Legacy Bush Donors Account For Half Of Jeb Bush’s Donations

WASHINGTON  — Jeb Bush’s fundraising network is two generations in the making, and it shows. About half of the roughly $120 million raised to help him win the Republican presidential nomination comes from donors who previously gave to his brother or father, both former presidents, according to a new analysis of Federal Election Commission records […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Jeb Bush

WASHINGTON  — Jeb Bush's fundraising network is two generations in the making, and it shows. About half of the roughly $120 million raised to help him win the Republican presidential nomination comes from donors who previously gave to his brother or father, both former presidents, according to a new analysis of Federal Election Commission

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New GOP Mega-Donor Group Highlights Influence Of Money On Policy

With a growing disconnect and increasing takeover of the party by lobbyist interests, the American Opportunity Alliance is looking to change the issues Republicans address.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

In Indiana, a red state currently under the control of Republicans, legislators attempted to push forward a state constitutional amendment to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. While Indiana already has a law that criminalizes same-sex marriage, gay-rights opponents are seeking constitutional protection to make overturning the law

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Swedish Doctors Transplant Wombs Into 9 Women

“This is a new kind of surgery,” Dr. Mats Brannstrom told The Associated Press in an interview from Goteborg. “We have no textbook to look at.”

Associated Press
By Associated Press
In this April 4, 2012 photo made available by the University of Goteborg in Sweden, the Swedish research team practices before the operations to transplant wombs at the Sahlgrenska Hospital in Goteborg, Sweden. Nine women in Sweden have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives and will soon try to become pregnant, the doctor in charge of the pioneering project has revealed. “This is a new kind of surgery,” Dr. Mats Brannstrom told The Associated Press. Brannstrom is leading the initiative at the University of Goteborg and will run workshops for other doctors on how to perform womb transplants later this year. “We have no textbook to look at,” he said. (AP Photo/University of Goteborg, Johan Wingborg)

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nine women in Sweden have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives and will soon try to become pregnant, the doctor in charge of the pioneering project has revealed. The women were born without a uterus or had it removed because of cervical cancer. Most are in their 30s and are part of the first major

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