Memphis, Tennessee
The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Memphis on Monday to deliver the commencement address at Booker T. Washington High School. What would Elvis most like from the President right now? “We would love the President to visit the White House of Rock and Roll,” says Kevin Kerns, a …
Memphis, Tenn.
The Mississippi River is starting to crest here and thousands of tourists are on hand to witness it, even as hundreds of Tennesseans are forced to flee the rising waters. A dispatch from the front lines.
House Speaker John Boehner will address the Economic Club of New York City on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Monday night. Though Boehner has long been an avowed friend of business – he received a 94% Chamber of Commerce rating …
There was really only one candidate on the stage at the first GOP presidential primary debate Thursday night in Greensville, South Carolina: Tim Pawlenty. Now, that may not be the case at the next one — the former two-term …
Osama bin Laden is dead and gone. Republicans and Democrats this week came together to rejoice and pass resolutions praising U.S. troops and the intelligence community. Even Donald Trump called a truce.
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Congress and the country remained unified for months – some might argue for years. In the wake of …
U.S. intelligence officials estimate that Osama bin Laden had been living in the $1 million Abbottabad compound where he was killed for up to six years, according to Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein. “That’s what we estimate at this stage,” Feinstein told TIME. Bin Laden “could have been there for five or six years.”
About half way through his farewell speech on the Senate floor Monday afternoon, Senator John Ensign’s words turned personal. Though it likely made his colleagues wince, the Nevada Republican’s address was a rare moment of raw honesty on the Hill. Ensign, once a rumored candidate for President, will leave the Senate on Tuesday shamed by …
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that he will force a vote in the Senate on President Obama’s FY 2012 budget. “Since there is no Democrat budget in the Senate, we’ll give our colleagues an opportunity to stand with the President in failing to address the problems facing our nation while calling for …
Sitting in his Atlanta office over looking a golf course, Herman Cain contemplates what life could have been. “My plan was to be on cruise control at this particular point in my life,” the 65-year-old former Godfather’s Pizza CEO says. Cain retired from the corporate world 15 years ago. Since, he’s served on a few boards – …
The first thing that you ought to know about Reince Priebus, he jokes, is that if you take all the vowels out of his name it becomes “RNC PR BS.” Perfect, Priebus says, for the new chairman of the Republican National Committee as he tries to wade through what he calls the national media “spin.” It’s also apt given that party chairmen …
Fact: Almost every Republican in Congress is against voting to raise the debt ceiling unless coupled with massive cuts.
Fact: Almost every Republican in Congress thinks the debt ceiling will be raised, even if it doesn’t …
Concord, NH
Former two-term New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is running for president. He’s not testing the waters or forming an exploratory committee. Thursday, on the steps to the New Hampshire State Building, he announced …
Hillsborough, NH
Rep. Charlie Bass knew he was in for a rough night. The first question out of the gate during his Wednesday town hall in Hillsborough, NH was about his vote for Paul Ryan’s budget. And the second. And the …
