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Roberts blasts inadequate pay for judges
AP - Pay for federal judges is so inadequate that it threatens to undermine the judiciary's independence, Chief Justice John Roberts says in a year-end report critical of Congress.
US Senate to get first socialist ever
AFP - Socialism will get its first-ever face in the US Senate on Thursday when veteran Vermont politician Bernard "Bernie" Sanders takes a seat in the powerful upper house of the legislature.
Bush seeks positive tone for new U.S. Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush, soon to announce a change in Iraq policy, will try to set a positive tone on Wednesday for dealing with the new Democratic-controlled Congress, aides said on Tuesday.
U.N. to probe Sudan abuse allegations
AP - The United Nations will investigate a report of allegations of sexual abuse and child rape by peacekeepers operating in southern Sudan, a key U.N. official said Tuesday.
Paulson: Politics block Social Security reform talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Thursday the biggest obstacle to discussing reform of Social Security was politics, but that Democrats and Republicans need to talk without setting conditions.
United Nations' Kosovo blueprint in "final stages"
Reuters - A U.N. blueprint on the final status
of Serbia's U.N.-run province of Kosovo, which diplomats say
will open the door to independence, will be ready on January
21, a United Nations spokesman said on Thursday.
Mayors seek to gain control over schools
AP - The statistics tell a sorry tale about the public schools in America's capital. A majority of fourth- and eighth-graders are failing to read or do math at basic levels. Roughly four in five schools are not meeting achievement goals under the federal No Child Left Behind law. Just 43 percent of students graduate from high school in five years.
China protests Taiwan president's U.S. stopover
TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused Taiwan's president of trying to damage Sino-U.S. ties with a stopover in California on the way to Central America on Monday and criticized Washington for giving the brief visit permission.
Democrats recapture part of Hispanic vote
AP - Democrats recaptured a big part of the Hispanic vote in this year's elections, support that Latino activists caution won't necessarily be there in the next contest.
Schwarzenegger urges $43.3 billion in new Calif. debt
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will urge lawmakers to support a plan for the state to sell $43.3 billion in new debt to fund public works and to bolster $37 billion in infrastructure bonds approved by voters in November, aides said on Tuesday.
Bush's Iraq plan faces defiant Congress
AP - President Bush's troop-boosting plan for Iraq was headed straight into a political gale in Congress, with Democrats, some Republicans and an increasingly organized anti-war movement arrayed against the buildup.
Climate bill sets stage for debate
AP - Potential presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama are joining with newly independent Sen. Joe Lieberman on a plan they say would reduce annual global-warming gases by two-thirds by mid-century.
Liberal lawmakers seek end to Iraq war
AP - The House's most liberal lawmakers, ignored while Republicans were in charge, are emerging to push resistance to President Bush's plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq.
New farm bill divides Bush and lawmakers
AP - Lawmakers begin work on a new multibillion-dollar farm bill at odds with President Bush over whether big changes really are needed.
Japanese business can lead climate campaign: Gore
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top business lobby could spark policy change on global warming by sending a strong message to its counterparts in the United States, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said in a speech in Tokyo on Monday.
Thousands in South Korea protest trade deal with US
SEOUL (Reuters) - Thousands of South Koreans took to the streets of Seoul on Tuesday to denounce bilateral trade talks with the United States as negotiators from the two economic giants struggled to reach a deal.
Armstrong: Back cancer research at polls
AP - Lance Armstrong urged Iowans on Tuesday to support a presidential candidate who is dedicated to expanding cancer research.
U.N. urges Congress to lift spending cap
AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday he urged members of Congress to lift a spending cap on U.N. peacekeeping that is leaving the organization with an annual shortfall of $150 million to $200 million.
UK's Brown wants U.N., IMF to reflect new order
Reuters - Polishing his credentials on
the global stage, Britain's prime minister-in-waiting Gordon
Brown called on Wednesday for a shake-up of the United Nations
and other institutions to reflect a new world order.
Supreme Court to decide case on broadcast political ads
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the reach of a federal law that bans certain broadcast advertisements before an election, a case with important implications for the 2008 presidential and congressional campaigns.
UN weighs peacekeepers across border from Darfur
Reuters - The United Nations, blocked by
Sudan from sending U.N. peacekeepers to Darfur, is weighing how
to send a smaller force into neighboring Chad and the Central
African Republic, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
Libby trial jury selection nears end
AP - The painstaking selection of a jury for the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby is nearing its close, but it may not be the end of disputes over how much jurors should hear about the Iraq war.
Candidates to face primaries in 2008
AP - Presidential candidates are about to get just what they don't need and don't want — a crush of primaries and caucuses leading off the 2008 campaign calendar.
Bush speech to U.S. Congress full of firsts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was a night of firsts for President George W. Bush's State of the Union address to Congress: a Democratic Congress, a woman seated in the speaker's chair and a lukewarm reception for his Iraq war comments.
Boxer, Muslims end award controversy
AP - Sen. Barbara Boxer and officials from a Muslim advocacy group said Wednesday they have resolved to move forward on improving interfaith relations after smoothing over a skirmish about an honor rescinded by her office.
Obama excites entertainment community
AP - Star quality: It's what Hollywood was built on. And there's no question that to the many powerful Democrats in the entertainment community, Sen. Barack Obama has loads of it.
Ginsburg laments solitary role on court
AP - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday that she dislikes being 'all alone on the court' nearly a year after the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
Pelosi meets with troops in Afghanistan
AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ate breakfast with soldiers from California on Sunday and met briefly with top military leaders at the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan, an official said.
No lock on black voters for Obama
AP - Being black doesn't necessarily mean White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama has a lock on black voters.
White House urges renewal of Bush trade authority
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House urged Congress on Monday to renew President George W. Bush's fast-track authority to negotiate a new world trade deal, but winning over the Democratic-controlled Congress is expected to test Bush's skills in working with his opponents.
Group: Training Iraqi police essential
AP - Training the police is as important to stabilizing Iraq as standing up an army there, but the United States has botched the job by assigning the wrong agencies to the task, two members of the Iraq Study Group say.
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