http://en.redtram.com/ News on "Politics"  in "America" Copyright (c) 2008 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:24:38 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 143448 | Top earners react to tax plans http://en.redtram.com/go/162940523/top100/ 162940523 John McCain and Barack Obama both have big plans for the federal tax code. But the biggest difference between them involves what happens to families who make more than $250,000 dollars a year. Obama would raise their income taxes. McCain Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:46:49 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162940523/top100/ 143448 | Longtime state Sen. Allan Spear dies http://en.redtram.com/go/162940460/top100/ 162940460 Allan H. Spear, a former state Senatepresident who served in the Minnesota Legislature for nearly 30years, has died at the age of 71. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:46:10 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162940460/top100/ 143448 | Todd Palin to visit northern Minnesota this week http://en.redtram.com/go/162940455/top100/ 162940455 The husband of Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will visit the Iron Range and northwestern Minnesota this week. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:46:05 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162940455/top100/ 143448 | Minnesota Power customers upset over rate hike proposal http://en.redtram.com/go/162940422/top100/ 162940422 Some northeast Minnesota residents are charged up over a plan to hike electric rates. Duluth-based Minnesota power is proposing price increases that, in percentage terms, will hit low income households and small businesses a lot harder than big industries. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:45:49 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162940422/top100/ 143239 | NKorea To Resume Dismantling Nuclear Facilities http://en.redtram.com/go/162870890/top100/ 162870890 North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclearfacilities, hours after the U.S. removed the communist country from alist of states Washington says sponsor terrorism. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:24:29 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162870890/top100/ 143239 | Police: Car Bomb Kills 7 In Baghdad http://en.redtram.com/go/162870891/top100/ 162870891 A car bomb exploded Sunday in a commercial street of southwesternBaghdad, killing seven people and wounding nine others, police said. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:24:29 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162870891/top100/ 143239 | Euro Nations To Guarantee Bank Refinancing http://en.redtram.com/go/162870873/top100/ 162870873 Nations in Europe's single-currency zone agreed Sunday to temporarilyguarantee bank refinancing and pledged to prevent banks failing as partof a raft of emergency measures designed to get credit flowing again. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:24:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162870873/top100/ 143239 | Marine Fighting Extradition From Mexico http://en.redtram.com/go/162870872/top100/ 162870872 The attorney for a Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague says his client is fighting extradition to the United States. Dick McNeil says 21-year-old Cpl. Cesar Laurean has filed an extradition appeal in a Mexican court. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:24:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162870872/top100/ 143239 | About 2,500 Flee Chemical Leak In Western Pa. http://en.redtram.com/go/162870871/top100/ 162870871 A corrosive liquid overflowed from a tank at a chemical plant inwestern Pennsylvania on Saturday, evaporating into a toxic cloud thatsnaked along the ground and forced about 2,500 people to flee. At leastthree residents were believed to suffer respiratory problems. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:24:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162870871/top100/ 143239 | Palin: Probe Cleared Me Of Any Wrongdoing http://en.redtram.com/go/162870860/top100/ 162870860 Despite the finding of a legislative report that she had broken thestate's ethics law in the scandal dubbed Troopergate, Alaska GovernorSarah Palin said Saturday that the report actually cleared her of any"legal wrongdoing or unethical activity." Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:24:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162870860/top100/ 143239 | Paulson: Protectionist Policies Won't Solve Crisis http://en.redtram.com/go/162870861/top100/ 162870861 Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told international leaders on Sundaythat isolationism and protectionism could worsen the spreadingfinancial crisis. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:24:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162870861/top100/ 143239 | First Child Of U.S. Astronaut Lifts Off http://en.redtram.com/go/162870862/top100/ 162870862 A Soyuz spacecraft with two Americans and a Russian on board lifted offfrom Kazakhstan on Sunday for the international space station. TheSoyuz TMA-13 capsule carrying American computer game millionaireRichard Garriott soared into a clear sky atop a Russian rocket as Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:24:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162870862/top100/ 143239 | Forecasters: Tropical Storm Nana Forms In Atlantic http://en.redtram.com/go/162870863/top100/ 162870863 Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say TropicalStorm Nana has formed in the eastern Atlantic, but predict it willweaken to a tropical depression by Monday. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:24:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162870863/top100/ 143239 | Wildfire Burns 500 Acres Northeast Of L.A. http://en.redtram.com/go/162870870/top100/ 162870870 A wildfire burned about 500 acres of forest Sunday, threateninghundreds of homes and an animal sanctuary north of Los Angeles,authorities said. The blaze began about 2 a.m. in a rugged area about 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, fire Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:24:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162870870/top100/ 875 | The End of the End of History http://en.redtram.com/go/162856354/top100/ 162856354 In 1992, Francis Fukuyama rang the memorial bells for history itself. What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:59:16 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162856354/top100/ 51799 | Letter to the Shuttle regarding the Olympics http://en.redtram.com/go/162850858/top100/ 162850858 Dear Editor, Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:30:52 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162850858/top100/ 51799 | HAVE HOO ROAD'S RESIDENTS BEEN SHORT-CHANGED? http://en.redtram.com/go/162850854/top100/ 162850854 After a five year wait and pressure from Cllrs Helen and Peter Dyke, local residents, the media and me, the County Council has finally announced the traffic calming measures for Hoo Road. Just weeks before the deadline to lose the Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:30:51 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162850854/top100/