Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond said on Sunday he planned to withdraw as a nominee for Federal Reserve governor, after his nomination was repeatedly attacked by Republicans.
At one time, he seemingly had it all: A political career to boast of, a name everyone - or at least most Democrats - respected, a wife that loved him for 32 long years, and four children to show for it. But, oh, how easy it is to fall; one faulty move and the king is in check. It is this position John Edwards now finds himself.
A resurgent automobile industry vindicates the government's issuing a bailout, President Barack Obama said during during a speech at a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio today.
Republican presidential candidates seized on a new report showing anemic job growth to criticize Obama's stewardship of the economy.
The controversial immigration enforcement program was not working as intended, the New York governor said.
Adult Americans have their own bogeyman – those shadowy, poorly-understood, but powerful things that are out to get them.
Democratic National Committee boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz went on the attack against Republicans over a CS Monitor breakfast with reporters.
Facebook announced it has hired a former Bush administration staffer to head its Washington, D.C. office, deepening the company's ties to the political establishment.
Facebook said it has hired a former Bush administration official to help it head up its Washington operations, placing the company closer to policy makers.
The evidence from China, for example, suggests that while higher rates certainly have the potential to dent gold demand, far more important drivers are inflation and growth. China's experience may not be typical, but it's certainly worth examining. China is the world's second biggest gold market after India.
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US President Barack Obama and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu have admitted their differences on the Middle East peace issues.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told President Barack Obama on Friday his vision of how to achieve Middle East peace was unrealistic, exposing a deep divide that could doom any U.S. bid to revive peace talks.
Former president George W. Bush is earning big bucks making speeches, with a fee of between $100,000 and $150,000 per appearance.
President Ronald Reagan once famously said that a stack of $1,000 bills equivalent to the U.S. government's debt would be about 67 miles high.
President Ronald Reagan once famously said that a stack of $1,000 bills equivalent to the U.S. government's debt would be about 67 miles high.
In his first informal comments After Osama’s death, Bush said that the news of Laden’s death didn’t make him “overjoyed”.
With real estate magnate Donald Trump and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee no longer placing themselves in the running for the U.S. presidency, the role of GOP frontrunner seems to be left up for grabs.
Two days after announcing his intention not to run for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential election, Mike Huckabee has proffered words of support to another possible candidate: Donald Trump.
He initiated the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and was out of office before the mission was accomplished. Now, former President George W. Bush has released his thoughts on the killing of bin Laden, saying that while he is not overjoyed at the news, it is ultimately a victory for the American people.
Will Ferrell will be awarded with the Mark Twain prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in October.
Amidst growing questions over the legality of the killing of Osama bin Laden, US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the commando raid that resulted in the death of the former al-Qaeda terror chief.
