Published May 30, 2011 Associated Press WASHINGTON –  In 2008, Barack Obama tapped into a record of nearly 15 million voters who cast ballots for the first time, a surge in registration that may be difficult to replicate next year. Recent voter registration data show that Democrats have lost ground in key states that Obama [...]

Published May 30, 2011 FoxNews.com A Yemeni medical official says soldiers loyal to Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, have stormed a protest camp in the southern city of Taiz and fired on the crowds indiscriminately, killing at least 20. After the attack on the anti-government protesters, residents say Yemen’s air force launched an offensive against [...]

By the CNN Wire Staff May 29, 2011 4:24 p.m. EDT (CNN) — Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said Sunday that he wants oil prices to drop so that the United States and Europe don’t accelerate efforts to wean themselves off his country’s supply. In an interview broadcast Sunday on “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS,” the [...]

May 29, 2011 By Nancy Cordes (CBS News) Two influential U.S. senators have urged the FDA to require physicians groups and doctors to disclose their financial ties with drug-makers. CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes reports that the senators detail how one pharmaceutical giant urged doctors to contact the FDA and raise concerns about a cheaper generic [...]

May 30, 2011 By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A growing shortage of medications for a host of illnesses – from cancer to cystic fibrosis to cardiac arrest – has hospitals scrambling for substitutes to avoid patient harm, and sometimes even delaying treatment. “It’s just a matter of time now before we [...]

May 30, 2011 By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Jon Gambrell, Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan paused Monday to remember the fallen in Memorial Day services, as a war nearly a decade old trudges on. Some prayed and held flag-raising ceremonies at dawn to recognize the more than 1,400 killed in [...]

May 30, 2011 FORWARD OPERATING BASE EDINBURGH, Afghanistan – U.S. Army medic Sgt. Jaime Adame hauled open the door and lunged from the helicopter into a cloud of dirt and confusion. He could hear bursts of incoming fire above the thumping rotor blades. Somewhere in the billowing red smoke that marked the landing zone and [...]

May 29, 2011 By Salena Zito A little more than a week ago, Vice President Joe Biden traveled to fund-raisers in two battleground-state cities, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Neither stop included the White House press corps; requests by local media to cover the events were denied by the vice president’s press office. The Democratic National Committee [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Sunday, May 29, 2011 WASHINGTON — The U.S. intervention in Libya’s civil war, intervention that began with a surplus of confusion about capabilities and a shortage of candor about objectives, is now taking a toll on the rule of law. In a bipartisan cascade of hypocrisies, a liberal president, with [...]

By Debra Saunders (Archive) · Sunday, May 29, 2011 The good news: Last year, California’s homicide rate dropped to its lowest level since 1966. Violent crimes were down from the year before. The bad news: Federal judges and California lawmakers juggling to run a state government despite a huge budget deficit are making decisions that [...]