GOP Presidential Candidates Already Jockeying For 2012 Election
WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation. Mitt Romney is weighing in on the...
WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation. Mitt Romney is weighing in on the...
Posted 11.14.2009 | Chicago
A senior Obama administration official says that the mostly vacant Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Illinois is the leading choice to relocate ...
New York Times | CHRISTOPHER DREW | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
While President Obama's decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan is primarily a military one, it also has substantial budget implications tha...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
TOKYO — The White House's top lawyer is returning to private practice and being replaced by a longtime adviser to Barack Obama. White House cou...
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...
AP | BEN FELLER and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing ...
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — After just three months as head of battered insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post a...
Brad Friedman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media
Fox News Channel should be treated not like a news organization, but as one which does little more than promote a specific political agenda.
Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to pass health care legislation by year's end, pointedly telling sk...
Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Democrats are advancing proposals in Congress designed to limit the size and complexity of financial companies so that any collapse wouldn't damage th...
CBS News | Font Size Print E | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more tro...
Bloomberg | Michael J. Moore and Ian Katz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depressio...
LA Times | Peter Nicholas | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presi...
The New York Times | LOUISE STORY | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
Banks cut bonuses last year and shifted more pay into stock and options from cash, a tactic that lawmakers supported for its emphasis on long-term per...
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration does not seem to understand that this rage, left unaddressed, could consume it. It has pushed aside the entreaties of many --...
wsj.com | DAMIAN PALETTA | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- A key Senate lawmaker is readying legislation that would dramatically redraw how the financial system is regulated, setting the chamber ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.
Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...
Posted 11.04.2009 | Impact
Sam Kass and President Obama go way back. Kass cooked for Obama for two years before he was elected president and has been heavily involved in tending...
Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment
The White House released its visitor log on Friday in an act of "transparency like you've never seen before." The list of 431 names only includes thos...
Spiegel Online | Gregor Peter Schmitz | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The council released a study on Monday called "Toward a Post-American Europe," based on wide-ranging interviews and research conducted in the 27 EU me...
Rahim Kanani | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
With a litany of crises to deal with, now more than ever, President Obama needs his army of advocates once more to continue the fight for change.
Reuters | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Monday he would have preferred to leave the White House in a coffin because he loved b...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Th Obama normalcy is a welcome relief from eight years of the Bush administration, but it is only a start. If Obama builds on this start with true reforms, much of the hope will come back.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics