World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world s rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenha...
 5.7K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 85.0 Wis. man donates cheesehead hat signed by Obama
MADISON, Wis. (AP) A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay. Mansfield Neblett told The AP on Friday in an e-mail that he decided to donate the tria...
0.8K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 280.0 Public Enemy No. 1: Cancer patients
A lot has changed in the 210-plus years since the nation adopted the Second Amendment, guaranteeing gun rights. For one thing, federal gun laws now ban convicted illegal drug users from toting handguns. But two Oregon sheriffs say that s not tough en...
2.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 54.0 Hitting 10 percent
WASHINGTON (AP) The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 and is likely to go higher. Nearly 16 million people can t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. Man...
7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 108.0 Dems push for health care votes
WASHINGTON House Democrats are scrambling to secure enough support to pass President Barack Obama s historic health overhaul initiative, working to soothe last-minute concerns from rank-and-file Democrats ahead of a make-or-break vote. Voting is se...
3.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 126.0 Obama to sign jobless benefit
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers...
4.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 217.0 Army post shooting rampage leaves 13 dead, 30 hurt
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Tex...
7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 54.0 Gunman: 'Allahu Akbar!'
FORT HOOD, Texas Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted Allahu Akbar! an Arabic phrase for God is great! before opening fire, the base commander said Friday. U.S. A...
9.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 54.0 We need jobs not health care
How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about the fierce urgency of now ? The president has used the quote, from Martin Luther King Jr., to call for quick action on the war in Iraq, on global warming, on homelessness, on education you name...
3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 152.0 12 dead in Fort Hood attack; U.S. soldiers in custody
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) A soldier opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and apprehended two other soldiers suspected in ...
3.0K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 54.0 Sheriffs' group opposes guns for pot smokers
SALEM The right of Oregonians to use marijuana for medical reasons and also to obtain concealed handgun permits is being challenged by local sheriffs who say federal law prevents those people from packing heat. Advocates for the state s medical mar...
3.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 54.0 Congress set to clear aid to jobless, homebuyers
WASHINGTON (AP) The House is poised to send the White House a bill extending aid to more than a million people in danger of exhausting jobless benefits and additional tax credits for prospective homebuyers crucial to rejuvenating the housing market...
3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 54.0 Advocates for cancer patients decry waiting period; budget for high-risk pool seen as low
WASHINGTON (AP) You re afraid your cancer is back, and a health insurance company just turned you down. Under the health care bills in Congress, you could apply for coverage through a new high-risk pool that President Barack Obama promises would im...
1.2K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 54.0 Senator: No fed money for wind project
WASHINGTON A Democratic senator is calling on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project because he says it will generate Chinese, not Ame...
3.3K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 54.0 Surprised the media elite backed Fox?
Nobody should be surprised to see the nation s esteemed celebrity news media align with Fox News against the White House. Supposedly, the press regulates its own behavior; in reality, that s been a joke for two decades. Today, even the fig leaf has b...
4.1K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 85.0 Fox war is a petty endeavor
Steve and Cokie Roberts, opinionPresidents usually turn to their secretaries of state for foreign-policy advice. But Barack Obama must have been channeling Hillary Clinton when he decided to attack Fox News. It was Clinton, of course, who blamed her ...
3.2K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 141.0 Iranian protest sparks battles
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons today on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover. The counter-demonstrations were the opposition s fir...
5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 85.0 Obama coaxes states to change with school dollars
WASHINGTON One year after his election, President Barack Obama is coaxing states across the country to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they pursue his vision for school reform. Obama is visiting Wisconsin, where lawmakers are po...
4.0K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 485.0 GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, N.J.
WASHINGTON Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading ...
6.4K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 218.0 Agencies overestimate job impact of stimulus dollars
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama s economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there. The Georgia nonprofit s infla...
4.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 152.0 | 
