BARACK OBAMA

That's the highest rating for Obama since 51 percent of Americans labeled his presidency a success after his first six months in office in 2009.

The inclusion of ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman in Israel’s new government would worsen matters, Mahmoud Abbas said.

The list reportedly includes the names of more than 60 people from the United States.

Over a third of Democrats and 44 percent of independents agreed the email issue has hurt the former secretary of state politically.

Washington now has three budget documents. And the differences show just how hard it will be to keep government funded.

The former vice president's choice of media platform offends women, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation says.

"I’m not doing this for enjoyment. I’m doing this because the country is in serious trouble,” Trump has said.

Defying pre-poll predictions, Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party has secured 30 seats in the 120-member Knesset.

The U.S. government has reportedly lost track of $500 million in military aid to the strife-torn nation.

U.S. congressional Republicans who oppose President Obama's pursuit of a nuclear deal with Tehran will use a hearing in Congress on Wednesday to air complaints about Iran's actions in Latin America.

The GOP wrote the 10-year spending plan. But even its own members might gawk at some of its provisions.

The Senate Republican leadership says the confirmation vote is being delayed by other legislation.

Fidel Castro penned another letter of support to Venezuela's embattled president as the U.S. and Cuba continue talks.

Delegates from Tehran were more optimistic than Western counterparts about negotiations aimed at limiting Iran's uranium use.

A consortium from North Carolina hopes to convince Senate Republicans that Loretta Lynch should lead the Department of Justice.

Alabama's all-Republican Supreme Court had ordered probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Clinton criticized the Republican-led U.S. Congress on Monday in a pair of tweets, calling Capitol Hill fights over a key Obama administration nominee and a human trafficking bill a "trifecta against women."

Big Finance and its lobbyists are lining up to oppose long-delayed rules meant to protect retirement savings from bad advice.

The Obama administration released a report showing Obamacare has reduced the number of uninsured, despite Republican efforts to overturn law.

An anti-human trafficking Senate bill stalled by Democrats is the latest reason Republicans want to delay attorney general vote.

The Venezuelan president has sweeping new authority to combat a U.S. "threat." But he already had broad powers before.