The campaign headquarters for Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney was burglarized over the weekend and a television and computers stolen
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Caregivers direct their newfound clout at the political process as well as working conditions.
Nurses aren't just taking orders anymore.
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Schwarzenegger says he will reject a measure passed by Democrats and will call a special legislative session to seek a compromise.
SACRAMENTO -- The Legislature on Monday passed a Democratic plan to overhaul California's healthcare system, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would veto it and call a special session this fall to work out a compromise.
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The Democrat's presidential campaign is refunding $850,000 linked to Norman Hsu, caught up in allegations of running a Ponzi scheme.
-- Confronted with the possibility that disgraced fundraiser Norman Hsu might be running an illicit investment scheme, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign announced late Monday that it was returning $850,000 from 260 donors associated with Hsu.
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Democrats may lose momentum in their push for a big pullout; the GOP could face public anger over the troops that stayed.
-- With his proposal to end the troop "surge" by next summer, the top U.S. commander in Iraq may have upended the debate in the Capitol, causing both parties to recalibrate their positions.
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Sen. Larry Craig filed papers Monday seeking to withdraw his guilty plea in an airport sex sting, arguing that he entered the plea under stress caused by media inquiries into his sexuality.
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U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Chicago) officially launched his re-election campaign Sunday.
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Wheaton College is naming a new public-policy center after a famous alumnus, former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
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Setting the stage for yet another showdown with the Bush administration over Iraq policy, top Senate Democratic leaders vowed to fight plans to withdraw roughly 30,000 troops from Iraq, saying those plans do not go far enough
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Republican Mitt Romney denounced a Web site that was bitingly critical of GOP rival Fred Thompson's personal life and political career, calling it "juvenile and offensive"
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Norman Hsu was booked into the Mesa County jail in Colorado Wednesday after leaving a hospital where he had stayed after failing to show up for a bail hearing last week in California.
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Senate Democrats will block Ted Olson from succeeding Alberto Gonzales as attorney general if President Bush nominates him, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday
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Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner plans to seek a Senate seat in Virginia next year, officials said Wednesday.
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Though the former N.Y. mayor leads the GOP field nationwide, a poll shows him trailing in three early-voting states. Clinton maintains a solid lead.
WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani has been well ahead of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in nationwide polls, but he is far weaker in the crucial states that will cast early votes in the nominating process next year, according to a new Los Angeles Times/ Bloomberg poll that underscores how unsettled the GOP race remains.
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State Legislature works into the early hours to get measures passed.
Entertainment conglomerate Anschutz Entertainment Group, a major political contributor, would be eligible for millions of dollars in state housing funds under a measure lawmakers approved early today as they moved toward adjournment for the year.
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Clinton and Edwards plan to conduct criminal background checks on major donors. And more money will be returned.
WASHINGTON — The thorny question of tainted contributions -- and how to check for them -- gripped several election campaigns Tuesday in the wake of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision to return $850,000 raised by disgraced political patron Norman Hsu.
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Congress moves to block a Bush administration program that allows Mexican freight-haulers to operate throughout the U.S.
-- Congress on Tuesday moved to block the Bush administration from allowing Mexican trucks to travel throughout the United States, setting up a collision with the White House and possibly straining relations with Mexico.
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Mayor Richard Daley, known for taking early morning rides along the lakefront, just loves bicycles, and he delights in getting ideas from other cities.
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Mayors and state legislators nationwide have weighed in on the obesity crisis by targeting fast-food companies and the way they cook and market their burgers and chicken. But looming behind every effort to coax the public into eating healthier has been a big question:
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Accord hastens plan to borrow $1.2 billion
In a rare display of cooperation this year, Illinois' top elected officials resurrected a program aimed at steering $1.2 billion to the state's poorest hospitals, some of which have delayed vital safety projects and borrowed money to cover payroll costs while waiting for their share of the aid.
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday filed a second lawsuit in his continuing battle with Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, this time in an attempt to force action on his recent budget vetoes.
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A group of disabled protesters staged a blockade within the State of Illinois office building in the Loop for more than five hours Tuesday while their leaders and state officials negotiated issues of concern to the disabled.
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President Bush plans to reduce troop levels in Iraq by 5,700 by the end of December, and wants to draw down from 20 combat brigades there now to 15 brigades there by next summer, Bush said in a preview of his speech with network anchors Thursday
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President Bush's job rating remains low but it's up to its highest level in five months while nearly half of Americans think the surge led to improvements in Iraq.
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The saga of the scandal-plagued Democratic fundraiser with ties to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton took another strange twist after he mailed a suicide note last week to a legal organization
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Majority of Americans say they would prefer Rudy Giuliani in the White House over Hillary Clinton if another terrorist attack happened in the United States, FOX News poll finds.
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The government's climate change research is threatened by spending cuts that will reduce scientists' observations from space and on the ground, a study says
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When he campaigned for mayor, he vowed to fix the schools, cut crime and boost the economy. Today, the city is safer and has more jobs. But New York City schools remain troubled.
-- Rudolph W. Giuliani made New Yorkers three promises when he campaigned for mayor in the early 1990s: He would fix troubled schools, cut crime and boost the economy.
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Deep ideological splits in the Legislature stymie the governor on key goals. Decisions on major issues such as healthcare may end up before voters.
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's vow to create a "post-partisan" string of accomplishments for California this year succumbed to the Capitol's entrenched ideological divides, resulting in a legislative session that by many measures was the least fruitful of the governor's tenure.
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The constitutional scholar says university officials told him the deal to head the new school was off because he was too 'politically controversial.'
In a showdown over academic freedom, a prominent legal scholar said Wednesday that UC Irvine's chancellor had succumbed to conservative political pressure in rescinding his contract to head the university's new law school, a charge the chancellor vehemently denied.
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Attempts in Congress to shift U.S. policy without setting a troop pullout deadline win more GOP support, apply pressure to Bush.
-- For the first time, congressional Democrats are moving close to winning significant Republican support for legislation to challenge the way President Bush is managing the war in Iraq.
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$24 million stopgap plan is offered by Blagojevich
The CTA agreed to accept $24 million in stopgap state funding Wednesday to avert the "doomsday" service cuts and fare hikes set to take effect next week, but the cash advance only puts the agency in a deeper financial hole.
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Former President Clinton starred at a Bethesda, Md., fundraiser Wednesday night, turning his glitter into an expected $500,000 in gold for wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, money that will go into her campaign treasure chest
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday raised the possibility of cutting U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 100,000 or so by the end of next year, well beyond the cuts President Bush has approved
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