Mitt Romney narrowly leads rival Ron Paul in Iowa three days before the state kicks off the Republican Party's presidential nominating race, according to a Des Moines Register poll released on Saturday.
President Barack Obama, striking a hopeful note in a year-end weekly address, hailed foreign policy milestones while keeping pressure on Congress to further extend payroll tax cuts through the end of 2012.
Occupy this: the trash bin. At least, so say students at Michigan's Lake Superior State University who released an annual list of words they deem so misused, overused and cliched they should be banished in the year ahead.
Republican White House hopefuls scoured Iowa for undecided voters on Saturday and front-runner Mitt Romney argued that he is the best to take on President Barack Obama as time ran short before the first votes of the 2012 election season.
The 2012 presidential campaign has been one of the most volatile in recent memory, and it isn't even 2012 yet. Take a look back at the highlights and lowlights of the battle for the Republican nomination so far.
Mitt Romney's son Matt made a colossal gaffe in New Hampshire yesterday when he said his father would release his tax records as soon as Obama releases his birth certificate. Though he's since apologized for the dumb joke, both the Obama campaign and the DNC are accusing the Romneys of pandering to the extreme fringes of the GOP, and DNC head R.T. Ryback is demanding Mitt Romney condemn his son's statements.
The third director in a week has resigned from the Eastman Kodak Co. as the former film giant struggles to survive the dominance of digital photography.
U.S. White House hopeful Mitt Romney brought in help from New Jersey on Friday to bolster his prospects for a win in Iowa next week that would put him in the lead in the Republican presidential race.
The third director in a week has resigned from Eastman Kodak Co as the former film giant struggles to survive the dominance of digital photography.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a law giving telecommunication giants immunity over the Bush Administration's domestic surveillance program, but authorized lawsuits against the federal government.
During a tele-town hall hosted by Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said he would consider former Alaska governor Sarah Palin as a vice presidential running mate if he won the Republican primaries.
As America begins to put its military pieces back together again after the end to a nine-year campaign in Iraq amid threats from Iran that it may close the Strait of Hormuz, the most vital corridor for oil-tanker traffic in the world, the reality is that another conflict may be looming in the Middle East.
For arguably the first time, the new dynamic of online advocacy has stepped into the political realm, targeting Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and his 2012 re-election bid. And an emboldened online community seems deadset on using the blunt force of an Election Day loss to change the Congressman's mind on key legislation.
The U.S. Treasury Department plans to start charging large banks a fee to cover the costs of the financial risk council it leads and a research office tasked with measuring threats to financial markets.
As Ron Paul has climbed to the top of the polls in Iowa, his supporters have learned the hard way that with increased relevance comes increased scrutiny.
The demonstrators, part of a movement called Occupy the Caucuses, were arrested after finding the doors to Paul's headquarters locked against them (watch videos here). Paul's staff, however, reports that it was the landlord who called the police, and the Texas congressman has frequently expressed support for OWS in the past.
BBC is under fire for naming Sweetie the Panda Miss December 2011 in Faces of the Year: The Women, with everyone from Parliament to Twitter users slamming BBC for causing pandagate less than month after it was criticized for ignoring women's achievements. See the full list here, and find out why BBC is defending its decision.
Kelly Clarkson tweeted her support for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Wednesday, and received a barrage of angry tweets in response.
Ron Paul's 2012 presidential bid continues to gain traction. Rival Republican candidate Michele Bachmann's Iowan campaign chairman, Kent Sorenson, quit Wednesday to endorse Paul.
It surely has been an eventful year with popular uprisings, dictators being deposed or slain, royal marriages, celebrity divorces, and thrilling sports achievements, so here's a look at some of the top moments of 2011 as compiled by the IBTimes.
Republican candidate Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman resigned Wednesday and endorsed rival Ron Paul, six days before Iowa voters begin the nomination process to select the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.
A majority of voters still support the controversial Canada-to-Texas oil sands pipeline as the Obama administration again weighs whether to approve or scrap the project, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
