Chris Matthews said I forgot Obama was black, then he denied he meant to be offensive or having racial intention to black people, he really didn’t mean, some people think that it’s because he doesn’t see any one in color but see the person in color, so when Chris said I forgot Obama was black [...]
AP – President Barack Obama is asking bank executives to support his efforts to tighten the financial industry, while bankers are prepared to tell the president he should stop oversimplifying their concerns if he wants good-faith collaboration.
AP – The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether immigrants convicted of repeat, minor drug possession crimes should be subject to deportation.
AP – Rep. Bart Gordon, a 13-term congressman from Tennessee, announced Monday he will not seek re-election next year, the latest Democrat in a string of retirements.
CQPolitics.com – Adding to what has become a steady drip of Democratic retirements in recent weeks, Rep.
AP – Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation’s capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify.
Reuters – The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it rejected an appeal by four former Guantanamo Bay prisoners arguing that they should be able to proceed with their lawsuit against top Pentagon officials for torture and religious abuse.
AP – The Supreme Court has refused to take up an appeal from former Guantanamo Bay detainees who say they were tortured and denied religious rights.
AP – The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from company accounts.
AP – Senate Democrats who thought they had a workable compromise to move ahead on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul learned otherwise from Sen.