Senate Republicans today plan to blast Democrats for refusing to meet with President Bush on war spending, believing that the Democrats are going down the same dangerous path the GOP walked in 1995 when it refused to meet with then President Bill Clinton during the budget clash that led to a government shutdown.
Senate Republicans today plan to blast Democrats for refusing to meet with President Bush on war spending, believing that the Democrats are going down the same dangerous path the GOP walked in 1995 when it refused to meet with then President Bill Clinton during the budget clash that led to a government shutdown.
Despite predictions of a wholesale evacuation from top White House offices after the dismal midterm elections last year, insiders report that there has been a remarkable tendency by top aides to hang in either to the very end of the president's term or until major agenda items are approved.
AP - A suicide truck bomb exploded on a major bridge in Baghdad early Thursday, collapsing the steel structure and sending cars toppling into the Tigris River below, police and witnesses said.
AP - MSNBC said Wednesday it will drop its simulcast of the "Imus in the Morning" radio program, responding to growing outrage about the radio host's racial slur against the Rutgers women's basketball team.
AP - Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84.
MSNBC has canceled its "Imus in the Morning" simulcast, the network announced Wednesday. The decision comes after a week of anger sparked by his racist and sexist remarks about Rutgers women's basketball team. Imus is also under pressure at CBS where one executive said he should be fired.
Three former Duke lacrosse players today called for justice system reforms and media restraint -- after a year living as sex assault suspects. North Carolina's attorney general said the Durham district attorney pushed the case forward unchecked. The D.A. now faces accusations he withheld DNA evidence.