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President Barack Obama is using weekend gatherings of world leaders — dominated by discussion of European economic woes and Afghanistan — to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and to encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in Syria. Complete Story...
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The State Department says deep cuts to its budget proposed by Congress will damage America's security and global leadership as well as prove costly to taxpayers in the long run.
French President Francois Hollande (frahn-SWAH' oh-LAWND') says he stands by his campaign pledge to withdraw his country's troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
A Maryland teenager has won $75,000 for coming up with a screening method for early-stage pancreatic cancer.
The unemployment rate fell in two-thirds of U.S. states last month, evidence that modest economic growth is boosting hiring in most areas of the country.
The United States says Sri Lanka has presented a "serious and comprehensive" plan for reconciliation in the island nation after its quarter-century civil war.
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county's challenge to the landmark civil rights law.
The Federal Aviation Administration will revisit a decision to exempt cargo airlines from new rules to prevent pilot fatigue, saying it made "errors" in cost calculations used to justify the exemption.
In his first visit to the Oval Office, French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year's end, making clear to President Barack Obama the timeline for ending the U.S.-led war will not trump a campaign pledge that helped Hollande gain his new job.
China may have started work on it first domestically built aircraft carrier and is likely to produce a number of carriers over the next decade as part of an aggressive effort to modernize its military, the Pentagon said Friday.
President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a "moral imperative" to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world.
The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate's former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other's high school hijinks. Can a fresh round of questions about President Barack Obama's birth certificate be far behind?
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are expressing sadness over the death of Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco who succumbed to cancer at the age of 63.
Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief.
Republican lawmakers intensified their efforts on Thursday to get quick congressional action on heading off automatic tax increases and revamping the federal tax code.
President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt Romney but the president's money advantage is beginning to dwindle.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is willing to testify at a congressional hearing this spring on the bank's $2 billion trading loss.
Bottom Line, According To the GOP Women Cannot Be TrustedWhen you strip everything away, that’s the root of the GOP’s campaign against abortion, contraception, and laws that protect women from domestic violence. But what’s so striking about so many of the GOP initiatives that implicate women this year is that they …
Family values ex-Nevada lawmaker appears in bikini for Maxim A former Nevada state Senator who ran on a Christian family values platform has posed in a bikini as a write-in candidate for the men's magazine Maxim's "Hot 100" contest. .... Halseth ran as a political unknown in 2010, surprising observers by winning as a Republican in …
Republicans Will Find Themselves in Tough Spot if Supreme Court Strikes Down ObamacareAs The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur pointed out in the segment above, if the Supreme Court ends up ruling that the Affordable Care Act, otherwise commonly referred to as "Obamacare" is not Constitutional or against the individual mandate, Republicans may very well find themselve …
Apocalypse Fairly SoonSuddenly, it has become easy to see how the euro — that grand, flawed experiment in monetary union without political union — could come apart at the seams. We’re not talking about a distant prospect, either. Things could fall apart with stunning speed, …
Did Elizabeth Warren Plagiarize Her 'Pow Wow Chow' Recipes?The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitte …
"Government Motors" Gave Seven Figures to Democrat Lobbyists After BailoutGeneral Motors has funneled more than $1 million to two powerhouse Democratic lobbyists since the taxpayers rescued the automaker in 2009. GM teamed with Navigators Global and the Podesta Group beginning in 2010 and soon arranged six-figure contracts with lobbying teams headed …
iowahawk: Julia's Circle of LifeThe continuing adventures of Barack Obama's favorite eyeless, mouthless government dependent
Donations to Scott Walker Flagged as Potential Fraud - ProPublicaThe drama in Cheeseland continues unabated with new twists and turns daily. Now one major credit card company has Friends of Scott Walker campaign fund raising organization flagged for fraud alerts. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Is it simply a computer glitch, …
Virginia Lawmaker And Senate Candidate: 'Sodomy Not a Civil Right'During an interview on CNN with Republican Virginia state delegate Robert Marshall, host Brooke Baldwin compared the struggle for LGBT rights to discrimination against African Americans and asked the lawmaker why he voted to block Richmond prosecutor Tracy Thorne-Begland from b …
House GOP Throws Out Entire Summer Of Debt Ceiling Negotiations In Less Than 10 Minutes | ThinkProgressLast August, debt ceiling negotiations between House Republicans and Senate Democrats came to an end when President Obama signed into law the Budget Control Act, a not-so-grand bargain that created a legislative super committee tasked with finding spending cuts to offse …
Fox Pushes Phony Soros Vote-Rigging Conspiracy TheoryFoxNews.com recently promoted the internet-based conspiracy theory that financier and philanthropist George Soros will somehow corrupt vote counting in the United States through a Spanish company "that Soros owns a big share of." The conspiracy is false: Soros has no involvemen …
Exclusive: Did White House spin tip a covert op? | ReutersWhite House efforts to soft-pedal the danger from a new "underwear bomb" plot emanating from Yemen may have inadvertently broken the news they needed most to contain. At about 5:45 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 7, just before the evening newscasts, John Brennan, President Barack Oba …
Report Says Trayvon Martin Killing Was 'Ultimately Avoidable'The killing of Trayvon Martin was “ultimately avoidable” if George Zimmerman had just stayed in his vehicle instead of pursuing the unarmed teen, Florida police investigators concluded in one of a series of reports on the case released late Thursday. Instead, the S …
This Week in Poverty: A Little Help for the Long-Term Unemployed? Quote of the Week "People want to say people on welfare are sitting around. I've been hustling.
Karl Rove's Secret Money Crossroads GPS Attacks Bob Kerrey For Supporting Bush's Bank Bailout | ThinkProgressIn late 2008, as the nation’s entire financial system stood on the verge of collapse, Democrats and Republicans came together to pass the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. President George W. Bush signed the bill, bailing out Wall Street banks who were up to their metap …
House OKs $642B Defense Bill that Obama Threatened To VetoThe House on Friday ignored a presidential veto threat and passed a $642 billion defense bill that abandons the deficit-cutting agreement that President Obama and congressional Republicans backed last summer. On a 299-120 vote, lawmakers backed the spending blueprint that adds …
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