by Rebecca Cohen | Feb 15, 2011 | Politics
What do George H. W. Bush, Stan Musial and Maya Angelou have in common? The former president, baseball legend and Pulitzer-nominated poet are among 15 people who received the 2010 Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in a presentation ceremony earlier this...
by Nina Lincoff | Feb 15, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON —More than nine years following the mailing of anthrax letters that killed five people and sickened 17, a National Research Council committee reported Tuesday that the F.B.I. overstated the connection between the anthrax in the letters and spores from a...
by Elisa Santana | Feb 15, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner faced heat from House Republicans Tuesday as he sought to defend President Barack Obama’s 2012 budget proposal. A day after the White House unveiled a budget plan for Congress to consider, Geithner faced the...
by Alex Campbell | Feb 15, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican senators lashed out at the White House budget chief during a hearing on Tuesday, with Sen. Jeff Sessions calling President Barack Obama’s proposed budget “a very unserious response to a very serious problem.” Jacob Lew, director of the...
by Elena Schneider | Feb 15, 2011 | Politics
The exhibit celebrates the Italian influence on American culture, including it’s architecture. The central rotunda of the Capitol Building is based on the Pantheon in Rome, Powell said in his speech. (Photo: Elena Schneider/Medill News Service)WASHINGTON —...
by Alex Campbell | Feb 9, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House and Republican House leaders agree: It’s time to trim the budget, scale back useless regulation and be honest with the public about the government’s deficit problem. The devil, of course, is in the details — and the...
by Elisa Santana | Feb 9, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — Testifying to Congress for the first time since Republicans took control of the House, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday he’s confident with the Fed’s fiscal and monetary policies. But he was pressed hard in a series of tough...
by Olivia Marcus & Tal Axelrod | Feb 9, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON—Citing the growing importance of “homegrown” terrorism, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that “in some ways, the threat facing us is at its most heightened state” since attacks on 9/11. While terrorist groups abroad are still...
by Rebecca Cohen | Feb 9, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Lines of protesters, reporters and congressional staff snaked down the halls of the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday and Wednesday as they waited to hear testimony on two bills that would permanently ban federal funding of abortion. Not the...
by Elena Schneider | Feb 8, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama marked the one-year anniversary of her initiative to fight childhood obesity Tuesday, holding public conference calls with program supporters, both to thank and to encourage them. “Just one year later, it’s pretty amazing, for...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Feb 8, 2011 | Business, Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— Influential environmental leaders and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency touted the benefits of “green jobs” on Tuesday. “Environmental protection and economic growth can and do go hand in hand,” EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said...
by Roshan Nebhrajani | Feb 8, 2011 | Politics
Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., will resign from Congress on Feb. 28. After serving more than eight terms, Harman accepted the position of president and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Monday. “Hey, who says women in their 60’s are in...
