Jeremy White

Bill Clinton antagonist, flat tax supporter, staunch abortion opponent: all of these descriptions could apply to Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, whose resounding win in a Florida straw poll catapulted the Godfather's pizza CEO into the conversation.

The implication is that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is too lax on enforcing federal immigration laws, and that his support of the in-state tuition bill aligns him more closely with Democrats than Republicans. But to those who have followed Perry's career as governor, the narrative that he is overly sympathetic to immigrants or weak on enforcement is somewhere between an oversimplification and an outright falsehood.

A surge in the number of new cancer cases and in expensive treatments for the disease cost the world around $895 billion in 2008, according to a study calling for urgent solutions.

President Barack Obama is facing mounting resistance to a settlement from liberal supporters and a growing number of state attorneys general who say a deal would exonerate banks for their role in the subprime mortgage crisis.

Paul's message of limited government, and Federal Reserve/money supply critiques will receive some air time on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.

Deficit hawks urging the government to trim pensions for federal workers could start with the $600 million that has flowed to dead workers over the last five years.

President Barack Obama combined a pitch for his jobs plan with a fierce attack on his Republican rivals for president during a series of speeches on Sunday.

The Occupy Wall Street protests turned violent this weekend, with videos emerging that show police officers employing tactics including tasers and pepper spray to subdue protestors.

Patients arrive at the hospital to get better, but the bacteria lurking in hospital privacy curtains could be making them sick, a new study warned.

A proposal to legalize marijuana has the most supporters of any issue submitted to the White House's new online petition website, qualifying the issue for a formal response from the Obama administration.

Texas may lead the U.S. in executing criminals, but that doesn't mean the condemned are getting cushy treatment: Texas prison officials have halted the practice of letting death row inmates choose their last meal.

Environmentalists can breath a little easier after the Food and Drug Administration announced that it was banning over-the-counter asthma inhalers, citing hazardous chemicals the spray emits.

President Barack Obama today announced how states can obtain waivers that would exempt their schools from a key provision of No Child Left Behind, a sweeping education law enacted under the George W. Bush administration.

Critics of President Barack Obama assert that the president has not shown enough support for Israel, but the U.S.'s sale of 55, powerful, bunker buster bombs, among other military aid to Israel, refutes that thesis.

Republican presidential candidates spent a substantial part of Thursday night's debate clarifying former positions, in some cases defending controversial policies or statements and in some cases denying that they ever occurred.

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The New York Police Department regularly spied on U.S. citizens and tracked their movements as part of the NYPD's vastly expanded intelligence and surveillance mission after 9/11, The Associated Press reported.

West Nile virus cases are on the rise in states where a severe summer of scorching droughts and drenching rains has allowed mosquitoes to proliferate, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While New York City as a whole has endured the recession better than the rest of the country, it has also seen a surge in poverty that outpaced the rest of the nation, according to U.S. Census data.

Ted Haggard's marriage survived revelations that the evangelical pastor has engaged in gay sex and used crystal meth, so trading wives with Gary Busey for the show Celebrity Wife Swap shouldn't be too much of a strain.

Public health authorities are sounding the alarm as mosquito breeding grounds created by torrential rain or persistent droughts have triggered a wave of West Nile Virus cases.

Attorneys for Full Tilt Poker denied charges that the poker Web site is a Ponzi scheme that cheats customers out of their money, suggesting that the Web site's woes stemmed from mismanagement rather than deliberate theft.

If the early volley is any indicator, the campaign of Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, will feature populist, public interest, and social contract themes.

Twitter executives announced that they will start selling political advertisements, seeking for the first time to profit off of the social media tool's role as a forum for political activity and debate.

Schweddy Balls, a newly released Ben & Jerry's flavor that pays homage to a Saturday Night Live sketch, has drawn criticism on everything from its tasteless name to its unappealing taste

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Astronomers are crowing in delight over a newly produced image of the Lambda Centauri nebula, which has been nicknamed the Running Chicken or Space Chicken because of its resemblance to a certain earth-bound fowl.

Conservatives and Tea Party groups have found themselves in the unlikely position of agreeing with liberals on immigration as they rally against a bill that would impose mandatory background checks to ensure new hires are eligible to work in the United States.