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Bipartisan support is growing to allow private companies to quickly tap thousands of small investors through a strategy called crowdfunding.

A day after the shocking revelations surfacing about 2012 presidential hopeful Sarah Palin's past, first reaction has finally come out from the Palin camp.

The unemployment rate for college graduates (that is, those holding at least a Bachelor’s degree) is only 4.3 percent.

Last winter, President Barack Obama, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and a small posse of White House officials made a big show as they swept through Northeast Ohio to kick off their Startup America initiative that promised to help seed new ventures and create jobs. Eight months later, Ray Leach is still waiting.

In the latest Bloomberg News Poll on the 2012 election, Republican and Republican-leaning Independent voters favor Texas Gov. Rick Perry over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, but in the poll's entire sample, the public still favors President Barack Obama over any GOP nominee.

The United States and Australia will take the rare step on Thursday of declaring the cyber realm as part of a mutual defense treaty, meaning that a cyber attack on one could lead to a response by both nations.

President Barack Obama and his campaign team have released a gatekeeping Web site called Attack Watch to set facts straight. Here are 5 reasons the Obama gatekeeping Web site is pointless. Please don't report me to Attack Watch...

The Obama Administration has no intention of walking away from investing in renewable energy projects despite the bankruptcy of a high-profile solar panel maker backed by federal loan guarantees, a top U.S. Energy Department official said on Wednesday.

Concern about the economy has pushed President Barack Obama's approval rating below 50 percent in California, a state assumed to be an easy win for him in next year's presidential election.

In a joint press release, two U.S. Senators accused the Obama administration of inflating the projected costs for NASA's Space Launch System in an attempt to kill development of the program.

China always has confidence in the euro, Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said at a China-Europe forum on Wednesday, offering reassurance that China will continue to invest in Europe.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday urged European leaders to act more forcefully to solve Europe's escalating debt crisis and said they have the financial and economic capacity to do so.

White House probed for a questionable loan guarantee given to the failed solar energy firm

Moody's cut the credit ratings of two French banks on Wednesday because of their exposure to Greece's debt, highlighting growing risks to Europe's financial sector from a deepening euro zone sovereign debt crisis.

President Barack Obama's jobs plan has raised concerns in top trading partner Canada because of measures that would restrict foreign companies from participating in infrastructure projects.

With U.S. job creation a paramount concern for voters, President Barack Obama is hoping that Republicans will feel the pressure from their constituents to approve his newly unveiled American Jobs Act.

Chances the United States will lapse into another recession rose over the past month to nearly one in three as the economy faces a number of road blocks that could derail already weak growth, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday.

Momentum gained by Republicans in last year's mid-term Congressional elections continued in New York's 9th Congressional District special election Tuesday as voters chose a first-time, 70-year-old former television producer over Democrat Dave Weprin.

In the latest Bloomberg National Poll, most Americans say the economy is on the wrong track and they are more-pessimistic about its prospects -- something that doesn't bode well for President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats in the next election, if economic conditions don't improve in the quarters ahead.

Afghan and NATO security forces have stopped the attack in Kabul that killed 14 people. It took 20 hours, but the last two militants were cleared from their high-rise hiding spot in on Wednesday morning.

Growth in retail sales stalled in August after a pitched battle over spending in Congress undermined faith Washington could steer the country clear of a double-dip recession, data showed on Wednesday.