Shaking hands with Poland's free market champion is an important image for Romney. And despite being shunned by Solidarity, Romney still praised the movement for freeing Poland from the yoke of Communism.
On the heels of a gruesome theater shooting in Colorado and with estimates that 48,000 Americans could be killed by guns in the next four years, two Democratic lawmakers have proposed a legislation to ban the online sales of ammunition in order to prevent potential mass murderers from stocking up.
San Antonio mayor Julián Castro will deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in September, becoming the first Latino elected official to get the coveted keynote speaker spot.
New research has found that U.S. President Barack Obama is related to the first documented black African enslaved for life in America, though the connection was made through the President's Caucasian mother's lineage.
A roadside electronic billboard in Idaho has shocked the conservative state by comparing President Barack Obama to accused Colorado mass killer James Holmes.
Romney has said that "there's no question (my experiences in the church) helped shape my perspective" and that his trip to Israel, which included a visit to the Wailing Wall, had a spiritual impact on him.
Romney and Obama essentially have identical stances on Iran, but the Republican candidate has tried to appear more hawkish when it comes to defending Israel.
Romney praised Israel's "economic vitality" by comparing it to the Palestinian Authority, a comment that quickly elicited criticism for comparing a powerful Middle Eastern state to a population that has been living for years under a blockade.
The biggest surprise about the U.S. victory over France in Olympics men's basketball Sunday was that the winners were able to celebrate with Michelle Obama. The first lady had a front-row seat at the game, and she was able to see the team improve its play en route to a 98-71 victory.
Tanks and helicopters pounded a rebel stronghold in the Syrian city of Aleppo Saturday, signaling the start of a government offensive, as the opposition and international envoy Kofi Annan warned the international community of dire consequences.
A U.S. district judge in Colorado on Friday issued a three-month temporary injunction to prevent the Obama administration from enforcing its requirement that a small business in the state provide its workers with insurance coverage of contraceptives without co-payments.
Earlier this month, the NEA announced the second round of grants for its ambitious nationwide initiative dubbed Our Town, in which its provides funds to struggling neighborhoods for the purpose of investing in theater, dance, music, writing and visual art.
If every American were legally required to show up at the ballot box, perhaps political candidates could pursue their campaigns differently.
If gun control is truly the issue that sealed Bloomberg’s endorsement, how could he have not gone with Elizabeth Warren?
Romney's blunders at the 2012 London Olympics threaten to jeopardize one of his campaign's biggest arguments -- his successful leadership of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics in Utah.
"The Daily Show" host criticized Romney and the GOP on his show Wednesday night for misrepresenting a quote from Obama that made it seem like the president was saying "If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Mitt Romney randomly mentioned U.S. Senator Marco Rubio during a Piers Morgan interview, reigniting speculation that the Florida Republican will be the former Massachusetts governor’s Vice Presidential pick.
U.S. President Barack Obama says he believes most gun owners would want guns out of the hands of those who want to do harm, thus background checks and other means to safe gun sales shouldn't be a controversial issue.
As the Sunlight Foundation demonstrates, Mitt Romney has made more money than any of the last five presidents, while simultaneously paying the lowest effective tax rate.
Any hope that Mitt Romney's trip abroad would provide a respite from the candidate's chronic foot-in-mouth disease dissipated almost instantaneously, with the campaign once again in damage-control mode.
President Barack Obama, who remained mum on the issue of gun control, has finally broken his silence and called for "consensus" on reduction of gun violence across the United States, Reuters has reported.
The Obama administration and officials of allied Arab and Western nations are discussing putting Syria's highest-ranking military defector at the center of a political transition, U.S. and Middle East officials say.
