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A proposed settlement to resolve mortgage abuses by top U.S. banks will give states broad authority to punish firms that mistreat borrowers in the future, according to documents seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

Tom Tancredo, a former Colorado congressman and 2008 presidential candidate, endorsed Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, giving a small boost to Santorum's long-shot campaign after he finished a distant third in the Florida primary.

Groundhog Day is upon us. Up in Punxsutawney, Penn., the famous prognosticating groundhog Phil may see his shadow this year. We could be in for six more weeks of winter. Never mind the fact that it's been so unseasonably warm that Al Gore started writing the script for his next Oscar-winning documentary called Ha! I Told You So. If Phil says winter will continue then, by golly, it will.

Mitt Romney cemented his front-runner status with his Florida 2012 primary win Tuesday night, coming ahead of Newt Gingrich with almost half of the vote.

Based on his reception last night during his Florida primary speech, one would think Ron Paul and not Mitt Romney had won the Florida 2012 Republican primary last night. Watch what the Texas congressman had to say here, and read a full transcript of his words to his grassroots support.

Mitt Romney couldn't have settled for anything less than a blowout victory in Florida's Republican presidential primary that would retain his edge over the GOP rivals in their fight to win the party's nomination to face incumbent President Barack Obama.

Mitt Romney has been declared the winner of the Florida primary, restoring much of the momentum he lost to Newt Gingrich in South Carolina.

Here’s one way to get a resume noticed. President Barack Obama offered to circulate an unemployed engineer’s resume when his wife complained to him about the lack of jobs at the president’s Google Plus hangout Monday night.

According to The Telegraph, Michelle Obama purchased $50,000 worth of lingerie from Agent Provocateur. She and the Queen of Qatar, Sheikha Mozah, closed off part of Madison Avenue for a shopping spree at the luxury lingerie boutique.

The First Lady reportedly visited a luxury lingerie boutique in New York and also made a handsome purchase.

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.

Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney maintains double-digit lead in most polls in Florida and hits out at 'sad' rival Newt Gingrich.

Vice President Joe Biden admitted over the weekend that, when President Barack Obama had to decide whether to authorize the May 2 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Biden advised him not to do so.

Whitehouse confirmed Monday that he and at least two co-sponsors will introduce a bill on Wednesday requiring millionaires to pay a 30 percent tax rate on their income.

Obama's YouTube and Google Plus Hangout post-State of the Union conversation is available to watch via live stream here.

More than a year after a wave of popular uprisings swept across the Arab world, the White House spent Monday responding to the chaos the Arab Spring has unleashed in Syria and Egypt.

Why the White House's attempts to hear from Americans is a magnet for marijuana legalization advocates.

Margaret Thatcher: The One and Only

More than 400 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested in Oakland during a night of skirmishes in which police fired tear gas and bean bag projectiles, the city said on Sunday, marking one of the biggest mass arrests since nationwide economic protests began last year.

White House hopeful Mitt Romney's lead over rival Newt Gingrich has edged up to 12 percentage points in Florida, with just two days remaining before the state's Republican primary, according to results of a Reuters/Ipsos online poll released on Sunday.

With just three days remaining before Florida's Republican primary, Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, led Gingrich, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, by 43 percent to 32 percent among likely voters in Florida's January 31 primary, according to Reuters/Ipsos online poll results on Saturday.