Mitt Romney officially launched his bid to become President of the United States, assessing his President Barack Obama's record on helping the U.S. economy grow a failure.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner meets an influential group of freshman Republican lawmakers on Thursday to try to improve chances that Congress will increase his borrowing authority and prevent a government default.
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will formally announce his candidacy today with a speech that will largely attack the failures of what he dubs the Obama economy.
The controversial immigration enforcement program was not working as intended, the New York governor said.
To create a united front, Syrian opposition parties on Wednesday decided to set up a committee to prepare the country for evolution from dictatorship to democracy.
President Barack Obama's campaign on Wednesday set a goal of raising $60 million in June to benefit Obama's re-election and the Democratic National Committee, a source involved in the campaign said, Reuters reported.
President Obama and The White House have agreed to let a single news photographer capture candid pictures during presidential speeches.
President Barack Obama visited tornado-struck Joplin, Missouri on Sunday, May 29. Here are photos of President Obama interacting with Joplin residents.
Twelve big U.S. companies paid far less than the statutory corporate tax rate from 2008 to 2010, despite making substantial profits in that period, said a report released on Wednesday.
As President Barack Obama receives his annual Hurricane Season briefing at the start of Hurricane Season 2011, he'll likely be told that there is a 70 percent chance of between 3 to 6 major hurricanes until the end of November, as above normal activity is expected this year.
More than 150 economists back House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's call to match any increase in the debt limit with spending cuts of equal size, according to a letter released by the Republican leader's office on Wednesday.
President Obama will meet with House Republicans at the White House today in an effort to make progress on raising the nation's debt limit.
More than 150 economists back House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's call to match any increase in the debt limit with spending cuts of equal size, according to a letter released by the Republican leader's office on Wednesday.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday defeated a bill to raise the debt limit in a vote staged by Republicans to strengthen their push for deep spending cuts in negotiations with the White House.
Southern political operatives are warily eyeing President Obama's fundraising clout and shifting demographics as a national election approaches
While President Barack Obama honored fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, a showdown took place between two unlikely groups: the Ku Klux Klan and the Westboro Baptist Church protestors.
It doesn't matter that it's a race to the top, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) doesn't consider Sarah Palin a competitor.
U.S. President Barack Obama hopped across the Potomac River to pay tribute to America’s fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Monday. Each year, more than 4 million people visit the cemetery which averages 28 funerals a day. Here's a look at this solemn place and its awing symmetry.
The United States as a free people and free society remain thanks to the 'dear cost' of soldiers who have given their lives, President Barack Obama said on Monday at Arlington National Cemetery at a Memorial Day Service.
If he was to hand out grades, and he is, Mitt Romney gives President Barack Obama an 'F' for the last two years of his presidency.
The number of missing people from a devastating tornado that hit Joplin, a city of 50,000 in southwestern Missouri, on May 22 reduced to 29, while Missouri officials continued the process of identifying the remains of bodies recovered.
Army general Martin Dempsey, a warrior-scholar who commanded troops in the Iraq war, was nominated as the top U.S. military officer by President Barack Obama on Monday.
