BARACK OBAMA

In contrast to MSNBC's Rachael Maddow, Fox News' Sean Hannity lost a significant amount of viewers following the re-election of Barack Obama

It's the first income tax rate increase in 20 years, and it will avert the worst of "the cliff" - but debt ceiling/spending battles loom.

Gridlock in Washington stems partly from electorate changes and party from zealotry, and it will take another election or two to end.

The U.S. House passed the tax/budget bill Tuesday night, enabling the United States to avert the worst of the fiscal cliff.

The senators voted to raise some taxes on the wealthy and to continue the tax cuts for others.

A Senate vote early Tuesday morning is possible; if it passes, the House would review the bill Tuesday afternoon.

IBTimes culled the most notable, or outrageous, Twitter moments of 2012. Congratulations, Rupert Murdoch.

The U.S. House announced that there will not be a budget vote Mon night, ensuring that the U.S. will go over the cliff for at least 1 day.

The U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open Monday, but trading volume is expected to be low.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized in New York on Sunday after doctors discovered that a blood clot had formed, the State Department said.

U.S. Senate leaders were hammering out a last-minute deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" on Monday, but it's unclear if lawmakers will back it.

U.S. President Barack Obama says a tax-cut bill will be waiting in the wings should Washington fail to reach a fiscal-cliff agreement.

U.S. President Barack Obama appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday morning to discuss a wide range of issues facing the nation as the year draws to a close. His remarks touched on topics ranging from gun control and the fiscal cliff to the Benghazi consulate attack and congressional gridlock.

The U.S. Senate continued to work on a bipartisan budget bill Sunday, while Obama administration officials prepared a back-up bill.

With U.S. Senate leaders inching toward a budget deal to avert the cliff, one eye was fixed on the Senate, the other on the House.

Emphasize the positive, and forget the negative: Here are five people who deserve credit for doing things right this year.

Asian markets rose in the week amid the hope that the policymakers in Japan and China would announce stimulus measures.

If Congress cannot reach a bipartisan deal to avert the fiscal cliff, then it should vote on a forthcoming Senate package, the president says.

The Senate passed an extension of the foreign intelligence law that permits tapping Americans' communications without authorization.

Was 2012 the year memes finally entered mainstream culture? Here's a look at some of the most influential memes of 2012.

The White House's easy-to-abuse "We the People" online petitioning system has turned a First Amendment right into a crowd-sourced circus.