A new poll found that Obama's approval rating was only 43 percent, largely because of his handling of the still-slumping economy. But on several key issues, Republican candidates like Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann were also unpopular, even within their own party.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 17, 2011
Pat Robertson’s latest comment on condoning divorce when spouse has Alzheimer’s is outrageous and violates the sanctity of marriage, feel many offended Christians.
sangeeta mukherjee
Sep 17, 2011
On Thurday, the Virginia Board of Health voted to enact regulations on abortion clinics that would require many to undergo expensive renovations that could lead to their closure.
Ashley Portero
Sep 15, 2011
Bella is pregnant with a monster baby who threatens her life
Ellen Killoran
Sep 14, 2011
A new bookclaims that Sarah Palin has used cocaine in the past and had a six-month affair with one of her husband's business partners.
Bhaskar Prasad
Sep 14, 2011
Mississippi voters will have the chance to define the term person to include all human beings from the moment of fertilization after the state Supreme Court validated a referendum.
Amrutha Gayathri
Sep 13, 2011
Michele Bachmann, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, moved into the top tier of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination last month with her win in the Iowa straw poll, an early test of strength in the 2012 race.
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Sep 08, 2011
Texas Governor Rick Perry has swiftly risen to the top of opinion polls since he entered the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination last month.
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Sep 08, 2011
While compromise is the name of the game in Washington D.C., some wonder if the huge gulf between left and right might lead to a kind of permanent malaise in our national body politic.
Palash Ghosh
Sep 07, 2011
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen and aspirin may increase a woman's risk of miscarriage, researchers found in a new study published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 06, 2011
Perry gave detailed responses on his views on other such polarizing subjects as immigration, gay marriage.
Palash Ghosh
Sep 03, 2011
FreedomWorks, a Washington D.C.-based tea party organization led by former House Majority leader Dick Armey, has ended its involvement and will protest Sunday's Reclaiming America tour in Concord, N.H., since former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will headline the event.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 01, 2011
The clinical trial of injecting stem cell into the brains of three patients as part of treatment of stroke was successful, according to a British biotech company behind the trial.
sangeeta mukherjee
Sep 01, 2011
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked provisions of a Texas law that required doctors to describe sonogram images to patients before performing abortions, ruling that it violates the doctors' free speech.
Jeremy White
Aug 31, 2011
Michele Bachmann claims she was speaking in jest when she said that Hurricane Irene and last week's earthquake in Virginia were signs from God that the United States needed to cut spending. But it seems more indicative of a clever tactic: making an outlandish statement and disavowing it once it has achieved its purpose.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 29, 2011
Hurricane Irene and the earthquake that recently rumbled through Washington, D.C. were God's way of telling Washington to reduce spending, according to GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann.
Jeremy White
Aug 29, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann told Florida voters on Sunday that Hurricane Irene and the recent earthquake were manifestations of God's desire to cut back government spending.
Jeremy White
Aug 29, 2011
Robertson, a native of Virginia, the epicenter of the quake, has long associated natural disasters with the ‘end of times’ and prophecies in the Bible.
Palash Ghosh
Aug 24, 2011
Only 14 percent of obstetricians and gynecologists in the United States provide abortions, according to researchers at the University of Chicago and Duke University. That is down from 22 percent when a similar survey was conducted in 2008.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 24, 2011
Congressman Dennis Kucinich invoked the name of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. to support the legalization of marijuana.
Hao Li
Aug 22, 2011
Pope Benedict urged 1.5 million young Catholics at a Sunday mass in an aerodrome to spread the gospel to others on the last day of a four-day visit to the Spanish capital marked by violent protests.
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Aug 21, 2011
A torrential rainstorm forced Pope Benedict to abandon a speech to hundreds of thousands of young people gathered at an aerodrome outside Madrid on Saturday.
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Aug 21, 2011