Chicago Mayor Richard Daley Cold To Proposed National Guard Presence
CHICAGO — While two Illinois lawmakers want National Guard troops deployed to help quell violence on Chicago's streets, Mayor Richard Daley and the city's police...
Marc McMain Keyser, Fake Anthrax Mailer, Sentenced To Four Years In Prison
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A 66-year-old Sacramento man who admitted mailing dozens of fake anthrax samples around the country has been sentenced to four years and...
David Kernell, Sarah Palin Email Hacker, Elects Not To Testify At Own Trial
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A former University of Tennessee student charged with hacking Sarah Palin's e-mail chose to not testify at his trial, while his lawyer...
Oklahoma Legislature Poised To Enact Abortion Restrictions By Overriding Governor’s Vetoes
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma House voted overwhelmingly Monday to override vetoes of two restrictive abortion measures Gov. Brad Henry has called unconstitutional intrusions into...
Hollywood’s Big Wall Street Smackdown
It was a Hollywood happy ending -- for Hollywood, that is. For weeks, big movie studios have been fighting an effort by two financial firms...
Jon Kyl Guards John McCain On The Right
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl flies home to Arizona most weekends for a packed schedule of campaigning, fundraising and conservative grass-roots organizing as he warily...
Goldman Mortgage Traders Bet On Burger-Eating Contests
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s mortgage traders, under the spotlight because of the U.S. government's fraud lawsuit against the securities firm, made markets in more than...
The Sarah Palin Brand And Her Growing Commercial Empire
On the morning of July 3, 2009, a national holiday, Sarah Palin placed a call to her communications director and told her that she wanted...
Chris Cillizza: Governors Races Take Center Stage In 2010
The Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association -- long regarded as the forgotten little brother (or sister) of the national party committee family --...
The Shortfalls Of Haiti Aid
Corail has a stocked U.N. World Food Program warehouse for its 3,000-and-counting residents; the more than 8,500 at Camp Obama are desperate for food and water. Corail's entrance is guarded by U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police. Cam...
Joseph McVey, Armed Man, Arrested At Airport Where Obama Was Leaving
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — An armed man spotted at a North Carolina airport parking lot just after Air Force One departed Sunday told an officer he...
Robot Submarines Working To Stop Gulf Coast Oil Leak
NEW ORLEANS — It could take hours or it could take months to stop a 42,000-gallon-a-day oil leak polluting the Gulf of Mexico at the...
