WASHINGTON AFP — To chants of "four more years," President George W. Bush told some of his staunchest supporters Friday that the November elections are a referendum on his policies from the Iraq war to stem cells. Without ever naming the front-runner for the Republican White House nomination, Senator...
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Cardinal Rigali recovering from knee surgery Cardinal Justin Rigali is at home recovering after knee surgery yesterday, said a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Rigali had a torn meniscus in his right knee. Dr. David Rubenstein performed the outpatient arthroscopic surgery at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood. Rigali will work...
Byline: Rupa Shenoy Daily Herald Staff Writer The people surrounding George Bush stood and applauded when he signed the first veto of his presidency Wednesday. A Batavia family in the room who had been invited to the ceremony sat down. ...
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush was to use his veto for the first time since taking office, blocking a popular bill that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. "The president has said that the moral line that he will not cross is having...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With the White House engulfed in scandal and the American public increasingly skeptical of his failed leadership, President Bush's strategy for reviving his sinking presidency has been to focus exclusively on shoring up his extreme right-wing political base. On issue after issue, the Bush...
WASHINGTON -- Dr. Bill Frist has discovered (if he hadn't already) that the first rule of politics is: "What have you done for me lately?" The revelation came when the scientist in him finally overcame his political judgment and he declared he would back a House-passed bill stuck...
WASHINGTON, AFP — The next battle in the US political war over stem-cell research is looming, after Bill Frist, the top Republican in the Senate, detonated a political time bomb as lawmakers sloped away on vacation. Frist called for increased federal funding for research on frozen embryos left over...
Bush, at White House meeting, pledges millions in aid to Palestinian leader Abbas. Will they take the money and run, or truly change? CW Bush = Boxed in on Bolton, stem cells and now can't nominate superright...
If you want to be a Republican president--and Bill Frist of Tennessee does--there's no better place to be on a Memorial Day weekend than where he was planning to be last Sunday: in Charlotte, N. C., at Lowe's Motor Speedway, waving a green flag as honorary starter of the Coca-Cola...
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush said he would veto any legislation allowing public funding for stem cell research that destroys embryos, if the Senate passes such a bill. "I'll veto the bill as it now exists," Bush told reporters at the White House. "The stem...
It was the classic picture of a politician seeking votes: a gray-haired man in a dark suit holding and kissing a baby. Yet the man surrounded by gurgling babies (21 in all) wasn't running for office. It's been little more than six months since George W. Bush won re-election by...
Last week, OAR reported on a Supreme Court decision that, on its face, was a defeat for the plaintiffs but which they claimed as a victory because a principle was upheld. For that reason, the story was titled "Older Workers Lose Battle, Win War in Age Discrimination...
WATERLOO, Iowa, Aug. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a Kerry- Edwards 2004 fact sheet on health care: When Americans go to the doctor or pay their health care bills they don't think about whether they are Republicans or Democrats and politicians shouldn't think that way either. Unfortunately, there are...
Asking President Bush to lift the ban on stem cell research, almost 100 members of the South Carolina Geer clan and the Tywman group in Maryland staged a prayer vigil in Lafayette Park near the White House to help 23-year-old United Parcel Service worker Franklin Geer gain a bone marrow...
Nancy Reagan stroked the mahogany casket one more time, pressed her cheek against its cool surface and whispered a final word. For the first time during a week of mourning, she seemed on the verge of losing her composure, tears welling in her eyes, grief rising in her face. Her...
WASHINGTON AFP ? The US Senate's top Democrat called for easing restrictions on the use of embryonic stem cells in medical research, one day after dozens of lawmakers made the same plea in a letter to US President George W. Bush. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said the White...
There is a possible cure waiting in the wings for people with juvenile diabetes, Alzheimer's, ALS, Parkinson's, heart disease, cancer, as well as spinal-cord injuries. It's called stem-cell research. At the moment things are stalled at research, just short of moving forward to applying the technology and changing millions of...
WASHINGTON AFP ? A bipartisan group of more than 200 US lawmakers called in a letter to the White House for a loosening of restrictions on the use of embryonic stem cells for use in medical research. "Embryonic stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and...
THANKSGIVING WILL ATTRACT the bulk of November's holiday attention, but let's not forget that it is also, by proclamation of the president, National Family Caregivers Month. The White House press release recognizing the designation contains praise for the National Family Caregiver...
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