Democrats push for GI Bill expansion
- 05/12/2008 10:14 PM CDT
WASHINGTON | Congressional Democrats are pushing what could become the most dramatic expansion of college aid for military veterans since World War II.
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WASHINGTON | Congressional Democrats are pushing what could become the most dramatic expansion of college aid for military veterans since World War II.
PORTLAND, Ore. | John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday by declaring global warming a reality.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa | Federal immigration agents raided a northeastern Iowa meat-processing plant Monday, arresting more than 300 people.
JERUSALEM | President Bush sets off this week to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday, but the festivities are likely to be muted by the dimming prospects for peace during his administration’s waning months.
Liberal bloggers were taking shots at John McCain for naming Doug Goodyear to manage the ’08 GOP convention. His lobbying firm once represented Myanmar’s military junta. Goodyear’s quit.
WASHINGTON | The Marine Corps far surpassed its recruiting goal last month and could eventually be more than a year ahead of schedule in its plan to increase to 202,000 members.
LOGAN, W.Va. | Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made closing arguments Monday in West Virginia on the eve of the state’s Democratic presidential primary, which Clinton is expected to win handily.
WASHINGTON | Two decades from now Americans could get as much electricity from windmills as from nuclear power plants, according to a government report.
CARLETON, Mich. | A Michigan school owes a million thanks to a fourth-grader. Ten-year-old Andrew Niemi had been collecting pennies since the day after Christmas in 2006. To reach his goal of 1 million, he held fundraisers. He finally picked up his last cent in March.
IN THE NEWS: Scientists decode the genome of the duckbill platypus. Tiny genes aligned and sequenced
SEATTLE | The bone marrow, or stem cell, transplant appears poised to come full circle and finally become more widely available to those who first made it all possible.
WACO, Texas | President Bush spent months joking about being a father of the bride, but on Sunday he was downright wistful about giving his daughter Jenna away to her longtime beau.
WASHINGTON | Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine today as they take their case to a federal court.
WASHINGTON | There’s good news from the government scientists who study pollution in U.S. coastal waters.
ATLANTA | More than half of U.S. adults with diabetes also have arthritis, raising a serious obstacle for diabetics who are urged to exercise, according to a government study.
Columnist Fred Barnes calls the Obama-Clinton face-off “the most exciting, interesting and informative race for a party’s presidential nomination in more than two decades.”
John McCain has been known to say he is “older than dirt” and has “more scars than Frankenstein.”
Guests on today’s TV news shows: •NBC’s “Meet the Press,” 8 a.m. on Channel 27; 9 a.m. on Channel 41 — Guests: Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat; Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton.
HOUSTON | A woman who said she was raped by co-workers while employed by a contractor in Iraq can take her claims to trial, a federal judge has ruled.
CRAWFORD, Texas | Jenna Bush couldn’t see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents.
DURHAM, N.C. | Voter excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof this year.
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Another round of storms moved Tuesday into tornado-ravaged areas of Missouri, Arkansas and several other states where residents are still picking up from the weekend's killer twisters.
Relentless wildfires burned Tuesday morning across Florida's Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses.
The Detroit City Council has spent weeks debating what to do with scandal-plagued Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: force his ouster or slap him on the wrist.
Deputies shot and killed two people who had opened fire near an Indian casino in Southern California and had fired at a sheriff's helicopter as officers chased them into the hills of the reservation.
A mother taken from a polygamist sect and being held as a minor in state custody gave birth Monday to a baby boy who was immediately taken into child-protective custody.
Presumably, she didn't fleece Prince Charles. But a couple of young jet-setters plan to admit in court that other people who crossed their paths unwittingly financed their luxury lifestyle.
Exxon Mobil Corp. asked Monday that Alaska pay $800 million in damages, claiming the state breached a deal when it revoked gas and oil leases on a North Slope oil field.
A Detroit-based group hopes to use empty shipping containers to build a $1.8 million, 17-unit condominium project.
American victims of terrorist attacks in Israel have filed a lawsuit seeking more than $500 million from UBS AG, saying the Swiss bank made it possible for Iran to fund the terrorists.
A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82.
The assignment for Virginia Commonwealth University fashion students: design an abaya, an enveloping cloak worn by Muslim women, that is stylish yet acceptable in Arab countries.
One earned a football scholarship years after burns and lung damage kept him in the hospital for two months. Another poured her grief into preventing other alcohol-fueled crashes and became president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. A third began speaking publicly about the tragedy only after two decades of staring at scars in the mirror.
Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup truck speeding across the barren landscape.
A federal judge in Detroit has dismissed the case of a Muslim woman who sued a judge for demanding she remove her veil in court.
The mother of former NFL player Pat Tillman suspects the military's account of how fellow Army Ranger comrades shot and killed her son in Afghanistan is still not the true story, four years later, according to her new book.
Just over half of 88 hospitals got top marks under a new rating system created by two national gay-rights organizations which hope the standards will result in more compassionate treatment of gay and lesbian patients.
New York farmers say a shift in state policy is making it harder for them to hire experienced seasonal workers through federal guest-worker contracts.
Police are hunting for a serial predator who has been linked to four unsolved attacks on women in Phoenix and nearby Mesa, including two unsolved killings.
Authorities say it appears no one was injured when a small section of a four-story parking deck in Charlotte, N.C., collapsed.
The Environmental Protection Agency planned to check for high lead levels Monday after a deadly tornado blew through a heavily polluted former mining town where lead-filled waste is piled into giant mounds.
Everyone expected Jody Weis to make changes in the Chicago Police Department when he left the FBI to become the first outsider in decades to head the city force.
The three major networks, CNN, Fox News and The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal judge to strike down a South Dakota law that prevents exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place.
Delaware officials say evacuations are in progress in flooded coastal communities.
