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- Palin links her resignation to ‘higher calling’
- July 5, 2009
- Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday laid the groundwork to take on a larger, national role after leaving state government, citing a “higher calling” with the aim of uniting the country along conservative lines.
- Obama to advise Putin to move past Cold War
- July 3, 2009
- Days from his first Moscow summit, President Barack Obama declared Thursday that former Russian President Vladimir Putin “still has a lot of sway” in his nation and needs an in-person reminder the Cold War is over.
- Senate bill fines people refusing health coverage
- July 3, 2009
- Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
- EPA: State must conduct review, hold hearings on latest coal-plant proposal
- 04:40 p.m., July 1, 2009 Updated 03:40 p.m.
- The EPA has told state officials to conduct a comprehensive review of the new proposal to build a coal-burning power plant in southwest Kansas, and allow public input on the project.
- Gov. considered resigning, but won’t
- Ex-reporter admits role in relationship
- June 29, 2009
- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford gave thought to quitting, retreating from public scrutiny to rebuild his life as the scandal of his extramarital affair with an Argentinian woman came out, he told The Associated Press Sunday.
- Obama taking risk showing flexibility on health care
- June 28, 2009
- The reversals, hints of concessions and politically dicey proposals on health care are piling up for President Barack Obama, whose appeal for bipartisan legislation carries risk with no guarantee of reward.
- Unlike Sanford, most govs easy to find
- June 28, 2009
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry was raising money at campaign headquarters when an Associated Press reporter called his press staff to ask what he was doing.
- Poll: Americans want Sotomayor on Court
- June 28, 2009
- A sizable majority of Americans want the Senate to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and most call her “about right” ideologically, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
- Winners and losers emerge in wake of new climate bill
- June 28, 2009
- In addition to raising energy prices, the climate legislation that’s winding through Congress would create a parallel financial system with a carbon-based currency.
- Supreme Court to decide final 3 cases, say goodbye to Souter
- June 28, 2009
- A closely watched discrimination lawsuit by white firefighters who say they have unfairly been denied promotions is one of three remaining Supreme Court cases awaiting resolution Monday.
- Obama scoffs at demand for apology on Iran criticism
- June 27, 2009
- President Barack Obama’s criticism of Iran escalated Friday into an unusually personal war of words.
- Obama considering order for indefinite detention
- June 27, 2009
- Stymied by Congress so far, the White House is considering issuing an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees considered too dangerous to prosecute or release, two administration officials said Friday.
- House passes major energy-climate bill over GOP objections
- June 27, 2009
- In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation’s first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims to usher in a new era of cleaner, yet more costly energy.
- Kansas secretary of aging resigning to work for Sebelius in Washington
- June 26, 2009
- Kansas Secretary of Aging Kathy Greenlee, of Lawrence, will be following her old boss, former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, to Washington D.C.
- Middle Eastern leaders top gift-givers
- June 26, 2009
- When U.S. presidents and their diplomats meet some Arab leaders, they come away with more than an earful about foreign policy. They also get exquisite baubles, objects of gold, robes, art — even a papier mache Santa Claus.
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- Restaurant inspector stresses education July 5, 2009
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