If Pope Benedict XVI is trying to dig the Catholic Church out of the sex abuse scandal, he only seems to be making the hole deeper. That’s the apparent consensus after it was reported that the pope has rejected the resignations of two bishops in Ireland who asked to quit last December after they were [...]
A lawsuit by an independent candidate for state Assembly in Wisconsin to use a racially charged phrase next to her name on the ballot was rejected Wednesday by a federal judge because she had based her action on the wrong grounds, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Ieshuh Griffin is running against three Democrats in [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi left no doubt Thursday that she is not interested in extending the Bush-era income tax cuts for high earners — now set to expire in at the end of the year. “I believe the high-end tax cuts did not create any jobs, increased the deficit and should be repealed,” she said. [...]
Airgas on Wednesday rejected a sweetened buyout offer from its competitor, Air Products and Chemicals, and reported that its fiscal first-quarter earnings rose 18 percent, The Associated Press reports. The industrial gas maker also increased its quarterly dividend and raised its earnings forecast for the year. More from The Associated Press: Air Products offered to [...]
Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho) is in a class by himself. He’s the only Democratic candidate to be endorsed by the Tea Party Express. But it’s a distinction Minnick has rejected, telling the conservative group he no longer wants its backing after a controversial blog post by Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams made the rounds [...]
The Obama administration’s attempt to impose a six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico has suffered another setback in federal court. A three-judge panel in New Orleans upheld a lower court Thursday, ruling that the Interior Department did not show the government would be hit with “irreparable injury” if the [...]
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