Senate immigration fight looms
WASHINGTONAfter seven months of steadily building momentum, the push for a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration system enters its most crucial phase this week in the Senate, where Republicans...
View ArticleHouse Republicans embrace anti-abortion fight
WASHINGTONAfter Republicans lost the presidential election and seats in both the House and the Senate last year, many in the party offered a stern admonishment: if we want to broaden our appeal, steer...
View ArticleSupreme Court strikes key to Voting Rights Act
WASHINGTONThe Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, ruling that Congress had not provided adequate justification for subjecting...
View ArticleSupreme Court expands gay rights
WASHINGTONThe Supreme Court issued a pair of rulings Wednesday expanding gay rights, ruling unconstitutional a 1996 law denying federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples and clearing the way...
View ArticlePublic opinion leads to shift
LOS ANGELESWhen proponents of same-sex marriage decided nearly five years ago to bring their legal battle before the Supreme Court, the decision set off a spasm of anxiety among many gay leaders...
View ArticleSenate passes immigration bill
WASHINGTONThe Senate on Thursday approved the most significant overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws in a generation with broad bipartisan support, sending the bill to the Republican-controlled...
View ArticleRoberts pulls court to right
WASHINGTONViewed in isolation, the Supreme Court term that just ended had elements of modesty. The court declined to do away with affirmative action, gave Congress another shot at salvaging the Voting...
View ArticleGOP groups support Rubio on immigration
WASHINGTONFox News viewers in Florida will see a new commercial in the coming weeks urging them to call Senator Marco Rubio. “Thank him for keeping his promise, and fighting to secure the border,” a...
View ArticleGeorge H.W. Bush honored
WASHINGTONIn a homecoming tinged with nostalgia and an unspoken sense of farewell, President Obama on Monday welcomed his oldest living predecessor, George Bush, to the White House, where the two men,...
View ArticleFlorida voter roll purge resumes
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, newly empowered by the United States Supreme Court's ruling in June that struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act, has ordered state officials to resume a fiercely...
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Unease at Clinton foundation over finances and ambitions
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and AMY CHOZICK New York Times News ServiceSoon after the 10th anniversary of the foundation bearing his name, Bill Clinton met with a small group of aides and two lawyers from...
View ArticleQ&A: Finding your way through the shutdown
By BRIAN KNOWLTON and ANDREW SIDDONS New York Times News Service The shutdown of the federal government has created widespread confusion. Here are some questions and answers about its specific and...
View ArticleKoch group goes local
CORALVILLE, IowaElection seasons in this small eastern Iowa town are usually cordial affairs. But this year, a group backed by the billionaire Koch brothers has changed that.The group, Americans for...
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Florida House race sets stage for 2014
CLEARWATER -- For as long as most people here can remember, Representative C. W. Bill Young presided over this slice of Florida's west coast, tending assiduously to veterans and retirees, crystalline...
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Wounded veteran in spotlight
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSWounded veteran Cory Remsburg had met President Barack Obama three times before Tuesday night— once in France and twice since a roadside bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on his 10th...
View ArticleBipartisan effort to block, repeal or delay flood insurance rate hikes
There is an enthusiastic move to gut the once-popular Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act.... Read more »
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Congressman Henry Waxman to retire
Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., whose 40 years in the House produced some of the most important legislation of the era, will announce Thursday that he is retiring at the end of the year.Waxman, 74,...
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In suit over car repairs, a move to bill the public
By MICHAEL VAN SICKLER, Times/Herald Tallahassee BureauTALLAHASSEE Taxpayers may help foot the bill for a bitter legal battle between a consortium of the nation's largest auto manufacturers and...
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Jeb Bush's money ties scrutinized
As it sought to recruit well-heeled investors, an untested and unprofitable Miami company named InnoVida brought aboard a trusted Florida figure in 2007: Jeb Bush, the former governor and the brother...
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Jeb Bush’s 2016 flirtations test loyalty of Christie backers
By MICHAEL BARBARO and NICHOLAS CONFESSOREJeb Bush’s increasingly serious and public examination of a run for president is shaking up the ranks of establishment Republican donors and fundraisers who...
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