US House speaker Boehner to resign from Congress

Bitter internal divisions in the Republican Party boiled over Friday with the resignation of House Speaker John Boehner, who spent years repelling rebellious conservatives who accused him of lacking fire to battle Barack Obama and his Democrats. Just one day after fulfilling his personal 20-year dream of bringing the pope before Congress, Boehner -- who openly wept Thursday beside the pontiff -- told his Republican flock that he will resign at the end of October. The 65-year-old's sudden departu