Archive for September, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jettisoning partisan campaign-season rhetoric, if only for a moment, House Republican leader John Boehner said Thursday that both parties bear the blame for “dysfunction in Congress” and urged lawmakers to adopt a cut-as-you-go-…

CHICAGO (AP) — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is set to give up his influential national post Friday to begin a run for Chicago mayor, a job he has long coveted but won’t win unless he persuades voters he’s still one of them.

People…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson said Thursday that global warming was an “unproven” science that shouldn’t be used to dictate U.S. policies.

The Republican business owner said domestic efforts to reduce global warming…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Grasping for the electric energy that propelled him to the White House, President Barack Obama whipped up young supporters at a rally Thursday night, where the boisterous crowd tried to shout down any talk of an “enthusiasm gap”…

When Northampton County President Judge F.P. Kimberly McFadden banged her gavel, a chorus of angels could be heard singing in the clouds above Easton.

“Wayne C. Taylor, you are charged with conspiracy to subvert the Judeo-Christian dogma established by…

Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was granted a restraining order against an 18-year-old Schuylkill County man on Monday after allegedly receiving threats from him since the summer of 2009.

A court document filed…

Congress has passed a $19 billion bill authorizing NASA to launch an additional shuttle launch and to develop a heavy-lift vehicle.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has met at the White House with Sarah Shourd, the hiker recently freed by Iran, and with her mother and the mothers of the other two American hikers still held by the Iranians.

The White House said Obama…