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In Monday's press briefing, the automaker raised several questions about Sikes' account. Michels said the car's accelerator pedal was found to work normally, as was the pushbutton power switch, which "shut the vehicle off when depressed for three seconds, as the 911 operator advised Mr. Sikes to do...
It is instructive to look back to a previous episode of the Church's attempts at damage control, in April 2002, when a similar clergy-sex-abuse storm was ravaging the U.S. Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II summoned all the American Cardinals to Rome for an urgent meeting on...
The man known as the "combat rabbi" aboard the Churchill found the environment aboard the ship to be "weird, absolutely weird." Graf would talk to some of her officers but not to others. She would show up at the daily morning intelligence briefing in apparel that Kaprow had never seen...
Boehner was referring to budget reconciliation, a legislative maneuver that would allow the Senate to pass changes to its reform bill with only 50 votes. (Vice President Joe Biden could, in this case, cast a tie-breaking vote.) The White House has been very careful not to explicitly say it...
Meanwhile, Obama's left flank has deserted him too. Liberals believe the President has already wasted too much time trying to woo a cynical opposition that cares only about dragging him down. Warriors on both sides have rushed to the mattresses to win every petty squabble and 15-minute news...