Displaying items 97-108 of 391
» View herald-mail.com items only
< Previous
•
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-33
•
Next >
-
Boston bombings: Obama praises officers' sacrifices
WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Saturday praised the law enforcement officers who worked to search for suspects and secure the Boston area in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. In his weekly video and radio address, Obama praised officers...Tags: Barack Obama, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Law Enforcement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sports
-
Mississippi man arrested for mailing suspected ricin to Obama, senators
CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and claimed "various parties within the government"...
Tags: Government, Patrick R. Donahoe, National Government, U.S. Senate, Sports
-
FBI: No signs ricin letters connected to Boston attack
WASHINGTON – Investigators say there are no signs of a link between the Boston Marathon bombings and potentially poisonous letters sent to the President Obama and a U.S. senator. An FBI statement issued Wednesday said the investigation into the...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Politics, Anthrax, Roger F. Wicker
-
Bill to end sequester's air travel delays flies through Congress
WASHINGTON — Congress approved a quick fix Friday to end the flight delays snarling the nation's airports, and President Obama will sign the bill when it reaches the White House, showing how swiftly compromise can be found when powerful interests...
Tags: Republican Party, Layoffs and Downsizing, John McCain, John Boehner, U.S. Senate
-
Bill O'Reilly: Brokaw way off base with Afghanistan-Boston tie-in
Shortly after the terror bombings in Boston last week, two different media people made statements that were alarming to say the least. Two days after the attack, McClatchy reporter Amina Ismail asked White House spokesman Jay Carney: "President Obama said...Tags: Meet the Press (tv program), Afghanistan, Jihad, Sports, Unrest, Conflicts and War
-
Update: Ricin is indicated in letters to Obama, senator
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a capital city on edge, letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator tested positive for poisonous ricin in preliminary checks, and authorities chased a stream of reports Wednesday of other suspicious-looking...Tags: Patrick R. Donahoe, U.S. Senate, Carl Levin, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sports
-
Senate blocks expanded gun sale background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans, backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats, turned away legislation Wednesday to tighten restrictions on the sale of firearms, rejecting repeated appeals from President Barack Obama and personal pleas by...Tags: Republican Party, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, John McCain, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), U.S. Senate
-
Cardin to meet with family of Russian lawyer
Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to meet Thursday with the family of a Russian lawyer whose death sparked an international outcry over human rights in that country, renewing focus on a controversy that has complicated U.S.-Russian relations at a sensitive...
Tags: Government, Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Science and Technology
-
FBI: Miss. man arrested, accused in ricin letters
Associated PressOXFORD, Miss. (AP) - The FBI has identified a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters containing poisonous ricin as 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis. FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said Curtis was arrested Wednesday afternoon at his...Tags: U.S. Senate, Sports, Police Arrests, FBI, Crimes
-
The stunt pilots misread their gauges
Somewhere between the Oval Office and a snarled airport near you, the stunt pilots in the Obama administration made a terrible miscalculation. Most citizens are able to read. They're seeing numerous articles in the public prints explaining how the...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Tom Coburn, U.S. Senate, Fiscal Cliff, Budget Control Act of 2011
-
Immigration bill would be largest such effort ever attempted
WASHINGTON — After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of eight senators is poised to offer a sweeping bill to rewrite the nation's immigration laws this week, taking advantage of a changed political alignment that, for the first time in...Tags: Government, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, AFL-CIO, Elections
-
COLUMN: Inching closer to entanglement in Syria
The White House finally made it official last week: Yes, the civil war in Syria is a slippery slope, and yes, we’re on it. Nobody in the Obama administration actually used those words, of course. But if you paid attention to what officials said,...Tags: Wars and Interventions, John McCain, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), Robert Ford, The New York Times
Apr 20, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 18, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 26, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 27, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| AM News
Apr 26, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 15, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 15, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Original site for Jay Carney topic gallery.