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The U.S. Senate is as mad as you-know-what and it's apparently not going to take it anymore: the Senate Tuesday voted overwhelmingly, 79-19, to approve a procedural measure that speeds the way for a bill designed to put pressure on China to allow its currency to appreciate.

President Barack Obama's chances of winning a second term are bleak, with only 37 percent of the voters believing that he will scrape through in 2012, the latest ABC News/Washington Post survey has found.

The assassination of radical al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, has revived a debate about the limits of the Obama administration's authority to hunt and kill terrorists abroad.

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.

Can Congress increase the income tax on the wealthy? It can if the latest Bloomberg Poll is any indicator -- global investors overwhelming support President Barack Obama's proposed tax increase on adults with adjusted gross incomes of $1 million or more annually.

Occupy Wall Street protests are nothing new for NYPD.

With the urging of George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger and Nancy Reagan, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in what is beginning to feel a smidge like Groundhog Day, is said to be giving serious thought to jumping into the GOP presidential ring, the New York Post reported.

If History holds, Mitt Romney's healthy ways might prevent him from being the party's champion.

The heads of two of the world's most powerful private equity firms issued a dire report on the U.S. economy on Wednesday, signaling problems for political leaders and their own firms' ability to realize profit on their portfolios.

The U.S. Senate will likely take up President Barack Obama's jobs bill in October, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev,. says he has a more important jobs bill to bring to the Senate floor first: one that treats China's fixed yuan as an anti-competitive trade practice.

Ed Koch backs Obama after heavily criticizing president's Israel policy.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Christie has been inundated by a relentless stream of calls to run for the White House.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and commander of Apollo 11, said the United States risks squandering 5 decades of space research, work, and accomplishments, if the nation does not find ways to restore hope and confidence in NASA, as part of a unified sense of purpose on space exploration.

U.S. actor Sean Penn engaged in attempts to secure the release of two Americans freed by Iran this week, flying to Venezuela to ask President Hugo Chavez to intervene with Iran's leader, a source close to the release process said on Friday.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said during Thursday's Republican presidential debate that President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times. But actually, every president since John F. Kennedy polled lower at least once.

President Barack Obama today announced how states can obtain waivers that would exempt their schools from a key provision of No Child Left Behind, a sweeping education law enacted under the George W. Bush administration.

Critics of President Barack Obama assert that the president has not shown enough support for Israel, but the U.S.'s sale of 55, powerful, bunker buster bombs, among other military aid to Israel, refutes that thesis.

The first clinical trial in Europe using human embryonic stem cells will take place at the Moorfields Eye hospital in London as reported by the Massachusetts-based stem-cell research company, Advanced Cell Technology.

The Republican presidential candidates are debating once again Thursday night, this time in Orlando, Fla. The participants are Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Stay on this page for live updates.

The Obama Administration is offering states ways to circumvent provisions of the No Child Lew Behind Law, saying that certain provisions of the law have done more harm than good in improving schools.

White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening in Texas for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.