Washington's never-ending budget battle threatened to snarl the recovery from Hurricane Irene as a top Republican said on Monday that any federal aid will have to be offset by spending cuts elsewhere.
Republicans in the House of Representatives want to create jobs by killing regulations on companies and passing tax breaks for small business and government contractors, Majority Leader Eric Cantor said on Monday.
Michele Bachmann claims she was speaking in jest when she said that Hurricane Irene and last week's earthquake in Virginia were signs from God that the United States needed to cut spending. But it seems more indicative of a clever tactic: making an outlandish statement and disavowing it once it has achieved its purpose.
Gadhafi escaping to Zimbabwe is not entirely far-fetched
Ibrahim said he was in Tripoli and had seen Gadhafi on Friday.
Dominion Resources Inc., which generates 28,200 megawatts of electricity and operates 6,300 miles of electric transmission lines in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England, said Monday nearly all its customers who suffered Hurricane Irene-related outages will have power restored by the end of the day Friday.
Romney stops reports about the expansion of his California home.
Officials in Fort Bragg, Calif. are conducting a sweeping manhunt for the person who gunned down respected City Councilman Jere Melo after he discovered a marijuana field growing on the outskirts of the town.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called President Barack Obama a 'DDD' president, clearly a criticism following the downgrading of the United States' AAA credit rating to AA+ by Standard & Poor's.
A list of the notable gaffes made by Republican presidential candidates during the presidential campaign.
A federal judge temporarily suspended a controversial immigration enforcement law, ruling Monday that she needed more time to weigh lawsuits from the Obama administration, religious groups, and civil rights groups.
In seeming disregard, or perhaps in spite of it, Ai Weiwei broke the conditions of his release from a detention in Beijing to issue a scathing attack on the Chinese government in an online editorial published by Newsweek.
Jose Sierra, 68, was found floating in a City Island marina on Sunday morning, just a few hours after the hurricane tore through the area.
Moammar Gaddafi, who has long helped to bankroll the AU, has recruited fighters from sub-Saharan African countries as his soldiers and bodyguards.
There's an axiom that says, A crisis brings out the best and the worst in the human condition. And that was certainly the case with Hurricane Irene.
There's a fundamental belief in GOP circles that Rick Perry he is returning the party to principles betrayed by former President George W. Bush.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said that she was just kidding when she said that Hurricane Irene and the earthquake that rocked the East Coast Tuesday was a message from God. The Minnesota congresswoman, who notoriously hates President Barack Obama, publicly announced that Hurricane Irene was the channel through which God wanted to tell politicians to pay attention to the debt and deficit crisis in the United States.
It is not clear if Moammar Gadhafi himself was part of the group or not.
While Rep. Michele Bachmann said she would consider allowing oil drilling in the Florida Everglades after consulting with scientists about the possible environmental impacts, her public derision of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implies scientific opinion would not carry a heavy weight in her decision.
Irene brought sustained winds of 60 mph, a five-foot storm surge and dumped 12 inches of rain on the city.
Gallup poll shows where Americans rank certain business and industry sectors.
Investors appear to be relieved that the destruction wrought by the storm turned out to be less than feared.
President Obama announced Monday that he has chosen Princeton University labor economist Alan Krueger to serve as the top economist in the White House.
Not disguising his complete aversion to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 2012 Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said he believes the country would be better off without it.
A day before the release of Dick Cheney's memoir, In My Time, Former Secretary of State Collin Powell said some of the ex-vice president's revelations are nonsense.
Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds from the federal government might ultimately cover much of this expense.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he has chosen Princeton University labor economist Alan Krueger to become the top White House economist.
Claims by Michele Bachmann and Glenn Beck that last week's earthquake and hurricane were merely attempts by God to get our attention aren't funny. Nevertheless, Bachmann says her quote was only made in jest. Some of us aren't laughing, however.
President Barack Obama said Monday he is continuing to direct Hurricane Irene recovery and rebuilding efforts, as federal, state, and local officials assess damage in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, even as Northeast states like Vermont and New Jersey continue to get people out of harm's way of rising flood waters.
Poll shows that Republicans who support Tea Party movement support Rick Perry for president.
