WASHINGTON — A crucial first Senate vote on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in a rare Saturday night session looms as a test of Democratic unity and the president’s prestige.
ow that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Barack Obama signed into law last February was way too small. The economy needs a second big infusion, they say.
With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill Friday, and wavering moderates appeared to be falling in line on President Barack Obama’s signature issue.
Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.
A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.
In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan, the U.S. government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building hospitals, water treatment plants, electricity substations, schools and bridges.
Scientists switched on the world’s largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.
Chattanooga homeowners and businesses may be piqued by the city's sharply higher storm-water control fees, but city officials have no option if they are to bring water quality standards for our streams, aquifers and river up to the mandated state and federal EPA standards.
With winter coming, when electricity use is higher for heating as well as lighting and cooking, and with the national economy sluggish, it is certainly good news for many that the Tennessee Valley Authority is able to cut December "wholesale" electric rates by 5.5 percent.
CHARLESTON, Tenn. -- Business and elected officials are asking for help delaying a proposed federal regulation that would affect a manufacturing plant here and, they say, result in the loss of 1,000 jobs.
What would be better for Tennesseans in general than to have economic success, making us all able to support a good standard of living and happy lives?
In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.