After defiant speech, Obama heads to Republican heartland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after delivering a defiant State of the Union speech to the Republican-led U.S. Congress, President Barack Obama hit the road on Wednesday to promote his plans for lifting up the middle class. Obama headed out for a .
At Wichita State forum, words of concern, reassurance after park attack
Emergency kiosks dot the Wichita State University campus. WSU police think the campus is safe despite a crime in which a woman was raped, beaten and set on fire in Fairmount Park about a block south of Wichita States main campus, south of 17th and.
Despite tough primary, Sen. Pat Roberts path to victory in November smoother.
Pat Roberts may be hobbled after a tough Republican primary ��� which saw the U.S. senator win less than 50 percent of the vote ��� but hell still have the easiest path to victory in his four-way race in November, political scientists say. Roberts, R.
Paying students for achievement: Does it work?
KIPP students typically receive 60 percent more instruction than students at other schools due to a longer school day and attend mandatory summer school and a wide range of after-school activities. Keeping students focused during these long school days .
Wolf Creek faces shutdown if fire-damaged generator isnt fixed quickly
The plant, near Burlington, went on alert for about two hours Monday afternoon after fire broke out in one of its emergency generator rooms, according to a statement from the Wolf Creek Operating Corp., which runs the plant on behalf of its owners.
The Observers view on Putins Russia
Whatever he is up to, the fact that all this was happening at the very moment when Putin was meeting Barack Obama, David Cameron and other world leaders at this weekends G20 summit in Brisbane is little short of incredible.. where the legislative.
Teen births and abortions are down, but no one is certain why
���16 and Pregnant��� and its hit spinoff ���Teen Mom��� could have accounted for one-third of the overall drop in teen births in the year and a half following 2009, when the series debuted, according to a study published in January by the National Bureau of.
After defiant speech, Obama heads to Republican heartland.
After defiant speech, Obama heads to Republican heartland. Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) ��� A day after delivering a defiant State of the Union speech to the Republican-led U.S. Congress, President Barack Obama hit the��.
Elections have consequences for hydraulic fracturing
In Pennsylvania, incumbent Republican Gov. Tom Corbett was defeated by his Democratic challenger, Tom Wolf. Pennsylvania sits atop the Marcellus Formation and is the third-largest natural gas producing state in the country, largely because of hydraulic .
Putin plans to cut short visit after West blasts Moscow over Ukraine
In a speech at Brisbanes University of Queensland, Obama insisted that his ���pivot��� of US policy back to Asia was real and here to stay. In the talk, given on the margins of the G20 summit, the president reviewed the stunning economic progress seen in.
After defiant speech, Obama heads to Republican heartland.
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after delivering a defiant State of the Union speech to the Republican-led U.S. Congress, President Barack Obama hit the.
Ebola crisis: Kaci Hickox fights quarantine in Maine
In a test case for returning US health workers, Kaci Hickox has vowed to leave her home on Thursday if the state does not lift the restrictions. President Barack Obama has been sharply critical of isolation being forced on people he says are American.
FDA regulatory expansion jeopardizes public health
E-cigarettes are battery-powered nicotine delivery systems, simulating tobacco smoking by producing a water-vapor plume resembling smoke. New regulations would require product registration, standardized listings of ingredients, government pre-approval .
Oh my: Plurality of Republicans think Mitt Romney should run for president
Scarborough asked him for a RomneyWatch��� update this morning on ���Morning Joe��� and Mitt said that hes not planning on running. Emphasis: Not planning. I wasnt planning my eight thousandth ���will Romney run again?��� post on Hot Air when I woke up this .
Thanks To Islam And Political Correctness: Beheading Hits the Heartland
I dont know why this continues to shock people, because their head wizard beheaded people in his inglorious day and theyre just following his head trail. When I originally floated the aforementioned column last weekend, the predictable and always .
Israels election a referendum on Netanyahu
Despite some ideological feints, he and his Likud Party essentially represent continued occupation and settlement of the West Bank ��� a territory captured in the 1967 war that is the heartland of the would-be Palestinian state.. In a country whose.
After defiant speech, Obama heads to Republican heartland.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ��� A day after delivering a defiant�� State of the Union speech to the Republican-led U.S. Congress, President Barack Obama hit the road on Wednesday to promote his plans for lifting up the middle��.
Two arrested in alleged theft of cheerleading funds
Originally, after reports of the possible theft began emerging in October, police estimated the loss at about $24,000, but Hephner said Thursday that closer to $8,000 to $16,000 is missing. On Wednesday, Bates and her boyfriend, Russell D. Hartlein.
Irans support for Syria tested by oil price drop
Irans economic support for Syria will continue incessantly, said Irans Vice President Eshagh Jahangiri on Tuesday after meeting Halqi, according to Irans state news agency IRNA. But there were no detailed announcements of joint ventures or oil.