As gasoline prices rise around the country, topping $4 per gallon in many cities, President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure about his long-term energy policy. In his weekly radio address, Obama said that stronger auto mileage standards set under his administration, and better-built cars made in the U.S., will help Americans save money in the long term.
The ostentatious conservative political pundit Rush Limbaugh drew himself further into controversy after calling a law school student a slut and prostitute in the aftermath of her testimony before Congress about the need for birth control coverage. On Friday, President Barack Obama called Sandra Fluke -- the 30-year-old, third-year Georgetown University law school student who spoke in front of Congress -- to commend her for her willingness to speak out about her cause.
Citigroup Inc. announced Friday that Richard Parsons would quit as chairman of the firm at its annual meeting in April and Michael O'Neill, the former chief executive of Bank of Hawaii Corp, would succeed him.
Iran will likely be the most-discussed issue at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in the next few days, where three of the four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination will give prominent speeches the morning of Super Tuesday.
It's one of the biggest nights of the election year, and for the GOP presidential nomination contest, it could be a game-changer. Although the GOP primaries and caucuses began two months ago on Jan. 3 in Iowa, in recent weeks, everything has been building up to Super Tuesday.
Detroit rocker Ted Nugent endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on his Twitter account Friday.
Staunch conservative American radio host and political commentator Michael Savage has raised the question that President Barack Obama may have arranged the assassination Andrew Breitbart. At the beginning of his radio show this morning, Savage played audio of Breitbart speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington last month.
Chief District Court Judge Richard F. Cebull, who admitted to sending out an email containing a racist anti-Obama joke, has asked the president for foregiveness and has asked for an investigation into any misconduct.
At a fundraiser Thursday night, President Obama gave a special shout-out to theParks and Recreation star... by teasing Ansari relentlessly. Watch Obama's attempt to keep the comedian humble and hungry here, including the revelation that daughter Malia has a crush, and see what Ansari said in response.
President Barack Obama waded again into the controversy over a mandate that health insurance plans cover contraception by calling and thanking Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student whom conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh labeled a slut for backing the policy.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday called up Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who Rush Limbaugh called a slut and prostitute, to thank her for speaking out on the issue of access to contraception.
U.S. President Barack Obama's uncle, Onyango Obama, was supposed to head into a Massachusetts courtroom on Thursday for allegedly driving drunk. However, the court hearing was delayed. Why?
Rumors are circulating the Internet about what Breitbart had on President Barak Obama. He planned to release a series of tapes during the president's Harvard days showing Obama in an extremely negative light. Now, a friend of Breitbart plans to release the tapes in less than two weeks.
The testing raises speculation that Israel is planning to launch a military strike on Iran to thwart that country's nuclear program. Iran claims the program is solely for peaceful uses, but many governments believe Tehran may be seeking to build a nuclear weapon.
A study says Roberts Court justices are better educated than their predecessors, have spent more time in academia and serving on the federal appeals courts. But is that kind of experience necessarily a good thing?
U.S. stocks edged lower on Friday in a session with sparse economic data, but the S&P 500 and Nasdaq remained on pace for their eighth positive week in the last nine.
This entire thing is shaping up to be a hilarious political satire.
An ad in a D.C. Metro station that reads “Go to Hell Barack” has shocked Americans. The ad, which criticizes the president for wanting to “control America’s entire medical system,” ends with the suggested destination location for Obama.
Stocks ticked lower in early trading on Friday in a light day on the economic calendar, but the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were on track to close their eighth positive week in the last nine.
Animal-rights advocates are hardly pleased with the made-for-web video that Cain Connections, the former presidential candidate's post-campaign project, released Thursday. A suffocating goldfish, spilled out of it's fish bowl by a little girl, is a macabre metaphor of the U.S. economy after President Barack Obama's stimulus plan.
Obama is concerned that a military strike on Iran by Israel might make Tehran more of a sympathetic figure to some countries
Futures on the S&P 500 edged lower in sparse volume on Friday in a light day on the economic calendar but were still on track to close their ninth straight week of gains, the longest such run since January 2004.
