WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush claimed a re-election mandate Wednesday after a record 59 million Americans chose him over Democrat John Kerry and voted to expand Republican control of Congress as well.
WASHINGTON -- President Bush won a second term from a divided and anxious nation, his promise of steady, strong wartime leadership trumping John Kerry's fresh-start approach to Iraq and joblessness.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) A teen-ager accused of killing two Dartmouth College professors will use an insanity defense at his trial, his lawyer said in a court filing Friday. Robert Tulloch, 18, of Chelsea, Vt., will argue he suffers from a ''severe mental defect or disease and that his acts were the direct result of the mental defect or disease,'' public defender Richard Guerriero said in the filing. Tulloch's trial is set for April 8 in Grafton County Superior Court. Tulloch and his friend, James Parker, 17, are charged with first-degree murder in the Jan.
President promises new ideas
This undated photograph provided by the Talbot County, Md.,Sheriff Office on Thursday, June 11, 2009 shows James von Brunn. Law enforcement officials said von Brunn,who opened fire inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Washington on Wednesday, June 10, killing a guard, will be charged with murder. (AP Photo/Talbot County Sheriff Office )
Supporters watch as Gov. John Lynch, D-N.H., signs gay marriage into law at the State house in Concord, N.H., Wednesday, June 3, 2009.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)
The U.S. Senate confirmed Dartmouth graduate Rob Portman '78 to direct the President Bush's Office of Management and Budget.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry lights a torch outside the Capitol on Monday to kick off the 2006 Special Olympics, a nationwide event coming to the Upper Valley.
Fatima Kamara '07 battles for a lose ball as Dartmouth stuck with heavily favored Rutgers before falling 63-58 in the first round of the NCAA tournament.