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January 11, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, defended Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday over…
January 11, 2010
OPINION - The Reid affair is somewhat reminiscent of the firestorm that engulfed former Republican Senator Trent Lott in 2002,…
January 6, 2010
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Mayor Sheila Dixon fought back tears as she announced her resignation and thanked her staff for its…
December 24, 2009
OPINION - In November, former President Bill Clinton gave Senate Democrats some no-nonsense political advice in regards to health care…
December 24, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Senate has passed President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul in a climactic Christmas Eve…
December 22, 2009
OPINION - Is the health care bill, as it is, worth the political capital that it has cost the President…
November 23, 2009
VIDEO - A leading Senate Democrat said Monday his party is determined to push through a health care overhaul bill…
November 20, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. "Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished a Democratic senator for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete"…
November 14, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Prosecutors called a former Louisiana congressman's corruption the most extensive in the history of Congress...
October 19, 2009
A Democratic Senator, shunned by some members of his own party who were reluctant to even seat him, may now…
September 25, 2009
VIDEO - Should President Obama be backing his fellow African-American Democrat and allow him to make his own decision on…
September 1, 2009
OPINION -- No amount of moralizing, or appropriating the memory of a fallen liberal icon, can obscure the stubborn fact…
August 27, 2009
VIDEO - An unusual sign of protest has sprung up in Lubbock County, Texas, but you'll have to take to…
July 24, 2009
Police Commissioner Robert Haas speaks to reporters at Cambridge, Mass., Police headquarters,Thursday (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds) I winced when I heard
July 13, 2009
A Senate panel began confirmation hearings Monday for President Barack Obama's choice for the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, who…
June 10, 2009
WASHINGTON – Democrats in charge of Congress are beginning to reveal their plans for reforming the nation’s health care system.
June 9, 2009
BEN EVANS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Black, Latino and Asian lawmakers warned Democratic leaders that any U.S. health