‘Not guilty’ plea in bombing case that spreads halfway around the world
Though ‘Isa was arrested in Edmonton in 2011, where he has been detained ever since, he was extradited to the United States on Friday. And on Saturday, in a federal…
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John Boehner Reveals How He Survives The State Of The Union
How to behave when 30 million Americans give your political nemesis their undivided attention in a televised speech and your job is to sit quietly behind him? House Speaker John…
Lindsey Vonn powers on with record 64th World Cup win
It extended the 30-year-old American’s all-time record to 64 World Cup wins and she became the first woman to win a super-G at the famous Swiss resort on three occasions….
Michael Moore is wrong about ‘American Sniper’
As Americans, we are fortunate to have the right to speak our minds. Filmmaker Michael Moore did just that with his attack on the use of military snipers in warfare…
House Democrats push voting rights amendment
“We have the ironic situation, after the Heller [Supreme Court] decision, that Americans have a fundamental individual right to a gun, but not a fundamental individual right to vote,” Jackson…
Democrats Link Middle Class Woes To Need For Campaign Finance Reform
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, House and Senate Democrats aimed all the spotlights at campaign finance reform. They introduced a dozen…
GOP skeptical at Obama’s SOTU call for unity
House Speaker John Boehner echoed many of his Republican colleagues with a statement that decried the address as more of the same from a President that’s never been interested in…
Obama makes historic ‘transgender’ reference in SOTU
Obama: ‘Tonight, we turn the page’ – “I’ve seen something like gay marriage go from a wedge issue used to drive us apart to a story of freedom across our…
2 Yemeni nationals charged in U.S. court with fighting for al Qaeda
The criminal complaint alleges that Saddiq al-Abbadi and Ali Alvi provided material support to the terrorist organization and conspired to murder Americans abroad. – Lawrence Crook III reported from New…
How To Figure Out How Much Sleep You Really Need
Sleep takes up one-third of our lives, but it puzzles us so much. Many of us are tired all the time — 40 percent of Americans sleep less than the…
America’s Favorite Soup Is Not What You Think It Is
It is our general opinion that anything made with cream is good. Ice cream, whipped cream, see what we mean? So when we learned that 85 percent of Americans prefer…
HUFFPOLLSTER: Americans Can’t Agree On Whether Congress Should Compromise
Democrats want compromise more than Republicans. Independents are most likely to up their rating of President Obama in an improving economy. And Americans are less tired of Hillary Clinton than…
GOP, support Obama on taxing the wealthy
In the United States, the top 1% control more than one third of the nation’s resources. Two out of three Americans disapprove of the current distribution of income and wealth….
Republicans Gearing Up For Fight Over Obama’s Tax Increase Proposal
Republican lawmakers are already signaling they will do what they can to block President Barack Obama’s pitch for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans. Obama is making that pitch to…
These Are The Most Memorable State Of The Union Guests
On Jan. 26, 1982, President Ronald Reagan began the tradition of honoring extraordinary Americans during the annual State of the Union address. – For a full list of past invited…
Give the unemployed a second chance
Even though the 46-year-old mother of five has an accounting certificate and a mind for numbers, prospective employers “don’t so much as look at me because of my age or…
Obama tax plan: Middle-class credits, higher rates for rich
The moveslikely to meet resistance from Republicans in Congressare meant to pay for the long slate of new programs the President began laying out two weeks ago designed to bolster…
Fact-checking Rand Paul’s disability claims
“Over half of the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts,” said Paul, who is an ophthalmologist. “Everybody in this room knows somebody who’s gaming the system.”…
Obama’s Cuba details revealed, to make travel easier to island
While short of lifting the decades-old U.S. embargo on the island, a move that would require Congressional approval, the administration’s new rules on travel and trade will likely herald a…
Poll: Majority of Americans back Keystone pipeline
The 1,179-mile Canada-to-Texas pipeline is backed by 57% of the 1,011 Americans surveyed on Dec. 18-21. Just 28% oppose it, while 15% say they are unsure. Keystone debate moves ahead…
Alleged al Qaeda operative Abu Anas al Libi dies in U.S. hospital, family says
Abdel Mouin told CNN by phone from Tripoli that the family was notified by his lawyer in the United States that al Libi, whose real name was Nazih al-Ruqaii, died…
Nasty lawsuit inspires #ShadesofRevlon hashtag
Meyers says in the suit that the Italian-born Delpani expressed disdain for such groups as Jews, blacks and Americans as a whole. According to the suit, Delpani said he could…