Several Members of Congress Have Been Assassinated
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is not the first Congress member to face a violent attack. Some have even lost their lives. The last to be killed was Rep. Leo Ryan of San Francisco. The Democrat was leading...
Clarence Dupnik: The Anti-Joe Arpaio Sheriff in Arizona
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Until Saturday's rampage against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords left her battling for her life and ended the lives of six others, Clarence Dupnik was not the most famous sheriff in Arizona. But after a...
Girl Killed in Giffords Shooting Born on 9/11/01
Christina Taylor Green, the 9-year-old girl killed in the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was born on another sad day for the nation, Sept. 11, 2001. Christina, one of six who died in Saturday's...
Constitution Is Read Line By Almost Every Line on House Floor
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WASHINGTON -- As political theater, the unprecedented reading of the Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives today was mostly lacking in drama. Yes, there was the birther who...
By the Numbers: 10 Random Facts From Statistical Abstract of the US
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WASHINGTON -- New Hampshire has the smallest percentage of poor people of any state, and West Virginia does the best job of raking in lottery revenue. Those are just two of the superlatives scattered...
Six Things About the Religious Persuasion of the New Congress
WASHINGTON -- There may be no atheists in foxholes, but there aren't that many in Congress, either. An analysis by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life on the religious makeup...
Foes of Birthright Citizenship Take Fight to State Legislatures
Eric Gay, AP
WASHINGTON -- The battle over immigration moved to a fresh front today as conservative state lawmakers offered up a new strategy to strip U.S. citizenship from babies born to those in the country...
Pelosi Gets Thumbs Down From 19 Fellow Democrats
WASHINGTON -- It was no surprise that Ohio Rep. John Boehner would be elected speaker of the House in the new Republican-controlled chamber today. What was surprising was that the old speaker, Nancy...
House GOP Might Want to Skip Over Some Parts of Constitution
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WASHINGTON -- It's Constitution Week on Capitol Hill. As the newly divided Congress files into town, incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner is making sure the tea party knows Republicans heard...
Leaders in Both Parties Prepare for First Day of New Congress
Charles Dharapak, AP
WASHINGTON -- Declaring that "everybody has to do more with less," incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor today laid out a Republican agenda of austerity for the 112th Congress that aims to do...
Baby Boomers and Sacrifice: What Will They Do to Save Medicare?
Analysis WASHINGTON -- Baby boomers have long been derided as a bunch of spoiled brats -- a "selfish generation" that pales beside their parents. Yet as the first qualify for Medicare this year,...
Virginia Tech Survivor Is 'Living for 32' in War to Tighten Gun Laws
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WASHINGTON -- Surviving the deadliest shooting massacre in U.S. history wasn't enough to make Colin Goddard an advocate for stricter gun laws. Only when he watched another rampage play out on TV two...
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