Another Court Nominee Down

WASHINGTONFormer New York State Atty. Caitlin Halligan, President Obamas choice for the U.S. Court of Appeals here, withdrew her name Friday, defeated by the Republican minority in the Senate. Halligans withdrawal is the latest example of how the ...

Events are taking place across the EU to mark Europe Day Sixty-three years ago today French foreign minister Robert Schuman - with the ostensible aim of preventing future war in western Europe - laid out a plan for France and Germany to pool their ...

When Angus King asked the voters of Maine to have him as their representative in the United States Senate, he stated that he wanted to be a voice for change. When he made his first speech on the floor of the senate, he spoke of the need for common ...

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revenues, equating to about 12.7m, whilst across all trusts an 8% increase in revenues from private patients is expected to be posted for 2012-13 compared with 2010-11. Dr Peter Carter is quoted in The Observer as saying: The RCN has repeatedly ...

Source: NewsLocal THE third annual Swim For Saxon event is on Saturday, with a huge turnout expected. The event honours former Queenscliff Surf Life Saving Club member Saxon Bird, who drowned while competing at the 2010 Australian Surf Life Saving ...

(swong@politico.com or @scottwongDC) THE SEQUESTER: ONE MONTH IN In a pair of stories, our own Darren Samuelsohn looks at how the Democratic and Republican arguments are playing in the fight over sequestration. DEMOCRATS are turning to a law and ...

Analysis: Analysis: Mr. Obama is the first full-term president in more than a half century not to have appointed a single judge to the powerful US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court, considered the second most important ...

Opposition parties have today said that there is a strong anti-Government sentiment on the eve of the Meath East by-election.Less than 24 hours until polling stations open to elect a successor to the late Shane McEntee, Sinn Fin and Fianna F¡il ...