Long-Time Senator and Watergate Investigator Howard Baker Dies at 88 Former U.S. Republican senator Howard Baker, who became a household name during the 1973 Watergate hearings, has died at 88 following a stroke. Baker was admired by politicians from both parties as a plain-speaking moderate. He was elected to the Senate from Tennessee in […]
The Supreme Court voted twice on Monday in the case UTILITY AIR REGULATORY GROUP v.ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, handing the EPA a victory in one vote but struck down the EPA in another. In a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA could force major polluters, such as coal-fired plants and factories, to utilize […]
In an analysis derived from data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Violence Policy Center issued a release that included a listing of the top five states with the highest death rates in the nation. Alaska is ranked third in the list of five. With a gun death rate of 17.41 per […]
President Obama, on Thursday afternoon, presented the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor to Cpl. William “Kyle” Carpenter in the Eat Room of the White House. 24-year-old Cpl Carpenter, along with Lance Cpl Nicholas Eufrazio, were assigned to a sandbag fortification atop a building in a small village in Helmand province on November […]