Pope Benedict XVI spoke with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Roman Catholic who supports abortion rights and the highest-ranking Democrat to meet with him since the election of President Obama.
In his home state of Illinois, Roland W. Burris faced increasingly harsh criticism over how he was named to President Obama’s former Senate seat.
Crime laboratories around the country are grossly underfunded and lack a scientific foundation, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences.
The top American commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the heightened troop levels that President Obama ordered for Afghanistan could remain in place for as long as five years.
When bad things happen in life, most of us understand that we need to change things to avoid the same bad thing from happening again. For example, if we run up our credit card balances to the point we can’t afford food and rent, then we understand we have to tighten our belts, have discipline, and never return to the same old irresponsible behavior.
Regulation of greenhouse gases by the Environmental Protection Agency would have wide-ranging impact.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is emerging as President Obama’s top choice for secretary of health and human services.
His Afghanistan assessment is similar to Obama’s.
Blunt will be doing a fly-around throughout the state to launch his candidacy.