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WASHINGTON (AP) - House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is promising conservative GOP lawmakers "I'm not John Boehner" as he seeks their support to replace Boehner as speaker.
McCarthy and his two Republican rivals for the speaker's job took turns me...
Updated: Oct 08, 2015 at 06:39 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - At noon on Thursday, Republicans will gather behind closed doors and vote by secret ballot for their candidate for the most powerful job in the House, a post that's second in line to the presidency - Speaker of the House.
The Repub...
Updated: Oct 07, 2015 at 07:01 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - At noon on Thursday, Republicans will gather behind closed doors and vote by secret ballot for their candidate for the most powerful job in the House, a post that's second in line to the presidency - Speaker of the House.
The Repub...
Updated: Oct 05, 2015 at 08:01 PM
DERRY, N.H. (AP) - Inside the arena, the roar was deafening when Hillary Rodham Clinton took the stage at the annual convention of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Thousands of people jumped to their feet to welcome their party's White House fron...
Updated: Oct 05, 2015 at 08:31 AM
Political campaigns often take on romantic undertones: Emails to supporters can sound like dinner-date invitations. The media bills crowded GOP debates as political speed-dating. And who could forget the 2014 Rick Scott ad modeled after "Say Yes to ...
Updated: Oct 05, 2015 at 07:43 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a tumultuous time for House Republicans, and leadership elections this coming week may only heighten the disarray. Dissatisfied lawmakers are casting about for new choices and a surprise longshot challenger is emerging in the ...
Updated: Oct 03, 2015 at 02:31 PM
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that struggling rural regions like coal-dependent southern West Virginia, a once-Democratic stronghold now firmly red, should be the focus of new energy investments and infrastructur...
Updated: Oct 02, 2015 at 10:31 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah plans to run for House speaker in a surprise longshot challenge to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, three Republican aides said Friday, injecting new turmoil into an unsettled House Repub...
Updated: Oct 02, 2015 at 09:31 PM
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Pro-secession parties pushing for Spain's northeastern Catalonia region to break away and form a new Mediterranean nation won a landmark vote Sunday by capturing a majority of seats in the regional parliament, setting up a po...
Updated: Sep 27, 2015 at 07:01 PM
A day after Illinois released its first round of PARCC test scores, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrea Zopp said the exam might need some work.
Zopp, a former Chicago Public Schools board member and Chicago Urban League CEO, said she supports t...
Updated: Sep 18, 2015 at 11:36 AM