Tea Party: Polls Show Importance To GOP Base
WASHINGTON — As negotiations continue over raising the debt limit, Republican leaders are at odds with their own base, amid reports that their electoral coalition is breaking down. Public polling data illustrating More...
Republicans target Raleigh Democrat Brad Miller for his work on financial reform
It’s Monday morning, and Congressman Brad Miller, a Raleigh Democrat, is in Wake Forest talking radars, incoming torpedoes and “hard kills” with executives of a high-tech engineering firm, 3 Phoenix More...
Going After Michele Bachmann Ahead Of 2012 Has Its Risks
ST. PAUL, Minn. — For Michele Bachmann, the laugh line doubled as a clear message that she thinks she’s ready for the rough-and-tumble of presidential politics. “I had three brothers, no sisters More...
Loss of Large Predators Has Caused Widespread Disruption of Ecosystems
The decline of large predators and other “apex consumers” at the top of the food chain has disrupted ecosystems all over the planet, according to a review of recent findings conducted by an international More...
Minnesota Shutdown Sees Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and top Republicans struck a deal Thursday to end a budget impasse that prompted the state government to shut down, with the Democratic governor giving up on raising taxes. The agreement More...
Ted Strickland: Dems’ Concessions On Debt Debate Are ‘Very Troubling’
WASHINGTON — A resolution to raise the nation’s debt ceiling may remain far off. But the long-term framing of the debate over spending and debt is becoming slightly clearer, and it’s causing philosophical More...
Obama Publicly Backs Means-Testing Medicare
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama formally acknowledged on Friday that he would support a plan to means-test Medicare as a part of a deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. “I have said that means-testing More...
Goldman Sachs Took Biggest Loan During Fed’s Emergency Program
WASHINGTON – Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and European banks RBS and UBS were the biggest beneficiaries of very short-term Federal Reserve loans extended at the height of the financial crisis, according More...
What Activates a Supermassive Black Hole? Even in the Jam-Packed Early Universe
A new study combining data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory has turned up a surprise. Most of the huge More...
Roger Federer’s Switzerland face a long trip to Australia in September’s Davis Cup play-offs.
The Swiss must win the tie to return to the World Group – the top tier of the competition – in 2012. Federer played in last weekend’s Swiss win over Portugal, but given the next tie comes just More...