Congress races against a Friday deadline to pass a short-term spending bill, averting a government shutdown. The bill includes disaster relief for hurricane-stricken states and infrastructure repairs.
January 25 - Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith is put to death by nitrogen hypoxia, marking the nation’s first known execution to be carried out using that method. Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his ...
This year will see the first presidential election in which a majority of the voters will in all likelihood be suburbanites--the first election of the suburban century. That explains the obsessive ...