In another sign that a major wave could be building against Republicans in the House of Representatives, Democrats have opened a double-digit... Read more… |
President Bush and Republicans across the country tried to use a court ruling in New Jersey to rally dispirited conservatives to the polls. Read more… |
The commissioner ordered the I.R.S. to delay collecting back taxes from Katrina victims until after the elections. Read more… |
Rep. Henry Bonilla is in an unusual position, an incumbent Texas congressman in a new district. More troubling for his re-election effort, some voters see a contradiction in the only Mexican-American in the House belonging to the Republican Party. Read more… |
A union group and the Rev. Jesse Jackson demanded Thursday that Wal-Mart fire a Republican consultant connected to a Senate campaign ad that critics call racist. Read more… |
A federal judge suspended Ohio's new voter identification law Thursday as it applies to absentee voting, saying the state's 88 counties are inconsistently applying the rule in the voting, which is already under way. Read more… |
City officials and Hispanic community leaders objected Thursday to the federal government's plans to put monitors at city polling places on Election Day, saying those efforts could discourage people from voting. Read more… |
Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley may not be running for Congress anymore, but he was still part of the first debate Thursday night between the candidates seeking his seat. Read more… |
With precious air time still left to buy before Election Day, President Bush raised money Thursday for two Republican candidates trying to knock off Democratic incumbents in an uphill year for the GOP. Read more… |
The lawyer for a Catholic priest who acknowledged fondling former Rep. Mark Foley when Foley was a teenager said Friday there were no grounds for legal action against the clergyman, and denied allegations by a second man who said the priest molested him. Read more… |
Gov. Jim Doyle paints his re-election bid in stark terms: If voters choose his opponent, they will shut down stem cell research that could mean medical cures for debilitating illnesses and an economic boom for Wisconsin. Read more… |
The 2006 election is shaping up to be a repeat of 1994. This time, Democrats are favored to sweep Republicans from power in the House after a dozen years of GOP rule. Read more… |
The Republican-controlled Congress that has largely given President Bush his way in post-9/11 America -- and largely kept silent even when his actions offended -- is now beginning to challenge the administration about the expanding role of the executive branch.
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Most Americans do not believe the Bush administration has gone too far in restricting civil liberties as part of the war on terror, a new CNN poll released Thursday suggests.
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President Bush signed a bill authorizing the construction of a fence along one-third of the 2,100-mile U.S. border with Mexico, but missing from the legislation is a means to pay for it.
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In her first public comments about Bob Woodward's explosive book "State of Denial," first lady Laura Bush sharply denied claims in the book that her husband has misled the public about the level of violence in Iraq.
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Today, the right is politically dominant. Yet now, at what should be the flood tide of conservative power, many on the right are expressing open, even passionate disagreement with what has been done in their name, CNN Senior Analyst Jeff Greenfield writes.
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YO, OLD PEOPLE! Miserable? Hate your kids? Nothing to live for? Don't touch that gas range. Don't call Dr. Kevorkian. Just listen to Gov. Rendell. Read more… |
Memo to U. S. Rep. Curt Weldon: Somewhere between John Paul Jones and World War II, the Navy did away with its wine goblets. Weldon's opponent in a hot suburban congressional race, former admiral Joseph A. Sestak, said yesterday that Weldon should apologize to the nation's sailors for a disparaging statement last week that questioned whether Sestak had spent wartime "in the admiral's quarters, drinking out of your wine goblets and being waited on by your sailor servants." Read more… |
Michael Schiavo criticized Bob Casey Jr. and Pennsylvania Democrats yesterday for using the death of his wife, Terri, as a weapon against U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) in the Senate race this fall. Read more… |
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