Rahm Emanuel is Chicago born and bred, but he has never been seen as one of the city’s towering figures. And that, friends say, is a reason being mayor has been among his biggest ambitions.
Declaring the beginning of the “next phase” of a program to combat childhood obesity, Michelle Obama called on Congress to pass legislation that would make many of the program’s initiatives possible.
The evangelist Franklin Graham joined other religious leaders who are trying to persuade a Florida pastor to drop plans to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11.
A repeal of the Fourteenth Amendment would cause big increases in the population of illegal immigrants, said a report published Wednesday by the Migration Policy Institute.
The state’s Green Party said that it had filed suit asking state election officials to disallow various homeless people and other candidates on the party’s November ballot who had been recruited by Republicans.
Judges can require that the government meet the standard of proof required to obtain wiretaps when requesting cellphone data to track suspects, a federal appeals court ruled.
President Obama, looking to jump-start the economy, called on Congress to approve a far-reaching plan to rebuild and modernize transportation over the next six years.
Last month, for the third time and in the face of a 2006 rebuke from the United States Supreme Court, the court said a white supervisor calling an adult black man “boy” carried no racial overtones.
A Baton Rouge Metro Council member wants the parish to intensify a public-awareness campaign against men who wear their pants so low that their boxer shorts show.
At least two dozen charities that lawmakers or their families helped create or run routinely accept donations from businesses seeking to influence them.
Some economists and analysts urge a dose of shock therapy that would shift benefits to future homeowners from current ones: Let the housing market crash.
Joe Miller was cited in a three-car collision that happened shortly after he took a narrow lead in the Republican primary on Aug. 24. No one was injured.
Donald L. Kohn, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, said that unless the recovery showed signs of “decent progress,” more stimulus might be needed.
In a year of unremitting labor, Democrats now turn toward framing an election-year message on the economy when the economy, under their leadership, is weak.
A conservative advocacy group is undertaking a multi-million-dollar television advertising campaign aimed at ousting Democrats who supported the new health care law.
