“I apologize to those whom are disappointed in this decision… But I believe that they, when they take a step back, will understand why the decision was made and understand that really you don’t need a title to make a difference in this country,” Sarah Palin said on Fox New after closing the door to a 2012 presidential campaign.
President Barack Obama launched a broad onslaught against banks on Thursday, tapping into public anger over rising fees to garner populist support ahead of his 2012 re-election campaign.
Herman Cain may still be a longshot in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but he's coming on strong. Rick Perry seemed to be a lock, but his GOP star is falling fast.
Steve Jobs has influenced in some way or other the lives of so many that people around the world turned iSad on Wednesday, taking a break for sharing thoughts about the charming innovator who formed modern technology culture.
Rep Gabrielle Giffords will be visiting the White house on Thursady for her husband, Astronaut and U.S Navy Captain Mark Kelly's retirement ceremony. The announcement was made by Vice President Biden via twitter. The tweet said TOMORROW at 1pm, VP to welcome USN Capt Mark Kelly and @Rep_Giffords to White House for Capt Kelly's military retirement ceremony.
The inevitable has at last come to pass. Sarah Palin has formally announced her decision to stay out of 2012 presidential race.
Senate Democrats want to hit millionaires with a 5 percent surcharge on their taxes to pay for President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs program, but the plan seems to be going nowhere in the divided Congress.
Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani will avoid the hangman in Iran, it appears, as Iran claims that the reports of death penalty that circulated around the world last week were unsubstantiated.
Van Jones was the environmental adviser to President Barack Obama and resigned in the wake of a controversy in Sept. 2009. Recently, he has been linked to “Occupy Wall Street” protests and has gained a worldwide attention with his call for an “October Offensive” against the Tea Party. However, it seems Vice President Joe Biden hasn’t heard about Jones.
Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin held on for a slim victory in a special election for governor of West Virginia Tuesday, narrowly preventing a third state special election embarrassment for President Barack Obama.
Former pizza executive Herman Cain is now tied with Mitt Romney for the lead in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, while former front-runner Rick Perry has taken a steep fall, according to a CBS News poll released on Tuesday.
New York Attorney Eric Schneiderman and U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren have been filling a void in progressive politics.
A series of emails released by the House Of Representative's Energy and Commerce committee show that Solyndra investors as well as White House officials questioned Solyndra's financial stability as early as December 2009.
The killing of terrorist mastermind Anwar Al-Awlaki, in Yemen last week, by the United States has raised legal questions, with many international law experts saying that the ideal course of action would have been to bring Awlaki to a U.S. court.
Speculation that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will enter the U.S. presidential race has led to a feverish debate about the possibility of having the fattest man in the White House since the corpulent William Howard Taft squeezed behind the big desk in the Oval Office.
The Book of Mormon debuted this year as a Broadway hit that won nine Tonys, and the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination features not one, but two candidates of the Mormon faith.
After his first meeting ever with the Mother Monster herself last week, President Obama said Lady Gaga is intimidating during a speech at a LGBT advocacy gala.
China's official news agency derided on Sunday U.S. lawmakers' efforts to pressure Beijing over its currency policy as expedient and shallow, saying they were resorting to an old habit of deflecting blame on China.
President Barack Obama on Friday hailed the killing of American-born militant Anwar al-Awlaki as a tribute to years of counterterrorism cooperation with Yemen and proof that al Qaeda and its allies will find no safe haven anywhere in the world.
In a letter sent to Congress last Friday, President Barack Obama announced that the United States intends to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan next year. Obama claimed his administration has reversed the Taliban's momentum in the Central Asian country and that there has been improvement in the training of Afghan security forces.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee reportedly considering a jump into the GOP presidential field while potential bid from Gov. Chris Christie soaks up attention.
As the world waits to see if New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has changed his mind about mounting a presidential campaign sources indicate a (new) decision could be announced as early as next week. A new Rasmussen Report indicates that the governor would probably fare well against President Barack Obama if he decided to run.
