The U.S. Senate will likely take up President Barack Obama's jobs bill in October, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev,. says he has a more important jobs bill to bring to the Senate floor first: one that treats China's fixed yuan as an anti-competitive trade practice.
Ed Koch backs Obama after heavily criticizing president's Israel policy.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Christie has been inundated by a relentless stream of calls to run for the White House.
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and commander of Apollo 11, said the United States risks squandering 5 decades of space research, work, and accomplishments, if the nation does not find ways to restore hope and confidence in NASA, as part of a unified sense of purpose on space exploration.
U.S. actor Sean Penn engaged in attempts to secure the release of two Americans freed by Iran this week, flying to Venezuela to ask President Hugo Chavez to intervene with Iran's leader, a source close to the release process said on Friday.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said during Thursday's Republican presidential debate that President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times. But actually, every president since John F. Kennedy polled lower at least once.
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.
The first clinical trial in Europe using human embryonic stem cells will take place at the Moorfields Eye hospital in London as reported by the Massachusetts-based stem-cell research company, Advanced Cell Technology.
The Republican presidential candidates are debating once again Thursday night, this time in Orlando, Fla. The participants are Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Stay on this page for live updates.
The Obama Administration is offering states ways to circumvent provisions of the No Child Lew Behind Law, saying that certain provisions of the law have done more harm than good in improving schools.
White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening in Texas for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday looks set to launch a fresh effort to invigorate the faltering economic recovery, embarking on what could be the first in a series of incremental steps to foster stronger growth.
Legendary singer Tony Bennett has been sweeping headlines, not for the release of his new album, but instead for comments criticizing America's foreign policy, which he has since apologized for.
Turner noted that, at age 72, he is too old to run a corporation while Murdoch is even older.
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday looks set to launch a fresh effort to invigorate the faltering U.S. recovery, embarking on what could be the first in a series of incremental steps to foster stronger growth.
The Federal Reserve opened a two-day meeting on Tuesday that is expected to end with a decision to stock up on longer-term Treasury notes in a bid to boost a fading economic recovery.
Tony Bennett, the famous singer who left his heart in San Francisco, made some controversial remarks about Sept. 11 and former President George W. Bush on Howard Stern’s radio program on Monday night.
Ralph Nader and a group of progressive cohorts are seeking a Democrat who can challenge President Barack Obama for the 2012 Democratic nomination for president.
Bill Clinton reminds me of a washed-up, retired major league ballplayer who misses the spotlight and cheering crowds so much that he will do anything to remain relevant and in the public eye.
Although President Obama’s new deficit reduction plan will be portrayed as a tax hike, in reality, it by and large returns the tax code, with a few exceptions, to levels that existed prior to the 2001 Bush income tax cut -- a cut that fundamentally altered the U.S.'s fiscal and economic trajectory. The nation has been trying to recover ever since.
It could almost be scripted. A U.S. politician threatens to take China on if he makes the White House. The official Chinese press level a barrage of criticism laced with sarcasm. Beijing's Foreign Ministry steps in offering a milder diplomatic response.
