By ROB GILLIES and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are promising to make it easier for their respective countries to trade… Read more »
Category: National News
Grassley: Efforts to sway him on Supreme Court won’t work
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley is digging in on Republicans’ decision to block all action on an eventual Supreme Court nominee this… Read more »
Senate approves bipartisan bill bolstering anti-drug efforts
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — The Senate paused Thursday from its nasty partisan clash over the Supreme Court vacancy and easily approved election-year legislation reinforcing government efforts against heroin… Read more »
Early data suggests pedestrian deaths surged in 2015
By JOAN LOWY Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Pedestrian deaths surged by an estimated 10 percent last year as the economy improved, the price of gas plunged and motorists put more miles… Read more »
Medicare to test new payment model for some outpatient drugs
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Medicare proposed a nationwide experiment Tuesday on revamping how the government pays for drugs administered in a doctor’s office, including many cancer treatments. Chief… Read more »
Reid pounds GOP united against Obama Supreme Court choice
By DONNA CASSATA Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is going out punching. Never one to back down from a political fight, the five-term Nevada Democrat has been… Read more »
Obama praises Nancy Reagan as a source of comfort, strength
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — President Barack Obama said he once had the opportunity to meet with former first lady Nancy Reagan, and she could not have… Read more »
Studies: Beyond scales, fitness and body fat key for health
By LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — The bathroom scale may show a good number but how much of that weight is fat, not muscle? New studies are adding… Read more »
Viewer’s Guide: All eyes on Michigan, the big Midwest test
By NANCY BENAC Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Michigan is the crown jewel Tuesday as voters in four states deliver verdicts on the presidential campaign. It’s the first big industrial… Read more »
States seek to stymie hiring suspected sex-predator teachers
By MICHELLE R. SMITH and SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press (HARTFORD, Conn., AP) — It’s called “passing the trash”: A school suspects a teacher of sexual misconduct and forces the teacher out to… Read more »