George H.W. Bush Headlines
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Democrats reject GOP No Child Left Behind option
The good intentions of No Child Left Behind have not yielded good policy, the Democratic chairman of the Senate education panel said Tuesday as lawmakers began to rewrite the sweeping legislation that governs all schools that receive federal tax dollars. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, opened hearings on the 2001 education ...
Bush's 89th birthday a socks celebration in Texas
A socks celebration has been planned in Texas for the 89th birthday of former President George H.W. Bush of Houston. Visitors to Bush's presidential library in College Station are urged to wear "exuberant socks" Wednesday on his birthday. Bush in recent years has taken to wearing colorful socks in public. ...
Former Mass. governor, ambassador Cellucci dies
Just before former Gov. Argeo Paul Cellucci announced publicly that he had ALS, he told the chancellor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School that he was determined to do something to turn the diagnosis into a positive. In the last years of his life, he threw himself into efforts ...
Appeals court says USTR can withhold document
An appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Trade Representative can withhold a classified position paper prepared during free-trade negotiations, reversing a lower court that had ordered the document's release under a Freedom of Information Act request. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of ...
Republicans: Give governors more school say
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors would be relegated to cheerleaders for the nation's schools, and governors would be put in charge of classrooms under companion bills Senate and House Republicans introduced Thursday. The top Republicans on Congress' education committees unveiled rewrites to the nation's sweeping law known as ...
Today in History
Today is Thursday, June 13, the 164th day of 2013. There are 201 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 13, 1983, the U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of ...
Court backs border-state gun sale reporting rule
A federal appeals court panel Friday unanimously upheld an Obama administration requirement that dealers in Southwestern border states report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles. The firearms industry trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, and two Arizona gun sellers had argued that the administration overstepped its legal authority in ...
Social Security, Medicare still face big challenge
As the U.S. recovery slowly gathers steam, federal deficits are finally coming down from their nosebleed $1-trillion-plus heights. That will postpone until fall a new budget showdown between Congress and the White House — and also will probably delay the days of reckoning, feared by millions of aging Americans, when ...
Jeb Bush calls for education, immigration reform
Boosting education standards and crafting an immigration policy that recognizes the valuable role newcomers play in creating jobs is essential to long-term economic growth, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Wednesday. Speaking to Michigan business and government leaders on this Lake Huron resort island, Bush said the "right to rise" ...
Jeb Bush laughs off mom's 'enough Bushes' remark
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Wednesday he's undecided about running for president but didn't appear to agree with his mother that enough members of their family have occupied the White House. Bush, widely considered among the leading potential contenders for the Republican nomination in 2016, took a pass on ...
JOHN C. BIERWIRTH, LEADER OF GRUMMAN IN TIME OF UNEASY TRANSITION, DIES AT 89
c.2013 New York Times News Service John C. Bierwirth, who led the Grumman Corp., one of the nation’s largest aircraft makers, through challenging times in the 1970s and ’80s, died Sunday at a hospice in Freeport, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 89. The cause was congestive heart failure, his ...
Ohio man, 87, skydives to aid sick great-grandson
An 87-year-old World War II veteran has parachuted from a plane in Ohio to support his ailing great-grandson. Clarence Turner of Fairfield made the jump Saturday with an instructor. He says he wanted to generate attention for the plight of 10-month-old Julian Couch, who suffers from a lung disease that ...
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