http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/All the latest Politics news headlines!240http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242067.html?mccain-rids-snag-romney-gets-extensionhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242067.html?mccain-rids-snag-romney-gets-extension<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John McCain disposed of a snag in his personal financial disclosure requirements and a GOP presidential rival, Mitt Romney, has put off his disclosure obligations. McCain's wife, Cindy, liquidated the contents of her $500,000-$1 million blind trust and placed the cash in a money market account, an aide said Thursday. The step was necessary to meet requirements of the Office of Government Ethics, which oversees financial disclosures by presidential candidates. Romney, ...</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:01:32 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242068.html?analysis-clinton-obama-eye-black-voteshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242068.html?analysis-clinton-obama-eye-black-votes<p>WASHINGTON -- If Bill Clinton was the "first black president," his wife and Barack Obama are vying to be the second.</p><p>Obama, the only black running for the White House, came into a debate Thursday night at predominantly black Howard University with the crowd on his side, chanting his name as all eight Democratic candidates posed for pictures on stage. But Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared to win many of them over in an impassioned performance that addressed their anger over inequality.</p><p>"If HIV/AIDS were the leading cause of death of white women between the ages of 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country," Clinton said in the biggest applause line of the night, bringing audience members to their feet.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:01:32 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242069.html?racial-issues-top-dem-debate-agendahttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242069.html?racial-issues-top-dem-debate-agenda<p>The struggles of the nation's blacks - a loyal Democratic voting bloc - topped the agenda Thursday as the party's eight presidential candidates gathered for their third primary debate.</p><p>The debate at Howard University was scheduled to begin just hours after the Supreme Court ruled against public school programs aimed at achieving racial diversity, a certain topic for the event.</p><p>Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton said the decision turned its back on the promise of integrated schools that the court laid out 53 years ago in its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:01:32 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242066.html?immigration-bill-clears-senate-test-votehttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242066.html?immigration-bill-clears-senate-test-vote<p>The Senate voted Tuesday to jump-start a stalled immigration</p><p>measure to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants.</p><p>President Bush said the bill offered a "historic</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:01:32 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241997.html?lawmakers-want-apology-for-sex-slaveshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241997.html?lawmakers-want-apology-for-sex-slaves<p>A congressional panel on Tuesday endorsed overwhelmingly a</p><p>resolution urging Japan to apologize formally for coercing</p><p>thousands of women to work as sex slaves for its World War II</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241998.html?romney-accused-of-mistreating-family-doghttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241998.html?romney-accused-of-mistreating-family-dog<p>BOSTON (AP) -- An example of Mitt Romney's crisis management skills has turned into something of a political problem for the Republican presidential contender. Romney placed his family dog, an Irish setter named Seamus, into a kennel lashed to the top of his station wagon for a 12-hour family trip from Boston to Ontario in 1983. Despite being shielded by a wind screen the former Massachusetts governor erected, Seamus expressed his discomfort with a diarrhea attack. Now the story, recounted t...</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241995.html?feds-expand-lobby-probe-to-former-aidehttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241995.html?feds-expand-lobby-probe-to-former-aide<p>California GOP Rep. John Doolittle's former legislative</p><p>director said Wednesday he was recently contacted by federal</p><p>investigators in their probe of Doolittle's ties to jailed</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241996.html?kennedy-walks-fine-line-on-immigrationhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241996.html?kennedy-walks-fine-line-on-immigration<p>Months of tumultuous negotiations with the White House and GOP</p><p>allies have brought the Senate's liberal lion, Edward M.</p><p>Kennedy, to the brink of passing a bill to legalize up to 12</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241999.html?nh-closes-doors-to-indie-candidateshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241999.html?nh-closes-doors-to-indie-candidates<p>New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to drop his</p><p>party affiliation makes him ineligible to compete in the New</p><p>Hampshire primary, which is open to independent voters but not</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242000.html?giuliani-slams-clinton-over-terrorismhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242000.html?giuliani-slams-clinton-over-terrorism<p>Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday</p><p>accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully</p><p>enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241987.html?iphone-launch-day-arriveshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241987.html?iphone-launch-day-arrives<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? After six months of unprecedented hype, thousands of people Friday will get their hands on the iPhone, the new cell phone that Apple Inc. is banking on to become its third core business next to its moneymaking iPod players and Macintosh computers.</p><p>By early evening Thursday, short lines of eager customers were camped out at Apple and AT&amp;T stores across the nation. The gadget, which combines the functions of a cell phone, iPod media player and wireless Web browser, will go on sale in the United States at 6 p.m. Friday in each time zone.</p><p>At Apple's flagship store in New York City, the trickle of customers that began queuing up since Monday grew to about 50 people late Thursday, ready to brave yet another rainy night on the pavement of Fifth Avenue, outside the only 24-hour Apple store.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241988.html?republican-ron-paul-to-crash-iowa-forumhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241988.html?republican-ron-paul-to-crash-iowa-forum<p>Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will add party</p><p>crashing to his campaign tactics this weekend.</p><p>The Texas congressman, who has struggled to top 1 percent in</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241989.html?bush-putin-to-share-break-from-tensionshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241989.html?bush-putin-to-share-break-from-tensions<p>KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) -- President Bush's summertime meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Bush family's oceanfront estate is about lobsters, legacies and a break from increasing tensions. Relations between Washington and Moscow are strong, but on the skids, and both Bush and Putin want to massage those relations before leaving office. "It's not a secret the amount of disagreements is rising," Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Putin, said Friday. "Sometimes it's inevitable. I...</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241990.html?terror-link-not-found-british-sayhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241990.html?terror-link-not-found-british-say<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- British authorities found no link between a defused London car bomb and any terrorist group during the early hours of their investigation, two officials in Washington said Friday. The officials, who were briefed on the investigation, said the inquiry in London's bustling nightclub district had yielded no suspects and no definitive description of anyone leaving the vehicle. London police defused the bomb after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled wi...</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241991.html?democratic-candidates-focus-on-supreme-court-ruling-in-third-debatehttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241991.html?democratic-candidates-focus-on-supreme-court-ruling-in-third-debate<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - There is total agreement among the Democratic presidential candidates in opposition to the Supreme Court ruling limiting the use of race in achieving racial diversity.</p><p>They expressed their views at a presidential debate in Washington.</p><p>Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said the court's conservative majority "turned the clock back" on history.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241992.html?court-allows-students-anti-bush-t-shirthttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241992.html?court-allows-students-anti-bush-t-shirt<p>WASHINGTON --Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district's appeal of a ruling that it violated a student's rights by censoring his anti-Bush T-shirt.</p><p>A seventh-grader from Vermont was suspended for wearing a shirt that bore images of cocaine and a martini glass - but also had messages calling President Bush a lying drunk driver who abused cocaine and marijuana, and the "chicken-hawk-in-chief" who was engaged in a "world domination tour."</p><p>After his suspension, Zachary Guiles returned to school with duct tape covering the offending images.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241993.html?supreme-court-to-review-guantanamo-caseshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241993.html?supreme-court-to-review-guantanamo-cases<p>WASHINGTON --The Supreme Court, reversing course, agreed Friday to review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees may go to federal court to challenge their indefinite confinement.</p><p>The action, announced without comment along with other end-of-term orders, is a setback for the Bush administration. It had argued that a new law strips courts of their jurisdiction to hear detainee cases.</p><p>In April, the court turned down an identical request, although several justices indicated they could be persuaded otherwise.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241994.html?looking-at-thompsons-lobbying-pasthttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1241994.html?looking-at-thompsons-lobbying-past<p>Republican Fred Thompson, who likes to cast himself in the role</p><p>of Washington outsider, has a long history as a political insider</p><p>who earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242001.html?senate-drives-stake-through-immigrationhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1242001.html?senate-drives-stake-through-immigration<p>President Bush's immigration plan to legalize as many as 12</p><p>million unlawful immigrants while fortifying the border collapsed</p><p>in the Senate on Thursday, crushing both parties' hopes of</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:58:15 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236756.html?siegelman-scrushy-to-appeal-sentenceshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236756.html?siegelman-scrushy-to-appeal-sentences<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Attorneys for former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy said they would appeal their sentences in a bribery and corruption case the judge said damaged public trust in state government. Siegelman was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in federal prison and Scrushy got nearly seven years. U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller ordered both immediately taken into custody, not even giving them time to talk with their families. Siegelm...</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:07:36 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236757.html?sessions-takes-lead-in-immigration-fighthttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236757.html?sessions-takes-lead-in-immigration-fight<p>WASHINGTON --When President Bush's "grand bargain" on immigration fell apart, Jeff Sessions, the Republican senator from Alabama who is named after a pair of famous Confederates, was very proud.</p><p>"Hopefully our Senate has learned some things," Sessions crowed on the Senate floor on Thursday after his colleagues killed a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration law, bouncing on his toes and struggling to contain a grin.</p><p>For weeks, the son of a country-store owner from rural Alabama emerged as a front man on immigration, making it his mission to break the uneasy union that produced the bill. Usually a GOP role player, he derided the legislation as the "no illegal alien left behind" bill and its bipartisan sponsors as "masters of the universe."</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:07:36 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236758.html?bush-putin-share-a-break-from-tensionshttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236758.html?bush-putin-share-a-break-from-tensions<p>KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) -- President Bush's summertime meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Bush family's oceanfront estate is about lobsters, legacies and a break from increasing tensions. Relations between Washington and Moscow are strong, but on the skids, and both Bush and Putin want to massage those relations before leaving office. Putin, bolstered by Russia's economic muscle and popularity at home, has adopted an assertive posture on the world stage. He has bluntly op...</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:07:36 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236759.html?romney-gets-extension-on-finance-reporthttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236759.html?romney-gets-extension-on-finance-reportNews Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:07:36 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236766.html?dems-denounce-court-desegregation-rulinghttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236766.html?dems-denounce-court-desegregation-ruling<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- A historically diverse field of Democratic presidential candidates - a woman, a black, an Hispanic and five whites - denounced an hours-old Supreme Court affirmative action ruling Thursday night and said the nation's slow march to racial unity is far from over. "We have made enormous progress, but the progress we have made is not good enough," said Sen. Barack Obama, the son of a man from Kenya and a woman from Kansas. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first female candidat...</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:07:36 +0000http://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236767.html?panel-nixes-industry-backed-mileage-planhttp://www.newzblogz.com/blogs/politics/1236767.html?panel-nixes-industry-backed-mileage-plan<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee on Thursday rejected an auto industry-backed plan to raise gas mileage standards for new vehicles.</p><p>Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wanted to increase the requirements for any vehicle that uses renewable fuels. The measure was put together after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., signaled her support for a Senate plan passed last week to increase standards to 35 miles per gallon by 2020.</p><p>The committee is considering energy legislation that would improve energy efficiency of buildings and home appliances, modernize the electric grid and promote renewable fuels. The measure does not address mileage standards because committee Democrats want to deal with the issue later this year.</p>News Blogger <admin@newzblogz.com>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:07:36 +0000