By The Associated Press
The Associated Press-GfK Poll on politics and terrorism was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from May 28-June 1, 2009. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,000 adults. Interviews were conducted with 800 respondents on landline telephones and 200 [...]
Andrew Miga, Associated Press Writer
In this Sunday Feb. 3, 2008 picture, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., presidential hopeful stands next to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., during a rally at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. Lieberman has changed his tune on Obama. After campaigning for Republican John McCain in 2008 and attacking Obama as naive, Lieberman [...]
Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer
In this March 4, 2009 file photo, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2010 federal budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. Some Democrats, worried over where Obama is headed, are suggesting he has yet to match his call for “bold action [...]
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to repeal a Bush administration rule that has become a flash point in the debate over a doctor’s right not to participate in abortions. The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush administration, strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to [...]
WASHINGTON — Unemployment rates rose in 98 percent of U.S. metropolitan areas late last year, with manufacturing layoffs driving the largest annual increases in Indiana’s Elkhart-Goshen region and Dalton, Ga.
The Labor Department said Wednesday that jobless rates climbed in 363 of the largest 369 metropolitan areas in December from a year earlier.
Elkhart-Goshen’s unemployment rate soared [...]
Darlene Superville, Associated Press Writer
First lady Michelle Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House after President Barack Obama, not pictured, signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, in Washington. Michelle Obama’s predecessors have carved out enough different roles as first lady to free her to fashion the [...]
Larry Margasak, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Most congressional Democrats say the quickest way to save homeowners like Troy Butler of Saginaw, Mich., is to let them declare bankruptcy and allow judges to dictate new mortgage terms.
Easy, except the lenders that would absorb the pain — and lose control of any deals to ease the terms [...]
Liz Sidoti, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration’s ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information — an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century. Obama’s executive order, the latest in an aggressive [...]
David Espo, AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., battling a brain tumor, became ill at a post-inauguration luncheon for President Barack Obama on Tuesday and was taken by ambulance to a hospital. There was no immediate word from medical personnel on his condition. “It looked like a seizure,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, [...]
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says it’s time to begin “the work of remaking America.” In the prepared text of his inaugural address, Obama speaks of the nation’s economic crisis, saying the “time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions” has passed.
Saying the state of the economy calls for [...]
