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U.S. companies are doing well but the country is faced with entrenched political divisiveness that makes reaching any kind of compromise on the budget deficit difficult, former IMF chief economist Raghuram Rajan said on Wednesday.

Warren, a 59-year-old California diver, is hoping to find the remains of Bin Laden in the Arabian sea.

Representative Anthony Weiner's claims he didn't use his congressional Blackberry to send salacious photographs and text messages may not be the only thing the House Ethics Committee is investigating.

The United States and China will need to work out a high-level understanding to limit cyber attacks and spying, U.S. elder statesman Henry Kissinger said on Tuesday.

Republicans and Democrats grappled over the government's annual spending levels on Tuesday as they worked toward a deal that would narrow annual budget deficits and allow the country to continue borrowing at rock-bottom rates.

The chairman of the Federal Reserve warned on Tuesday that a failure to lift the government's borrowing limit could risk a potentially disastrous loss of confidence, giving further impetus to the latest round of deficit-reduction talks by top lawmakers.

U.S. House Speaker Republican John Boehner has asked President Barack Obama for a clear explanation of the legal standing supporting his administration’s continued military involvement in Libya.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned on Tuesday that a failure to lift the government's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling risks a potentially disastrous loss of confidence in America's creditworthiness.

In the first official visit of a sitting American president to the Caribbean commonwealth since John F. Kennedy in 1961, President Barack Obama landed in Puerto Rico Tuesday, saying he's committed to the success and self-determination of the U.S. island territory.

Most chief executive officers of large U.S. companies expect higher sales and higher capital spending in the next six months, but their optimism about economic conditions and expectations for growth are more muted than three months ago, according to a quarterly survey.

President Barack Obama said his wife and daughters aren’t all that “invested” in him being president and would be just as happy if he had decided against seeking re-election, Politico reported. But, he said, they believe in what he is doing for the country.

Mitt Romney's first litmus test in the run up to the 2012 Presidential elections - Republican Presidential Debate hosted by CNN at New Hampshire, Manchester, went quite smoothly. Romney, like all the other six republicans, chose to tread a cautious path and considered it too premature to take jibes at each other. Instead, they opted to take few digs at President Barack Obama and his policies.

Seven presidential hopefuls of the Republican Party attended the debate at St. Anslems College in Manchester, New Hampshire, to determine the presidential nominee of the Republican Party.

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Republican with close ties to the tea party, announced that she has filed the paperwork to be seek her party's nomination and will formally announce her intentions soon.

Republican presidential hopefuls aimed their criticisms at President Barack Obama in the first major debate of the 2012 campaign as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann announced she is entering the race.

President Barack Obama became the latest Democratic leader to voice an opinion on whether Rep. Anthony Weiner should remain in office or leave, saying in an interview to air Tuesday that if he were the congressman I would resign.

The House of Representatives granted Representative Anthony Weiner's formal request for a two-week leave of absence, as pressure mounted from the nation's highest office for the scandal plauged Democrat to resign, Monday.

President Barack Obama, in an exclusive interview with NBC's Ann Curry, told her he would resign if he were Weiner.

We're certainly living in the new abnormal when Jeff Immelt, head of GE, is speaking like the President in a time of heightened political importance and awareness.

President Barack Obama is redoubling his efforts to curry favor with the financial industry, a bastion of support for his 2008 campaign whose members have criticized the president's rhetoric and support for increased regulation.

The United States Navy reportedly halted and turned back a North Korean vessel headed for Myanmar (the former Burma) a few weeks ago off the coast of China.