On Dec. 22, a deluge of coal-ash slurry broke through a retaining wall near the Kingston Fossil Plant, a power plant in eastern Tennessee.
Black sludge inundated a valle...
President Barack Obama may be having a tough time selling his stimulus package to Republicans, but there seems to be common agreement on another issue: limits on executi...
We've come a long way from "I didn't inhale," former President Clinton's rather lame attempt to explain away a marijuana toke. President Obama has been candid about his ...
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geith-ner returned to Capitol Hill last week to defend his day-old financial rescue plan. And again, his proposal was short on specifics and l...
Did President Barack Obama screw up by admitting he "screwed up"?
It wasn't Obama's most elegant quote, but it was one of his most significant moments. It was so signifi...
I'm with the liberals on this one. They're fuming at the self-proclaimed "centrists" in the Senate who've taken it upon themselves to trim the stimulus bill at the edges...
WASHINGTON — The president, convinced that the only thing America has to fear is an insufficiency of fear, has warned that "disaster" and "catastrophe" are the certain a...
Once again, it's been revealed that another one of the biggest stars in baseball abused steroids. It's become part of the new annual national pastime.
Alex Rodriguez, th...
In England, when soccer fans dislike the team's performance, they taunt the coach with a cruel chant: "You don't know what you're doing."
Investors reacted in a similar ...
WASHINGTON — The first however-many days of Barack Obama's presidency have been a study in amateurism.
Many suspected that Obama wasn't quite ready, but kept their finge...
