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The Dagger will chronicle the college basketball season's best dunks again this year. If you spot one we missed, let us know here or here.
Eastern Kentucky junior guard Marcus Lewis helped his team beat Southeast Missouri State 81-72 on Saturday with 10 points. None were more exciting than the...
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Friday became the third Republican senator to announce her support for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, the AP/MSNBC reports. In a statement, Collins praised Kagan's "intellect, experience, temperament and integrity" and said Kagan deserves confirmation based on...
On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 in favor of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, sending the nomination to the full Senate for consideration, the New York Times reports (Stolberg, New York Times, 7/20). Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) was the only GOP panel member to...
The New York Times on Dr. Donald Berwick, the president's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But a battle has erupted over his nomination, suggesting that Dr...
The New York Times on Dr. Donald Berwick, the president's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But a battle has erupted over his nomination, suggesting that Dr...
The New York Times on Dr. Donald Berwick, the president's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But a battle has erupted over his nomination, suggesting that Dr...
The New York Times on Dr. Donald Berwick, the president's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But a battle has erupted over his nomination, suggesting that Dr...
The New York Times on Dr. Donald Berwick, the president's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But a battle has erupted over his nomination, suggesting that Dr...
More than 130 health advocacy groups on June 16 sent a letter to lawmakers urging them to swiftly confirm Donald Berwick as the next CMS administrator, CQ Politics reports. President Obama nominated Berwick on April 19 (CQ Politics, 6/18). Berwick, a pediatrician, is the president and CEO of the...
Former Jersey City, N.J., Mayor Bret Schundler -- Gov. Chris Christie's (R) nominee to lead the New Jersey Department of Education -- told the state Senate Judiciary Committee this week that he would let local districts decide how to teach sex education, the AP/Asbury Park Press reports...
Although Dawn Johnsen -- President Obama's nominee to lead the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel -- is "a highly qualified choice," Senate Republicans "have been raising baseless objections and delaying" the confirmation for more than one year, the New York Times says in an...
The Senate voted 97-0 Wednesday to confirm Beverly Baldwin Martin, President Obama's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which oversees Alabama, Florida and Georgia, CQ Today reports. Martin, a district judge in Georgia since 2000, was nominated in June 2009. Although...
The Senate on Wednesday is expected to confirm Beverly Baldwin Martin, President Obama's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, CQ Today reports. Martin would be the fourth Obama appeals court nominee to receive a vote. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Martin's...
The Senate on Wednesday is expected to confirm Beverly Baldwin Martin, President Obama's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, CQ Today reports. Martin would be the fourth Obama appeals court nominee to receive a vote. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Martin's...
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced Tuesday that he would support the nomination of law professor Dawn Johnsen to head of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, which could clear her long-stalled confirmation, the Washington Post reports. President Obama nominated Johnsen in March...