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Bid to expand knife ban doesn’t cut it with critics

Hunters, whittlers and Boy Scouts, beware - your knives may soon be on the government's chopping block.

Metro braces for crash lawsuits

Metro officials are bracing for tens of millions of dollars in lawsuits likely to be filed against the cash-strapped transit system by those injured in Monday's crash and the families of the deceased.

California’s budget crisis forces cuts in small towns

A combination of fiscal stalemate, dysfunctional politics, a plunging credit rating and double-digit unemployment have left the Golden State looking pretty tarnished these days.

House impeaches Texas judge

In a unanimous vote, the House of Representatives decided Friday to impeach disgraced U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent, a dubious distinction the imprisoned Texas jurist shares with just 13 other federal judges in American history.

Schwarzenegger’s deficit plan hit

Counties and cities across California are protesting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to raid their property- and gas-tax funds to help plug a $24 billion budget hole that threatens to bankrupt the state within weeks.

Tobacco regulation bill heads to Obama

Landmark tobacco bill passes Senate

The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation Thursday that for the first time would bring down the full force of the government's regulatory hammer on the tobacco industry.

Senate passes landmark tobacco bill

The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation Thursday that for the first time would bring down the full force of the government's regulatory hammer on the tobacco industry.

Tobacco-control bill clears hurdle

The Senate easily overcame a final legislative hurdle Wednesday to a bill that for the first time would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products.

Gun controllers say rampage aids cause

Gun-control advocates seized on the Holocaust Museum shooting Wednesday to call on Congress to reverse its drift toward loosening firearms restriction.

Poll: 45% oppose stimulus spending

Nearly half of Americans say in a new survey that the government should stop spending the remainder of the Obama administration's $787 billion economic stimulus package, and doubt that the spending will create new jobs.

Senate set to pass landmark tobacco bill

The Senate easily overcame a last legislative hurdle Wednesday to a bill that for the first time would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products.

Poll: More favor halting stimulus spending

Nearly half of Americans say the government should stop spending the remainder of the Obama administration's $787 billion economic stimulus program and doubt that the spending will create new jobs, according to a new poll.

Gun provision foils D.C. voting rights bill

The District's decades-long quest for a voting member in the U.S. House of Representatives got longer Tuesday.

D.C. voting rights bid put on hold

The District's long quest for a voting member in the U.S. House of Representatives ended in disappointment Tuesday as House Democrats said they put the bill on hold indefinitely.

Graham, Lieberman fight to block release of detainee photos

Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman on Tuesday threatened to bring the chamber's business to a standstill as they fight to save legislation that would bar the release of photographs showing apparent U.S. abuses of suspected terrorist detainees.

GOP seeks to trim stimulus, cut deficit

With the economy showing signs of recovery, fiscally conservative economists and Republican lawmakers are suggesting that the large unspent portion of the nearly $800 billion stimulus fund should be redirected to slash this year's nearly $2 trillion annual deficit.

Poll: Cheney, Pelosi almost equally polarizing

As if getting on the CIA's bad side were not worrisome enough, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now finds she is as unpopular with the American public as the often-maligned former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney.

For Gitmo’s detainees, no place to go

President Obama isn't finding any takers in the U.S. to house the terrorism detainees now being held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Bill gives taxpayers stock in troubled auto giants

A Republican senator wants taxpayers to get their share — literally — of the federal government's takeover of two of the nation's biggest automakers.