ELECTIONS

According to a poll, If the election were held today, Paul would get 46 percent of the vote compared to President Barack Obama’s 49 percent.

Stephen Colbert's super PAC, Americans For a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow has reportedly raked in over $1 million according to a document filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Snoop Dogg might have a thing for Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul.

Millions of Indians went to the polls on Monday in Punjab and Uttarakhand where the country's ruling Congress party hopes to regain momentum after a year when its reputation was battered by corruption scandals and a slowing economy.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have taken the upper hand in escalating battles on the outskirts of the capital Damascus while top Western and Arab diplomats are seeking a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for him to go.

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.

Facebook is presenting its users with a rare opportunity to project their opinions about the 2012 elections on a giant Times Square billboard.

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.

Margaret Thatcher: The One and Only

Rick Santorum's daughter Isabella is recovering from pneumonia in a local hospital in Virginia. Three-and-a-half year old Bella, as she is called fondly by her family, is affected by a devastating genetic condition called Trisomy 18.

Polls opened on Sunday in an election for Egypt's upper house of parliament, with Islamists seeking to repeat the success they enjoyed in elections for the lower house. Begun in late November, the parliamentary votes are the first since a popular uprising toppled President Hosni Mubarak last February.

Awaiting the Great Transformation: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on Sunday for changes to the military-drafted constitution in her first political trip since ending a boycott of the country's political system last year and announcing plans to run for parliament.

Manipur is one of five states in India which will hold elections over the next few weeks.

Many Republicans are concerned that the bitter nomination fight between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich may already have damaged both of them to the extent that neither would be able to defeat Democratic President Barack Obama in the Nov. 6 general election.

Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008, has vowed to return to the country and even run in upcoming elections.

The former Florida governor said the harsh anti-immigration rhetoric spouted by Republicans this election season is a turn off to Hispanic voters.

Newt Gingrich is the Republican establishment's worst nightmare -- and not because they disagree with his positions.

Greece and its private creditors made progress Thursday in talks on restructuring its debt, both sides said, and they will continue negotiating on Friday with the aim of sealing an agreement within a few days.

A 10-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad edged closer to the Syrian capital Thursday as troops battled rebels in a town just north of Damascus and a provincial governor spoke of negotiating local ceasefires.

A Suffolk University poll released late Wednesday showed Mitt Romney with a major advantage over Newt Gingrich in the general election, undermining the idea coming out of South Carolina that Gingrich is more electable against Barack Obama.

Sam LaHood and other American employees of the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute, both non-governmental organizations, were stopped from boarding a flight in Cairo, and now Egyptian authorities are not letting them leave the country.