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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) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers pounded U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday with questions about the Justice Depa...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday sought to defuse controversy over its handling of last year's killing...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia expelled a U.S. diplomat on Tuesday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, spec...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With no sign of an end to three mushrooming scandals, the White House acknowledged the rising politica...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutio...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama learned on Monday what can happen to presidents caught up in allegations of sca...
By Patrick Temple-West and Thomas FerraroWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tax authorities' handling of applications for tax-exempt ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will travel on Thursday to Austin, Texas, the first stop in a new series of day...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Eight police officers were hurt and 18 protesters arrested in Seattle on Wednesday when a May Day rally t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saying it was damaging to U.S. interests to keep holding prisoners in legal limbo at Guantanamo, Presi...
By Robbie WardTUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against a Mississippi man accused o...
(Reuters) - The Mississippi man charged with sending toxic letters to President Barack Obama and a U.S. senator has been rele...
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Police captured a 19-year-old man on Friday night suspected of carrying out the Boston M...
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Black Hawk helicopters and heavily armed police descended on a Boston suburb Friday in a...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Investigators believe they have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing from security video an...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing is focusing on a suspect or suspects believed to have car...
(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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday proposed a budget that sharply trims the U.S. deficit over three years by...
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...
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...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed on Thursday in a southern Israeli border town that U.S. Pr...
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) - Leading congressional Republicans said on Sunday a broad deal with President Barack Obama on deficit r...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona will argue before the Supreme Court on Monday that it is within its rights to demand voters show ...
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) - The U.S. government hurtled on Friday toward making deep spending cuts that threaten to hinder the nat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. citizens believe that most or all of the country's 11 million illegal immig...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union address on Tuesday with one eye on the politic...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term on January 21, it's a decent bet that o...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Controversial Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff,"...
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...
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) - 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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will wade cautiously into the debate over U.S. immigration reform on Tuesday, s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he loves football but thinks the sport should "probably change gradua...
Joe Biden gets in on the singing action in this hilarious Obama dub of Justin Timberlake's hit song "SexyBack."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kerry urged Congress to fix the U.S. economy to ensure America's role as a world leader and p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A measure to extend the U.S. debt limit for nearly four months moved closer on Tuesday to a vote and t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was one of the biggest questions of Monday's inaugural celebrations: not what would President B...
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) - During the past two years as his frustration with a "dysfunctional" Congress has grown, Pres...
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...
A discussion on MSNBC's popular morning show "Morning Joe" about President Barack Obama's all-male cabinet ...
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 approved a rare tax increase on Tuesday that will hit the nation's wealthiest ho...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress comes back on Monday without a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" and only a...
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...
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) - President Barack Obama will announce on Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an effort to...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House spelled out some gun control measures on Tuesday that President Barack Obama would sup...
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...
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) - Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a close confidante of President Barack Obama...
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) - President Barack Obama's inauguration committee is accepting corporate donations to help fund the ...
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...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - To help decorate the White House for the Christmas season this year, President Barack Obama turned to an ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Tuesday conceded that an early account she gave ab...
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) - 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...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Paula Broadwell, the biographer whose affair with former CIA chief David Petraeus led t...
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...
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Wednesday against jumping to conclusions over the ...
(Reuters) - New details emerged on Sunday about the extramarital affair that abruptly ended the career of CIA chief David Pet...
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...
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc slid almost 4 percent on Wednesday to a five-month low as investors gr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama had little time to savor victory on Wednesday after voters gave him a second te...
By Sam YoungmanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called it - in less than 140 characters.Around 11:15 pm EST, jus...
By Edith HonanNEW YORK (Reuters) - Voters in Maryland, Maine and Washington state approved same-sex marriage on Tuesday, mark...
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...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney make a frenetic dash to a series of cruci...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From New York City's Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and offi...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As Hurricane Sandy pounded the U.S. Atlantic coast on Monday night, knocking out electricity and In...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Aunt Rosemary was not George Clooney's only famous relative. You can add a certain Civil War Amer...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was to resume campaigning on Thursday after a pause caused by the U.S. east coast...
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...
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" ...
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 ...
LIMA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton assumed responsibility on Monday for last month's deadly ...
By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden's spirited performance in the vice presidential debate had Republica...
By John Whitesides and Andy SullivanDANVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden leaped to the attack against...
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 stayed within striking distance of President Barack Obam...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to a near four-year low of 7.8 percent in September, a potential bo...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Actress Daryl Hannah was arrested in Texas on Thursday after she stood in front of an earth-moving ma...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fears of government austerity likely kept U.S. job gains modest and the unemployment rate elevated in ...
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...
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...
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"...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Homeland" toppled "Mad Men" to win the top drama prize on Sunday as the Primetim...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Daniel McCune graduated from college three years ago, he was optimistic his good grades would ear...
By Aisha ChowdhryISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Demonstrators clashed with police in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday as anger...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will make their first joint appearance on the dayti...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney dismissed supporters of President Barack Obama - almost ...
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...
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...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs growth slowed sharply in August, setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to pu...
Actor Clint Eastwood came up with his much-talked about empty chair speech at the Republican National Convention last week on...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social networking sites play a modest role in influencing most U.S. users' political views, with t...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democrats launch their case for U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election at his no...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama enters an important campaign week tied with Republican presidential nominee Mit...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney urged voters on Thursday to help him rebuild the U.S. economy and create mi...
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...
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 ...
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...
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) - 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) - The religious faiths of President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will have little ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed as expected in the second quarter as consumers spent at their slowest pace...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will not apologize to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for raising...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reggae immortal Bob Marley has joined Barack Obama and Elvis Presley in the elite club of those who ha...
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) - U.S. employers hired at a dismal pace in June, raising pressure on the Federal Reserve to do more to b...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Millions of Americans headed for parades and fireworks shows on Wednesday to mark a sweltering Fourth ...
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) - The Supreme Court is set to deliver on Thursday its ruling on President Barack Obama's 2010 health...
President Barack Obama is back "singing" another top 40 hit. This time it's "Boyfriend" by Justin Bie...
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...
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 MacInnisCLEVELAND (Reuters) - President Barack Obama cast his re-election battle with Mitt Romney as a clash between...
By Laura MacInnisCLEVELAND (Reuters) - President Barack Obama cast his re-election battle with Mitt Romney as a clash between...
By Caren Bohan and Laura MacInnisWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, seeking to counter deep doubts about his econ...
(Reuters) - More than eight months after Occupy Wall Street burst onto the global stage, decrying income inequality and coini...
The latestcover of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me, Maybe" featuring President Barack Obama.
Actress Amanda Bynes has turned to President Barack Obama for help after she was officially charged with driving under the in...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin's Scott Walker became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall election on ...
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) - At the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, pharmacists are using old-fashioned paper spreadsheets to track...
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) - Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday with a resounding victory in Te...
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) - 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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration forged ahead with healthcare reforms on Wednesday, announcing a November 16 d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For President Barack Obama's re-election team, it's sort of like threading a needle.While tryi...
LONDON (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and News Corp head Rupert Murdoch were among the targets of British comic ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called his endorsement of same-sex marriage a "logical extension" of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After years of "evolving" on the issue, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes...
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) - President Barack Obama poked fun at his likely presidential rival Mitt Romney and Republican opponents...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After months of casting Republican Mitt Romney as someone who often changes positions for political co...
President Barack Obama stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to slow jam the news with Jimmy and The Roots.
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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich is expected to withdraw next week from the U.S. Republican presidential contest, people ...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney launched his general election campaign against President Barack ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel admits he is anxious about headlining his first White House Corres...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders the fate of healthcare reform in the current election year, a study ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attorney for some of the Secret Service agents under investigation in a scandal involving prostitu...
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...
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 ...
SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A handcuffed George Zimmerman, charged with killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, appea...
JACKSONVILLE/SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A special prosecutor in Florida charged neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerm...
By Patricia ZengerleGETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - U.S. conservative Rick Santorum dropped out of his presidential camp...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare law could sharply exceed its cost-savings targets and add up t...
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...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the Supreme Court on Monday, w...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey admitted on Monday that she had made mistakes while creating her cable channel but promise...
(Reuters) - For all the derision Republican presidential hopefuls have heaped on the Federal Reserve, a November win by lead ...
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 James Vicini and Joan BiskupicWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's top courtroom lawyer made an impassion...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The parents of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin are due to attend a U.S. congressional forum in Washi...
By Joan Biskupic and James ViciniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared prepared to decide the fate...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two years after President Barack Obama signed into law a healthcare overhaul, the Supreme Court on Mon...
(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...
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...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Republicans Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich face off in a pair of high-stakes pr...
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) - Mitt Romney closed in on Rick Santorum in Ohio and picked up a crucial endorsement in Virginia on Sund...
By Matt Spetainick and Jeffrey HellerWASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Just days before what could be the most consequential m...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday rejected a Republican challenge to President Barack Obama's policy on contr...
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...
MESA, Arizona (Reuters) - After months on the sidelines, Rick Santorum finally gets his chance at center stage in a debate of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Friday passed legislation extending a tax cut for 160 million workers and long-term jobl...
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...
By Steve HollandWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Faced with a new surging rival, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is retur...
By Matt Spetalnick and Chris BuckleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five big U.S. banks accused of abusive mortgage practices have agreed to a $25 billion government ...
By Matt Spetalnick and Chris BuckleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will ...
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...
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...
Funnywoman Roseanne Barris getting serious about politics - she has filed documents to become the Green Party's official ...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON(Reuters) - U.S. employment growth probably slowed in January as messengers hired during the busy ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businessman and reality TV personality Donald Trump is endorsing Mitt Romney in the race for the 2012 ...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's victory in Florida's Republican presidential primary has made him the man to...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House hopeful Mitt Romney's lead over rival Newt Gingrich has stretched to 15 percentage poi...
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took the fight to chief rival Newt Gingrich on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid tears, salutes and standing ovations, Representative Gabrielle Giffords submitted her resignation...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union speech before the November election to paint h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will pitch new initiatives on jobs, taxes and housing in an election-year State...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Humbled by a stunning loss in South Carolina, Mitt Romney said on Sunday he would releas...
CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a traditional day of service as well...
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...
WASHINGTON/CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Late-night TV comedian Stephen Colbert is urging his South Carolina fans to...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After showing off her acting and dancing skills on kids TV show "iCarly" this week, Michell...
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 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...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Most Mormons believe their religion is not well understood by Americans and many sense hostility but a su...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military pre...
DES MOINES, Iowa/MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Michele Bachmann was out, Rick Perry was back and Rick Santorum was up...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Representative Michele Bachmann ended her campaign to become the 2012 Republican presidential no...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney squeaked out a victory in Iowa's first-in-the-nati...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Iowa Republicans cast the first votes of the 2012 White House campaign on Tuesday, with Mitt Rom...
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...
By Alina SelyukhWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The health secretary overruled government scientists and refused to bring the controve...
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...
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax c...
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress approved a two-month payroll tax cut extension on Frida...
By Richard Cowan(Reuters) - Congress, after months of bitter fighting, is poised on Friday to pass a payroll tax cut extensio...
By Rachelle Younglai and Kim DixonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday bowed to p...
(Reuters) - With House of Representatives Republicans under attack from friends and foes, Democrats held out for victory in a...
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...
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 ...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates pounced on front-runner Newt Gingrich on Thursday to try to b...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military officially ended its war in Iraq on Thursday, packing up a military flag at a ceremony ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich holds a 10-point lead in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, but he wo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday said it will rule for the first time on one of several tough, new state im...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Surging frontrunner Newt Gingrich fought off heavy attacks in a presidential debate in Iowa on S...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Is it time for Mitt Romney to come up with a new plan?For months, the initial frontrunner in the race ...
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - A gunman ambushed and killed a campus police officer and was later reported to have been fou...
By Dave ClarkeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans on Thursday beat back Democratic President Barack Obama's pick to hea...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lawyers for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge on Tuesday to show m...
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 ...
(Reuters) - Amanda Knox, who was cleared of murder and freed from prison by an Italian court in October, has hired a prominen...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a poor showing among female voters in the 2008 presidential election, the Republican Party might...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, battling allegations of infidelity, said o...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked U.S. voters on Wednesday to keep believing in the "hope and change&quo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed to boost U.S. efforts to fight AIDS with a new target of providing treatm...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday defeated competing payroll tax cut extension plans by Democrats and Republicans...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama struck an optimistic note on Wednesday night that lawmakers in Congress could rea...
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...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney opened fire on surging rival Newt Gingrich on Tuesday,...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday of having a 13-year affair wit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Representative Barney Frank, who helped to craft the landmark overhaul of financial regulat...
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 Republican presidential hopefuls criticized U.S. policy toward Pakistan and called for placing san...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will challenge the Congress to preserve an expiring payroll tax cut on Tuesday ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress on Thursday found a rare moment of accord in the budget fights that have paralyzed Washington...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is now being protected by the U.S. Secret Service, the f...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Budget talks in the Congress were locked in stalemate on Wednesday amid the disclosure of a Democratic...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich was forced to defend his lucrative former role with Freddie M...
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) - Police arrested a 21-year old man on Wednesday suspected of shooting at the White House last week, aft...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. cable TV network and a senior Republican senator asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to allow its f...
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) - 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) - 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...
GREENVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry vowed to press on with his campaign Thurs...
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...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Controversial ballot measures aimed at banning abortion in Mississippi and reducing public sector ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain predicted on Tuesday a third political party will emerge in response to Americans'...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One year before voters decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama to a second term, a majority ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain will hold a new conference on Tuesday to confront the la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder will go before a Senate committee on Tuesday where he will likely be aske...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman made sexual harassment allegations against Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain on Monday...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters opposed to a new oil pipeline from Canada to the United States circled the Whi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth was likely too weak in October to pull down the nation's lofty jobless rate, th...
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...
(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) - With Republicans and Democrats in a familiar deadlock over taxes, prospects are poor for crafting a de...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A crisis facing U.S. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain threatened to escalate on Tuesday e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Herman Cain denounced sexual harassment accusations from the 1990s as a "witch hunt&qu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, seizing on a report that showed America's rich getting richer while the rest o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two women employees complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Republican presidential contender He...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two women employees complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Republican presidential contender He...
(Reuters) - Like a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iow...
(Reuters) - Americans' opinion of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform in October reached its lowest point since the la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Herman Cain tout their real-world business experience...
DENVER (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to take steps to ease the burden of student loans, potentially h...
GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Attorneys for former presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Wednesday that the fede...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads his campaign rivals in the four states that kick off t...
OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - Police and protesters scuffled in the streets of Oakland on Tuesday as more than 1,000 people marc...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A campaign video showing Republican presidential front-runner Herman Cain's chief of staff blowing smo...
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) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States will fulfill its pledge to pull troops out of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hailed Muammar Gaddafi's death on Thursday as a warning to authoritarian leader...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans and Democrats rejected each other's economic stimulus bills on Thursday, underscori...
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...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A confident Mitt Romney criticized his Republican rivals and fended off attacks on Tuesday at a feisty ...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Unlikely Republican front-runner Herman Cain faces close scrutiny on Tuesday when the party's hopefuls ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Another week, another Republican presidential debate.The candidates competing for the Republican nomin...
MILLERS CREEK, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought on Monday to turn up the heat on Republicans for bloc...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain acknowledged on Sunday his "9-9-9" tax reform ...
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/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eight candidates took part in Tuesday's Republican presidential debate, but President Barack O...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $70 million from Jul...
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/TEHRAN (Reuters) - The United States accused Iran of backing an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washi...
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...
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...
HANOVER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Rick Perry hopes to end a string of poor performances and campaign rival Mitt R...
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 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama could create millions of jobs by attracting more foreign capital to the United ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wooed evangelical Christian voters on Saturday with prom...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - With their favored candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination lagging or out o...
MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann, beset by falling poll numbers, staff departu...
DALLAS (Reuters) - An unapologetic Pastor Robert Jeffress, who created a stir for calling Mormonism a "cult" at a p...
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...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - ESPN and country music artist Hank Williams Jr. have parted ways, both parties announced on Thursday,...
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...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protests against corporate greed and economic inequality spread across America on Thursday and found unl...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama launched an onslaught against banks and Republicans on Thursday for working to ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Outpourings of public grief and appreciation swept the globe on Thursday after the death of Apple co-fou...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the request of the White House, Senate Democrats have pushed back the effective date of their propo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sarah Palin said on Wednesday that she will not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sarah Palin said on Wednesday that she will not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, e...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Many wealthy donors who gave the maximum allowable amount to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign have doub...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former pizza executive Herman Cain is now tied with Mitt Romney for the lead in the race for the 2012 ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country music singer Hank Williams Jr. canceled a Fox News Channel interview on Tuesday and said he w...
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...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided he will not run for president in 2012, a Republican sourc...
BOSTON (Reuters) - ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s theme song from its "Monday Night Football" broadcast in a rebuk...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Chris Christie is to decide within days whether to launch a late run for president and appe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's job-creation package effectively fell to pieces on Monday as a top Republican...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said on Saturday he would get the U.S. mil...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats want tax hikes to be the first item negotiated in "super committee" deficit-reduct...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to i...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Herman Cain is on a roll, the latest hot commodity in a constantly shifting 2012 Republican presidenti...
LYNCHBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, struggling to reverse a slide in opinion po...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has regained his status as front-runner in the race for the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged students on Wednesday to pursue learning after high school to brighten th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans fighting for the presidential nomination are slamming frontrunner Rick Perry over illegal ...
(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 ...
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Tuesday again rebuffed a growing chorus of Republican ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Poverty rates increased in almost all U.S. states and the District of Columbia over the course of the ...
The cost of health insurance continues to climb for companies and workers, with annual family premiums this year growing at a...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Barack Obama topped up his re-election war chest with a string of successful West Coast fun...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday cleared the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in its 2011-12...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved a deal on Monday to avert a government shutdown, ending a standoff that highlighte...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's No. 2 on Monday knocked down fresh speculation that the Republican ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The sentencing of convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been postponed from October 6, w...
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Former pizza executive Herman Cain surprised rival Rick Perry with an upset victory on Saturday ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Young people in the United States are falling behind their overseas peers in reading, math and science...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two American men jailed in Iran for more than two years for spying arrived in New York on Sunday, saying...
ATHERTON, California (Reuters) - President Barack Obama harshly criticized Republican opponents on Sunday as he began a West ...
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought on Thursday to ratchet up pressure for congressional approval of his ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Senator Charles Schumer urged quick action to raise taxes on the rich -- people like billionaire ...
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 ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told the United Nations on Wednesday there was no short cut to Middle East ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to urge him to d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 12 members of a congressional "super committee" laid out competing visions on Tuesday fo...
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) - President Barack Obama's call for $3 trillion in new government savings, through a mix of tax incr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama says he backs immigration reform, announcing last month an initiative to ease d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama laid out a $3.6 trillion plan on Monday to cut budget deficits partly by ra...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann drew a rousing reception from Republicans at their California...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders on Sunday criticized President Barack Obama's proposal for a new tax on millionaire...
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...
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Rick Perry said Republican rival Mitt Romney would not provide a stark enough c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made the case for his re-election and his jobs plan at two big-ticket fundraise...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Marine who saved 36 of his comrades' lives during an ambush in Afghanistan was awarded the Medal of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led Senate on Thursday sent the House of Representatives a measure to fund disaster aid...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will not recommend changes to the government's Social Security retirement progr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress may have dialed back their rhetoric, but that does not mean they are any more ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Wednesday in the trial of a Nigerian man accused of a botched attempt to blow up ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Concern about the economy has pushed President Barack Obama's approval rating below 50 percent in C...
COLUMBUS, Ohio/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned Republican lawmakers on Wednesday against delaying action...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said on Tuesday Washington lawmakers need the equivalent of a 1...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republicans won an upset victory in a Democratic stronghold in New York on Tuesday in a special House of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46 million last year, the gover...
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) - President Barack Obama faces deep skepticism from swing voters who see the Republican party as more in...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Michele Bachmann won a new lease on life for her fizzling presidential campaign by aggressively target...
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina's Republican-led General Assembly is expected to take the first steps on M...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Republicans not to play "political games" with his jobs pla...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty endorsed ex-rival Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential n...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Democratic National Committee raised about $5.5 million in August, its worst fundraising month of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was set Monday to step up his campaign to win support for a $447 billion jo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama picked up where his predecessor George W. Bush left off in the war against Isla...
SHANKSVILLE, Pa (Reuters) - Thousands gathered Sunday at the site where hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashed as the nat...
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...
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) - Al Qaeda's core leadership is badly wounded and almost certainly incapable of mounting another attack ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he is seeking to broaden U.S. homeowners' access to mortgage r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An appeals court handed President Barack Obama another victory for his signature healthcare law on Thu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, seeking to rescue the troubled U.S. economy and his own prospects for re-elect...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out a jobs package worth more than $300 billon on Thursday, stakin...
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry came out swinging in his national debut on Wednesday, all but c...
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry will be the man in the spotlight when Republican presidential c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pledge to boost America's global standing by ramping up U.S. diplomacy and de...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney aimed squarely at the Republican center as he launched his economic p...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz called on Americans on Tuesday to deluge U.S. lawmakers...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, facing waning confidence among Americans in his economic stewardship, plans so...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tourists flock to Times Square for the bright lights and Broadway shows. There they find another spectac...
CHESAPEAKE, Va (Reuters) - Former defense secretary Robert Gates was named on Tuesday as the next chancellor of the College o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann's campaign manager, Ed Rollins, and his deputy are le...
CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential contender Mitt Romney tried to win over doubters from the conservative Tea Pa...
PATERSON, New Jersey (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Republicans not to play politics with federal disaste...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August as sagging confidence discouraged already skittish b...
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) - American football fans can rest easy: President Barack Obama's nationally televised jobs speech to Con...
PASADENA, Calif (Reuters) - Obama administration lawyers asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to vacate a judgment decla...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, under rising pressure from rival Rick Perry, has been for...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney's new memoir revives the fierce battles over U.S. national security ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday agreed to unveil new jobs proposals in an address to Congress on S...
PATERSON, N.J./BRATTLEBORO, Vermont (Reuters) - Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the U.S. northeast devast...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian man confessed to shooting dead two U.S. airmen and wounding two more at F...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Mitt Romney bashed President Barack Obama's policies and took an implicit sideswipe at rival Rick Per...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will urge Congress on Wednesday to approve stop-gap aviation and transportation...
PATERSON, New Jersey (Reuters) - Emergency workers plucked dozens of residents from doorways and windows as Hurricane Irene'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) - Washington's never-ending budget battle threatened to snarl the recovery from Hurricane Irene as a top...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vermont and New Jersey struggled with their worst flooding in decades on Monday, a day after Hurricane I...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday will announce he has chosen Princeton University labor economist Alan...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds fr...
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. eastern seaboard on Saturday as a weakening but...
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene howled ashore in North Carolina with heavy winds, rain and surf on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's strategy for dealing with rival contender Rick Pe...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett will boost President Barack Obama's re-election bi...
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - The United States urged 55 million people on its East Coast on Friday to prepare for t...
NASSAU (Reuters) - The northeast seaboard, including the capital and financial center New York, rushed to prepare on Thursday...
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...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is finalizing a jobs package that could include a program to...
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...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A son of Muammar Gaddafi, previously reported captured, made a surprise appearance with jubilant supporte...
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene was expected to strengthen over the next few days and could hit the southeastern Un...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Authorities arrested dozens of people on Sunday protesting outside the White House against a proposed &...
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 ...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans still hoping that another candidate will jump into the presidential race and give the part...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan government tanks and snipers put up scattered, last-ditch resistance in Tripoli on Monday after re...
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...
ATKINSON, Ill (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's three-day bus tour along the back roads of the Midwest was billed as a cha...
ATKINSON, Ill (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he will propose a plan in September to jump-start the U.S....
BERLIN, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, seen by many as the choice of moderate Republicans in 201...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Approval of President Barack Obama's handling of the U.S. economy has fallen to a new low of 26 percen...
PEOSTA, Iowa (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought to turn voter anger over the economy toward Republicans in ...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry has only been a presidential candidate since Saturday, but the Republican ho...
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...
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) - An appeals court ruled Friday that President Barack Obama's healthcare law requiring Americans to buy ...
AMES, Iowa (Reuters) - No one will accuse Republican Tim Pawlenty of being too nice anymore.Two days before an Iowa straw pol...
MINNEAPOLIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As his campaign for U.S. president fails to take flight, some donors to Republican hopeful...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry, a staunch conservative with a Washington outsider's resume, will seek the 2012...
HOLLAND, Michigan (Reuters) - President Barack Obama distanced himself from a deeply divided U.S. Congress on Thursday, pledg...
AMES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republicans Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty clashed repeatedly over their records during a president...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican lawmaker would not rule out tax increases on Thursday if they could boost economi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans named their six members Wednesday to a congressional deficit-reduction super committee, in...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is getting hammered on all sides for a stumbling U.S. economy and his uneven re...
PELLA, Iowa (Reuters) - Mitt Romney, on a rare visit to Iowa on Wednesday, said Americans were "fearful, but not panicke...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans by a large majority believe the United States is on the wrong track and nearly half think th...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Nearly 250 new immigration laws and resolutions were enacted in 40 states during the first half of ...
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware (Reuters) - President Barack Obama honored 30 U.S. soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Af...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Republicans narrowly retained their majority in the Wisconsin state Senate on Tuesday, staving off a st...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rick Perry will signal plans to seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination at an event in South ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - America is on the fritz.From Times Square to St. Petersburg, Florida, and Portland, Oregon, people are t...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. political parties on Sunday traded blame for the country's loss of its top-tier AAA credit rating...
KABUL (Reuters) - Foreign troops in Afghanistan do not yet know what caused a deadly helicopter crash two days ago and on Mon...
KABUL (Reuters) - Foreign troops in Afghanistan do not yet know what caused a deadly helicopter crash two days ago and on Mon...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A downgrade of United States' top-tier credit rating has Wall Street scrambling to figure out the knock-...
DERRY, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Jon Huntsman defended his chief strategist on Thursday aft...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has asked Timothy Geithner to stay on as Treasury secretary and a decision is e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Disapproval of Congress rose to an all-time high after weeks of rancorous partisan battles over raisin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders struck a deal on Thursday to resolve a partisan dispute and end a partial shutdo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs data on Friday could prove a make-or-break moment for global financial markets increasingly alarm...
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) - President Barack Obama will take a three-day campaign-style bus tour through the American Midwest this...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Wednesday that any across-the-board cuts to defense spending ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama suffered a defeat in the battle over raising the U.S. debt limit that may have ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States stepped back from the brink of default on Tuesday but congressional approval of a la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tea Party conservatives scored their biggest political triumph with a debt-ceiling deal that cuts fede...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is poised to step back from economic disaster on Tuesday when a bitterly fought deal...
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...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders will scramble to rescue their budget deficit-cutting plan on Friday after conservat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican deficit reduction plan headed to a close vote in the Congress on Thursday and the White H...
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