Archive for September, 2009

APIA, Samoa – Police searched a ghastly landscape of mud-strewn streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed survivors emerged from the muck and mire of an earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 119 in the South…

A Republican amendment that Democrats said would broaden restrictions on health insurance for abortion was defeated Wednesday by a Senate committee considering the only compromise health care bill so far.

The Senate on Wednesday shot down an effort to kill funding for Boeing C-17 military cargo planes that President Obama says are not needed, underscoring the turbulence the White House faces in trying to cut money for politically popular projects.

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Police in green reflective vests searched a ghastly landscape of mud-strewn streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed survivors emerged from the muck and mire of an earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 119 in…

President Barack Obama has nominated former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler Jr. for a federal judgeship.

The White House said in a statement Wednesday that Butler is one of eight people whose nominations to a federal position have been sent…

NEW YORK (AP) — Just two days after HarperCollins announced that Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” had been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17, preorders Wednesday night for the former Alaska governor’s memoir made it No. 1 on both Amazon.com and…