BROOKLYN, OH (WOIO) - During a news conference Friday, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown announced a new agreement to save more than 160 jobs in Brooklyn.…
OHIO - Just days before the Supreme Court hears arguments over the Defense of Marriage Act, one of it’s co-sponsors is changing his mind. Ohio…
via BBC News US Senator Harry Reid has been taken to hospital after he was involved in a car crash on a highway through Las Vegas, the senator’s office confirms. Sen Reid suffered bruising to his ribs and hips and walked into hospital, a statement said. The collision reportedly involved some six vehicles, including […]
via CNN George Stanley McGovern, a staunch liberal who served South Dakota in the U.S. Senate and House for more than two decades and who ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1972, died Sunday at the age of 90, his family said. “Our wonderful father, George McGovern, passed away peacefully […]
via CNN Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter — who embodied a dying breed of liberal Republicanism, switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career — died after a lengthy battle with cancer, his family announced Sunday. Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on Sunday morning at his home in […]
via politico.com A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in. Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated freshman Democrat Frank Kratovil on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, reacted incredulously when […]
DILLINGHAM, Alaska — Former Sen. Ted Stevens lay dead in the mangled fuselage of the plane. A 13-year-old boy escaped death but his father died a few feet away. Medical workers spent the miserable night tending to survivors’ broken bones amid a huge slick of fuel that coated a muddy mountainside.
