Call it the political revenge of the nerds. For nearly eight years, many mainstream scientists have been frustrated with the Bush administration. They've claimed that science has been censored, ignored and politicized on issues from global warming to stem cells to evolution. Even the presidential science adviser was booted from the White House, forced to set up office down the street.
It would have been "business suicide" to cross the powerful Bill Allen, testified the carpenter who renovated Sen. Ted Stevens' home in Alaska and who said he was bullied into not sending the senator a final $13,393 bill.
Much of the heat in a South Carolina congressional race comes from four years ago - a battle over what started as a controlled burn on the farm of Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Brown that spread to a national forest.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said Wednesday she feels a kinship with the moose-hunting, tax-hating voters of New Hampshire who gave John McCain his first primary victory.
Black employees of the U.S. Marshals Service filed a racial discrimination lawsuit Wednesday, saying they have been denied promotions by managers who belittled them as lazy.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign sharply rejected on Wednesday a conservative columnist's report that civil rights leader Jesse Jackson expects Obama to reduce Israel's clout at the White House.
Walk into the storefront headquarters of Obama '08 here offering to volunteer and you might be told to take a hike - to neighboring New Hampshire.
Vice President Dick Cheney was treated "without complication" Wednesday for an abnormal heartbeat, his office said, making a short visit to a hospital to restore his normal rhythm with an electric shock.
Viewed by millions, comedian Sarah Silverman's humorous, profanity-strewn plea for young Jews to persuade their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama is an Internet sensation. Can it turn laughs into votes in swing states like Florida?
Smaller school buses will have to be equipped with lap-and-shoulder seat belts for the first time under a government rule drafted following the deaths of four Alabama students on a school bus that nose-dived off an overpass.
Republican John McCain on Tuesday unveiled $52.5 billion worth of proposals targeting seniors, workers and the unemployed in a bid to get a handle on an economy that's hurting him in the polls.
At the first presidential debate, John McCain ridiculed Congress for approving a $3 million study of DNA in bears.
A factory worker's late inclusion in the Democratic primary election for Missouri governor allowed the state's attorney general to pick up an extra $600,000 in contributions that he'll use to campaign for the office in the general election.
The race in Iowa's flood-ravaged 2nd Congressional District is largely shaping up as a referendum on freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack's ability to deliver aid to the region.
In this crisis, there's no man on a white horse who could inspire trust and confidence to ease financial fears. At first, the government couldn't even find a horse to start dragging the system out of the ditch.
John McCain repeatedly assailed Barack Obama's character and campaign positions on taxes, abortion and more Wednesday night, hoping to transform their final presidential debate into a launching pad for a political comeback. "You didn't tell the American people the truth," he charged.
U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed on a draft security pact that would govern the presence of American troops in Iraq after January, Bush administration officials say, but its final approval is far from certain.
New York's Nassau County once was such a bedrock Republican stronghold that nearly 16,000 admirers of President Nixon gathered in 1972 at the newly opened Nassau County Coliseum for a GOP rally.
John McCain supports background checks for buyers at gun shows and has his name on a law restricting special-interest group advertising, two positions strongly opposed by the National Rifle Association.
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