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MILAN (Reuters) - The nightclub dancer at the center of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bun...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal President Barack Obama's h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawm...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With no sign of an end to three mushrooming scandals, the White House acknowledged the rising politica...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday sought to defuse controversy over its handling of last year's killing...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers pounded U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday with questions about the Justice Depa...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutio...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia expelled a U.S. diplomat on Tuesday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, spec...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama learned on Monday what can happen to presidents caught up in allegations of sca...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers called on Sunday for a broad investigation of the tax agency's acknowledgemen...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former U.S. diplomat in Libya gave a dramatic account on Wednesday of the attack on the mission in B...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will travel on Thursday to Austin, Texas, the first stop in a new series of day...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he is comfortable with a U.S. government agency's decisio...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Eight police officers were hurt and 18 protesters arrested in Seattle on Wednesday when a May Day rally t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A few dozen words rushed into law days after the September 11, 2001, attacks have been used to justify...
(Reuters) - NBA player Jason Collins, who became the first gay man to come out while playing in one of America's major pr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saying it was damaging to U.S. interests to keep holding prisoners in legal limbo at Guantanamo, Presi...
DALLAS (Reuters) - Former President George W. Bush returns briefly to the U.S. political stage with the dedication of his pre...
By Robbie WardTUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against a Mississippi man accused o...
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Police captured a 19-year-old man on Friday night suspected of carrying out the Boston M...
BOSTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told a memorial service for the Boston bombing victims that "we will find"...
(Reuters) - Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges on Thursday against a Mississippi man, who worked as an Elvis imperson...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign to curb gun violence after the Newtown school massacre was dealt...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Investigators believe they have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing from security video an...
LONDON (Reuters) - Royalty, dignitaries and admirers from all walks of life paid their final respects to Margaret Thatcher on...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers appeared on Tuesday to be short of th...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing is focusing on a suspect or suspects believed to have car...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday unveiled long-awaited landmark legislation to remove the thr...
(Editor's Note: Please be advised this story contains graphic material that may upset some readers)By Scott Malone and Sv...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate cleared the way on Thursday for debate on proposals to curb gun violence, rejecting an effo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate cleared the way on Thursday for an emotional, weeks-long debate on proposals to curb gun vi...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The daughter of President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor was indicted on Wednesday on cha...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday proposed a budget that sharply trims the U.S. deficit over three years by...
LONDON (Reuters) - Admirers of Margaret Thatcher on Tuesday mourned the "Iron Lady" who as Britain's longest se...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to overhaul the immigration system would likely be completed by the end of this week, two senio...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs in a budget p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With business and labor now in agreement, a bipartisan group of senators has resolved all major issues...
MERIDEN/NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The gunman who killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After two days of Supreme Court arguments over same-sex marriage, the United States may be left with t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday indicated they could be inclined to strike down a la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eight months before President Barack Obama's health care law goes prime time, a confederation of i...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The majority of Americans favor giving millions of illegal immigrants a way to earn citizenship, accor...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed on Thursday in a southern Israeli border town that U.S. Pr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday picked Indiana University to win the NCAA annual men's college...
CHARDON, Ohio (Reuters) - An Ohio teenager wearing a T-shirt with "killer" scrawled on it gave a profane statement ...
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Israel on Wednesday without any new peace initiative to offer disillus...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans plan to embrace tactics to attract more racial minorities, women, youth and low-income Ame...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative activists picked Senator Rand Paul on Saturday as their preferred presidential nominee fo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading congressional Republicans said on Sunday a broad deal with President Barack Obama on deficit r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, called President Barack Obama a liar and u...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona will argue before the Supreme Court on Monday that it is within its rights to demand voters show ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met on Wednesday with his toughest critics in Washington - House of Representat...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, barely 12 hours after his election, quietly left the Vatican early on Thursday to pray...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation easily passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday to avert another partisan budget b...
CARACAS (Reuters) - Shattered supporters of Hugo Chavez mourned his death in a flood of emotion that allies of the socialist ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four months after his bitter election defeat, a reflective Mitt Romney said it "kills" him n...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government hurtled on Friday toward making deep spending cuts that threaten to hinder the nat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jack Lew as President Barack Obama's new Treasury secretary...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the Senate have spread his gun-control proposals acro...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. citizens believe that most or all of the country's 11 million illegal immig...
PALM CITY, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama saw firsthand how golf is played at the highest level on Sunday, teeing...
(Reuters) - The man who shot dead 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school wanted to kill more people th...
BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A secretive Chinese military unit is believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks, a U...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is drafting a backup immigration reform plan in case a bipartisan congressional commit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama challenged a divided Congress on Tuesday to raise the minimum wage and mak...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday in defiance of existing U.N. resolutions, drawing c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union address on Tuesday with one eye on the politic...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Controversial Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff,"...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term on January 21, it's a decent bet that o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House and its critics faced off on Tuesday over the legality of drone strikes to kill U.S. c...
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The medical marijuana shop next to a tattoo parlor on a busy street in Los Angeles looks m...
BEALLSVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Leon Lieser has been a coal miner 49 years, his bent fingers testament to his first job, loadin...
CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (Reuters) - Things are looking up at the Spurwink Rod and Gun Club.The junior marksmanship team now has...
(Reuters) - Singer Beyonce strutted and shimmied her way through football's Super Bowl half-time show and thrilled fans b...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Shirley Chambers of Chicago had four children - three boys and a girl. Now they're all gone.Chambers ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chuck Hagel, named to be President Barack Obama's defense chief, defended his record on national s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kerry's nomination as President Barack Obama's new secretary of state sailed through the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, grievously wounded in a 2011 mass shooting, made an emotional ple...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six weeks after the massacre of 26 people at a Connecticut school ignited new calls to fight gun-relat...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The union that represents U.S. professional football players has given Harvard University a $100 milli...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will wade cautiously into the debate over U.S. immigration reform on Tuesday, s...
Joe Biden gets in on the singing action in this hilarious Obama dub of Justin Timberlake's hit song "SexyBack."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has agreed on a framework for immigration reform that would provid...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he loves football but thinks the sport should "probably change gradua...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The senator leading the charge to revive a assault weapons ban conceded on Sunday, just days before he...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kerry urged Congress to fix the U.S. economy to ensure America's role as a world leader and p...
Veteran singer James Taylor is taking a year off to find inspiration for new music.The "Fire and Rain" hitmaker san...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A measure to extend the U.S. debt limit for nearly four months moved closer on Tuesday to a vote and t...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three-quarters of New Jersey voters approve of Governor Chris Christie's job performance and nearly ...
Goo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik is engaged.The "Slide" hitmaker recently proposed to his girlfriend of eight ...
(Reuters) - Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber with his hordes of fans known of Beliebers became the King of Twitter on Tuesday, t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was one of the biggest questions of Monday's inaugural celebrations: not what would President B...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - America's concern over gun violence became the focus of speeches in Atlanta on Monday honoring Dr. Ma...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican President Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "government is not the solution to our p...
Being egged on by NBC hosts Brian Williams and David Gregory, "Today" Weatherman Al Roker grabbed the attention by ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Monday to reject political "absolutism" and partis...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four years after making history by becoming the first African-American president, Barack Obama will ki...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats for the first time in more than three years will pass a budget, a senior Democratic l...
By Barbara GoldbergNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law one of the nation's tou...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday rejected any negotiation with Republicans over the most pressing U.S....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is forging ahead on a wide-ranging plan to overhaul the U.S. immigration system...
CLEVELAND/SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - School teachers in Texas are flocking to free firearms classes and hundreds more in Ohio ha...
A discussion on MSNBC's popular morning show "Morning Joe" about President Barack Obama's all-male cabinet ...
WASHINGTON/PHOENIX (Reuters) - A new gun control group led by Gabrielle Giffords, the former U.S. congresswoman wounded in a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is weighing a far broader approach to curbing U.S. gun violence than just reinstating ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator, as his next defen...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is resting at home in New York after being treated for a blood clot...
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Hundreds of the children who escaped the harrowing attack on their elementary school in Newt...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of FBI background checks required for Americans buying guns set a record in December, as th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans looked ahead on Wednesday toward the next round o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Setting a looming deadline to avert self-created calamity has become a frequent device for the U.S. Co...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress comes back on Monday without a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" and only a...
WASHINGTON/HONOLULU (Reuters) - Efforts to prevent the U.S. economy from going over a "fiscal cliff" stirred back t...
(Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney's family had to convince him to make a second bid for the presidency because he was re...
ALLENTOWN, Penn./KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Gun enthusiasts thronged to shows around the country on Saturday to buy as...
South Korean rapper Psy is ending 2012 on another career high - his viral video for "Gangnam Style" has hit one bil...
WASHINGTON/NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The powerful U.S. gun rights lobby went on the offensive on Friday arguing that s...
Filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have defended the depiction of torture in their new movie "Zero Dark Thirty&quo...
LONDON (Reuters) - He has the most-watched video in Youtube history, become a pop sensation with a horse-riding dance craze t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Friday to keep up the pressure on lawmakers to tighten gun r...
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - President Barack Obama assigned Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday to find ways to curtai...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday its security chief had resigned from his post and three ot...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce on Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an effort to...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya was grossly inadequate to deal with a September 11 att...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House spelled out some gun control measures on Tuesday that President Barack Obama would sup...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After making major concessions on long-held "fiscal cliff" positions, President Barack Obama...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, a decorated World War Two veteran who lost an arm in battle and repr...
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The schools of Newtown, which stood empty in the wake of a shooting rampage that took 26 of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - His words have been eloquent and sympathetic, as they typically are when he is the voice of a nation i...
NEWTOWN, Conn./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, speaking at a memorial service for the victims of a mass shooti...
FAIRFIELD/NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - One boy was buried in his hero's football jersey in a small white coffin. Ball...
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Police released the names on Saturday of 26 people shot dead in the massacre at a Connecticu...
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - People in the small Connecticut community of Newtown grieved on Saturday over one of the wor...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tearful President Barack Obama expressed "overwhelming grief" on Friday for the victims of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a close confidante of President Barack Obama...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner held a "frank" face...
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that U.S. election officials should register eligi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge in Hispanics and Asians is set to dramatically change the face of the United States over the n...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the pace of talks quickened to avert the "fiscal cliff" of steep tax hikes and spending c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter James Taylor says he doesn't see the resemblance, but he was pitched - without s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's inauguration committee is accepting corporate donations to help fund the ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The South Korean pop singer behind the viral smash hit "Gangnam Style" apologized on Friday...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign had $25.7 million left in the bank days after the November...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama consumed much of Wednesday talking up their positio...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will renew his case for tax hikes on wealthy Americans to avert a year-end fisc...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans proposed steep spending cuts on Monday but gave no ground on President Barack Obama's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pushed Republicans on Sunday to offer specific ideas to cut the de...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican unity against raising tax rates for the wealthy began to show cracks on Wednesday after a c...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - To help decorate the White House for the Christmas season this year, President Barack Obama turned to an ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kim Kardashian topped the 2012 list of the most-searched person on Bing, the Web search engine said on T...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Tuesday conceded that an early account she gave ab...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Monday called on President Barack Obama to detail long-term spendi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain, a vocal opponent of Susan Rice's possible nomination as Secretary of State, s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers have made little progress in the past 10 days toward a compromise to avoid the harsh ta...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House report says that if that Congress allows taxes to go up on middle-class families, consum...
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) - A ceasefire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers took hold on Thursday after eight days of confl...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's approval rating has leaped 19 percentage points since superstor...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Paula Broadwell, the biographer whose affair with former CIA chief David Petraeus led t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. lawmakers turned up the heat on Sunday on Susan Rice, saying the U.N. ambassador - see...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. lawmakers expressed confidence on Sunday that they could reach a deal to avert the "...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama consoled grieving victims of Superstorm Sandy on the ground and surveyed disaster...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer used by Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with CIA Director David Petraeus led to his...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday is expected to be grilled about negotiations to avert a looming &q...
ROCKAWAY PARK, New York (Reuters) - Noreen Ellis begged the American Red Cross for help a few days after Superstorm Sandy sla...
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Wednesday against jumping to conclusions over the ...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husban...
(Reuters) - New details emerged on Sunday about the extramarital affair that abruptly ended the career of CIA chief David Pet...
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to mark the Veterans ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director David Petraeus has submitted a letter of resignation to President Barack Obama, Director ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday invited congressional leaders to the White House to start negotiating...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama had little time to savor victory on Wednesday after voters gave him a second te...
(Reuters) - Votes making Colorado and Washington the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational use could be sh...
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc slid almost 4 percent on Wednesday to a five-month low as investors gr...
By Sam YoungmanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called it - in less than 140 characters.Around 11:15 pm EST, jus...
By Daniel Trotta and Karen FreifeldNEW YORK (Reuters) - A wintry storm dropped snow on the Northeast on Wednesday and threate...
By Steve Holland and Matt SpetalnickWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh from a decisive re-election win, President Barack Obama retu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House on Tuesday, overcoming deep doubts among v...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sporadic complaints about voting procedures surfaced from Pennsylvania to Florida on Tuesday, while lo...
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Sir Paul McCartney has given President Barack Obama a big election eve boost by posting a rousing endorsement of the politica...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney make a frenetic dash to a series of cruci...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to President Barack Obama's protective detail was found dead ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From New York City's Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and offi...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Aunt Rosemary was not George Clooney's only famous relative. You can add a certain Civil War Amer...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As Hurricane Sandy pounded the U.S. Atlantic coast on Monday night, knocking out electricity and In...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers awoke to the rumble of subway trains for the first time in four days on Thursday and the dea...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was to resume campaigning on Thursday after a pause caused by the U.S. east coast...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney remain effectively tied as public opinion remains re...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people across the U.S. Northeast stricken by massive storm Sandy will attempt to resume norm...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy blew the U.S. presidential race off course on Sunday even before it came ashore, forci...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won the endorsement of retired General Colin Powell, a moderate Republican, on Thu...
BURBANK, California (Reuters) - President Barack Obama suspended the levity during an interview with late-night TV talk show ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump offered to pay $5 million to the charity of President Barack Obama's choice if Obam...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The number of American TV viewers who watched the last debate between U.S. President Barack Obama and...
BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama scolded challenger Mitt Romney for being "all over the map" ...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at the suburban Milwaukee beauty salon where his spouse worked on Sunday, killing ...
BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney face off on Monday in their third and final debat...
(Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator George McGovern, a liberal Democrat and fierce opponent of the Vietnam War whose 1972 preside...
PARMA, Ohio (Reuters) - Rock star Bruce Springsteen and political star Bill Clinton teamed up on behalf of President Barack O...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Locked in a tense race with time running out, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romn...
(Reuters) - With less than three weeks left before election day, the youth vote has once more come into focus. A student conc...
HEMPSTEAD, New York (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama launched aggressive attacks against Republican rival Mitt Romney ...
HEMPSTEAD, New York (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is under heavy pressure in his debate rematch with Mitt Romney on Tues...
LIMA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton assumed responsibility on Monday for last month's deadly ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney may have Clint Eastwood on his side, but President Barack Obama has...
By John Whitesides and Andy SullivanDANVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden leaped to the attack against...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio's top election official asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block a federal court rulin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The presidential race had seemed on the verge of slipping from Republican Mitt Romney's grasp a we...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's strong performance in last week's debate helpe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stayed within striking distance of President Barack Obam...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Actress Daryl Hannah was arrested in Texas on Thursday after she stood in front of an earth-moving ma...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to a near four-year low of 7.8 percent in September, a potential bo...
HARRISONBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Thursday his comment on a secretly t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fears of government austerity likely kept U.S. job gains modest and the unemployment rate elevated in ...
DENVER (Reuters) - A day after a muted performance in a presidential debate, U.S. President Barack Obama fought back against ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After several difficult weeks, Republican Mitt Romney found his footing on Wednesday night in a strong...
DENVER (Reuters) - Mitt Romney battled back in his uphill drive to oust President Barack Obama on Wednesday with an aggressiv...
DENVER (Reuters) - Republican candidate Mitt Romney is under pressure to produce a strong performance on Wednesday at his fir...
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A judge on Tuesday blocked Pennsylvania from requiring voters to show photo identificati...
NACO, Arizona (Reuters) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot dead and another wounded when they came under fire on Tuesday w...
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney launched a fresh attempt on Monday to pa...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Wednesday marks the...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Madonna said on Tuesday she was being deliberately "ironic on stage" when she erro...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Taking a detour from the campaign trail to the world stage, President Barack Obama sought on Tuesd...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday sought to woo women voters at a taping of the daytime talk show "T...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will warn Iran on Tuesday that the United States will "do what we must"...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Daniel McCune graduated from college three years ago, he was optimistic his good grades would ear...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Homeland" toppled "Mad Men" to win the top drama prize on Sunday as the Primetim...
Rocker Eddie Vedder helped pull in $1.7 million for Barack Obama's re-election campaign by performing at a Florida fu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes on more than $13 mill...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will make their first joint appearance on the dayti...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona police on Wednesday began enforcing a controversial "show-your-papers" provision of a s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama invoked blue-collar workers on Tuesday to contrast himself with his Republican ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney dismissed supporters of President Barack Obama - almost ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voting-rights groups that virtually stopped registering voters in Florida for a year as they challenge...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago students marked a week off classes on Friday as hopes of an imminent end to a teachers' strik...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest at a film they co...
WASHINGTON/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to "bring to justice" the Islamist...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has a growing lead in polls and an easier path to the White House than challeng...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Memorial ceremonies marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks began Tuesday under clear blue s...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - School was out in Chicago on Monday and parents scrambled for child care after public school teachers sta...
Actor Clint Eastwood came up with his much-talked about empty chair speech at the Republican National Convention last week on...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs growth slowed sharply in August, setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to pu...
Militant U.S. Democrats have taken aim at rapper Nicki Minaj after she suggested she was a fan of Mitt Romney's Republica...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked Americans on Thursday for patience in rebuilding the weak ...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - First lady Michelle Obama acknowledged on Tuesday that the change her husband Barack Ob...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jay-Z got a boost from President Barack Obama over the weekend at the Budweiser Made In America festival...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democrats launch their case for U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election at his no...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social networking sites play a modest role in influencing most U.S. users' political views, with t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama enters an important campaign week tied with Republican presidential nominee Mit...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republicans may have made Mitt Romney's day with the presidential nomination he long sought, b...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney urged voters on Thursday to help him rebuild the U.S. economy and create mi...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Paul Ryan promised on Wednesday that he and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney would ma...
One of the creators of hit TV sitcom "Modern Family" has mocked the wife of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney by inv...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical storm Isaac is expected to weaken further as it heads north on Thursday, after causing signi...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie accused Democrats of refusing to tell Americans the truth about...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hurricane Isaac lashed southern Louisiana with high winds and heavy rains on Wednesday and was set fo...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened into a hurricane just off the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday as it chur...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac had nearly reached hurricane strength as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on ...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney flies to Tampa on Tuesday to join fellow Republicans seeking to...
TAMPA (Reuters) - Republicans will delay the start of business at their national convention in Tampa, Florida by one day due ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government was surprised by the news that a Navy SEAL who participated in the raid on Osama b...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressman Todd Akin, under fire for controversial remarks on abortion and rape, insisted on Tuesday ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican Party and presidential candidate Mitt Romney have almost $60 million more in the ba...
(Reuters) - The Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters golf tournament, on Monday said it has admitted two women as ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare has become a top healthcare issue in the U.S. presidential election, surpassing the controver...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is "dusting off old plans" for a potential release of oil reserves to dampen...
By Gerry ShihSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Until recently, Justin Bieber was more influential than Barack Obama -- at least in th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has become one of the first modern day U.S. presidents known for enjoying a col...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican Paul Ryan got a taste of the rough side of a presidential campaign on Monday when pro...
LONDON (Reuters) - London bade a flamboyant and madcap farewell to the Olympic Games with a romp through British pop and fash...
WAUKESHA, Wisc. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan home ...
PARKER, Colo. (Reuters) - Sarah Formato cuddled the whiny 3-year-old on her lap and cast her thoughts back to 2008, when she ...
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (Reuters) - The white supremacist gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin died of a s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - July was the hottest month in the continental United States on record, beating the hottest month in th...
OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (Reuters) - The gunman who killed six worshipers at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was identified as a 40-ye...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that mass killings like the shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in...
PASADENA, California (Reuters) - NASA's Mars science rover Curiosity performed a daredevil descent through pink Martian s...
OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple on Sunday before po...
LONDON (Reuters) - Not every athlete who wins a gold medal at the London Games will strike it rich. Most will return home to ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Emmy-nominated psychological thriller "Homeland" will focus more on personal relationships ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans back the idea of extending health coverage to their low-income neighbors through the go...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday renewed his criticism of Chief Justice John Roberts'...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed as expected in the second quarter as consumers spent at their slowest pace...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The religious faiths of President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will have little ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday to work with leaders of all political stripes to "ar...
PORTLAND (Reuters) - President Barack Obama accused Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday of misrepresenting a comment he made ab...
AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - A 21-year-old woman who escaped injury in the Colorado theater shooting rampage gave birth to a bab...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration unveiled a form on Tuesday to help students compare college financial aid off...
AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met with friends and family of the Colorado movie theater shooting victims o...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who calls himself America's toughest sheriff, was accused of racial profil...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered senior Pentagon officials on Thursday to begin monitoring major...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Oppressive heat and a worsening drought in the Midwest pushed grain prices near or past record...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said there was no bad blood between himself and Chief Justic...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, trying to deflect criticism of his lucrative past caree...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will not apologize to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for raising...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For weeks, anxious Republicans called on Mitt Romney to respond more aggressively to attacks from the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reggae immortal Bob Marley has joined Barack Obama and Elvis Presley in the elite club of those who ha...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama expanded his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 6 percentage points...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Watching news coverage of the September 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina disaster, and the O.J. Simpson ...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Governor Rick Perry said on Monday Texas will not implement an expansion of the Medicaid program or...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign and top Democrats on Sunday called on Mitt Romney to release mor...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will call for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning le...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers hired at a dismal pace in June, raising pressure on the Federal Reserve to do more to b...
MAUMEE, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took a shot at China and Republican rival Mitt Romney on Thursday, complainin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday contradicted his campaign's stance on a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Millions of Americans headed for parades and fireworks shows on Wednesday to mark a sweltering Fourth ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives plans to file a civil suit in federal court in the ne...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Residents began returning to charred areas of Colorado Springs on Sunday after the most d...
President Barack Obama is back "singing" another top 40 hit. This time it's "Boyfriend" by Justin Bie...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the end, it all came down to Chief Justice John Roberts, the sphinx in the center chair, who in a s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was found in contempt of Congress on Thursday as the Republican-cont...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is carving out a clear lead in swing states that are key to the November 6 pres...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court is set to deliver on Thursday its ruling on President Barack Obama's 2010 health...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Debby weakened to a tropical depression after it drifted ashore on Florida...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the main provision of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans oppose President Barack Obama's healthcare reform even though they strongly support...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday defied the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives, invokin...
HOLLAND, Michigan (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney said on Tuesday his White House campaign was vetting U.S. Senator Marco ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's surprise decision to halt U.S. deportations of young illegal immigrants h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Sunday of political m...
By Lisa Lambert(Reuters) - Jobless rates in 49 out of the 50 U.S. states dropped in May from a year earlier, the Labor Depart...
By Tim GaynorPHOENIX (Reuters) - Undocumented Mexican youths who came to the United States as children reacted with joy to an...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will relax enforcement of deportation rules for young people brought to the U...
By Laura MacInnisNEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday toured the soaring sky...
By Jason LangeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer prices fell in May by the most in more than three years as households paid less...
Country sensation Carrie Underwood has voiced her support of the legalisation of gay marriagein the U.S.The former American I...
Pop star Pink has had her gallbladder removed in hospital, according to U.S. reports.The Trouble singer tweeted fans a photo ...
(Reuters) - More than eight months after Occupy Wall Street burst onto the global stage, decrying income inequality and coini...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman was found unconstitutional by a federal judge i...
Actress Amanda Bynes has turned to President Barack Obama for help after she was officially charged with driving under the in...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama enlisted Bill Clinton to campaign alongside him in New York on Monday, tapping th...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin's Scott Walker became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall election on ...
The latestcover of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me, Maybe" featuring President Barack Obama.
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin voters will decide on Tuesday whether to throw Governor Scott Walker out of office in a rare ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Advisers to President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney squared...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Job growth in May was the weakest in a year and employers added far fewer jobs in the prior two months...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, pharmacists are using old-fashioned paper spreadsheets to track...
OCONOMOWOC, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Robin Milaeger whoops for joy and punches her fist in the air when the man at her door asks...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave the United States' top civilian honor on Tuesday to musician Bob Dylan...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday with a resounding victory in Te...
SAN DIEGO, California (Reuters) - Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney chose Memorial Day to proclaim to t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called the treatment decades ago of returning Vietnam War veterans a "nati...
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama honored veterans on Monday by noting "the light of a new day"...
CHICAGO/DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - After weeks of painting Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney as a job-slashing ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Musical legend Bob Dylan, novelist Toni Morrison and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration arranged for two Hollywood filmmakers to get special access to government off...
(Reuters) - An estimated 5,000 people participated on Tuesday in a "walk of unity" to Joplin, Missouri, along the p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prostitution scandal in Colombia involving U.S. Secret Service employees did not result in any secur...
JOPLIN, Mo (Reuters) - Having the president of the United States speak at commencement would normally be the most memorable d...
A booklet, published by President Barack Obama's former literary agent, describes the president as having been born in Ke...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration forged ahead with healthcare reforms on Wednesday, announcing a November 16 d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. crime statistics show illegal drugs play a central role in criminal acts, providing new evidence ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For President Barack Obama's re-election team, it's sort of like threading a needle.While tryi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul effectively ended his White House bid on Monday, saying he ...
Country star Lee Ann Womack jetted to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to perform a special tribute to First Lady Michelle Obama...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called his endorsement of same-sex marriage a "logical extension" of...
LONDON (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and News Corp head Rupert Murdoch were among the targets of British comic ...
Country legend Willie Nelson has declined an offer to become comedian Roseanne Barr's runningmate in her bid to become th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After years of "evolving" on the issue, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes...
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina voters on Tuesday approved a state constitutional amendment that bans same...
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Senator Richard Lugar, a 35-year veteran of the Senate and leading foreign policy voice, was defeate...
DUBAI (Reuters) - An American aid worker abducted by al Qaeda in Pakistan last year has pleaded with U.S. President Barack Ob...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives on Monday will fire their first shots of the next deficit-...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers cut back on hiring in April and more people stopped looking for work, dimming hopes the econ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has pulled into a virtual tie with President Barack Obam...
BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death with a s...
KABUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday to sign an agreement charting future relations wit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday reminded Americans that his likely Republican opponent in the Novembe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After months of casting Republican Mitt Romney as someone who often changes positions for political co...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama poked fun at his likely presidential rival Mitt Romney and Republican opponents...
(Reuters) - A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats is expected to find there is li...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has reviewed potential threats to the United States before next week's anni...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative justices who hold a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to endorse Arizona's ...
President Barack Obama stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to slow jam the news with Jimmy and The Roots.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich is expected to withdraw next week from the U.S. Republican presidential contest, people ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Rock musician and conservative activist Ted Nugent pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal wildl...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney launched his general election campaign against President Barack ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two more U.S. Secret Service agents are resigning over a Colombia prostitution scandal, the agency sai...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel admits he is anxious about headlining his first White House Corres...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's expected wins in five states that hold primary votes on Tuesday will earn him scores...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New signs of lower U.S. gas prices could give a boost to President Barack Obama's re-election hope...
Rocker Ted Nugent has agreed a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time for illegally killing a bear during a hunting tr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior Republicans in the House of Representatives expressed confidence on Sunday in the head of t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A clash over immigration law will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, pitting the state of Ari...
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (Reuters) - Mitt Romney raised nearly $12.6 million for his primary battle in March, his campaign ann...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attorney for some of the Secret Service agents under investigation in a scandal involving prostitu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders the fate of healthcare reform in the current election year, a study ...
(Reuters) - Ted Nugent said on Wednesday that the U.S. Secret Service has arranged to meet with him after the rock musician s...
BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. troops are seen posing with the maimed bodies of suspected Afghan insurgents in photos p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. Secret Service employees under investigation for alleged misconduct with prostitutes in Col...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama, whose political fortunes are threatened by rising gasoline prices, propos...
(Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc Chief Executive Warren Buffett said he has stage 1 prostate cancer but his condition "...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's lead over Mitt Romney has narrowed to 4 percentage points from 11 points ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They are known for their shiny sunglasses, dark suits, and stern gazes.Secret Service agents, the men ...
CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Unprecedented Latin American opposition to U.S. sanctions on Cuba left President Barack Obama...
SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A handcuffed George Zimmerman, charged with killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, appea...
(Reuters) - Three weeks ago, President Barack Obama stood in front of a sea of gleaming solar panels in Boulder City, Nevada,...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As he locks down the Republican nomination for U.S. president, Mitt Romney is framing what looks to be...
JACKSONVILLE/SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A special prosecutor in Florida charged neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerm...
By Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Obama administration declared it wanted to put suspects involved in the Sept...
By Patricia ZengerleGETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - U.S. conservative Rick Santorum dropped out of his presidential camp...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With his Republican opponent now almost certain to be Mitt Romney, a multi-millionaire, President Bara...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare law could sharply exceed its cost-savings targets and add up t...
Kiss rocker Gene Simmons has fired back at reports suggesting he is endorsing Republican Mitt Romney to replace Barack Obama ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama criticized Mitt Romney by name this week for embracing a controversial Rep...
MISSOULA, Montana (Reuters) - "Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson has agreed to pay $1 million to compens...
(Reuters) - Any U.S. corporate executives who think they can use the Jobs Act's relaxed rules for public listing to cut c...
Tumbling in the polls and under increasing pressure to abandon his White House campaign, Republican Rick Santorum huddled wit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House was forced on the defensive on Wednesday as it sought to explain controversial remarks...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four suspected co-conspirators were directe...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Mitt Romney made a big leap toward winning the Republican U.S. presidential nomination with a clean swe...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey admitted on Monday that she had made mistakes while creating her cable channel but promise...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the Supreme Court on Monday, w...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's top Republican called on his party to unite behind leading presidential candidat...
(Reuters) - For all the derision Republican presidential hopefuls have heaped on the Federal Reserve, a November win by lead ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Republicans passed congressman Paul Ryan's deficit-cutting budget plan on Thursday, setting ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has signaled a willingness to accept less-stringent controls on former Taliba...
President Barack Obama "sings" LMFAO's "Sexy And I Know It."
By Donna SmithWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday blasted police handling of a racially charged case in wh...
By James Vicini and Joan BiskupicWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul will be ...
By Joan Biskupic and James ViciniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided along ideological lin...
By Joan Biskupic and James ViciniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared prepared to decide the fate...
SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - The neighborhood watch volunteer who sparked a national uproar by shooting an unarmed teenager t...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have given cash compensation to the families of Afghans killed in a shooti...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two years after President Barack Obama signed into law a healthcare overhaul, the Supreme Court on Mon...
(Reuters) - Mitt Romney's presidential hopes may have been shaken up when an aide compared his campaign to an "Etch ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul faces its biggest court test next week, capping a leg...
(Reuters) - The director of a video calling for the arrest of fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony suffered from a brief psyc...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory over top rival Rick Santorum in Illinois on Tuesday, mo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may be headed for an important victory in Illinois on Tuesda...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Meghan McCain, daughter of 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, always has been outspo...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen told young musicians on Thursday that in this new age of dig...
DOUGLAS, Ariz (Reuters) - A highly specialized U.S. military task force is using battlefield technology to help federal polic...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the possibility of releasing...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Republican Rick Santorum won a pair of crucial Deep South primaries on Tuesday, taking contro...
DAYTON, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, America's basketball fan-in-chief, treated British Prime Minister David ...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Republicans Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich face off in a pair of high-stakes pr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican proposal to give a permit to the Keystone XL crude ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign would like to be focusing its attacks on Democratic President ...
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Mitt Romney notched early wins as he fought to establish his dominance in the race for the Rep...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Mitt Romney can take a big step toward finishing off chief rival Rick Santorum and seizing command...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu assured President Barack Obama on Monday that Israel has not made any decision on a...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, roundly criticized for branding a law student a "slut&q...
LONDON, Kentucky (Reuters) - Calm weather gave dazed residents of storm-wracked U.S. towns a respite on Sunday as they dug ou...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney closed in on Rick Santorum in Ohio and picked up a crucial endorsement in Virginia on Sund...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - In a new puppet show satire of Russia's presidential election, the only competition is in the mind of ...
By Scott MalonePORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - The two major U.S. political parties have a responsibility to end the "dysfun...
Jon Bon Jovi has hit his 50s - the rock superstar is celebrating his half century on Friday.Born John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. i...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday rejected a Republican challenge to President Barack Obama's policy on contr...
(Reuters) - The National Football League (NFL) will kick off the 2012 season a day earlier than usual, on Wednesday September...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's narrow win in Michigan is unlikely to ease lingering doubts about his candidacy or h...
SOUTHFIELD, Michigan (Reuters) - Mitt Romney faces a day of reckoning on Tuesday when Michigan votes to either grant him a bi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tucked in his left breast-coat pocket where he can pull it out to wave before TV cameras is ammunition...
MESA, Arizona (Reuters) - Mitt Romney is fighting his way back into the driving seat in the Republican presidential race, put...
Mick Jagger teamed up with fellow rocker Jeff Beck during a performance for President Barack Obama at the White House on Tues...
MESA, Arizona (Reuters) - After months on the sidelines, Rick Santorum finally gets his chance at center stage in a debate of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign regularly rips Republican presidential frontrunner M...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Sporting his signature sweater vest and telling stories of his coal miner grandfather, Republican ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Friday passed legislation extending a tax cut for 160 million workers and long-term jobl...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A small plane with more than 20 pounds of marijuana strayed into restricted airspace around President...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, set to expire at the end of this month, would be extended...
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (Reuters) - Their encampments are largely gone, but the U.S. Occupy movement is far from dead, with organiz...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama takes his election-year economic message to the Midwestern heartland on Wednesd...
(Reuters) - Catholic bishops, energized by a battle over contraception funding, are planning an aggressive campaign to rally ...
By Matt Spetalnick and Chris BuckleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping o...
By Alister Bull and Laura MacInnisWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Monday for new spending to boost gr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co plans to hire 5,000 U.S. military veterans over the next five years and to invest ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five big U.S. banks accused of abusive mortgage practices have agreed to a $25 billion government ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many U.S. Republicans may have growing concerns about their presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, but...
DENVER (Reuters) - Former U.S. senator Rick Santorum rejuvenated his presidential hopes on Tuesday with a shocking sweep of t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, worried about the influx of money to groups support...
DENVER (Reuters) - Republican candidate Rick Santorum is gunning for a victory in at least one of the three states holding pr...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado (Reuters) - Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Monday focused his campaign's fir...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unempl...
Funnywoman Roseanne Barris getting serious about politics - she has filed documents to become the Green Party's official ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businessman and reality TV personality Donald Trump is endorsing Mitt Romney in the race for the 2012 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businessman and reality TV personality Donald Trump will endorse former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in...
KABUL (Reuters) - The United States appears to have taken Kabul by surprise by announcing plans to end its Afghan combat role...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's victory in Florida's Republican presidential primary has made him the man to...
The Foo Fighters are throwing their support behind President Barack Obama's re-election campaign by hosting a fundraising...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House hopeful Mitt Romney's lead over rival Newt Gingrich has stretched to 15 percentage poi...
HIALEAH, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Newt Gingrich struggled to halt surging rival Mitt Romney's momentum on Sunday, a...
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took the fight to chief rival Newt Gingrich on ...
MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Newt Gingrich, cranking up the campaign rhetoric, mocked White House rival Mitt Romney&...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid tears, salutes and standing ovations, Representative Gabrielle Giffords submitted her resignation...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - U.S. special forces swooped into Somalia on Wednesday and rescued an American and a Dane after a shooto...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union speech before the November election to paint h...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, coming off one of his most subdued debate perform...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will pitch new initiatives on jobs, taxes and housing in an election-year State...
STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Penn State students and supporters laid flowers and lit candles on Monday as they mou...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Humbled by a stunning loss in South Carolina, Mitt Romney said on Sunday he would releas...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Representative Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head during a shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona, last year...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich jolted the Republican presidential race on Saturday with a convincing come...
GILBERT, South Carolina (Reuters) - With the crucial Republican presidential primary in South Carolina just hours away, front...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates tore into each other on Thursday and Newt Gingrich ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After showing off her acting and dancing skills on kids TV show "iCarly" this week, Michell...
WASHINGTON/CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Late-night TV comedian Stephen Colbert is urging his South Carolina fans to...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich angrily defended himself on Thursday a...
WASHINGTON/CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Obama Administration rejected the Keystone oil pipeline on Wednesday, a move that...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney acknowledged Tuesday that his income tax rate is "probab...
CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a traditional day of service as well...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls attacked Mitt Romney's record in business and gover...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Jon Huntsman suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday,...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman will drop out of the White House race o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Caro...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Most Mormons believe their religion is not well understood by Americans and many sense hostility but a su...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday that he plans a $1.2 trillion increa...
KABUL (Reuters) - A video showing what appear to be American forces urinating on dead Taliban fighters prompted anger in Afgh...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential contenders brought buckets of cash and sharp rhetoric to South C...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran announced on Monday it had sentenced a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen to death for spying for the CIA, cre...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney offered the starkest choice yet between himself and President Ba...
EXETER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney might want to take a lesson from Chris Christie on how to handle protesters at ...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - One day after a solid victory in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Mitt ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare spending barely rose in 2010 from record-low recession levels, as high unemployment an...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney is poised to take a big step toward the Republican U.S. presidential nomina...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced an election year shake-up at the White House on Monday, choosing budg...
CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates stepped up their attacks on rival Mitt Romney in a tele...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Iowa Republicans cast the first votes of the 2012 White House campaign on Tuesday, with Mitt Rom...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney squeaked out a victory in Iowa's first-in-the-nati...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - After a dramatic, confusing night of suspense in the Republican Party's Iowa caucuses, the big w...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Representative Michele Bachmann ended her campaign to become the 2012 Republican presidential no...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The FBI performed a record number of instant background checks on would-be firearm buyers in 2011 as Amer...
DES MOINES, Iowa/MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Michele Bachmann was out, Rick Perry was back and Rick Santorum was up...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military pre...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will take action if a U.S. aircraft carrier which left the area because of Iranian naval exercises re...
LONDON (Reuters) - Bunga Bunga, Zenga Zenga, a tweeting cobra and other wacky news capped a year that saw the capture of Amer...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Occupy this: the trash bin. At least, so say students at Michigan's Lake Superior State University who rel...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's crowds are larger now.And with the Iowa caucuses looming on Tuesday, it seems inev...
AMES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign has a hint of a swagger about it as a good sh...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Iowa's moderate Republicans are a small and dispirited bunch, but they could provide a vital boo...
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax c...
BOSTON (Reuters) - On a quiet stretch of the waterfront here, about a mile from Boston's main tourist sites, a Gillette facto...
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich, buffeted by attacks, gets his chance to fight back on Thursday ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military officially ended its war in Iraq on Thursday, packing up a military flag at a ceremony ...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates pounced on front-runner Newt Gingrich on Thursday to try to b...
The cost of health insurance continues to climb for companies and workers, with annual family premiums this year growing at a...
By Alina SelyukhWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The health secretary overruled government scientists and refused to bring the controve...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday said it will rule for the first time on one of several tough, new state im...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich holds a 10-point lead in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, but he wo...
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - A gunman ambushed and killed a campus police officer and was later reported to have been fou...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Surging frontrunner Newt Gingrich fought off heavy attacks in a presidential debate in Iowa on S...
By Dave ClarkeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans on Thursday beat back Democratic President Barack Obama's pick to hea...
SHANKSVILLE, Pa (Reuters) - Thousands gathered Sunday at the site where hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashed as the nat...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lawyers for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge on Tuesday to show m...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Is it time for Mitt Romney to come up with a new plan?For months, the initial frontrunner in the race ...
(Reuters) - Amanda Knox, who was cleared of murder and freed from prison by an Italian court in October, has hired a prominen...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for pol...
OSAWATOMIE, Kansas (Reuters) - President Barack Obama blasted his Republican foes and Wall Street on Tuesday as he portrayed ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Judging by their "before" and "after" photographs, U.S. presidents appear to age befo...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich paid a visit to Donald Trump on Monday, becoming the latest Republican presidential hopefu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday of having a 13-year affair wit...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney opened fire on surging rival Newt Gingrich on Tuesday,...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, battling allegations of infidelity, said o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Herman Cain told aides on Tuesday he would reassess the viability of...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq opened a new phase in rela...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Representative Barney Frank, who helped to craft the landmark overhaul of financial regulat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed to boost U.S. efforts to fight AIDS with a new target of providing treatm...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked U.S. voters on Wednesday to keep believing in the "hope and change&quo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a poor showing among female voters in the 2008 presidential election, the Republican Party might...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama struck an optimistic note on Wednesday night that lawmakers in Congress could rea...
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich finally reached front-runner status this week after a long climb and may now ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican presidential hopefuls meet on Tuesday for their second foreign policy debate in 10 days...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican presidential hopefuls criticized U.S. policy toward Pakistan and called for placing san...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, with...
WASHINGTON/HONOLULU (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged U.S. lawmakers on Sunday to "bite the bullet" and make...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain faced possibly damaging allegations on Monday from the f...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spelled out a doomsday scenario Monday that he said could occur if Cong...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. cable TV network and a senior Republican senator asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to allow its f...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Budget talks in the Congress were locked in stalemate on Wednesday amid the disclosure of a Democratic...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is now being protected by the U.S. Secret Service, the f...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich was forced to defend his lucrative former role with Freddie M...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress on Thursday found a rare moment of accord in the budget fights that have paralyzed Washington...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police arrested a 21-year old man on Wednesday suspected of shooting at the White House last week, aft...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration proposed on Wednesday doubling auto fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon ...
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A 21-year-old man who called President Barack Obama the "devil" and "anti-Christ" ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney has a growing lead in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and almost...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief of the Air Force was questioned by lawmakers Thursday over revelations the military's main m...
COLUMBUS (Reuters) - Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected a law limiting the collective bargaining rights of public workers in a m...
ROCHESTER, Michigan (Reuters) - Republican Herman Cain will try to move past an escalating sexual harassment controversy on W...
GREENVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry vowed to press on with his campaign Thurs...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain predicted on Tuesday a third political party will emerge in response to Americans'...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, seizing on a report that showed America's rich getting richer while the rest o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A crisis facing U.S. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain threatened to escalate on Tuesday e...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman made sexual harassment allegations against Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain on Monday...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One year before voters decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama to a second term, a majority ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder will go before a Senate committee on Tuesday where he will likely be aske...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain will hold a new conference on Tuesday to confront the la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Michele Bachmann won a new lease on life for her fizzling presidential campaign by aggressively target...
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - The United States urged 55 million people on its East Coast on Friday to prepare for t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters opposed to a new oil pipeline from Canada to the United States circled the Whi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama picked up where his predecessor George W. Bush left off in the war against Isla...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Republicans and Democrats in a familiar deadlock over taxes, prospects are poor for crafting a de...
(Reuters) - Like a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iow...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two women employees complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Republican presidential contender He...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Herman Cain denounced sexual harassment accusations from the 1990s as a "witch hunt&qu...
(Reuters) - The United States, Britain and France turned up the pressure on Tehran on Thursday ahead of next week's release o...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain's struggles could open the door in Iowa for rival Ri...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The longer the Republican presidential hopefuls battle over sexual harassment claims against Herman Ca...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman who accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment Thursday offere...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth was likely too weak in October to pull down the nation's lofty jobless rate, th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty endorsed ex-rival Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential n...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A campaign video showing Republican presidential front-runner Herman Cain's chief of staff blowing smo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Herman Cain tout their real-world business experience...
(Reuters) - Americans' opinion of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform in October reached its lowest point since the la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads his campaign rivals in the four states that kick off t...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry on Tuesday placed his hopes for a comeback in the U.S. presidentia...
(Reuters) - Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, the Ohio man who as "Joe the Plumber" famously pressed then-presidential ca...
OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Police and protesters scuffled in the streets of Oakland on Tuesday as more than 1,000 people marc...
GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Attorneys for former presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Wednesday that the fede...
DENVER (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to take steps to ease the burden of student loans, potentially h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Homeowners who owe more than their properties are worth got new help on Monday with the government's e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans and Democrats rejected each other's economic stimulus bills on Thursday, underscori...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hailed Muammar Gaddafi's death on Thursday as a warning to authoritarian leader...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States will fulfill its pledge to pull troops out of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday backed a measure to help bolster the housing market by making it easier for peo...
NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama cast a wider net on Wednesday to shore up support in key elec...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said on Wednesday he will propose a flat tax as part of an...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Democratic National Committee raised about $5.5 million in August, its worst fundraising month of...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A confident Mitt Romney criticized his Republican rivals and fended off attacks on Tuesday at a feisty ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Another week, another Republican presidential debate.The candidates competing for the Republican nomin...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Unlikely Republican front-runner Herman Cain faces close scrutiny on Tuesday when the party's hopefuls ...
MILLERS CREEK, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought on Monday to turn up the heat on Republicans for bloc...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Republicans not to play "political games" with his jobs pla...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave a partisan-tinged speech to dedicate a new memorial to Martin Luther King ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich's Republican presidential effort raised $808...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain acknowledged on Sunday his "9-9-9" tax reform ...
WASHINGTON/TEHRAN (Reuters) - The United States accused Iran of backing an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $70 million from Jul...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eight candidates took part in Tuesday's Republican presidential debate, but President Barack O...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters say the rich are getting richer while average Americans suffer, but the grou...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney leads the field vying for the Republican presidential nomination, but fewer than one in fo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department late on Tuesday issued a worldwide travel alert for U.S. citizens, warning of the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate defeated President Barack Obama's job-creation package on Tuesday in a sign that Washington...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will back Mitt Romney in the U.S. presidential race on Tuesday, a R...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama could create millions of jobs by attracting more foreign capital to the United ...
HANOVER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry hopes to end a string of poor performances and campaign rival Mitt R...
MILFORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney, a former venture capitalist who is the Republican presidential front-runner, ...
(Reuters) - Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, better known as "Joe the Plumber" when he was thrust into the 2008 presiden...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four years ago, Senator Claire McCaskill was one of Barack Obama's biggest boosters in his presidentia...
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - Country singer Hank Williams Jr., whose theme song was pulled from "Monday Night Football&qu...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - With their favored candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination lagging or out o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wooed evangelical Christian voters on Saturday with prom...
MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann, beset by falling poll numbers, staff departu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare supplemental health plans, popular among politically powerful retirees, could come under the ...
DALLAS (Reuters) - An unapologetic Pastor Robert Jeffress, who created a stir for calling Mormonism a "cult" at a p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former pizza executive Herman Cain is now tied with Mitt Romney for the lead in the race for the 2012 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of s...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Outpourings of public grief and appreciation swept the globe on Thursday after the death of Apple co-fou...
ATHERTON, California (Reuters) - President Barack Obama harshly criticized Republican opponents on Sunday as he began a West ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sarah Palin said on Wednesday that she will not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment likely grew only modestly in September, with hiring too weak to pull down a lofty jobless r...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will vow on Friday to exert U.S. leaders...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama launched an onslaught against banks and Republicans on Thursday for working to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the request of the White House, Senate Democrats have pushed back the effective date of their propo...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protests against corporate greed and economic inequality spread across America on Thursday and found unl...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - ESPN and country music artist Hank Williams Jr. have parted ways, both parties announced on Thursday,...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Many wealthy donors who gave the maximum allowable amount to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign have doub...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country music singer Hank Williams Jr. canceled a Fox News Channel interview on Tuesday and said he w...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's job-creation package effectively fell to pieces on Monday as a top Republican...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than a quarter of wealthy Americans support raising taxes on households making $250,000 or mo...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided he will not run for president in 2012, a Republican sourc...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led Senate on Thursday sent the House of Representatives a measure to fund disaster aid...
BOSTON (Reuters) - ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s theme song from its "Monday Night Football" broadcast in a rebuk...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats want tax hikes to be the first item negotiated in "super committee" deficit-reduct...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said on Saturday he would get the U.S. mil...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Young people in the United States are falling behind their overseas peers in reading, math and science...
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Tuesday again rebuffed a growing chorus of Republican ...
LYNCHBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, struggling to reverse a slide in opinion po...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The sentencing of convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been postponed from October 6, w...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Barack Obama topped up his re-election war chest with a string of successful West Coast fun...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Herman Cain is on a roll, the latest hot commodity in a constantly shifting 2012 Republican presidenti...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has regained his status as front-runner in the race for the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to i...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's No. 2 on Monday knocked down fresh speculation that the Republican ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday cleared the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in its 2011-12...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Poverty rates increased in almost all U.S. states and the District of Columbia over the course of the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans fighting for the presidential nomination are slamming frontrunner Rick Perry over illegal ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged students on Wednesday to pursue learning after high school to brighten th...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said on Tuesday Washington lawmakers need the equivalent of a 1...
(Reuters) - Republican Representative Paul Ryan, an outspoken opponent of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, propose...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - President Barack Obama faces a "titanic" struggle to win re-election in 2012 ...
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Former pizza executive Herman Cain surprised rival Rick Perry with an upset victory on Saturday ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama sought support for his job creation plan at a philanthropic summit on Wednes...
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry leads rival Mitt Romney in Florida, where the Republican presidential ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama laid out a $3.6 trillion plan on Monday to cut budget deficits partly by ra...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told the United Nations on Wednesday there was no short cut to Middle East ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Senator Charles Schumer urged quick action to raise taxes on the rich -- people like billionaire ...
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought on Thursday to ratchet up pressure for congressional approval of his ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's call for $3 trillion in new government savings, through a mix of tax incr...
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is raising millions of dollars for his re-election campaign, keeping th...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry ramped up his criticism of presidential rival Mitt Romney on Friday, descr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 12 members of a congressional "super committee" laid out competing visions on Tuesday fo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama says he backs immigration reform, announcing last month an initiative to ease d...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to urge him to d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders on Sunday criticized President Barack Obama's proposal for a new tax on millionaire...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Concern about the economy has pushed President Barack Obama's approval rating below 50 percent in C...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton will push corporations and non-profit groups at his philanthropic summit t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out a plan on Monday to cut the U.S. deficit, striking a populist tone...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann drew a rousing reception from Republicans at their California...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Wednesday in the trial of a Nigerian man accused of a botched attempt to blow up ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned Republican lawmakers on Wednesday against delaying action...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will not recommend changes to the government's Social Security retirement progr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made the case for his re-election and his jobs plan at two big-ticket fundraise...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress may have dialed back their rhetoric, but that does not mean they are any more ...
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Rick Perry said Republican rival Mitt Romney would not provide a stark enough c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Marine who saved 36 of his comrades' lives during an ambush in Afghanistan was awarded the Medal of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republicans won an upset victory in a Democratic stronghold in New York on Tuesday in a special House of...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry came under heavy fire on Social Security, jobs and his Texas record in a hea...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that two American men arrested near Iran's border wi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46 million last year, the gover...
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina's Republican-led General Assembly is expected to take the first steps on M...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Children yearned for lost parents and grown men and women sobbed in raw grief on the hard stone bearin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday the United States was stronger 10 years after the September 11...
SHANKSVILLE, PA (Reuters) - Former President George W. Bush on Saturday promised that the nation would never forget the heroi...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The attacks of September 11, 2001 changed life in the United States forever, but 10 years after the deva...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's core leadership is badly wounded and almost certainly incapable of mounting another attack ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An appeals court handed President Barack Obama another victory for his signature healthcare law on Thu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he is seeking to broaden U.S. homeowners' access to mortgage r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, seeking to rescue the troubled U.S. economy and his own prospects for re-elect...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wimps, wusses, or just plain weaklings -- men are in for a tough time in the next few months on U.S. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, facing waning confidence among Americans in his economic stewardship, plans so...
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry will be the man in the spotlight when Republican presidential c...
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry came out swinging in his national debut on Wednesday, all but c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pledge to boost America's global standing by ramping up U.S. diplomacy and de...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann's campaign manager, Ed Rollins, and his deputy are le...
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said on Wednesday that if he were elected pre...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies will forever be scarred by their failure to connect the dots and detect the...
CHESAPEAKE, Va (Reuters) - Former defense secretary Robert Gates was named on Tuesday as the next chancellor of the College o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney aimed squarely at the Republican center as he launched his economic p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out a jobs package worth more than $300 billon on Thursday, stakin...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tourists flock to Times Square for the bright lights and Broadway shows. There they find another spectac...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz called on Americans on Tuesday to deluge U.S. lawmakers...
PATERSON, New Jersey (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Republicans not to play politics with federal disaste...
CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential contender Mitt Romney tried to win over doubters from the conservative Tea Pa...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American football fans can rest easy: President Barack Obama's nationally televised jobs speech to Con...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sharply cut estimates on Thursday for U.S. economic growth, underscoring the di...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas governor Rick Perry tried to sideline a state commissioner who opposed expanding the scope of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August as sagging confidence discouraged already skittish b...
PASADENA, Calif (Reuters) - Obama administration lawyers asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to vacate a judgment decla...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney's new memoir revives the fierce battles over U.S. national security ...
PATERSON, N.J./BRATTLEBORO, Vermont (Reuters) - Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the U.S. northeast devast...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday agreed to unveil new jobs proposals in an address to Congress on S...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann insisted on Monday she was joking when she said a hurricane...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A majority of U.S. Muslims are content with the nation's direction in contrast to many Americans and few ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, under rising pressure from rival Rick Perry, has been for...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vermont and New Jersey struggled with their worst flooding in decades on Monday, a day after Hurricane I...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's never-ending budget battle threatened to snarl the recovery from Hurricane Irene as a top...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will urge Congress on Wednesday to approve stop-gap aviation and transportation...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian man confessed to shooting dead two U.S. airmen and wounding two more at F...
PATERSON, New Jersey (Reuters) - Emergency workers plucked dozens of residents from doorways and windows as Hurricane Irene's...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Mitt Romney bashed President Barack Obama's policies and took an implicit sideswipe at rival Rick Per...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds fr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday will announce he has chosen Princeton University labor economist Alan...
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. eastern seaboard on Saturday as a weakening but...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett will boost President Barack Obama's re-election bi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's strategy for dealing with rival contender Rick Pe...
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene howled ashore in North Carolina with heavy winds, rain and surf on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rick Perry has taken a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential nomination ra...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is finalizing a jobs package that could include a program to...
NASSAU (Reuters) - The northeast seaboard, including the capital and financial center New York, rushed to prepare on Thursday...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Tuesday shot down speculation that she is close to deciding whet...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. agency that runs government health insurance is launching a program that would bundle insuran...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has taken heat for taking a vacation when the U.S. economy i...
CHILMARK, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Monday for Muammar Gaddafi to end the bloodshed in Libya...
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene was expected to strengthen over the next few days and could hit the southeastern Un...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Martin Luther King Jr stood 30 feet tall on the National Mall as a memorial to him was unveiled on Mon...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren't enough ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi was a hunted man on Monday as loyal remnants of his forces made last-ditch stands in the ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan government tanks and snipers put up scattered, last-ditch resistance in Tripoli on Monday after re...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Authorities arrested dozens of people on Sunday protesting outside the White House against a proposed &...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans still hoping that another candidate will jump into the presidential race and give the part...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Sunday he expects to be judged in the 2012 election ...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, perhaps seeking a break from harsh reality after a tough su...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took his daughters to a Martha's Vineyard bookstore on Frida...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Rick Perry has at least some supporters in the Democratic stronghold of Ch...
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces shot dead six protesters on Friday despite President Bashar al-Assad's pledge that his milita...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new nonfiction book will examine teen pop star Justin Bieber's belief in Christianity that he has refe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Approval of President Barack Obama's handling of the U.S. economy has fallen to a new low of 26 percen...
ATKINSON, Ill (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's three-day bus tour along the back roads of the Midwest was billed as a cha...
BERLIN, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, seen by many as the choice of moderate Republicans in 201...
ATKINSON, Ill (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he will propose a plan in September to jump-start the U.S....
AMES, Iowa (Reuters) - No one will accuse Republican Tim Pawlenty of being too nice anymore.Two days before an Iowa straw pol...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama heads out on Monday on a bus tour of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois in the U.S. M...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry has only been a presidential candidate since Saturday, but the Republican ho...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he is cutting potential rival Rick Perry "some slack"...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A decade after the 9/11 attacks, a "lone wolf terrorist" like the shooter in Norway now pres...
PEOSTA, Iowa (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought to turn voter anger over the economy toward Republicans in ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - For weeks during the rancorous debate over the debt ceiling limit, Americans were treated to the widely tel...
DECORAH, Iowa (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will on Tuesday announce fresh steps to boost rural hiring on the second day...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty became the first major casualty in the marathon presidential ca...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry, a staunch conservative with a Washington outsider's resume, will seek the 2012...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An appeals court ruled Friday that President Barack Obama's healthcare law requiring Americans to buy ...
MINNEAPOLIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As his campaign for U.S. president fails to take flight, some donors to Republican hopeful...
HOLLAND, Michigan (Reuters) - President Barack Obama distanced himself from a deeply divided U.S. Congress on Thursday, pledg...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican lawmaker would not rule out tax increases on Thursday if they could boost economi...
AMES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republicans Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty clashed repeatedly over their records during a president...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is getting hammered on all sides for a stumbling U.S. economy and his uneven re...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans named their six members Wednesday to a congressional deficit-reduction super committee, in...
PELLA, Iowa (Reuters) - Mitt Romney, on a rare visit to Iowa on Wednesday, said Americans were "fearful, but not panicke...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A downgrade of United States' top-tier credit rating has Wall Street scrambling to figure out the knock-...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - America is on the fritz.From Times Square to St. Petersburg, Florida, and Portland, Oregon, people are t...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Republicans narrowly retained their majority in the Wisconsin state Senate on Tuesday, staving off a st...
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware (Reuters) - President Barack Obama honored 30 U.S. soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Af...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Nearly 250 new immigration laws and resolutions were enacted in 40 states during the first half of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans by a large majority believe the United States is on the wrong track and nearly half think th...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Men who like to sag their jeans down low but fear they could end up around their ankles may be intereste...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rick Perry will signal plans to seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination at an event in South ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. political parties on Sunday traded blame for the country's loss of its top-tier AAA credit rating...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday blamed a downgrade in the United States' credit rating on political g...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who had considered stepping down after the government borrowing l...
KABUL (Reuters) - Foreign troops in Afghanistan do not yet know what caused a deadly helicopter crash two days ago and on Mon...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican deficit reduction plan headed to a close vote in the Congress on Thursday and the White H...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has asked Timothy Geithner to stay on as Treasury secretary and a decision is e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders struck a deal on Thursday to resolve a partisan dispute and end a partial shutdo...
DERRY, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Jon Huntsman defended his chief strategist on Thursday aft...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Disapproval of Congress rose to an all-time high after weeks of rancorous partisan battles over raisin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's largest economy was headed toward an unprecedented default, and all Washington wanted to t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Medicare at the top of lawmakers' fall agenda, Tea Party movement leaders hope to ignite support ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Wednesday that any across-the-board cuts to defense spending ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will take a three-day campaign-style bus tour through the American Midwest this...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States stepped back from the brink of default on Tuesday but congressional approval of a la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama suffered a defeat in the battle over raising the U.S. debt limit that may have ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tea Party conservatives scored their biggest political triumph with a debt-ceiling deal that cuts fede...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With four days remaining until the United States hits its debt limit, President Barack Obama on Friday...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cutting the U.S. deficit by some $4 trillion over 10 years would be a good start, but more savings w...
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Katlyn Wilkins (in tree) and Andrea Wilkins Morelli work on securing an American flag in a tree as they deal with the destruc... -
U.S. President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II during a State Banquet in Buckingham Palace on May 24, 2011 in London, Eng... -
Queen Elizabeth II poses with U.S. President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle Obama and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in th...
