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Biden: Obama 'flexibility' flap shows Romney flaws
WASHINGTON (AP) - To hear Vice President Joe Biden tell it, the flap over President Barack Obama's prediction of postelection "flexibility" with Russia says more about the inexperience and slipperiness of Republican candidate Mitt Romney than it does about the commander in chief. Biden tells...
Obama postpones many issues until elections photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Missile defense isn't the only area in which President Barack Obama will have "more flexibility" if he's re-elected. Immigration, the Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, gay marriage, tax policy and other issues could invite bold initiatives by a president who knows he will never run...
Obama warns of impact of Mexican violence
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is warning that the level of violence in Mexico could have a "deteriorating effect" on U.S.-Mexican relations but is crediting Mexico's president for his efforts to curb the violence. Obama says his administration has worked to stop illegal gun trading and...
Obama confident health care law will be upheld
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama offered a firm defense of his health care law, saying Monday he remains confident that the law will be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and warning that "unelected" justices should not overturn the will of Congress. "We are confident that this will be...
US faces limited options on North Korea
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite tough talk from President Barack Obama, the United States and its allies have limited options if North Korea goes ahead with its planned long-range rocket launch this month. Washington is likely to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council, analysts say, and could...
US, Mexican leaders trade warnings on gun violence photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - The explosion of drug-fueled violence along Mexico's border with the United States could harm relations between the two nations, President Barack Obama said Monday; Mexico's leader retorted that much of the problem of drugs and guns begins on the U.S. side of the line. In the...
president, white house, and advisor news Apr 4, 4:28 pm (ET)
Obama to sign bill Wednesday on insider trading
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is ready to sign legislation prohibiting members of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal workers from engaging in insider trading. The bill signing highlights a day in which Obama will also deliver remarks at the Easter Prayer Breakfast at...
Obama: GOP 'doubling down' on faulty policies
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says a budget plan presented by House Republicans represents a "doubling down" on a failed economic policy. In a speech before newspaper executives, Obama says a $3.5 trillion budget plan pushed by House Republicans is "so far to the right, it makes the...
NYT: Romney team sees plus in Gingrich's persistence [external]
• Voter ID Laws: Are They Necessary to Stop Fraud? [external]
• How much would Keystone pipeline help US consumers? [external]
• NYT: US should help Syria rebels, McCain says [external]
• NYT: Obama offers to cut corporate tax rate to 28% [external]
• NYT: Final fight for Super Tuesday blue-collar vote [external]
• NYT: GOP sees chance to hit Obama on gas prices [external]
• NYT: Romney reopens whatever-it-takes playbook [external]
The 2012 GOP presidential field [external]
A look at the Republican candidates hoping to challenge Barack Obama in the general election.
The supercommittee on deficit reduction [external]
A look at the 12 lawmakers tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts by Nov. 23.
political news Apr 3, 9:10 am (ET)
NYT: When slim hopes become GOP problem [external]
The Santorum campaign openly acknowledges that the odds for the capturing the nomination look high. But they are digging in for another month of hard campaigning at least.
NYT: Obama tours four states to defend energy policy [external]
The president will try to counter Republican resistance to alternative energy subsidies at the expense of oil and gas.
Romney makes inroads with the right in Wis., Md
• Gingrich vows to stay in GOP campaign until Tampa
• Judge upset by Obama's comments on health care law
• Obama: Reagan could not survive in 'radical' GOP
• Cheney out of hospital after getting new heart
• A Romney sweep: He takes Wisconsin, Maryland, DC
• Romney's focus on Obama brings new challenges
• Romney halfway to clinching GOP nomination
• IMF chief wants 'more firepower' to fight crises
• Obama: GOP 'doubling down' on faulty policies
Santorum says GOP contest only at halftime photo
MARS, Pa. (AP) - Republican Rick Santorum said Tuesday night his presidential campaign would continue despite triple losses to rival Mitt Romney in primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia. "There are no marching bands. We're hitting the field. The clock starts tonight,"...
Hatch: Obama might attack Romney on Mormon faith photo
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Democratic leaders on Wednesday dismissed Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch's warning to supporters that Democrats might attack the Mormon faith of Mitt Romney during the presidential campaign. The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of...
GOP campaign: What we learned photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans in the District of Columbia, in Wisconsin and in Maryland gave Mitt Romney a trio of wins Tuesday that put him closer to clinching his party's presidential nomination. We learned a few things, too: ___ Republicans increasingly view Romney as their nominee. Four in...
mccain???? hmmm; GOP's McCain to Santorum: Time for 'graceful exit' photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. John McCain says Rick Santorum should recognize "it's time for a graceful exit" from the Republican presidential campaign in the wake of Mitt Romney's sweep of primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia. McCain also tells "CBS This Morning" there's a...
Romney builds insurmountable lead in primary sweep photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney won nearly all the convention delegates a three-primary sweep, adding to a lead that will be insurmountable without a dramatic shift in the race for the Republican nomination for president. With 95 delegates at stake Tuesday, the former Massachusetts governor picked...
FACT CHECK: Romney, Obama gloss over realities photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of inflicting a "government takeover of health care" on Americans, even though Obama's law is closely modeled on the plan Romney achieved in Massachusetts. Romney's speech to news leaders,...
Romney says Obama is distorting GOP budget plan photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama is misrepresenting GOP budget priorities as both men gear up for the fall election. Romney told newspaper editors and publishers Wednesday that Obama is exaggerating the likely impact of a House Republican budget plan Romney...
Rubio: 'I'm not going to be vice president' photo
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says Republican Mitt Romney will win the White House, but not with Rubio on the ticket. Rubio was asked about his prospects during an appearance Wednesday in Palm Beach Gardens. He said: "I'm not going to be the vice president." The tea...
Analysis: Obama's incumbency vs. Romney's hurdles photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Reality has smacked Mitt Romney in the face. President Barack Obama used the power of the presidency Tuesday to ring the general election's opening bell, declaring in no uncertain terms that he and his mammoth organization are ready to take on Romney - whether the presumptive GOP...
political news Apr 4, 11:33 pm (ET)
Romney accuses Obama of 'hide-and-seek' campaign photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney unleashed a strong attack on President Barack Obama's truthfulness Wednesday, accusing him of running a "hide-and-seek" re-election campaign designed to distract voters from his first-term record while denying them information about his plans for a second. Addressing...
Republicans try to shut down talk of becoming VP photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tag. I'm not it. Republicans considered to be up-and-comers are scrambling to declare a lack of interest in becoming Mitt Romney's running mate, taking themselves off the still-forming short list of would-be vice presidents. With Romney poised to win the GOP nomination in June,...
Wounded student describes chaos in California classroom [external]
• California pastor pleads not guilty in torture of 13-year-old boy [external]
• Cops confirm intended target in shooting at California school [external]
• Montana bus driver suspended, allegedly kissed student [external]
• Reality show hunting couple struck with federal charges [external]
• Five former New Orleans cops sentenced in Hurricane Katrina shootings [external]
• How you can help Texas tornado victims [external]
• New York mom accused of feeding peanuts to allergic 8-year-old faces murder charge [external]
• Source: No evidence of child endangerment by Fox News reporter [external]
http://news.myway.com/index/id/national%7Cfox.html
Oregon man gets prison for massive corn fraud that 'undermined' organic food market [external]
<p>An Oregon man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for selling 4.2 million pounds of corn that was falsely labeled as organically grown, according to a statement from the Oregon U.S. Attorney’s Office.</p><p><a...
College official reportedly says she was target in California school shooting [external]
<p>The nursing program director at the California Christian college where a gunman went on a shooting rampage says she thinks she was the suspect's intended target.</p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a4qT7n4k9rgoqNFWPsPivpVXBtg/0/da"><img...
Delta attendant pulled from NY-to-Atlanta flight [external]
<p>Delta Airlines says it has pulled a flight attendant from a Buffalo, N.Y.-to-Atlanta flight because a security screener thought he was acting erratically and might not be fit to fly.</p><p><a...
Mother of boy killed in bizarre California mansion death sues for autopsy photos [external]
<p>The mother of a 6-year-old boy who fell to his death inside a historic San Diego Bay mansion has reportedly sued the county for his autopsy photos.</p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HjuaxEs3Rj7VSQEVZd1CGi8JkLI/0/da"><img...
Idaho man with name tattoo tries to lie to police [external]
<p>A 19-year-old Idaho man with his last name tattooed on his forearm apparently tried to give police a fake name and was arrested.</p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zueo60CTNO5wrQo3h3iyDKJ6CWc/0/da"><img...
Body found in Illinois not that of Lauren Spierer, report says [external]
<p>Indiana police investigating the disappearance of college student Lauren Spierer are awaiting DNA results of skeletal remains found in Illinois.</p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aimyrHGzhA7fOj9WOB7ndk6cd3s/0/da"><img...
Man sues after being restricted from passing out Bibles at gay pride parade [external]
<p>A man who has passed out Bibles at a Minnesota gay pride parade for years is suing after city officials restricted him from giving out the book at this year's event.</p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3MPARCzoc_iEPuKHcb3dwsIZziE/0/da"><img...
Evicted 101-year-old Detroiter gets her home back [external]
<p>Baking cookies never seemed as sweet for 101-year-old Texana Hollis as it did on Wednesday, when she tearfully was allowed back into the home her husband bought after World War II following her eviction seven months ago.</p><p><a...
Was $12,000 a restaurant tip or drug money? [external]
<p>A waitress in Minnesota is suing over $12,000 left at her restaurant table that she believes is a tip, but police say is drug money.</p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Se9NtgPzn8GYi5a-51PoSf9Ug5U/0/da"><img...
national news Apr 4, 11:19 pm (ET)
Suspect in California school shooting charged with 7 counts of murder [external]
<p>Prosecutors have filed seven murder charges against the man accused of a fatal shooting rampage at a California Christian college.</p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HLyUWeinO8ZGZFOP1G-YPkwGZ_Y/0/da"><img...
7 hurt when Tampa to Houston jet hits turbulence [external]
<p>Five passengers and two flight attendants have been hurt after a flight from Tampa, Fla., to Houston hit severe turbulence over Louisiana.</p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/34Hy1YpFoA1Kiqu1K5wvHCyIl5E/0/da"><img...
no one is right but obama? Obama, in Talk, Calls House G.O.P. Budget the Work of Rightist Radicals [external]
• Budget Plan’s Defeat Shows Hurdles to Compromise [external]
• Detroit, Staggering With Debt, Now Struggles With a Rescue Plan [external]
• Tornadoes Tear Through Dallas-Fort Worth Area [external]
• Agency Trip to Las Vegas Is the Talk of Washington [external]
• Looking Ahead, Republicans Examine Options in Health Care Fight [external]
• Santorum’s Fight to Stay Relevant [external]
• Anti-American Egyptian Candidate May Be Tripped Up by Mother’s U.S. Ties [external]
• Payoff for Efficient Cars Takes Years [external]
http://news.myway.com/index/id/national%7Cnyt.html
Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Gay Marriage Law [external]
The case, whose arguments were heard in Boston on Wednesday, is the first challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act to reach a federal appeals court.
Anchorage Voters Reject Addendum on Gay Rights [external]
With much of the vote counted on Tuesday, voters in Alaska’s largest city appeared to decisively reject Proposition 5.
Gene Studies of Autism Point to Mutations and Parents’ Age [external]
Scientists have for the first time homed in on several gene mutations that they say sharply increase the chances of autism, and have found that the risk increases with the age of the parents, particularly the father.
Santorum Sees Long Campaign Road Ahead, but Many See Dead End [external]
Advisers to Rick Santorum acknowledged that the road ahead is a lot steeper and more pot-holed now after Mitt Romney’s three-primary sweep on Tuesday.
After a Rollicking Primary, a Different Kind of Fight in November [external]
The volatile Republican nominating contest is not likely to be followed by a volatile general election fight with President Obama.
Census Data Offers Look at Effects of Recession [external]
The economic recovery has not revived population growth in the formerly booming exurbs.
Romney Says Obama Hides His Agenda [external]
Mitt Romney said that President Obama’s recent remarks call “his candor into serious question.”
Court’s Potential to Goad Voters Swings to Democrats [external]
Strategists in both parties are suggesting a possible reversal of the Republican impetus in many past presidential elections.
Ryan, Architect of G.O.P. Budget, in Election Focus for Romney Ties [external]
Both Mitt Romney and President Obama are seizing on the Republican House budget, and its ambitious young architect, Representative Paul D. Ryan, as a defining issue of the unfolding campaign.
Untangling a Border Could Leave a Mess for Some [external]
As a team works to restore the North Carolina-South Carolina border to the original 1772 lines, some worry about the consequences.
how do that stuff? who wins?
national news Apr 4, 10:30 pm (ET)
5 Ex-Officers Sentenced in Post-Katrina Shootings [external]
The former New Orleans police officers were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 38 to 65 years for their roles in the deadly shootings of unarmed residents and for a cover-up afterward.
http://news.myway.com/index/id/national%7Cnyt.html
Former S. Dakota Sen. George McGovern hospitalized
• Nursing director thinks she was target of shooter
• 5 ex-cops sentenced in Katrina killings case
• Texas residents sift through rubble from tornadoes
• Ex-Soviet arms dealer faces possible life sentence
• Disappearance of 2 Fla. men gets new attention
• Calls show residents panicked over Colo. wildfire
• Detroit gives state powers to help rescue finances
• Wis. woman sounds calm as she lands stricken plane
• Some Hispanics want to tell more about background
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20120405/D9TUFAJ82.html
playing with the supreme judges? impeach all of obama's thugs;
Holder: Justice Department will respond to judge
Apr 4, 9:28 PM (ET)
By CARLA K. JOHNSON
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20120405/D9TUFAJ82.html
CHICAGO (AP) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will respond "appropriately" to a federal appellate judge in Texas who demanded a letter recognizing federal courts' authority to strike down laws passed by Congress.
Holder spoke a day after 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jerry Smith questioned President Barack Obama's remarks this week about an "unelected" court possibly striking down the president's health care overhaul. Smith, during oral arguments in a separate challenge to the health law, asked the Justice Department for a three-page, single-spaced letter affirming the federal court's authority.
When asked during a Wednesday news conference in Chicago what an appropriate response to Smith would be, Holder said, "I think what the president said a couple of days ago was appropriate. He indicated that we obviously respect the decisions that courts make."
"Under our system of government ... courts have the final say on the constitutionality of statutes," Holder said. "The courts are also fairly deferential when it comes to overturning statutes that the duly elected representatives of the people, Congress, pass."
The White House, meanwhile, struggled for a third day to explain Obama's original remark that a Supreme Court reversal of the case would be "unprecedented."
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters in Washington that Obama does not regret using that word, and he insisted Obama was not trying to bully the justices by weighing in before the case is decided.
"It's the reverse of intimidation," Carney said during a lengthy defense of Obama's comments. "He's simply making an observation about precedent and the fact that he expects the court to adhere to that precedent."
A reversal would not be unprecedented, even under the very narrow terms Obama and his spokesman later attached to his comments, but it would be very unusual.
Obama had sought to clarify his remarks under questioning at The Associated Press annual meeting on Tuesday. There, Obama said he was referring only to a specific class of constitutional law, and to the pattern of judicial deference to Congress exemplified by the upholding of New Deal legislation in the 1930s.
Carney on Wednesday said Obama's remarks were the object of criticism "only because a handful of people didn't seem to understand what he was referring to."
Carney also repeated Holder's assurance that the Justice Department would comply with the Texas judge's demand for a letter of explanation.
Smith on Tuesday had seemed to take offense to comments Obama made Monday that he didn't believe the Supreme Court would take the "unprecedented" step of overturning a law passed by a strong majority of Congress. He said he wanted reassurance that Holder and the Justice Department recognized judicial authority.
"The letter needs to be at least three pages, single spaced, no less and it needs to be specific. It needs to make specific reference to the president's statements," Smith said during a case brought in part by a spine and joint hospital in East Texas that is challenging the constitutionality of a portion of the health care law.
Smith's office in Houston said Wednesday the judge would not be commenting on the issue because the case before his court still is pending. Smith, a native Texan, was nominated to the appeals court by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the Senate in 1987.
In Chicago, Holder said he's confident the Supreme Court will find the Affordable Care Act constitutional "given the adequate, able representation" the law had during arguments before the justices. He said Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. "did a great job."
Speaking at the same Chicago press conference during a meeting on health care fraud prevention, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said her department is continuing to implement the health care law without contingency plans for a Supreme Court ruling against it.
If the court rules against the law, Sebelius said, "we'll make efforts to deal with that. But at this point, to lay out the range of options and spend a lot of time and energy on what-ifs is not a very productive use of our time."
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Associated Press writers Anne Gearan in Washington and Juan Lozano in Houston contributed to this report.
Romney accuses Obama of 'hide-and-seek' campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney unleashed a strong attack on President Barack Obama's truthfulness Wednesday, accusing him of running a "hide-and-seek" re-election campaign...
Al Lewis: Dude, people just don’t want to eat pink slime
If you want to stay in the food business, you better sell customers what they want to eat, Al Lewis reports. And they definitely don’t want to eat pink slime, no matter what you call it, dude.
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ky haz spending problems prior to Rand I think. Everyone on welfare rooting for banker cartel receivership.. They all have no clue what awaits..
Obama wants tax breaks for oil companies stopped
• White House: No contingencies for health care law
• 2012 election far off but inaugural plans begin
• Michelle Obama to speak at 3 college graduations
• Children help first lady plant White House garden
• Aide: Obama reacted as parent to Florida shooting
• Obama calls for end of transportation showdown
• Obama heads to SKorea for nonproliferation summit
• Jim Kim: Obama makes surprise pick for World Bank
• Obama: 'If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon'
impeach v.p. also playing dictator to supreme court; Biden confident high court will affirm health care photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden says he's confident the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of the health care law. Biden says in an interview taped for CBS's "Face the Nation" that "we think the mandate and the law are constitutional and we think the court will rule that...
High court has options on health care law photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - The arguments are done and the case has been submitted, as Chief Justice John Roberts says at the end of every Supreme Court argument. Now the justices will wrestle with what to do with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. They have a range of options, from upholding...
Obama: Oil supply enough to keep squeeze on Iran photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said Friday he was plowing ahead with potential sanctions against countries that keep buying oil from Iran, including allies of the United States, in a deepening campaign to starve Iran of money for its disputed nuclear program. The world oil market is...
First lady attends fundraiser in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama has appeared at a presidential campaign reception at San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Joe Garofoli, the pool reporter for Friday night's event, says the first lady was introduced by California Attorney...
Obama postpones many issues until elections photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Missile defense isn't the only area in which President Barack Obama will have "more flexibility" if he's re-elected. Immigration, the Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, gay marriage, tax policy and other issues could invite bold initiatives by a president who knows he will never run...
Biden: Obama 'flexibility' flap shows Romney flaws
WASHINGTON (AP) - To hear Vice President Joe Biden tell it, the flap over President Barack Obama's prediction of postelection "flexibility" with Russia says more about the inexperience and slipperiness of Republican candidate Mitt Romney than it does about the commander in chief. Biden tells...
Obama confident health care law will be upheld
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama offered a firm defense of his health care law, saying Monday he remains confident that the law will be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and warning that "unelected" justices should not overturn the will of Congress. "We are confident that this will be...
Obama warns of impact of Mexican violence
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is warning that the level of violence in Mexico could have a "deteriorating effect" on U.S.-Mexican relations but is crediting Mexico's president for his efforts to curb the violence. Obama says his administration has worked to stop illegal gun trading and...
US, Mexican leaders trade warnings on gun violence photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - The explosion of drug-fueled violence along Mexico's border with the United States could harm relations between the two nations, President Barack Obama said Monday; Mexico's leader retorted that much of the problem of drugs and guns begins on the U.S. side of the line. In the...
Wary of activist court, Obama defends health law photo
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Monday issued a rare, direct challenge to the Supreme Court to uphold his historic health care overhaul, weighing in with a vigorous political appeal for judicial restraint. He warned that overturning the law would hurt millions of Americans and amount...
president, white house, and advisor news Apr 3, 1:04 pm (ET)
US faces limited options on North Korea
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite tough talk from President Barack Obama, the United States and its allies have limited options if North Korea goes ahead with its planned long-range rocket launch this month. Washington is likely to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council, analysts say, and could...
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