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MSNBC
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People learning through genetic testing that they might be susceptible to devastating diseases wouldn't also have to worry about losing their jobs or their health insurance under anti-discrimination legislation the Senate passed Thursday.
The 95-0 Sena..
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MSNBC
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Congress, facing the prospect of an election-year recession, passed an emergency plan Thursday that rushes rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most taxpayers and $300 checks to disabled veterans, the elderly and other low-income people. President Bush indicated..
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MSNBC
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Mr. Huckabee is now leading in some polls in Iowa, gaining in New Hampshire and moving up in national surveys. While polls are fluid, Mr. Huckabee has positioned himself in the top tier of Republican candidates. People approach him in airports to share te..
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Salon
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During a recent high-powered Washington dinner party attended by 18 people, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft squared off across the table over whether President Bush will bomb Iran.
Brzezinski, former national security advisor to President Carte..
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CNN
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Several thousand protesters marched Saturday from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war, and at least 160 people were arrested when they jumped a barricade at the foot of the Capitol steps.
Many of the protesters were arrested..
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MSNBC
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Immigration. Thompson has become an immigration hawk, saying in June that it's time to forget about so-called comprehensive immigration "until the government can show the American people that we have secured the borders -- or at least made great headway."..
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Yahoo News
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Former Sen. John Edwards said at a Hurricane Katrina conference he would propose what he called "Brownie's Law" requiring that qualified people, not political hacks, lead key federal agencies.
Edwards, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nominat..
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Wired
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Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed.
But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably wou..
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CNN
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What matters in politics is not just how many people are on each side of an issue, but also how much they care about it.
Politicians talk about "kitchen table" issues: "Ordinary people around the kitchen table concerned about the high taxation, high co..
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CNN
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a U.S senator from Illinois, has been placed under the protection of the Secret Service, the agency said Thursday...
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CBS News
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Senator John McCain says the House, the Senate and the majority of the American people are all wrong when it comes to Iraq. He set out to prove it last week by walking into the heart of Baghdad. What he said about security after that walk set off front pa..
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New York Times
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In nasty and bumbling comments made at the White House yesterday, President Bush declared that “people just need to hear the truth” about the firing of eight United States attorneys. That’s right. Unfortunately, the deal Mr. Bush offered Congress to..
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BBC News
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A suicide bomber has killed at least five people and hurt several more near Afghanistan's main US base during US Vice-President Dick Cheney's stay.
Mr Cheney, on an unannounced visit to the region, was staying at the Bagram base, 60km (40 miles) from K..
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Vanity Fair
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Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the "body shops"—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including a lot of the "expertis..
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Crooks and Liars
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Eastwood on Bush:…(H)e genuinely believes–I just don't happen to believe with him–on making…converting people to a democracy overnight or even in a ten year period. I just think that's a little bit naive to approach it that way…..
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Houston Chronicle
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Democrats are not ruling out raising taxes for the wealthiest people to help pay for tax cuts for middle-income families, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said...
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USA Today
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In California, driving with people in the trunk will be illegal. In Alabama, landlords will have to provide livable conditions for tenants...
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Ohio News Now
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Thousands of people cast ballots in Cuyahoga County on Election Day without signing in at their polling places, the latest voting mishap for a county where problems in the May primary delayed results six days...
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Forbes
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Randy Wooten figured he'd get at least one vote in his bid for mayor of this town of 80 people - even if it was just his own...
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SF Gate
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People around the globe widely expect the next American president to improve the country's policies toward the rest of the world, especially if Barack Obama is elected, yet they retain a persistently poor image of the U.S., according to a poll released Th..
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