Wisconsin voters cast ballots on Tuesday to decide whether to remove six Republican state senators in the nation's largest ever recall election that could signal trends for the 2012 presidential race.
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought on Tuesday to downplay that a man employed at the firm Romney founded had created and then dissolved a company used to funnel campaign contributions to Romney.
Edward Lee, interim mayor of San Francisco, announced on Monday morning that he will run for a full four-year term as San Francisco mayor, despite saying in January that he would never run for this position.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has an unspoken pact with the Turkish electorate: he delivers rapid economic growth, jobs and money, and voters let him shape what kind of democracy this Muslim nation of 74 million people becomes.
President Robert Mugabe said on Monday Zimbabwe would punish firms from Western states who have slapped sanctions on senior officials in his ZANU-PF party, warning that global miners including Rio Tinto could be hit.
With every gloomy economic report, debt crisis and mood swing on Wall Street, President Barack Obama's fight for re-election in 2012 gets a little tougher.
Standard & Poor's took the unprecedented step of downgrading the U.S. government's "AAA" sovereign credit rating Friday in a move that could send shock waves through global. The following is a press release from Standard & Poor's:
The Tea Party arrived in Washington after mid-term elections with talk of change in Washington. So far, Tea Party leaders have only been a distraction. To create change in Washington, they need to bring forth a plan and build consensus.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop the use of force against civilians "immediately".
Rating agency standard & Poor's has staunchly defended the decision to downgrade the creditworthiness of the U.S. government and warned that further action was possible. "The debacle over the debt ceiling continued until almost the midnight hour," S&P's Sovereign Ratings Committee Chairman John Chambers said.
They bonded over golf, bickered over debt, and now President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner face even more tests of an uneasy relationship critical to a functioning government.
China bluntly criticised the United States on Saturday one day after the superpower's credit rating was downgraded, saying the "good old days" of borrowing were over.
Months of political rancor and a tsunami of special interest spending come to a head on Tuesday with historic recall votes for Wisconsin state lawmakers that some see as a pointer for the 2012 election.
Six years ago, his Self-Defense party gained 11 percent of the vote in general elections, with Lepper coming in third in the presidential poll.
Confidence in the U.S. Congress is at a historic low, more than half of Americans think that the Republican and Democratic parties are doing such a bad job that a third party is needed, and the word ?dysfunction? has been common currency in the drawn-out debate over the national debt.
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Standard & Poor's has downgraded the U.S. debt rating, in a stunning move. More telling is why the agency downgraded the U.S. for the first time ever. S&P cited America's "less stable" political system as a reason for the downgrade.
The United States wouldn't enjoy "risk-free" top AAA credit rating any longer. Standard & Poor's decision, being questioned by many including the White House, to downgrade AAA rating to AA+ was based on an analysis which blew up U.S. deficits by $2 trillion.
Two campaign finance watchdogs are asking the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice to investigate a $1 million donation given to a pro-Mitt Romney PAC by a corporation that no longer exists, the groups said on Friday.
The Thai parliament elected the nation's first female Prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra , on Friday. Ten years back another South East Asian country had elected its first female president. Megawati Sukarnoputri became Indonesia's first female president in 2001. Both women have a somewhat similar background. Will both share the same fate too?
Three young women stripped down to bikinis on a chilly Thursday in central Moscow in support of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his anti-beer drive, in the latest racy campaigning ahead of 2012 elections.
Emboldened by concessions wrung from their own leadership and President Barack Obama during the debt limit fight, Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers will likely remain a driving force in the Republican Party -- and possibly induce gridlock until the 2012 elections.
