FEARS ABOUT FALLOUT FROM GOP DIVIDE WITH TEA PARTY
By BILL BARROW FILE – In this Aug. 29, 2013, file photo, Tea Party Express Chairwoman Amy Kremer, speaks in Charleston, S.C.,, businessman Richard Cash listens. Cash is running against…
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AFTER COAL, W.VA. PUSH FOR NATURAL GAS TRUST FUND
By BRUCE SCHREINER FILE – A C.S.X. train loaded with coal winds its way into the mountains in this Nov. 21, 2004 file photo taken near the New River at…
GOP LEADERS CONFOUNDED ON STOPGAP SPENDING BILL
By ANDREW TAYLOR House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks during news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, after meeting with congressional leaders of both parties…
ARGENTINA APPROVES NEW SOVEREIGN DEBT SWAP
FILE – In this March 1, 2013 file photo, lawmakers attend the inauguration of the new legislative session at Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentina’s Congress approved a plan late…
MO. LAWMAKERS DECIDING VETO OVERRIDE ON GUN BILL
By DAVID A. LIEB Participants applaud during a rally to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a gun bill on the south lawn of the Missouri State Capital in Jefferson…
HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS AS HEALTH CARE MARKETS OPEN
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR FILE – In this March 23, 2010 file photo, Marcelas Owens of Seattle, left, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, and others, look on as President Barack Obama…
GREEK HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS TO STRIKE OVER JOB CUTS
By DEREK GATOPOULOS University administrative staff members chant slogans outside the Administrative Reform ministry in central Athens against austerity measures that threaten their jobs, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. The…
MEXICO PROPOSES SWEEPING SOCIAL PROGRAM CHANGES
By MARK STEVENSON Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Sunday Sept. 8, 2013. Pena Nieto is proposing a plan to implement the…