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.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell 3.4 percent again Friday, a week after their disastrous debut in their initial public offering.
In a fast-paced, wide-ranging and, at times, hilariously odd interview with Chris Matthews on Hardball Thursday night, former GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich forgave Mitt Romney for any harsh words traded on the campaign trail.
With the approaching presidential election likely to serve as a referendum on the economy, Mitt Romney appears poised to dominate white voters still fighting to weather the economic downturn.
The education reform agenda Mitt Romney unveiled during a Wednesday speech to the Latino Forum in many ways appears similar to the Obama administration's agenda, but there are a few key differences.
The gag rule, which bans funding for non-profits that provide information about abortion services, has had a shaky history since it was enacted by the Reagan administration in 1984.
The definition of marriage has been debated in the halls of Congress and state Legislatures, in the voting booth and on the Internet. Now one man in favor of same-sex marriage is taking his argument to the dictionary, attempting to get dictionary.com to change its definition of marriage in a petition that has been signed by more than 27,000 supporters.
Maryland voters are set to affirm the state's same-sex marriage law, due in part to a surge of support among black voters, according to Public Policy Polling.
The Obama Administration is considered a secure way to send weapons to rebels fighting President Assad in Syria.
As Bob Dylan's birthday falls on Thursday, May 24, the American singer-songwriter has officially turned 71.
Mitt Romney continues to trail far behind President Obama among Latino voters, imperiling his prospects in a handful of swing states.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, rose $1.03 to close at $33.03 on Thursday. A week ago, they were priced at $38 for the IPO.
