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WASHINGTON Gregory B. Jaczko, whose threeyear tenure as chairman of the Nuclear Reg ulatory Commission has been marked by bitter battles with colleagues and with Congress, announced Monday that he would step down as soon as a successor was confirmed. Th

WASHINGTON (AP) — Star-struck at 11 when he saw pitching great Roger Clemens, a 25-year-old man became a witness for prosecutors seeking to convict the former baseball player of lying to Congress. At issue was a 1998 gathering at player Jose Canseco's ho

KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press | WASHINGTON Richard Carmona arrived in Washington a political novice in 2002 and left four years later scarred and frustrated. He didn't go quietly. A year after his term as the nation's 17th surgeon general, the one-tim

Membership of ICCA - International Congress and Convention Association - will benefit the airline in promoting its business in Qatar and as a global carrier flying MICE traffic to destinations around the world. Today's announcement comes as Qatar Airways

Over the past few months, the dismal financial state of the United States Postal Service has been the subject of much derision and contempt in the mainstream media. The massive debt held by the USPS has been the bloody sheet waived by both reactionary Re

NPR reports on a finding that the use of language in Congress is regressing. In 2005, members of Congress spoke at an 11.5 grade-level on the Flesch-Kincaid Scale, which measures the length of sentences and number of syllables in words. Our representativ

WASHINGTON — Brian McNamee finally got to name names in front of the jury. Andy Pettitte. Chuck Knoblauch. Mike Stanton.Roger Clemens’ accuser also apologized for the medical condition — diabetes — that caused him to take frequent breaks. He came across

Scott D'Amboise has little regard for what he calls the Maine Republican Party establishment. The party establishment, it seems, has little regard for him. Scott D’Amboise, campaigning Saturday at a church supper in Lisbon, has embraced his outsider stat

Fred Eckert is a prototypical unsung hero of the conservative movement. Eckert paid his political dues in upstate New York in 1968, organizing local Republican support for the presidential candidacy of Richard Nixon, standing in opposition to the native

The Defense Department’s 2012 Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China report details China’s growing military capabilities, and points to areas of cooperation between the United States and China, a senior DOD official