Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been receiving treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer for more than a year now. He has been in power since 1999 and intends to run for re-election in October, but questions remain about whether his health will hold up and who could replace him in the event it does not.
About 6 million Poles died during World War II, more than half of them Jews.
The president said he looked forward to an important and healthy debate during the campaign
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has opened a new front in his critique of President Obama's foreign policy, assailing the president's lack of leadership on Syria and calling for the United States to arm the Syrian opposition.
The Republican presidential candidate has finally sealed the deal by clinching the 1,144 delegates required to win his party's nomination, after Tuesday's Texas primary.
What are former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty's odds of being chosen as Mitt Romney's running mate?
One month of lackluster job growth can be blamed on the weather, but two or even three is dangerously close to a trend. Unfortunately, we might be in for another month of slower job growth in May.
The Tennessee lawyer who took 42 percent of the vote away from President Barack Obama in the Arkansas Democratic primary is back, hoping to pick up momentum in Texas on Tuesday.
First Lady Michelle Obama is a huge Beyonce fan, as she said I love her to death after being asked on Good Morning America about the Bey concert she saw over the weekend.
Backed by a muscular interpretation of executive power, the Obama administration has made armed drones the centerpiece of its counter-terror arsenal, stepping up strikes in Pakistan and expanding the campaign into Yemen and Somalia.
When it comes to celebrity endorsements and presidential politics, Meghan McCain concedes Republicans don't get the flashy names.
President Obama has raised far more money from military workers than Mitt Romney, reversing a long-standing trend of military personnel disproportionately supporting Republicans.
In a thinly veiled attack, the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, suggested on Monday the U.S. military would be weakened if President Barack Obama gets his way on budgetary matters.
In conjunction with the U.S. observance of Memorial Day in the nation's capital, U.S. President Barack Obama honored all veterans who served in the Vietnam War as the country marked the 50th anniversary of that most internally divisive of all its military conflicts in the 20th century.
The U.S. must make every effort to be a nation worthy of your sacrifice, President Barack Obama said of the country's fallen troops as he paid tribute to them in a Memorial Day speech at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
To commemorate the day when America remembers those who gave their lives while serving in the U.S. armed forces, President Barack Obama will attend a Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to honor the anonymously fallen.
The Golden Gate Bridge -- across the Golden Gate Strait between San Francisco and Marin County -- was a larger-than-life engineering project undertaken against dangerous odds, and it opened 75 years ago on Sunday against vehement protest, at the cost of 11 lives.
Former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, whose name has surfaced as a potential successor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, said Sunday he does not want the job and has not been asked by Democratic President Barack Obama.
Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday signaled the looming end to America's current military focus on the Middle East, signaling a new push for a strong presence in Asia in a commencement address for West Point graduates.
Private-sector initiatives in space made history Friday when SpaceX?s Dragon space capsule was grappled by and attached to the International Space Station.
It's safe to say the two 2012 contenders wouldn't have sat at the same lunch table.
Two laws preventing the federal government from recognizing and providing benefits to same-sex couples are unconstitutional, a federal judge in California ruled.
