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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is stumping for Mitt Romney in Iowa, trying to boost Romney's campaign in the face of a surge by Newt Gingrich. He told Republicans in West Des Moines that Romney won't embarrass America and is the only Republican who can win.

The health secretary overruled government scientists and refused to bring the controversial morning-after pill from behind the pharmacy counter and onto drugstore shelves.

The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) is a program specially developed for home owners whose houses have lost value in the last few years and have not managed to get a refinance mortgage.

Candace Gingrich-Jones, the half-sister of GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, has said she will work hard to get President Barack Obama re-elected next year. Gingrich-Jones, a lesbian gay rights activist, disagrees with her Gingrich (with whom she shares her mother) on gay rights.

Seventy years ago on Dec. 7, 1941 Japan launched a ‘surprised attack’ on America’s naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii that brought the U.S. into World War II.

The answer to the Final Jeopardy! question of who will be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will not become known on Thursday.

The former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, has been sentenced to prison for 14 years for federal corruption charges.

The United States and Canada have agreed to speed up food and other cargo shipments across their border and to sync some regulations related to drugs and cars, U.S. and Canadian officials said on Wednesday.

Occupy Wall Street's reverberations have finally crossed into the political realm, as prominent Democrats at all levels of government -- from the president to Congress to state houses -- have begun echoing the movement's lambasting of the under-representation of the poor and the unemployed and capitalism's ills.

In a sentencing hearing, Blagojevich said he had made terrible mistakes and admitted he broke the law by trying to sell the appointment to the vacant Senate seat.

The world's three biggest polluters China, the United States and India refused to move toward a new legal commitment to curb their carbon emissions Tuesday, increasing the risk that climate talks will fail to clinch a meaningful deal this week.

Judging by their before and after photographs, U.S. presidents appear to age before our eyes, adding wrinkles and gray hair with each year in office.

For most of her campaign, Michele Bachmann has made more headlines for her gaffes than for her platform, and her popularity has fallen as a result. But moving past the YouTube clips and headlines, what are the Minnesota congresswoman's political positions?

After 18 years of negotiations, the World Trade Organization is expected to approve Russia's bid for entry, during its Dec. 15-17 conference.

Just hours after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left Myanmar last week, property prices began to soar.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari flew abruptly from Islamabad to Dubai Tuesday evening, apparently after suffering a minor heart attack, and may resign citing ill health, an American magazine reports.

The Obama administration does not know Israel's intentions regarding potential military action against Iran, and the uncertainty is stoking concern in Washington, where the preferred course for now is sanctions and diplomatic pressure.

U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, returned to Damascus on Tuesday after being removed from the country for his own safety in October.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday that the GOP filibuster of President Barack Obama's pick to the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals would violate the bipartisan 2005 agreement limiting judicial filibusters among the Gang of 14 senators.

On Tuesday the Obama administration said it will use foreign aid to promote and protect LGBT rights around the world.

President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would call for legislation to strengthen penalties against Wall Street companies that break anti-fraud rules.