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Early in-person voting for the presidential elections will begin in Idaho and South Dakota Friday, even as the Democrats and Republicans are engaged in court battle on the issue of limiting such early voting before the actual date of the elections.

Mitt Romney tried to explain his "47 percent" gaffe and defend his immigration policies Wednesday evening in a forum with Latino voters.

Monica Lewinsky is reportedly going to rake in nearly $12 million for a tell-all about her life and will probably contain information about her affair that she had with former President Bill Clinton.

In the statement released with the initiation of the new program, it was obvious the Fed hoped to stimulate the economy while lowering unemployment and boosting the housing market.

Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to meet with President Obama on Wednesday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing violent conflict between Syrian forces and armed rebels.

Poll shows Obama in the lead over his rival, Romney, in Virginia and Wisconsin, but pretty close in Colorado.

Tim Tebow has not ruled the possibility of running for political office. Will he look to enter the presidential election when his NFL career is over?

All kinds of markets have been up following the announcement last Thursday of further monetary stimulus from the U.S. central bank. But the one thing that has gone up the most, according to futures markets where people put money on such things, are the chances Barack Obama will win the U.S. presidential election in November.

Actor Clint Eastwood called Republicans 'dumb' for allowing him to speak at the Republican National Convention last month

Obama's camp attacked Romney for his now-infamous "47%" video with a new ad asking Americans their thoughts on the Republican's comments.

Six months ago, Occupy Wall Street was an endangered species. Now, it?s safe to say, OWS is extinct, and for the betterment of our country.

Romney's stance on Palestine, the two-state solution with Israel, and the peace process, were made abundantly clear in a recording obtained by Mother Jones. Thus far in the campaign, Romney's foreign policy statements in general have shown that he's not afraid to say what's on his mind.

They're not dodging the taxman. Most of them are too poor to qualify.

In former President Bill Clinton?s 21st-century rendering of the American Dream presented at the 2012 Democratic Convention, prosperity comes by means of ?a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.?

After a string of "insider attacks" against NATO forces by Afghan forces and the increased risk of violence and protests due to the "Innocence of Muslims" film, NATO officials announced that joint Afghan-NATO operations have been indefinitely suspended until the violence reaches a "tolerable level."

A federal judge has halted a recent court ruling that sharply questioned the federal government's power to indefinitely detain terror suspects -- but the issue won't be solved until later this month at the earliest.

Romney's gaffe is unquestionably an egregious one. But it also affirms, however crudely, a central narrative forwarded by Romney and the GOP.

Mitt Romney wasted no time late Monday in responding to backfire from controversial statements he made that were caught on tape. The GOP presidential candidate described his comments "off the cuff" and "not elegantly stated," but still defended the main message of his remarks.

Protests in Indonesia over an alleged anti-Muslim movie made in the U.S. continued for the second day Tuesday, a day after demonstrations outside the U.S. Embassy turned violent, even as Google censored the video in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation to comply with the local law.

Tax cuts for the rich don't seem to be associated with U.S. economic growth and instead are linked to a different outcome: greater income inequality in the U.S. These findings will likely fuel the already bitter political fight over extending the Bush tax cuts for upper-income groups.