, maintaining annual testing requirements but stripping the federal…
WASHINGTON — Stymied in their attempts to pass a bill that would curb President Barack Obama’s immigration orders, some conservative House Republicans have a fallback option: They’re pushing Senate Majority…
He will take the helm at Department of Defense as the United States is immersed in several complex national security challenges across the globe, including the widening military campaign against…
In 1919, Bohemian oil heiress, theater enthusiast and political radical Aline Barnsdall purchased the 36-acre park site now known as Barnsdall Park. She enlisted architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design…
WASHINGTON — Republicans who have been so disciplined in their opposition to President Obama are now finding themselves badly splintered over how to keep the Department of Homeland Security operating…
Police near Amsterdam had an easy time of it zeroing in on a suspected marijuana grow house — it was the only one on the block whose roof was clear…
The third season of “House of Cards” leaked online for a brief moment on Wednesday, allowing pretty much everyone who writes about pop culture on the Internet to spend 58…
LL Cool J’s ex co-star Maia Campbell should really try ordering in — she just got busted at a restaurant for the 2nd time this year … most recently for…
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed the Senate version of legislation approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on Wednesday, sending the bill to President Barack Obama’s desk for…