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Richard Cordray

Obama's Recess Appointments Reopen Murky Legal Debate

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.

Romney Back in Spotlight, Faces Barrage of Attacks

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
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?
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Iowa Caucus Results: Historically Uneven Record of Predicting Nominee

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.
US Aircraft Carrier near Strait of Hormuz

Will U.S. End Up in War With Iran in 2012?

The latest threat comes days after U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law sanctions against Iran's central bank which processes most of the country's oil-export payments. Obama and other leaders, including European Union foreign ministers set to meet in Brussels on Jan. 30 to consider a oil-export ban on Iran, hope more sanctions will slow the country from further developing its nuclear weapons program.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum

Santorum sends Iowa caucus rivals scrambling

With time running out, rivals of surging Republican Rick Santorum raised doubts about his conservative record on Monday in hopes of heading off a last-minute victory by the former senator a day before Iowa kicks off the 2012 presidential election season.
U.S. President Barack Obama

Obama Strikes Hopeful Note in Year-End Address

President Barack Obama, striking a hopeful note in a year-end weekly address, hailed foreign policy milestones while keeping pressure on Congress to further extend payroll tax cuts through the end of 2012.
Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement stand with signs outside Duarte Square in New York

Occupy makes annual list of most overused words

Occupy this: the trash bin. At least, so say students at Michigan's Lake Superior State University who released an annual list of words they deem so misused, overused and cliched they should be banished in the year ahead.
American GOP Nomination Primary Iowa 2012

Republicans Scour Iowa for Undecided Voters

Republican White House hopefuls scoured Iowa for undecided voters on Saturday and front-runner Mitt Romney argued that he is the best to take on President Barack Obama as time ran short before the first votes of the 2012 election season.
US Aircraft Carrier near Strait of Hormuz

Strait of Hormuz, Iran Threat Looms Large Into 2012 for U.S., World

As America begins to put its military pieces back together again after the end to a nine-year campaign in Iraq amid threats from Iran that it may close the Strait of Hormuz, the most vital corridor for oil-tanker traffic in the world, the reality is that another conflict may be looming in the Middle East.
Yahoo Picks Former PayPal Chair as New CEO

Yahoo Has Potential Bidder in Alibaba Group

Alibaba Group has hired a Washington lobbying firm in a sign that the Chinese e-commerce company would be willing to make a bid for all of Yahoo Inc. in the event that talks to unwind their Asian partnership fail.
Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon Was Gay, Claims New Book

Apparently, the mysteries shrouding the man termed as the most peculiar and haunted of presidents could be even more complicated than previously thought. A new book titled, Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President, by Don Fulsom, a longtime White House reporter and former United Press International Washington bureau chief, has claimed that the former U.S. President Richard Nixon was involved in a homosexual affair with confidante Charle...
Vladimir Putin

5 Most Important People for 2012

Who will be the five people to shape 2012? It could be anyone on list, or it could be none of them. Such is the state of geopolitics at this important moment in history.

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