Mar 29, 2012 – Senior Senate Republicans are floating legislation that would slam the brakes on Obama administration efforts to expand regulation of the controversial oil-and-gas drilling method called “hydraulic fracturing” on federal lands. Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.), the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, is the lead sponsor, and...

Mar 29, 2012 – The House on Thursday is poised to approve Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget measure, which would give Republicans a much-needed lift after months of intra-party squabbling. Ryan's blueprint — which cuts $5.3 trillion in spending compared to President Obama's budget proposal — has been gaining traction among Republicans in...

Mar 29, 2012 – Syria's president must immediately implement a peace deal designed to end the year-long bloody government crackdown, the U.N. secretary-general said on Thursday. Ban Ki-moon told the Arab League summit in Baghdad "there is no time to waste" in implementing the six-point plan of Kofi Annan, the joint special envoy...

Mar 29, 2012 – A manager at the Transportation Security Administration at Dulles airport has been arrested for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of a Maryland hotel. According to court documents, the agency had received a complaint of "very similar" activities back in 2009. Bryant Jermaine Livingston, 39, was arrested...

Mar 29, 2012 – Lindsay Lohan's probation hearing Thursday could be the last time in court for the actress, ending nearly five years of legal troubles that began with a drunken driving arrest. Lohan's probation officer sent another good progress report to the judge, confirming that the actress has completed the 480 hours...

Mar 29, 2012 – The United States sanctioned two engineering firms Wednesday for their ties to an elite Iranian military unit that has been branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. Iran Maritime Industrial Company SADRA and it subsidiary, Deep Offshore Technology PJS, are connected with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force,...

Mar 29, 2012 – Everything is bigger in Texas and the Rangers' new Champion Dog is no exception. The two foot hot dog with one pound of meat is the latest addition to the Sportservice menu at Rangers Ballpark. The whopping wiener is topped with chili, sautéed onions and shredded cheese. It may...

Mar 29, 2012 – The father of George Zimmerman, the man accused of shooting and killing an unarmed black teen in Florida, says the 17-yearold threatened to kill Zimmerman and then beat him so badly that it forced Zimmerman to shoot him. "Trayvon Martin said something to the effect of, 'You're going to...

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Mar 28, 2012 – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro says he has asked for a "modest and simple" meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in Havana on Wednesday. "I will gladly meet tomorrow morning His Excellency, the Pope, as I did when John Paul II visited," Castro wrote Tuesday in the official Cubadebate website....

Mar 28, 2012 – “Elderly couple abandons their home after address is posted on Twitter as that of George Zimmerman” read the headline of an article yesterday in the Orlando Sentinel.  Spike Lee’s twitter account went into Radio Silence yesterday morning after it was revealed he mistakenly tweeted to over 247,000 twitter followers the...

Mar 28, 2012 – John Roberts is having his Bush v. Gore moment. If the wily chief justice felt squeamish about leading the Supreme Court into an election-year political maelstrom, that was nowhere on display Tuesday, when the Roberts-led conservative majority signaled its collective skepticism, even hostility, for President Barack Obama’s health care...

Mar 28, 2012 – Senate candidates on both sides of the aisle have avoided embracing their party’s signature healthcare reform policies, a sign that few want to campaign on such a controversial issue. Many Democratic candidates have sought distance from President Obama’s healthcare overhaul and a number of Republicans have dodged taking a stance on...

Mar 28, 2012 – Senate Republicans want to alter DREAM Act legislation to steal away Hispanic voters from Democrats. Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), the only Senate Republican of Hispanic heritage and a possible vice presidential pick, is working on an alternative version of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act,...

Mar 28, 2012 – Nearly $1 million was paid to the law firm that conducted a two-year investigation of the government’s bungled case against former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). The news comes as Henry Schuelke III, who recently released a 525-page report on the botched Stevens case, readies to testify about his investigation...

Mar 28, 2012 – Newt Gingrich will reduce his campaign schedule and lay off a third of his staff in order to keep his presidential bid afloat until the Republican National Convention, according to a senior aide. Campaign manager Michael Krull, who took over after a mass resignation staged by staffers last June,...

Mar 28, 2012 – The Supreme Court wraps up its last day of hearings Wednesday over the future of health care reform with renewed focus on an issue once dismissed by many legal and political analysts as trivial. It follows Tuesday's fascinating, monumental court discussion about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's...

Mar 28, 2012 – The price of an average gallon of regular gas surpassed the $3.90 mark Wednesday, moving to within a dime of the $4 threshold. The average price rose 1.3 cents to $3.911 in the latest daily survey conducted for the motorist group AAA. The price has risen for 19 consecutive...

Mar 28, 2012 – While none of the Republican candidates have heeded the increasing calls for them to drop out and cede the race to front-runner Mitt Romney, news broke late Tuesday that Newt Gingrich has replaced his campaign manager and is laying off one-third of his staff. Even with the reorganization, the...

Mar 28, 2012 – A national group opposed to same-sex marriage aimed to fight it by driving "a wedge between gays and blacks" and identifying "glamorous" Latino artists and athletes to advocate traditional marriage, according to newly released confidential memos. The strategies were among several pursued by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM),...

Mar 28, 2012 – A day after news broke that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accepted a plan to forge peace, fresh clashes broke out once again across Syria on Wednesday, opposition activists said. Three members of the Syrian security forces were killed and four defecting soldiers were injured in intense clashes at an...

Mar 28, 2012 – The CEO of JetBlue Airways said Wednesday he has known the captain of a flight that made an emergency landing Tuesday for "a long time" -- and that the man has always been a "consummate professional." Asked about the captain's reported erratic behavior that prompted the crew and passengers...

Mar 28, 2012 – Editor's note: This piece was authored by Susan A. Carleson The House Republican Study Committee (RSC) has proposed a federal budget that not only can America live with – it cannot live without it. It is a serious plan with responsible measures for achieving fiscal sanity...

Mar 27, 2012 – Popular Boston Mayor Tom Menino—an influential Democrat many credited with bringing the party's convention to his hometown in 2004—told WBZ this week that he wasn't taking sides in Massachusetts's high profile Senate race. But Menino's reluctance to put the weight of his campaign operation behind Harvard professor and...