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President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a cut in fees on many government-backed mortgages that he said could help millions of homeowners refinance, part of an election-year push to boost the shaky housing market.

Sarah Palin posted on her Facebook Tuesday that a pro-Obama super PAC that received $1 million from Bill Maher should return the donation for what she viewed as the TV comedian's offensive attitude toward women, calling him a rabid misogynist.

The economy likely recorded a third month of solid job gains in February, which could further reduce the chances of additional monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve.

An inconclusive outcome could potentially dampen public enthusiasm for the GOP candidates in a primary race that has dragged on for close to a year.

The Paula Deen lawsuit is filled with a lot of explosive charges against Deen and her brother Bubba Hiers, but plaintiff, Lisa Jackson, has her own past problems.

Obama favors diplomacy to end the violence in Syria, warning that a Libya-style intervention could trigger a wider war in the region.

Before his death last week, conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart wrote a column criticizing President Barack Obama as a radical, which was published posthumously on his newly relaunched website.

Super Tuesday is upon us, with 10 states and 419 delegates at stake. Check in throughout the night as the International Business Times' politics team provides updates, insights and analysis from across the race.

President Barack Obama Tuesday held his first news conference of 2012, touching on a variety of topics including Iran's nuclear ambitions, gas prices, immigration reform and Rush Limbaugh's remarks on Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke.

The U.S. government will cut fees on federally insured mortgages and move to expand home-loan relief to military veterans, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday.

The Justice Department plans to take action in the coming months against individuals involved in corporate fraud, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday, adding that fines against companies are not enough of a deterrent.

Trump pointed out that launching a war on Iraq temporarily boosted the popularity of Obama’s predecessor in the White House, George W. Bush.

The late conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart was known for taking on what he identified as liberal bias in the media, government, the entertainment industry and anti-war activism. Before his death last week, he had been working on a monolithic portal for his various web outlets, something he referred to as Breitbart 2.0.

Food Network chef and Southern comfort celebrity Paula Deen has been slapped with a lawsuit detailing shocking allegations including the use of a racial slur against President Barack Obama, pornographic content shared at work and segregation of the restaurant's bathrooms.

Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are all scheduled to give speeches at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) via satellite on Super Tuesday. Before the three candidates took time out of Super Tuesday to appear, however, all three gave heated attacks on the president, dismissing his own AIPAC speech on Monday and calling for harsher action when it came to dealing with Iran.

Pop queen Lady Gaga became queen of Twitter this weekend, as she gained her 20 millionth follower, maintaining her long-standing lead on the social networking website and beating Baby singer Justin Bieber, her closest competition with over 18 million followers.

Iran on Tuesday said it will give U.N. weapons inspectors access to a secret military complex where it's believed work on a nuclear weapon may be taking place, as Western countries offered to resume talks with Tehran over its nuclear program.

The matter also has great urgency given Israel’s warnings that it won't tolerate a nuclear Iran and that it may launch a pre-emptive military strike on Iranian atomic facilities.

Attorney General Eric Holder supplied the legal justification Monday for the decision to kill American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , rebutting criticism that the view of executive power held by President Barack Obama's administration is overly broad.

For every truly great artist like David Bowie, The Beatles or Bob Dylan, there are scores and scores of mediocre performers who exist solely to fill the seemingly unquenchable demand for music from the public.

Myanmar will begin a managed float of its currency in the fiscal year starting in April and wants to develop an interbank money market to end a black-market currency system that critics say deters investment and abets kleptocracy.