BARACK OBAMA

In remarks on the Iranian New Year holiday of Nowruz, President Barack Obama invites Iranians to help remove Iran's electronic curtain that severely restricts Internet freedom.

President Obama's proposal to raise tax rates for America's welathiest citizens would raise a scant $31 billion, according to an analysis conducted by Congressional tax analysts.

Robert De Niro was joking at an Obama fundraiser Monday night when he said America was not quite ready again for a white first lady, but Newt Gingrich is not laughing.

The Wisconsin congressman's fiscal 2013 spending plan reflects Republicans' insistence that automatically triggered defense cuts could be offset without raising additional tax revenue.

Fox News -- which devoted more time to gas price coverage than any other network -- blamed President Obama for soaring prices in more than half of its coverage.

New E.U. sanctions have prompted Belgium-based financial institution SWIFT to deny Iranian banks access to a global messaging system that is used for arranging money transfers that are crucial to facilitating the country's oil exports.

The hilarious new Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up? video revisits an Eminem classic in time for the 2012 election.

Beyonce and Michelle Obama make it a girl's night!

Under the House GOP budget plan, the personal income tax rate would be slashed into two brackets: a top rate of 25 percent and lower rate of 10 percent.

Apple's push for a tax holiday on overseas profits is unlikely to influence the Obama administration's position on the issue, a White House source told Talking Points Memo.

Critics of China's foreign exchange regime have shifted their focus from the value of the yuan to the mechanism in which its day-to-day level is set, the head of the OECD said on Tuesday, a fresh sign that currency may be near its equilibrium level.

The Colorado School of Public Health concludes that residents close to hydraulically fractured natural gas wells are at risk to their health.

The Treasury Department said on Monday it made a $25 billion profit on sales of mortgage-backed securities acquired during the financial crisis, part of its ongoing efforts to wind down taxpayer-financed bailout programs.

Despite his insurmountable lead in delegates, a loss on Tuesday could be a major symbolic setback for the front-runner's campaign. As one political consultant put it: If Santorum wins, the question will arise: How can Romney beat Obama?

In an attempt to counter the bad press the GOP has recently received regarding its stance on women's issues, the Republican National Committee released a new video criticizing President Barack Obama and his allies for perpetrating a war on women.

Rush Limbaugh, recently in hot water over his Sandra Fluke slut comment in the birth control debate, says the media and President Obama should be more outraged over Cee-Lo Green's singing the dirty version of F--- You at an Obama fundraiser than they are at Limbaugh's controversy.

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Monday called for public comment on plans to extend oil and natural gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was in the middle of his speech at a rally in Arlington Heights in Illinois on Friday when two men began kissing front and center during a crowd protest before being ejected. The video of the protest and the men kissing has gone viral around the Internet.

Tens of thousands of mourners gathered in the Abbassiya section of Cairo to pay their respects to their spiritual leader, who was dressed in formal robes and seated on a chair inside St Mark's Cathedral. But the crush of the crowd in Cathedral Square sparked momentary chaos when a stampede on the church grounds resulted in the death of at least three people and injured more than 50 others.

Fundraising by the Democratic National Committee and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign dwarfs that of his Republican rivals, but he continues to struggle to bring in the same amount of big donations as GOP front-runner Mitt Romney.