GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — The discouraging new unemployment numbers present President Barack Obama with a sobering reminder that an uneven recovery from the recession can be a fragile argument for his re-election. It’s all deepening his anxiety over the political and economic threat posed by the European debt crisis.
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will allow Yemen’s outgoing president to come to the U.S. temporarily for medical treatment, a move aimed at easing the political transition in Yemen, a key counterterrorism partner.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The promising drop in unemployment on Friday looks like a job-security bonus for President Barack Obama as well, undercutting Republicans’ assertions that his economic policies have failed. The president himself heralded the news with his most confident assessment yet.
ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter may never have been president if he didn’t go square dancing. The Georgia Democrat credits a rural square dance club he joined in 1953 with helping him win a state Senate seat by a scant 66 votes.
CINCINNATI — In the first ruling by a federal appeals court on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a panel in Cincinnati handed the administration a victory Wednesday by agreeing that the government can require a minimum amount of insurance for Americans. A Republican-appointed judge joined with a Democratic appointee for the 2–1 majority in another milestone for Obama’s hotly debated signature domestic initiative — the first time a Republican federal court appointee has affirmed the merits of the law.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly endorsed reducing California’s cramped prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to fix sometimes deadly problems in medical care, ruling that federal judges retain enormous power to oversee troubled state prisons.
In an unseasonably rainy spring, water droplets stayed away Sunday afternoon for Ohio Wesleyan University’s commencement ceremony hosted on Phillips Glen lawn.