You gotta wonder what the decision makers at CBS news are smoking over at West 60th. Must be at least a double doobie, based on what they considered to be news for the debut of their new Evening News with Katie Couric Tuesday night.
By MARTIN SCHRAM
It is time for some straight talk about the latest incendiary missiles the U.S. high command is launching at the enemy — politically-loaded phrases such as "cut-and-run."
By DALE McFEATTERS
Every election cycle, politicians, political scientists and reporters vie to characterize a type of voter who epitomizes a vital swing bloc.
By STEVEN WINE
U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris overcame a campaign ridiculed even by her own party to easily claim the GOP nomination for the Senate on Tuesday, and Rep. Jim Davis won the Democratic nomination to succeed popular Gov. Jeb Bush.
Harris next faces an uphill battle against incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, who had no primary challenger.
By JAY PRICE
Raleigh News & Observer
Brain injuries are so common among U.S. troops that they’re called the signature injury of the Iraq war, but Congress is poised to cut military spending on researching and treating them.
President George W. Bush, unleashing the same inflammatory rhetoric he used last week to compare terrorists with fascists, Tuesday cast Osama bin Laden in the same mold as Adolph Hitler as he tried once again to mix Iraq, sectarian insurgents and al-Qaida into a terrorist stew.
Congress may be facing a heavy legislative load as it returns from its annual monthlong August recess, but the business at hand Tuesday was nothing more than politics as usual.
By STEPHANIE GRIFFITH
Lawmakers in the US Congress returned this week from their summer hiatus for four frantic weeks dominated by security issues, before breaking to campaign for November’s midterm elections.
By JIM KUHNHENN
Candidates are touting their political independence, blaming incumbents for high gas prices and warning moderate voters of a possible liberal takeover of Congress in a current wave of advertising that is revealing some themes for the final weeks before Election Day.
Under a plan devised by Bush political guru Karl Rove, Republicans funneled millions of dollars into the primary campaign of Democrat Joe Lieberman, a conservative online magazine reports.