The Republican Party has lined up to beat back a conservative primary challenge to the most liberal Republican in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
Democratic strategists are expressing grudging admiration for President Bush's latest efforts to take control over the national security issue, exemplified by his speech this week on CIA prisons, Guantánamo, and military tribunals.
U.S. homebuilder Lennar slashed its third-quarter profit estimate this morning, becoming the third major homebuilder this week to reduce its earnings forecast. Lennar is now looking for a quarterly profit of $1.25 to $1.35 per share vs. Wall Street analyst estimates of $1.81 or so. Lennar CEO Stuart Miller laid out the bad news in a statement:
Armed with polling and historical data that suggest that it will be hard--though not impossible--for Democrats to retake the House in the fall, the White House has drawn up a travel schedule for the president and his top helpers to storm the nation in a pre-election blitz for Republicans.
AP - Florence intensified into a hurricane early Sunday and it headed for Bermuda, where residents installed storm shutters and hauled their yachts onto beaches.
AP - A U.S. Air Force officer who went missing for three days says someone stuffed an object in her jeans pocket with a note saying it was bomb and telling her to go to a site in Bishkek, where kidnappers grabbed her, Kyrgyz authorities said Saturday.
AP - Atlantis' six astronauts woke up Sunday prepared to inspect the space shuttle's thermal skin for damage as they soared toward the international space station.