WASHINGTON -- The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program - the military's health care system.Despite dire warnings from three defense secretaries about the uncontrollable cost, Congress has ...
WASHINGTON — Raul Labrador, a tea party favorite, has emerged as House Republicans’ go-to negotiator on immigration. He is unusually prepared for the task: The Puerto Rico-born Mormon convert is a lawyer fluent in Spanish who has represented undocumented residents fighting ...
SEATTLE -- The mountain snowpack in Washington is 112 percent of normal and the best in the West, where the average for other states is about 75 percent, a water supply specialist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service said Friday.Arizona is the lowest at 40 percent and the Southwest ...
MESQUITE, Nev. -- Five people are dead and four others critically injured after a crash involving an SUV and a van on Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.The Nevada Highway Patrol says the SUV rear-ended the van early Saturday, causing both vehicles to roll near Mesquite, about 80 miles northeast ...
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s former campaign manager is working with two Republican National Committee staff members to form America Rising, a conservative opposition research group, organizers said Thursday.The group will track Democrats who might run for president in 2016, with the goal of ...
WASHINGTON -- The eight senators meet in private several times a week, alternating between Sen. John McCain's and Sen. Charles Schumer's offices. They sit in arm chairs arranged in a circle and sip water or soft drinks as they debate temporary workers and border security. In a capital riven by ...
