Date: 2/6/2009 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is reversing a previous Bush administration effort on pollution, pulling back legal arguments in a lawsuit over mercury. The case was soon to come before the Supreme Court. The Obama administration submitted…
Cuba thaw, good or bad? US fugitives unsure
Date: 1/18/2009 By WILL WEISSERTAssociated Press Writer HAVANA (AP) — William Potts calls himself the “Homesick Hijacker.” U.S. authorities have another name for him: fugitive harbored by an enemy government — one of dozens of Americans hiding in communist Cuba.…
Analysis: Nobody wants blame in automakers’ crisis
Date: 12/5/2008 By DAVID ESPOAP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Not surprisingly, neither the outgoing Bush administration, President-elect Barack Obama nor the Democratic leaders of Congress wants to be blamed for the loss of a once-proud domestic auto industry and…