Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday warned Congress that putting off a decision on the fate of expiring Bush administration tax cuts could unsettle businesses and households, undercutting the U.S. economic recovery.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul was glitter-bombed by a gay rights advocate at a Minneapolis convention center.
A new guessing game is about to begin: will China's incoming generation of leaders show more courage than the current incumbents in tackling deep economic imbalances that threaten to bring growth to a sudden stop?
The State Department plans to drastically reduce the size of its diplomatic mission in Iraq, a decision that reflects America's sharply diminished influence in the absence of troops.
Russia won a promise from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday to bring an end to bloodshed in Syria, but Western and Arab states acted to isolate Assad further after activists and rebels said his forces killed over 100 in the city of Homs.
Clint Eastwood is setting the record straight about his improbably controversial Chrysler ad that aired on Sunday's Super Bowl.
If President Barack Obama has demonstrated anything of note this week it’s that he simply doesn’t get it. He has zero grasp of what made America great and, as a result, no capacity to fix our problems.
Egypt's government announced on Monday criminal charges against 19 Americans affiliated with pro-democracy organizations, escalating a dispute that is putting an immense strain on Egyptian-America relations.
With so much at stake, the Obama campaign said it cannot sit aside as the GOP nominees are the beneficiaries of unlimited spending.
A poll shows that President Barack Obama’s approval rating has finally hit the magical 50 percent mark just as the job market is on its way to recovery, reported AFP. This puts the President at a double-digit point lead over Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney.
The number of jobs waiting to be filled rose in December as employers tried to ramp up hiring in factories, retail and business services, the government said on Tuesday.
The International Monetary Fund and Vice President Joe Biden have both raised doubts about China's economic growth, although for different reasons.
Iranian buyers have defaulted on payments for about 200,000 tonnes of rice from their top supplier India, exporters and rice millers said on Tuesday, a sign of the mounting pressure on Tehran from a new wave of Western sanctions.
The Minnesota and Colorado Republicans will head to their caucus stations Tuesday to choose the states' Republican nominee to fight Barack Obama in the November general elections. Missouri will be holding a primary on the same date. However, no delegates will be awarded since the Missouri Republican Party will be holding a caucus on March 17 for choosing the convention delegates. Find live results of the Colorado and Minnesota Republican presidential election here.
Chrysler’s most recent Super Bowl XLVI commercial featuring Clint Eastwood has sparked innumerous debates about whether it talks about America’s most economically distressed city or if it is a campaign ad for President Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney on Monday focused his campaign's firepower on Rick Santorum to head off the former senator's surge in two of three states with nominating contests this week.
Bombardment of Homs on eve of visit by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov as world powers scramble for diplomatic strategy.
Stung by election-year criticism of a program used by one in seven Americans, administrators of U.S. food stamp benefits are intensifying efforts to combat fraud and protect the $75.3 billion plan from the budget axe.
A Syrian regime military assault on Homs killed dozens of people on the eve of a visit to Damascus by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov aimed at pressing President Bashar al-Assad to end an 11-month uprising by implementing swift reform.
Republicans in the House of Representatives will try to force quick approval of the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline using a highway funding bill, but the plan's author said Monday there may be more than one avenue for advancing the project.
Vice President Joe Biden warned on Monday that there is no way that China will be able to sustain its current level of economic growth because of what he called its God-awful one-child policy.
MSNBC hosted a one-on-one debate on Monday between former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, a Mitt Romney supporter, and former U.S. Rep. Bob Walker of Pennsylvania, a Newt Gingrich supporter -- and boy, did it get heated.
