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Among the slick, million-dollar ads airing during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in New York and Boston will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control.

According to the officials, the letter laments that the U.S. failed to create a conducive atmosphere for talks by releasing the Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, the CIA prison for terror suspects in Cuba.

The organization that provides the world's banks with a system for moving money said on Friday it is working with officials in the European Union and the United States to address concerns about the services it provides to blacklisted Iranian banks.

Provo artist Jon McNaughton is back with its new painting ‘The Forgotten Man’ which features President Barack Obama standing on the Constitution.

President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron will discuss UK-U.S. partnership during Cameron's March visit.

Tech-forward U.S President Barack Obama has indicated that the government will try to find out a workable approach on the controversial SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act) issues. The president made that suggestion in reply to selected questions in the first-ever completely virtual interview from the White House, via Google+ Hangout.

Michelle Obama has been busy promoting her healthy eating and fitness program for two years. But how fit is she herself?

Lawmakers are steeling for a public battle against the possible transfer of Taliban detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison, a key step in the Obama administration's bid to broker a peace deal ending the war in Afghanistan.

The United States, European governments and Arab states have begun discussing the possibility of exile for Bashar al-Assad despite skepticism that the defiant Syrian president is ready to consider such an offer, Western officials say.

Assuming the $100 billion initial public offering by Facebook proceeds as planned, investors will likely clamor for shares and snap them up, just as in earlier Web frenzies for Netscape Communications, Yahoo and Google. But there are dangers.

Michelle Obama was on Ellen DeGeneres's talk show this morning to talk about her campaign to fight childhood obesity as well as dish on some of her pet peeves regarding America's Commander-in-Chief (he doesn't pick up his socks and likes to hang his jackets on the corners of door). He like's it neat, she said, but noted that the President has people to clean up after him. Seemingly out of nowhere, DeGeneres challenged the physically fit first lady to a push-up contest on-came...

Mit Romney has been dogged from the early days of his campaign about his ability to connect to the Tea Party voters who were instrumental in reshaping the political landscape in 2010, but in the Florida primary he captured a large portion of the Tea Party vote. Experts say his success owes partially to a broad shift towards Tea Party philosophies.

A proposed settlement to resolve mortgage abuses by top U.S. banks will give states broad authority to punish firms that mistreat borrowers in the future, according to documents seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

Tom Tancredo, a former Colorado congressman and 2008 presidential candidate, endorsed Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, giving a small boost to Santorum's long-shot campaign after he finished a distant third in the Florida primary.

Groundhog Day is upon us. Up in Punxsutawney, Penn., the famous prognosticating groundhog Phil may see his shadow this year. We could be in for six more weeks of winter. Never mind the fact that it's been so unseasonably warm that Al Gore started writing the script for his next Oscar-winning documentary called Ha! I Told You So. If Phil says winter will continue then, by golly, it will.

Mitt Romney cemented his front-runner status with his Florida 2012 primary win Tuesday night, coming ahead of Newt Gingrich with almost half of the vote.

Based on his reception last night during his Florida primary speech, one would think Ron Paul and not Mitt Romney had won the Florida 2012 Republican primary last night. Watch what the Texas congressman had to say here, and read a full transcript of his words to his grassroots support.

Mitt Romney couldn't have settled for anything less than a blowout victory in Florida's Republican presidential primary that would retain his edge over the GOP rivals in their fight to win the party's nomination to face incumbent President Barack Obama.

Mitt Romney has been declared the winner of the Florida primary, restoring much of the momentum he lost to Newt Gingrich in South Carolina.

Here’s one way to get a resume noticed. President Barack Obama offered to circulate an unemployed engineer’s resume when his wife complained to him about the lack of jobs at the president’s Google Plus hangout Monday night.

According to The Telegraph, Michelle Obama purchased $50,000 worth of lingerie from Agent Provocateur. She and the Queen of Qatar, Sheikha Mozah, closed off part of Madison Avenue for a shopping spree at the luxury lingerie boutique.