I have a healthy respect for the institution of government, and sometimes even feel sorry for politicians who have thankless jobs (President Barack Obama springs to mind), but I find the whole process that Americans go through to elect our leaders cringeworthy.
I have a healthy respect for the institution of government, and sometimes even feel sorry for politicians who have thankless jobs (President Barack Obama springs to mind), but I find the whole process that Americans go through to elect our leaders cringeworthy.
The First Lady reportedly visited a luxury lingerie boutique in New York and also made a handsome purchase.
Florida's Republican voters go to the polls on Tuesday in a high-stakes presidential primary election that could determine the direction of the race.
Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney maintains double-digit lead in most polls in Florida and hits out at 'sad' rival Newt Gingrich.
House Republicans will propose legislation Tuesday calling for $260 billion in spending on transportation infrastructure for up to five years, an election-year proposal touted as a job creator.
President Barack Obama Monday played down the use of U.S. drones in Iraq, saying the program was very limited and focused mainly on protecting the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Mitt Romney's lead over Newt Gingrich has grown to 15 percentage points in Florida, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday found on the day before the state's Republican primary.
Who is Richard O'Dwyer, the man whose extradition case was the subject of the most popular question asked during the lead-up to Obama's Google+ Hangout and addressed directly by the president during his social-media forum Monday night?
Obama bypassed hard questions about the NDAA and drug policy in his Monday evening Google Hangout and YouTube conversation.
A new poll released Monday said more GOP voters think the Republican presidential contenders are only fair or poor.
An Oregon special election in which national Democrats have sought to paint the Republican congressional candidate as a Tea Party radical foreshadows a tactic the party will employ in its quest to take back Congress seats lost in the 2010 election.
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus compared President Barack Obama to disgraced cruise ship captain Francesco Schettino, who allegedly abandoned the sinking Costa Concordia in an accident that left 17 passengers dead off the coast of Tuscany.
Vice President Joe Biden admitted over the weekend that, when President Barack Obama had to decide whether to authorize the May 2 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Biden advised him not to do so.
The possible release of detained Taliban leaders is likely to join Iran's nuclear ambitions at the top of a busy agenda when the top seven American intelligence chiefs testify before the Congress this week.
Watch Obama's post-State of the Union Hangout via live stream here.
Whitehouse confirmed Monday that he and at least two co-sponsors will introduce a bill on Wednesday requiring millionaires to pay a 30 percent tax rate on their income.
State and federal officials are close to a settlement with the largest U.S. banks over mortgage abuses, with states facing an end-of-the-week deadline to decide whether they will sign on, people close to the talks said.
Obama's YouTube and Google Plus Hangout post-State of the Union conversation is available to watch via live stream here.
More than a year after a wave of popular uprisings swept across the Arab world, the White House spent Monday responding to the chaos the Arab Spring has unleashed in Syria and Egypt.
Why the White House's attempts to hear from Americans is a magnet for marijuana legalization advocates.
Newt Gingrich would like to make Saul Alinsky the bogeyman of the 2012 campaign -- never mind that he misrepresents almost everything about Alinsky, and never mind that Alinsky's tactics have been adopted by the Tea Party and by Gingrich himself.