JOE BIDEN

If the U.S. presidential election was held today, President Barack Obama could easily lose. Fortunately for Obama -- and, by extension, for the Democratic Party -- the election is not today: it's 7 months from now.

Romney campaign calls it sad that the Obama campaign is using an event that unified our country to once again divide us.

Just days before the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's killing, Vice President Joe Biden directly appealed to students while boasting President Barack Obama's foreign policy achievements and slamming presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as out of touch.

Joe Biden literally said the President has a big stick, I promise you on Thursday. Here's videos of 5 other gaffes he's made as VP.

Sharpening the edges of an election-year fight, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ari., denounced as imaginary claims that Republicans are conducting a war on women.

U.S. regulators are investigating major U.S. movie studios' dealings with China as the entertainment companies try to get a greater foothold in one of the fastest-growing movie markets in the world.

Election 2012? Democrats are already cheering for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Hours after President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden published their 2011 tax returns, Mitt Romney announced he has requested an extension for his own filing.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle paid an effective tax rate of about 20.5 percent in 2011, but would like to be paying more in order to make the U.S. tax system more fair.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their 2011 tax returns, a personal turn in the debate about tax policy.

The Romney campaign is trying to milk the 'stay-at-home moms' feud for all its worth.

Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen issued an apology to Ann Romney for saying Romney never worked a day in her life, a comment that drew sharp criticism from both sides of the aisle. Hilary Rosen is hardly the first Democrat to get into trouble for saying the wrong thing. Here are five Democrats who have committed some idiotic gaffes.

Democratic pundit Hilary Rosen apologized for claiming that Ann Romney had never worked a day in her life, following a media storm and television feud that erupted last night.

Ann Romney's new Twitter account isn't the only one the Romney campaign has launched this week.

Iraq is facing a serious crisis, Kurdistan's leader Massoud Barzani said during a recent visit in Washington -- and his semiautonomous region's ambitions in the oil-and-gas business aren't going to help defuse potentially explosive ethnic tensions.

A female Russian spy was close to seducing a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet in 2010, the FBI's assistant director for counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, told the BBC in a recent interview. But that spy wasn't flame-haired media darling Anna Chapman, a bureau spokesman told ABC News.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called on Republicans to unite behind Mitt Romney Sunday as Rick Santorum vowed to stay in the race beyond a likely defeat in Tuesday's Wisconsin primary.

Every once in a while, the media gets a taste of off-the-cuff interactions between world leaders because a microphone is left on.

While the full bill won't be in effect until 2014, the health care overhaul has already benefited millions of Americans, according to the Obama administration.

The Violence Against Women Act is at the center of an explosive debate in Congress this week. The bill has been authorized twice since its introduction in 1994, but this time Republicans are putting up a fight. Either way, things are looking up for Senate Democrats.

Documents obtained by U.S. Special Forces reveal the terrorist leader believed the U.S. would be drawn into a crisis and be ripe for attack if the presidency transferred to Vice President Joe Biden.