A man who says he should be sworn in as a city councilman in Pennsylvania because he’s paid his debt to society for a 1993 felony drug conviction really hasn’t. Court records show 45-year-old Corey Sanders still owes more than $36,000 in fines and restitution. The McKeesport councilman-elect is seeking a pardon from Democratic Gov. […]
Supreme Court showdown? Judge says no gay marriage in Alabama
Alabama may be rocketing toward a confrontation with the U.S. Supreme Court after a state judge seemingly threw the brakes on gay marriage. Controversial Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Wednesday said state probate judges remain under a court order to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples even though a U.S. Supreme Court decision effectively […]
Hillary pal faces 30 years for fraud, money laundering
A former union chief and backer of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may be spending the rest of his life behind bars. The trial of former Broward Teachers Union President Patrick Santeramo began in a Florida courtroom yesterday, and promises to be a major headache for the Clinton campaign. Santeramo, 68, is being tried for racketeering, money […]
Voters demand top Democrat be forced from office
Hillary Clinton crony and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has got to go. That’s the message that thousands of American voters are sending in a new online movement designed to force Wasserman Schultz out of office. An online petition on RootsAction, an grassroots political action website, has quickly garnered nearly 30,000 signatures from […]
Rivals attack as Chris Christie rises in New Hampshire
Chris Christie is the Republican presidential candidate on the move in second-to-vote New Hampshire — so say the super PACs helping the New Jersey governor’s rivals. Marco Rubio’s backers recently put $1 million into anti-Christie advertising, according to filings with federal election regulators. That follows a Christie-themed mailing earlier this week to New Hampshire voters, paid […]
Trump drops Cruz bombshell: “He can’t be president.”
Billionaire Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who repeatedly questioned whether President Barack Obama was born in America, seems to be raising fresh questions about Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s eligibility to be president. And with that, conservatives’ dream of a Trump-Cruz ticket seems to have gone up in smoke. Deploying a strategy he has often used […]
The crying game? Obama tears up over gun plan
A good, public cry may have cost Edmund Muskie his 1972 bid for the presidency and led to questions about his composure. But welcome to 2016 — and the new, softer side of American politics. Tears streaking his cheeks, President Barack Obama launched a final-year push Tuesday to tighten sales of firearms in the U.S. […]
Democrats move to impeach Republican governor
Maine’s Republican Governor Paul LePage received a stay from impeachment charges that were expected to be introduced against him in Augusta today. But the delay is not expected to last long. Reps. Jeff Evangelos and Ben Chipman, who are co-sponsoring the longshot effort to impeach LePage, told the Bangor Daily News that they were holding […]
Democratic official refuses to be sworn into office
A Democrat who won a seat on a Pennsylvania township’s board of supervisors declined to be sworn in to replace the Republican incumbent she defeated. Colleen Unroe said she doesn’t have time for the job in Ferguson Township, and she now concedes she wasn’t eligible to take office anyway because she hadn’t lived in the […]
New Navy chief: Get me more nukes!
In his blueprint for a stronger Navy, the sea service’s new top boss, Adm. John M. Richardson, is blunt about what he thinks matters most: nuclear punch. Battling terrorists is today’s problem, but in looking toward a farther horizon, Richardson wants a Navy built to counter unpredictable future threats from other countries. No. 1 on […]
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