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News Source: Charlotte Observer Online
| 3 days ago
Lynn Giese calls Sarah Palin the best thing that's happened to the U.S. Alaska governor were she to run for president in 2012. "I'd do anything, go anywhere," said Giese, of Bokoshe, Okla., while waiting in line at a Sam's Club in Arkansas where
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News Source: The Denver Post
| 3 days ago
The Senate voted Thursday to reject Republican efforts to eliminate the Medicare funding cuts that are at the center of the health care reform bill, an early sign that Democrats' fragile coalition is holding. And in the Senate's first floor votes on
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News Source: United Press International
| 3 days ago
The former Arizona home of Sen. John McCain , which he and his wife sold in 2006 for $3.2 million, is scheduled for auction on Friday, the auctioneers said. The 13-bedroom Phoenix estate has two guest houses, a pool, a spa and a seven-car garage on
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News Source: Miami Herald
| 3 days ago
Wealthy Fort Lauderdale investor George Levin and his Banyon hedge funds sank $775 million into Scott Rothstein's legal-settlement deals -- accounting for most of the money sucked into the lawyer's massive Ponzi scheme, court records show. Banyon's
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News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 3 days ago
Jack Pitchford, a fighter pilot from Mississippi who survived seven years in the notorious Vietnamese prison camp known as the “Hanoi Hilton,” has died at 82. The Mississippi native died Wednesday after battling a brain tumour, said his brother,
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News Source: The Dallas Morning News
| 3 days ago
KIM / The Dallas Morning News tkim@dallasnews.com A line 1,000 deep formed at Sarah Palin's first book-tour stop last month in Grand Rapids, Mich. Fans toting camping gear arrived more than a day early in rural Washington state. And in suburban
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News Source: Politico
| 3 days ago
After a three-day impasse, the Senate moved on the first four amendments to the health care legislation Thursday, but the public option, abortion and financing the plan remained serious obstacles to negotiating a final bill. The Senate voted to keep
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 3 days ago
For Afghans it's good that we are facing a deadline," he said. "We must begin to stand on our own feet...And we must begin to defend our own country. "If we, the Afghan people, cannot defend our country, ourselves, against an aggressor from within or