President Barack Obama on Monday called for ending the so-called Bush tax cuts for the rich while preserving those cuts for Americans earning below $250,000 a year.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has rejected two prominent elements of President Obama's health care overhaul, joining an exodus of Republican-led states that are using a Supreme Court decision upholding the law to opt out of some key features.
President Barack Obama will call for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 per year, according to a White House official, seeking to spare the economy the impact of taxes going up on Jan. 1.
Walt Disney characters dancing on a lighted stage in a moment of national celebration -- as well as a brand-new theme song -- mark a cultural change for North Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.
On Sunday, Sen. John McCain criticized the Obama administration for its failure to take decisive action against the Syrian regime.
A new novel by Yale Law professor and writer Stephen L. Carter gives us a bizarre alternate outcome of the Abraham Lincoln presidency, had it not been cut short by John Wilkes Booth.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered Parliament to reconvene Sunday, in defiance of the military and a court that dissolved it.
Consider BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM): is it in a ?death spiral? or a tarnished diamond that with better management can be revived for a bright future?
As Libyans celebrated their first free national election in 60 years on Sunday, a liberal alliance led by a former rebel leader said its unofficial preliminary returns showed it was in the lead.
John Boehner, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, told voters this week that in the November presidential election they will casting their ballots not for or against Republican Mitt Romney, but for or against Democrat Barack Obama.
Politico's headline jolts readers the moment they sign on to the site and read, Zombie Economy Threatens Obama. After all the zombie apocalypse hysteria our nation has been experiencing lately, the walking dead have even made their way -- metaphorically, of course -- into the economy.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a bill offering relief to millions of American college students. The measure will keep the interest rate for subsidized federal loans at 3.4 percent. The law will benefit about 7.4 million college students.
An Akron, Ohio, restaurant owner who served U.S. President Barack Obama breakfast Friday morning died of an apparent heart attack right after meeting him.
In his latest opinion piece for the Washington Times, Nugent blasts Chief Justice John Roberts for his vote legalizing the Affordable Care Act. It's a pretty standard piece for the right-wing rocker. Nugent calls Roberts a traitor, proclaims the end of liberty as we know it, and pretty much everything else you would expect from an angry right wing rant. Except there is one paragraph that sets it apart: Nugent apparently wishes that the South had won the Civil War.
The same president who set the record for campaign fundraising record in 2008 has been beat two months in a row and recently expressed concern to his contributors.
The strongly worded piece is the latest episode in Romney's fraught relationship with prominent conservative opinion-shapers who have been skeptical from the start of his ideological squishiness.
In an unexpected about-face on Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the individual mandate fee under Obama's healthcare plan a tax, rather than a penalty.
Four Filipinos, two Salvadoran women and a Palauan born in the tiny island republic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean were among the young men and women who chose to serve a country that had not yet recognized them as citizens -- until this Fourth of July.
Fat cat Wall Street executives continue to donate to the Obama campaign, despite political conflicts between the financial industry and the White House.
On several of the foreign policy issues facing the United States, Romney has advocated a path that is closer to the Bush administration, which disdained diplomacy in favor of unilateral action. Here is a sampling.
The NEA is losing revenue and could lose hundreds of thousands of full-time teachers by 2014. Some believe this could affect its political influence.
Mitt Romney will not modify the immigration stance he took during the Republican presidential primary, the presumptive Republican nominee told supporters at a private meeting.
