AP ST. PAUL, Minn. - Al Franken went yesterday from the ranks of former Saturday Night Live comedians to the US Senate, outlasting Republican Norm Coleman in an eight-month-long recount battle and courtroom saga.
Rich Pedroncelli / AP Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles), with Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), responds to a question concerning the cash crisis during a news conference at the Capitol.
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - After days of assuring the public he was firmly in control after admitting a scandalous affair, South Carolina Gov.
The Obama administration granted California permission Tuesday to begin enforcing its stricter auto emissions standards, paving the way for Maryland and other states to also curb tailpipe emissions, ...
The Obama administration sent a detailed proposal to Congress yesterday for creating an agency to oversee nearly all facets of consumer lending, but the breadth of its powers is setting the stage for a fierce clash on ...
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By AP DETROIT (AP) - Gunmen in a minivan opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school on Tuesday, wounding seven, the authorities said.
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Some of the significant cases the Supreme Court decided in its 2008-09 term: REVERSE DISCRIMINATION The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn.
A military review panel recommended Tuesday that National Guard Lt. Dan Choi, the gay Arabic translator who became a national figure in fighting the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy after declaring his sexuality on television, be discharged ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she'd come out ahead if she went one-on-one with fellow jogger President Barack Obama in a long run.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge has denied bail for a former Los Angeles gang member turned anti-gang activist who is accused of still participating in a notorious prison gang.
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Sen. Robert C. Byrd, (DW.Va.), on his 46 birthday yesterday, announced he will seek a second term. Byrd, who si chairman of the Senate District Appropriation subcommittee, was elected to the Senate in 1958.
The Obama administration introduced online tools on Tuesday that will track and analyze the more than $70 billion a year that the federal government spends on information technology.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Republicans will target freshman Rep. Tom Perriello in a new television commercial that criticizes the Virginia Democrat for his recent vote in favor of controversial energy reform legislation.
The White House announced this afternoon that President Obama has directed many members of his Cabinet to begin what it describes as a “listening tour” of rural America this summer, beginning on Wednesday just outside Erie, Pa.
Oakland's City Council whittled and slashed $83 million from the city budget Tuesday night, ending a months-long battle among council members, the mayor, unions and residents.
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If the cost of protecting the president of the United States is public, then why not the cost of protecting San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom - both at home and on the campaign trail as he runs for governor?
This week's rash of retirements by Boston firefighters seeking disability pensions is but one part of a wave of such departures across Massachusetts, as a pair of new state laws that could greatly diminish the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Prosecutors say a white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is in no condition to come to court.
AUSTIN - The special legislative session that starts today includes measures to allow private companies to build more toll roads across the state - an idea opponents have dubbed “the largest ...
Fifteen state legislators from the Bay Area have asked BART management to tamp down the hard-line position taken with its unionized workforce during labor negotiations.
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COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - After days of assuring the public he was firmly in control after admitting a scandalous affair, South Carolina Gov.
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