Bethenny Frankel has some advice for college students looking to avoid or drop the Freshman 15, or anyone trying to slim down. She writes on her blog that it is important to choose just one fat in salads and sandwiches and to "pick your battles": If you're craving fries, have them and a low » Read More
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CHALMETTE, La. — Hundreds of mourners dropped notes, cards and letters – many of them stained with tears – into a steel-gray casket on Saturday in a symbolic burial of Hurricane Katrina. One letter written by a child in red crayon said: "Go away from us." Another note remembered one of the 1,800 victims of » Read More
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Tea Party-backed contender Joe Miller, who currently holds a super-slim lead over Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's GOP Senate primary, apologized on Friday for a message sent from his twitter account comparing his Republican rival to a prostitute. Miller blamed the offense tweet on a staffer. This is the message originally posted on Miller's twitter account: "What's » Read More
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LOS ANGELES — Southern California has been stripped of the 2004 Grantland Rice Trophy, which is awarded by the Football Writers Association of America to the nation's top college football team. The organization said Thursday that a committee of current and former officers voted to revoke the honor after USC was penalized for NCAA violations. It » Read More
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WASHINGTON — A Republican civil war is raging, with righter-than-thou conservatives dominating ever more primaries in a fight for the party's soul. And the Democrats hope to benefit. The latest examples of conservative insurgents' clout came Tuesday at opposite ends of the country. In Florida, political newcomer Rick Scott beat longtime congressman and state Attorney » Read More
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WASHINGTON — Americans doubt that Islam is likelier than other faiths to encourage violence, but their overall view of the religion has worsened over the past five years, a poll said Tuesday. In a survey that underlined the complex views people have about Muslims, 51 percent agreed that a Muslim center should not be built » Read More
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WASHINGTON — The top federal offshore oil drilling regulator is telling the presidential oil spill commission that the temporary halt to deepwater drilling will remain in place for a few more months. The Interior Department issued the moratorium after the deadly April 20 BP oil rig explosion. It was overturned in court and reissued on » Read More
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of the chief foreign policy voices of the GOP, said on Sunday that he now supports a drawdown of U.S. forces in certain parts of Afghanistan come July 2011. The South Carolina Republican, who had just returned from a trip to that country, acknowledged that this was a shift » Read More
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ST. LOUIS — Vice President Joe Biden boldly predicted Friday that voters would reject a "Republican tea party" of extreme candidates and Democrats would retain control of Congress this November. In a pep talk for the party's rank and file, the vice president challenged the widespread notion that significant losses in House races, and perhaps » Read More
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While many might consider former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be the face of the Tea Party, when in comes to the 2010 midterm elections, it seems that South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint may be the dominant force driving the ambitions of the conservative movement. Six out of eight candidates running for U.S Senate » Read More
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