WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama has the votes in the House of Representatives to force his flagship reform of US healthcare through without Republican support, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday.
The closing ceremony of the Vancouver Games kicked off Sunday with typical Canadian self-deprecation, but quickly became a celebration of Canada and its athletic and cultural achievements — often with a twist of humour.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jay Leno returns to "The Tonight Show" on Monday, and so does his desk -- a sign that struggling network NBC wants its flagship late-night TV program to return to normal after Conan O'Brien failed as its host.
Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili, a little-known luger killed in a training crash at the world's fastest track on the day of the opening ceremony, cast a heavy shadow that will linger for years to come.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Randy Quaid and his wife are crying foul over their arrests last year on a charge they failed to pay a California hotel bill, which they claim was the result of a series of mishaps and unfortunate events.
Dutch scholar Erik-Jan Bos discovered on a Google search that the 1641 letter was mentioned as part of a description of the Charles Roberts Collection at the Haverford College Library, located just outside Philadelphia.
WASHINGTON – The White House called for a "simple up-or-down" vote on health care legislation Sunday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Barack Obama's chief domestic priority even it if threatens their political careers.
The two sides said Sunday that the agreement reached late Saturday includes a pay increase of 1.2 percent retroactive to January, to be followed by a 0.6 percent increase in January 2011 and 0.5 percent in August 2011.
MARJAH, Afghanistan – Marines and Afghan troops cleared the last major pocket of resistance in the former Taliban-ruled town of Marjah on Saturday — part of an offensive that is the run-up to a larger showdown this year in the most strategic part of Afghanistan's dangerous south.
