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On Tuesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who represents New York's 21st district and chairs the House Republican Conference, announced that through E-PAC, she has now endorsed a total of 18 Republican women running for office in key battleground districts. "I'm thrilled to add to E-PAC's impressive slate of Republican women candidates by officially endorsing nine more Rising Star GOP women for Congress. It's clear there is no shortage of all-star Republican women this cycle–we have a record-shattering 260+ Republican women who are already running for Congress, which surpasses our record in 2020 during the historic 'Year of the Republican Woman,'"...

A new problem may be bubbling up for residents of the lurching Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco. The building's tilt — now about 22 inches to the west due to the northwest corner sinking about 18 inches — may be causing lateral sewage pipes to not drain correctly and has already resulted in “some plugging” on the third floor In the email from Hamburger, obtained by NBC, the engineer told the city that “sewer lines must slope (minimum of 1/8” per foot) to enable efficient flow of material,” and that at-risk drains “will experience decreased slope and may become...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid will command the biggest party majority of any Senate leader in a quarter century when the new Congress convenes in January. But the Nevada Democrat is already worried about his own re-election fight in 2010. Sen. Reid, perhaps the most-vulnerable Democrat who will face re-election in a midterm race that is likely to favor his party once again, began interviewing campaign managers last week. The Senate majority leader also recently stepped up fund-raising. Starting early could help Sen. Reid avoid the fate of his predecessor, Tom Daschle, who was Democratic leader for a decade before...

** EXCERPT ** (CNN) — Likely GOP nominee John McCain said Sunday that beating an energized Democratic party in a fall election fight would be “an uphill battle all the way.”The Arizona senator told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week that he “can out-campaign them, and I can out-debate them, and I can out-perform them” but conceded that he had his work cut out for him in the months ahead.“…We've got to reunite the party, and we've got to re-energize the party. And I'm prepared to do that. We've got plenty of time. But I won't waste a day,” said...

California faces uphill battle on car emissions 11:12 22 September 2006 NewScientist.com news service Roxanne Khamsi California is unlikely to win its lawsuit against six of the world’s largest car manufacturers, which it filed earlier this week, say legal experts. The state is suing the automakers for the costs it says are associated with the vehicles’ greenhouse gas emissions. Even with a small chance of success, environmental advocates say the new legal action is useful and necessary because of threats to the state’s existing plans to reduce car emissions. The government of California has made many headlines by promoting laws...

Scientists make water run uphill By Roland Pease BBC science correspondent Watch the drop move Physicists have made water run uphill quite literally under its own steam. The droplets propel themselves over metal sheets scored with a carefully designed array of grooves. The US scientists did the experiment to demonstrate how the random motion of water molecules in hot steam could be channelled into a directed force. But the team, writing in Physical Review Letters, believes the effect may be useful in driving coolants through overheating computer microchips. The physics at work here has been witnessed by all of us...

Gov. Schwarzenegger has his work cut out for him in November if he wants to get voters to pass his government-overhaul initiatives, a new poll indicates. Today's poll by the nonpartisan Field Institute, prepared for The Press-Enterprise and other California media subscribers, shows that more voters surveyed, 47 percent, would vote against the governor's proposal to cut spending when state revenues fall. And 44 percent of voters told pollsters they would cast ballots against Schwarzenegger's idea of using retired judges to redraw the state's legislative and congressional districts. "That's not a good sign," said Mark DiCamillo, the poll director. "Field...