Senator Olympia J. Snowe, the one Republican who had expressed a willingness to support the Democrats’ bill, announced on Tuesday that she would vote to advance the legislation.
After meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russia’s foreign minister said new threats of sanctions before nuclear talks would be “counterproductive.”
AP - Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe broke with her party Tuesday and said she will vote for a Democratic health care bill, handing President Barack Obama a much-sought boost in his quest to expand access to medical coverage to all Americans.
AP - Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.
AP - Russia pushed back Tuesday at U.S. efforts to threaten tough new sanctions if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is peaceful, a setback to the Obama administration's desire to present a united front with Moscow.
A suspect has been arrested in the 1990 abduction and attempted murder of an 8-year-old Texas girl, police announced at a briefing today. The victim, Jennifer Schuett, is now 27. She recently shared her story with CNN in hopes of someday bringing her attacker to justice. "I want you to know I am OK," Schuett said at the news conference. "I am not a victim but instead victorious."
The sights and sounds of rocks rolling down mountainsides are common but still captivating phenomena for the residents of the Nile Valley in central Washington state.
Once the Senate Finance Committee votes Tuesday on its health care overhaul plan, the focus will shift to the closed doors of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's ornate Capitol suite.