• Federal Judge Blocks Parts Of Arizona Immigration Law Play Video

    July 28, 2010

    PHOENIX (AP) - A federal judge stepped into the fight over Arizona's immigration law at the last minute Wednesday, blocking the heart of the measure and defusing a confrontation between police and thousands of activists that had been building for months. Coming just hours before the law was to... more »
  • Sarkozy Orders Illegal Gypsy Immigrants Expelled

    July 28, 2010

    SAINT OUEN, France (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma. Sarkozy called a government meeting Wednesday after Gypsies clashed with... more »
  • Jury Gets Case In Blagojevich Corruption Trial

    July 28, 2010

    CHICAGO (AP) - The judge has said he doesn't expect a quick verdict -- so it could be a long wait before former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (bluh-GOY'-uh-vitch) and his brother learn their fate. Jurors in Chicago have begun deciding whether Blagojevich tried to sell a nomination to President... more »
  • Ousted Ag Official Unsure About Returning To Work

    July 23, 2010

    ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign after a blogger posted comments she made to an NAACP audience about race, is unsure about returning to a government job, she said Friday. President Barack Obama told Sherrod he regretted her forced resignation... more »
  • House Panel Charges Rangel With Ethics Misdeeds

    July 22, 2010

    WASHINGTON (AP) - A House investigative committee has charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, with multiple ethics violations. The charges were announced Thursday. The panel's actions sends the case to a trial on the allegations. A separate ethics panel... more »
  • Seven Republicans Seek Vacant West Virginia Senate Seat

    July 22, 2010

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Seven Republicans are now in the race to challenge West Virginia's popular Democratic governor for the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Robert C. Byrd. The best-known are recent U.S. House candidate Mac Warner, and industrialist John Raese. They enter a field that includes... more »
  • Kennedys give $185K to Democratic candidates

    July 21, 2010

    WASHINGTON (AP) Heirs to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy are giving $155,000 from his campaign account to Democratic House candidates to honor Speaker Nancy Pelosi's role in enacting a landmark health care law. Kennedy's son, retiring Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, said he persuaded the estate's executors that Pelosi... more »
  • Top GOP prospect won't seek Byrd's Senate seat

    July 21, 2010

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) The top GOP prospect for the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's seat said Wednesday she won't run, leaving the state's Democratic governor the clear favorite as his party looks to keep its Senate majority in November. Republican U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito announced she would not enter... more »
  • Conn. Senate dropout reminds voters he's on ballot

    July 21, 2010

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) A candidate who dropped out of Connecticut's U.S. Senate race plans to run a campaign ad reminding voters that he's still on the Republican primary ballot, a fresh sign that he may return. Rob Simmons announced his plans Wednesday to run the 30-second ad beginning this weekend.... more »
  • Flinn's contributions now $2.45M in 8th District

    July 21, 2010

    JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) Memphis radiologist and broadcaster George Flinn has given another $450,000 to his bid for the Republican nomination in the 8th Congressional District on top of the $2 million he spent on his campaign through the first half of the year. The Jackson Sun reports on its website... more »