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Jay Carney is leaving Time magazine after 20 years to be President-elect Biden's communications director in the White House, astonished magazine and gleeful transition sources said. Carney's title will be assistant to the vice president and director of communications. TIME.com's "The Page" first reported his new job. Carney, the magazine's Washington bureau chief, is one of Washington's best-known talking heads, with regular appearances on ABC's "This Week," "The McLaughlin Group" and MSNBC's "Hardball." Biden has assembled a team of heavyweights: Ron Klain, who was chief of staff to former Vice President Al Gore, as chief of staff; Mike Donilon, one...

Outgoing newsmag bureau chief Jay Carney to be assistant to the vice president and his director of communications.

The economy is more important than an election, Rep. Paul Kanjorski said Wednesday, defending his support of the more than $700 billion economic bailout package that passed in the Senate last Wednesday and the House of Representatives last Friday. “I made the commitment to support it knowing full well that it could have a very significant negative effect on my re-election,” Kanjorski said after meeting with constituents at his campaign office on South Main Street in Wilkes-Barre. “But look, I’m elected to Congress to do the right thing, not to get re-elected.” Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who is challenging Kanjorski,...

More than half a century of emotional pain came to an end when Janice Carney opened her eyes on the morning of Feb. 25, 2001, in a Colorado hospital. Carney, born John Joseph Carney, vividly remembers waking up on her 51st birthday, after eight hours of surgery, and seeing her best friend holding a birthday cake with a single candle on it. "It was the beginning of my new life," Carney says. A surgeon removed Carney's male genitalia, which Carney describes as "toxic waste," and reshaped the tissue to medically turn Carney from male to female. . . .

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The troops and the nation need to be made more aware of what is actually happening in Iraq, and the administration needs to be held accountable for its conduct regarding the entire war, said U.S. Rep. Chris Carney, D-Dimock, Tuesday...While in the hospital in Germany, Carney said the platoon leader of a man who was severely burned in an attack in Iraq grabbed Carney's arm and said, ''Sir, it's not worth it. We've got to find a better way.''

U.S. Rep.-elect Chris Carney won’t get the powerful House Appropriations Committee seat he was promised, which would have put him in a strong position to steer federal money to the area.But he’s pleased with his appointment to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, his second choice, he said.“I think getting T and I was a huge coup and great for the district,” Mr. Carney, D-Dimock Township, said.An Appropriations Committee appointment means a spot on a coveted panel with the largest say in the spending of federal tax dollars.Former U.S. Rep. Joseph McDade, when he represented the region, was able to steer...

Letter from Carol Sherwood denounces Chris Carney’s campaign ads focusing on her husband’s extramarital affair. See the letter Over the weekend, voters in Don Sherwood’s congressional district began receiving “A personal note from Carol Sherwood” in which the congressman’s wife decries the political commercials that refer to her husband’s affair.The six-paragraph typed note signed by Carol Sherwood – her first public comment on her husband’s affair – accuses Democratic challenger Chris Carney of using “negative campaigning” and “a personal attack” in political ads centered on her husband’s affair with a younger woman who claimed the congressman abused her.“The negative...

With a widely quoted, non-partisan newsletter downgrading his chances to retain his seat in Congress and new independent poll showing him behind by 8.5 points, Don Sherwood plans to bring in Republican leaders, including President Bush, to raise money for him this month, a local party leader said Monday. House Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio will appear this evening at a $25-per-head fundraiser at the Montdale Country Club in Lackawanna County. And House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois is scheduled to make a similar appearance on Oct. 18 at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Clarks Summit, according to Lackawanna...

The final hours of 2003 are an appropriate time to reflect on some of the people who left us over the past year. Numerous showbiz types went to that great stage in the sky. Bob Hope, who combined a love of entertaining with an unadulterated patriotism, passed on at 100. Art Carney, Ed Norton of the fabled Honeymooners, will be remembered as the ultimate pal. Sure, he often realized that Ralph Kramden’s latest get-rich-quick scheme was fatally flawed, but he hung in there anyway. Just out of pure, unquestioning friendship. Bee Gee Maurice Gibb died in January. Whether one loved...