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Romney Supporter Blunt Wins Senate GOP Post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt has won election to the Senate leadership in a race portrayed as a contest between establishment Washington and tea party power.
Blunt, a congressional veteran and presidential contender Mitt Romney’s chief advocate on Capitol Hill, won the post of Republican conference vice chairman over a fellow Senate freshman, Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson, a tea party favorite.
The position itself doesn’t carry much power or responsibility other than to spread the Senate Republican leadership’s message ahead of the 2012 elections. The vice chairmanship is the fifth-most senior position in the GOP caucus and is considered a step closer to more consequential leadership posts.
Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander announced in September that he would be relinquishing the post at the end of this session of Congress.
One dead, dozens injured in Jerusalem explosion
Authorities say bus stop explosion is first Palestinian militant attack in Jerusalem in years
Israel Rescue workers and paramedics work next to a pool of blood following an explosion at a bus stop in Jerusalem, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. A bomb exploded near a crowded bus, wounding at least eight people in what appeared to be the first militant attack in the city in several years. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)(Credit: AP) (updated below)
A bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop Wednesday in central Jerusalem, injuring dozens and killing one in what appeared to be the first militant attack in the city in several years.
The blast could be heard throughout Jerusalem and blew out the windows of two crowded buses. Rescuers were seen removing bloodied people from the area on stretchers. Israel’s national rescue service said 25 people were wounded, including 15 seriously. State-run Israel Radio says one woman has died.
Continue Reading CloseActress Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79
The legendary film actress had been battling symptoms of congestive heart failure
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 file photo, Elizabeth Taylor speaks during the 26th Annual Macy's Passport to Fashion gala in Santa Monica, Calif. Elizabeth Taylor has been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital and is being treated for symptoms caused by congestive heart failure, according to her spokeswoman, Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)(Credit: AP) Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has died in Los Angeles. She was 79.
Publicist Sally Morrison says the actress died Wednesday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from congestive heart failure. Morrison says her children were at her side.
She’d been hospitalized for about six weeks.
Taylor first gained stardom as a child and appeared in more than 50 films. She won Oscars for her performances in “Butterfield 8″ and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
She was equally famous for extraordinary beauty and her stormy personal life, including eight marriages and a series of physical ailments.
In later years, she was a spokeswoman for humanitarian causes, notably AIDS research. That work gained her a special Oscar in 1993.
