In delivering a speech in Colorado on Monday night, Sarah Palin reacted to the death of Osama bin Laden and the path taken by the country to achieve the accomplishment.According to multiple reports, Palin acknowledged President Barack Obama …
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President Barack Obama drew laughs from his audience while speaking at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night.Addressing a crowd that included reporters, lawmakers and celebrities, the president took jabs at some of the fac…
SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s embattled president backed away from a mediated deal that would have seen him step down in exchange for legal immunity, and his forces Saturday killed four people while pushing hundreds of anti-government demonst…
This week, the 2012 landscape was rocked by a couple of big announcements and one very bizarre news development. First, the field: it has changed. Haley Barbour, who had us more or less convinced he was going to take a run at the White House…
Presidential aspirant and former Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum has told National Rifle Association members meeting in Pittsburgh that President Barack Obama doesn’t understand America.Santorum spoke for 14 minutes F…
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, nearing an announcement on whether to run for president, is spending the final week of his state’s legislative session pushing for the final pieces of a record that would be ready-made for a R…
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is condemning the latest use of force by Syria against anti-government demonstrators and says the regime’s “outrageous” use of violence against the protesters must “end now.”At least 75 people were killed…
President Barack Obama said Pfc. Bradley Manning broke the law following a fundraiser in San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, Forbes reports.The suggestion the president made was caught on camera during an impromptu and casual conversation reg…
WASHINGTON — Stepping away from Washington’s contentious fiscal debates, President Barack Obama is making a West Coast trip aimed at building support for his deficit-reduction plans and raising money for his re-election campaign.In tow…
President Obama sat down for a series of interviews with local television outlets Monday, one of which ended with some presidential scorn for a Texas reporter.Brad Watson of WFAA-TV in Dallas met with Obama in the White House to discuss the …
Karl Rove didn’t hold back in sounding off on the prospect of Donald Trump running for president in the next election cycle during a recent appearance on Fox News.Trump is mulling a campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012…
HAVANA — Raul Castro proposed term limits Saturday for Cuban politicians – including himself – a remarkable gesture on an island ruled for 52 years by him and his brother. The 79-year-old president lamented the lack of young lea…
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Yemen Forces Clash; 5 Dead
SANAA (Reuters) – Rival Yemeni forces clashed in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing two people, as the opposition awaited clarification from Gulf Arab mediators on the timeframe for a proposed transfer of the president’s powers.Three pe…
WASHINGTON — Less than two hours before a planned speech by the president, top Republicans said they will not support any debt-reduction plan that includes a tax increase. The line reignites a recent debate over how the government should is…
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Ivory Coast’s president said Wednesday that the country’s arrested strongman will face charges “on a national level and an international level,” as the president attempts to restore order after a bloody four-month sta…
This story has been updated.Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty told CNN that he is running for President.Pawlenty made the straight-forward proclamation during an appearance on CNN’s ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’ set to air Tuesday. Morgan aske…
If you’re like most Americans, you have been completely blindsided by today’s news that Mitt Romney has formed a presidential exploratory committee. Wait, wait! Mitt Romney? He wants to be president, too? I know, I know, let the shock wa…
Self-described future one-term president Michele Bachmann pushed ahead with her crusade against eyewear/abortion providers. No one has alerted the president that he might accidentally nominate a Democrat to be defense secretary. Citi employe…
Senate Democrats say that the White House has agreed to $78 billion in cuts, yet House Republicans are saying there’s no deal unless they get $40 or $41 billion. Huh?The difference comes from the starting point. Democrats are working off of …
Yemen Protests Leave 3 Dead
SANAA, Yemen — Tribesmen loyal to Yemen’s embattled president on Tuesday clashed with a group of soldiers whose commander has sided with the opposition, and the fighting in a suburb of the capital Sanaa left three tribesmen dead, accor…
WASHINGTON — On April 5, 2009, America’s new president stood at the gates of Prague castle in front of 20,000 Czechs waving flags and offered what would be a defining moment of his presidency: a pledge to seek a world without nuclear w…
Former president Bill Clinton weighed in on the debunked conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama is not a citizen of the United States and thus ineligible to serve during an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday.”If I we…
WASHINGTON — Former Obama National Security Adviser James Jones may have given the president some mild headaches on Sunday when, in his first set of television interviews since leaving the administration, he expressed doubts about the ongoi…
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie insists he is not running for president, but a new poll out on Thursday shows him running ahead of most Republicans in a hypothetical matchup against President Obama.He would trail …
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s budget director is pointing to spending cuts in three programs as examples of the “tough choices” ahead in the White House budget blueprint that will propose lower spending overall but money for so…
WASHINGTON — The impression that the Obama administration is forever one step behind the unfolding events and chaos in Egypt this week is one left, in part, by design. Both the president and his aides have gone to great lengths to respond t…
NEW YORK — Three of the nation’s biggest technology companies are committing hundreds of millions of dollars to an initiative backed by President Barack Obama to encourage job creation and economic growth by supporting small businesses…
Sarah Palin was 16 when Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the United States in 1981. On Feb. 4, the former governor of Alaska will give the keynote address at the opening of two days of festivities marking the late presiden…
Speculation that U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman could mount a Republican run for president in 2012 is heating up Thursday, with news that he’s assembling a crack team of political operatives that could potentially be implemented to he…