Mitt Romney confirmed his status as the prohibitive front-runner in the GOP presidential race Saturday with a win in the Nevada caucuses. But Romney’s apparently large margin of victory may say more about his opponents than his own candidacy. While Romney’s first-place finish was never really in doubt, the lack of traction from the two [...]
The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates — creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women. The change will mean a cutoff of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, mainly for [...]
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer got a very public earful by President Barack Obama when she came to meet him on the tarmac outside of Phoenix on Wednesday. The two leaders could be seen engaged in an intense conversation at the base of Air Force One’s steps. Both could be seen smiling, but speaking at the [...]
A State of the Union address is often difficult to fact check, no matter who is president. The speech is a product of many hands and is carefully vetted, so major errors of fact are so relatively rare that they sometimes can become big news – think of George W. Bush’s “sixteen little words” about [...]
Sen. Rand Paul told his communications director this morning he was being detained by TSA at the Nashville airport. The Twitter account associated with Paul staffer Moira Bagley, @moirabagley, tweeted around 10 a.m., ET: “Just got a call from @senrandpaul. He’s currently being detained by TSA in Nashville.” A TSA spokesman disputed that Paul was [...]
A federal judge disclosed Friday that former presidential candidate John Edwards has a life-threatening heart condition – a court source confirmed to CNN. Edwards had sought a delay in his criminal corruption trial, scheduled to begin this month. Attorneys and the federal judge met in a North Carolina courtroom Friday afternoon for a status hearing [...]
Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is seeking to tap the dissent that sparked Russia’s biggest anti- government demonstrations in a decade, pledging to run against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for the presidency next March. “Society is awakening” – the New Jersey Nets basketball team owner told reporters in Moscow yesterday after announcing his candidacy in the wake [...]
Sharp-elbowed Republican rivals assailed the professorial demeanor of newly minted front-runner Newt Gingrich and the cool efficiency of Mitt Romney in a debate Saturday, painting them as inconsistent conservatives who agree too much with President Barack Obama to topple him. Throughout, Gingrich was center stage for assaults, accused of whipping up the Middle East, criticized [...]
Hundreds of anti-Wall Street activists who faced eviction early Monday from their eight-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall will be allowed to stay put until at least dawn – a police official said. But police Commander Andrew Smith said demonstrators who continued to block downtown streets adjacent to the camp would be subject to [...]
Lee Corso blurted out an expletive starting with the letter ‘F’ during the final ESPN’s College GameDay late Saturday morning. In the show’s final segment, after guest picker, nine-time Olympic gold medalist and Houston alum Carl Lewis picked the Cougars, Corso picked up a large SMU megaphone, indicating he was leaning toward picking the Mustangs [...]