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The Institutional Revolutionary Party is posed to retake Mexico's presidency after 12 years out of power. Here's who its man is, plus the two other candidates running behind him in the polls

The Institutional Revolutionary Party is poised to retake power on Sunday after a decade out of power, led by the charismatic presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto. Would a change mean a much different relationship with Mexico's big neighbor to the north?

Mercosur, a four-nation regional trade bloc in South America, could suspend Paraguay's membership following the sudden removal of President Fernando Lugo last week

U.S. trade officials on Thursday told a Republican lawmaker at the center of a legal fight with the Obama administration he cannot sit in on trade talks next week in San Diego between the United States and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

It now falls to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to send the contempt citation to a grand jury, an unlikely outcome. Here's what might happen instead.

Both the uninsured and those who already have health coverage stand to benefit from the upholding of the Affordable Care Act.

The Supreme Court's approval of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unambiguously good for American business, a George Mason University analyst said Thursday, a view also expressed by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.

The sharply-divided U.S. Supreme Court Thursday that upheld President Barack Obama's signature public policy initiative took most of official Washington by surprise.

The American Hospital Association praised the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to affirm the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

By upholding the individual mandate that is the health care law's linchpin, the Supreme Court has rebuffed Republicans who had hoped to accomplish through the judiciary their goal of dismantling the act.

The largest association of U.S. physicians praised the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act as a key to expanding health care to some 30 million Americans.

The Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate, crucial to Obama's signature healthcare law overhaul, in a victory for the Obama administration.

Pranab Mukherjee, ruling UPA party's nominee and former finance minister of India filed his nomination papers for the July 19 presidential elections on Thursday, in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi and other leaders.

The New York City Council is scheduled to vote Thursday to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto of a bill to require some city employers to pay their workers at least $11.50 an hour, or $10 hourly with benefits. And it's likely to happen.

Last summer, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., was considered among the frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination after winning the Iowa Straw Poll in August 2011. Now her re-election to her congressional seat may be in jeoardy.

If lawmakers cannot forge an agreement, they will need to fund projects on the nation's roads and bridges with a stopgap measure for the tenth straight time.

After two years of partisan arguments surrounding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court will finally make its call on Thursday.

A federal court has defended the Obama administration's unprecedented push to limit greenhouse gas emissions, laying down a marker in the debate over the limits of environmental regulation.

The Republican chairman of a House panel is accusing President Obama of either obscuring his involvement in the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking program or improperly invoking executive privilege

The presumptive Republican nominee is caught between conservatives who would like to see immigration laws more strictly enforced and Hispanics who are wary of his position, and as a result he has been exceedingly careful when it comes to immigration.

Indian Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee - the ruling party UPA's candidate for the presidential candidate- resigned from the post and bid farewell to active politics on Tuesday.