Republican presidential candidates stepped up their attacks on rival Mitt Romney in a televised debate on Sunday morning -- a mere two days before primary-election voters in New Hampshire head to the polls -- and the front-runner mostly weathered the attacks.
Most of the Republican presidential candidates laid out their credentials as social conservatives in a debate on Saturday as the 2012 campaign prepares to move from New Hampshire to South Carolina. With another debate to be hosted by NBC's Meet the Press, they can do it all over again on Sunday.
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden is loading up on stars.
U.S. President Barack Obama kicked off an effort to encourage businesses to keep jobs at home instead of outsourcing them overseas, as he rolled out a new election-year theme on Saturday aimed at courting middle-class voters.
Congressional Republicans Friday asked the Justice Department to weigh in on the controversial recess appointments President Barack Obama made to install appointees to politically sensitive jobs overseeing consumer lending and the labor force.
Western powers this week readied a contingency plan to tap a record volume from emergency stockpiles to replace nearly all the Gulf oil that would be lost if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, industry sources and diplomats told Reuters.
U.S. Senator Marc Rubio from Florida sent a scathing letter urging President Obama to tackle the debt crisis and resist raising the debt ceiling. It's a tragic reality, he writes. But, on your watch, more and more people have come to believe that America is becoming a deadbeat nation inevitably heading toward a European-style debt crisis.
The FBI's outdated definition of rape excluded from federal crime reports cases involving a male victim, oral and anal penetration, and non-forcible sexual assault.
The increasingly ugly divorce between White House party crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi continues to grab headlines, despite audience fatigue with the publicity-seeking reality TV personalities.
Investigators are looking into whether or not the White House gave too much information to Hollywood director Katheryn Bigelow and her team working on a movie about the Osama bin Laden raid.
The U.S. Department of Defense and CIA are investigating claims that the Obama administration gave Oscar Award winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow more than a peek at classified information about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The president's recess appointment power under the Constitution is not without its ambiguities, and the president's use of this power in light of these ambiguities has given rise to significant political and legal controversy since the beginning of the Republic.
Mitt Romney's win in the Iowa caucuses has slapped him with a once-familiar tag: frontrunner. It may signal a return to the common stasis of any campaign. Where once intra-party bickering sunk many past frontrunners, the common political mantra of punch up has taken hold in the 2012 campaign. Perhaps the era of surging candidates is over?
John McCain endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday, ahead of the New Hampshire primary,.
President Barack Obama appointed three people to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday to keep the agency operable in 2012.
The Obama administration will unveil a more realistic vision for the military Thursday, with plans to cut tens of thousands of ground troops and invest more in air and sea power at a time of fiscal restraint, officials familiar with the plans said Wednesday.
Republicans are raging over the process in which President Barack Obama appointed Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But the howling could strengthen Obama's re-election campaign.
Palin added that the “worst thing” the Republican Party could do is marginalize the Texas congressman.
A former civil engineer and inspector for the original Keystone pipeline writes, Let's be clear -- I am an engineer; I am not telling you we shouldn't build pipelines. We just should not build this one.
Occupy Wall Street is far from dead, though it's also far from Wall Street at this point. On Tuesday evening, while the weather touched down to 13 degrees, about 100 demonstrators gathered in the main concourse of Grand Central. The demonstrators used Grand Central as a place to voice their opposition against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Underlying Tuesday's results is the question of whether the Iowa caucuses are in fact reliable indicators of who will emerge as the eventual nominee. A look back at the last few Iowa caucuses shows that while an Iowa victory can rally support for a candidate or help shape the media narrative, it is by no means definitive.
U.S. President Barack Obama is naming Richard Cordray to be the country's chief consumer watchdog through a recess appointment, despite stubborn GOP opposition.
