Archive for July, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — This was one government stimulus plan that yielded quick results. Maybe too quick.

Far more drivers signed up for the “cash for clunkers” program than anyone thought, overwhelming showrooms, blowing through the initial $1 billion…

DENVER (AP) — A Texas man who pleaded guilty to threatening President Barack Obama and the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis was sentenced Friday to four years of probation and home detention.

U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a triumph for President Barack Obama, Democrats narrowly pushed sweeping health care legislation through a key congressional committee Friday night and cleared the way for a September showdown in the House.

The 31-28 vote in…

Two Democratic senators called on the Pentagon to take back more than $83 million in bonuses paid to military contractor KBR after a Defense Department report criticized its electrical work on U.S. bases overseas.

The black scholar and the white police sergeant who arrested him have agreed to disagree and promised to talk again after a cleartheair meeting over a pint of beer convened by Barack Obama in the Rose Garden of the White House.

President Obama’s ambitious plan to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system is on track to clear a major hurdle as a pivotal committee broke a deadlock, setting the stage for a House vote this fall.

As representatives prepared to leave town for a…

Jurors in the corruption trial of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana ended their second day of deliberations without a verdict Friday, said a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Alexandria, Virginia.