The debate over the line between religious freedom and federal health care mandates has made its way into Massachusetts’ closely watched U.S. Senate race, with Republican Sen. Scott Brown accusing his chief Democratic rival of wanting to “dictate to religious people about what they should believe.”
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Democrats are deeply divided over President Barack Obama’s new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees amid fresh signs that the administration was scrambling for a way out.
It could be the beginning of the end for No Child Left Behind. The goal was lofty: Get all children up to par in math and reading by 2014. But the nation isn’t getting there, and now some states are getting out.
The idea of government involvement in health care has a long history of riling politicians. “Obamacare,” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has been a hot topic in politics since the previous presidential election, and now, with the 2012 election approaching, things are heating up.
A Baylor assistant professor criticized President Barack Obama’s use of targeted drone strikes in the Middle East at a public lecture Tuesday, prompting praise from the event’s sponsors but vocal disagreement from several audience members, including a former soldier.
On a day that combined two campaigns into one, President Barack Obama on Wednesday challenged Republicans to raise taxes on the rich as GOP rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich swiped at him on the economy and criticized each other over immigration.
In his last State of the Union address before the November elections, President Barack Obama urged members of Congress to pass legislation increasing government expenditures in targeted areas and reforming the federal tax code.
An Idaho man accused of firing shots at the White House pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he tried to assassinate President Barack Obama. A lawyer for Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez entered the plea on his client’s behalf during a brief appearance in U.S. District Court in Washington. Ortega did not say anything during the proceedings and will remain held without bond. He has another court date next month.
All bets are off in this year’s GOP nomination because of the lack of viable candidates.
An Idaho man accused of firing two shots at the White House last week has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama or his staff.
On Monday, the Supreme Court promised an extraordinarily thorough springtime review of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul: more than five hours of argument, unprecedented in modern times. It will come in time for a ruling which could affect millions of Americans just before the presidential election.
The Obama administration said Thursday it is delaying a decision on a massive oil pipeline until it can study new potential routes that avoid environmentally sensitive areas of Nebraska, a move that likely puts off final action on the pipeline until after the 2012 election.
Shouldn’t some of the Republican presidential nominees have dropped out by now?
One by one, five Republican candidates for president took the stage Tuesday in the state that holds the first presidential contest to pitch themselves as the strongest to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama on voters’ top issue: jobs.
On Oct. 21, President Barack Obama announced the end of the war in Iraq.
In the book “WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency,” Micah L. Sifry chronicles the history of the modern transparency movement, pointing out that it has had proponents and detractors on both sides of the aisle. That’s despite the fact that pretty much everyone can agree that a more transparent government is something that would benefit all members of society.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Wednesday that he has “no doubt” that President Barack Obama is an American citizen, staking out a definitive position on the matter after spending several days stoking widely debunked claims that the Democrat was born overseas.
Recognizing college students and recent graduates are facing rising tuition prices and burdensome student loan debt, President Barack Obama announced a plan that seeks to lessen the burden of paying back student loans.
Millions of student loan borrowers will be eligible to lower their payments and consolidate their loans under a plan President Barack Obama intends to announce Wednesday, the White House said.
Joe the Plumber is plunging into politics because he thinks it’s about time America had a few mechanics, bricklayers and, yes, plumbers in Congress.
Republican presidential contenders attacked upstart Herman Cain’s economic plan as a tax increase waiting to happen Tuesday night, moving swiftly in a fiery campaign debate to blunt the former businessman’s unlikely rise in the race for the party’s nomination.
Rolling through small Southern towns Monday in a campaign-style bus, President Barack Obama pressed lawmakers back in Washington to start taking up pieces of his rejected jobs bill and mocked the Republicans who had shot it down. Though the Senate moved to vote soon on an individual bill based on the plan, the proposal seems doomed.
Presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of failing to lead in a time of economic peril but sounded less conservative than his Republican rivals in their debate Tuesday night, defending the 2008-2009 Wall Street bailout and declaring he could work with “good” Democrats.
Concerns over Wall Street practices and economic inequality that have led to sit-ins and rallies in New York and elsewhere reverberated up to the White House on Thursday, with President Barack Obama saying the protesters are expressing the frustrations of the American public.
In the hours following the announcement of Steve Jobs’ death, I was amazed by how many people quickly posted the news on Facebook, expressing their own variations on how much of a loss this was to the world.
Sure, times are changing. Some things aren’t what they used to be. But did you ever think that you’d see the day where the mail didn’t come on Saturday?
The Arizona Legislature is waiting on its governor’s signature for an approved “birther” bill that would require presidential candidates to prove their citizenship before placing their names on the state’s ballot.
On March 30 President Barack Obama stood before Georgetown University and described his plan regarding America’s energy consumption.
News hit Monday that America was taking steps back and sinking into a support role in the ongoing Libyan conflict. Many will balk at the idea of America not jumping directly into the problem and not using its influence and affluence to quickly further democracy.
U.S. House Rep. Bill Flores visited Waco Wednesday afternoon, touring the construction site of the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative and saying he is willing to use his influence to help the program obtain federal grant funding.