After two days of meetings and talks led by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Israeli and Palestinian leaders leave Washington deadlocked over the contentious issue of Israeli settlements.Friday, September 03, 2010
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb Friday in southwestern Pakistan that killed 59 people and wounded 160.Friday, September 03, 2010
Recovery efforts are underway in Pakistan where monsoon rains and severe flooding washed away tens of thousands of homes and killed as many as 1,500 people.Friday, September 03, 2010
Fires left at least eight people dead and hundreds homeless in three regions of central Russia, government officials said Friday.Friday, September 03, 2010
Watching the Israeli and Palestinian leaders trudge to Washington for one more peace summit, one might wonder why President Obama invited them. Why should the president invest his prestige in an effort that looks so unpromising?Friday, September 03, 2010
The United States is launching a new program to provide jobs for thousands of people in flood-ravaged Pakistan, it said Wednesday.Friday, September 03, 2010
After a week mostly focused on Iraq and Mideast diplomacy, it's back to the economy for President Obama, who will deliver remarks Friday on the August unemployment numbers.Friday, September 03, 2010
Direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders kicked off again Thursday with pledges of support from leaders on both sides -- as well as the United States -- for a peace process leading to a comprehensive settlement within one year.Friday, September 03, 2010
Call it another major victory for the Tea Party movement - and Sarah Palin.Thursday, September 02, 2010
Southern Sudan, the autonomous region in Sudan, may unilaterally declare its sovereignty, since the central government isn't doing enough to plan and stage a referendum on independence by January, an influential political figure told CNN on Thursday.Thursday, September 02, 2010
It's back-to-school time, which means some in the media have gone back to asking: "What's wrong with our schools? And how can we fix it?"Thursday, September 02, 2010
Ahead of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians on Thursday, President Barack Obama said Wednesday night that he was "hopeful -- cautiously hopeful" that the talks could achieve a two-state solution to the long running Mideast conflict.Thursday, September 02, 2010
The Israeli military said Wednesday it is still looking for the perpetrators behind a drive-by attack Tuesday evening that left four people dead, including a pregnant woman.Thursday, September 02, 2010
South Korea's Red Cross has offered $8.4 million in flood aid to North Korea, the Yonhap news agency said Tuesday.Thursday, September 02, 2010
Two days ahead of the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since 2008, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with two key players in the discussion.Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on the nation's Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Wednesday.Wednesday, September 01, 2010
The simmering warfare and political instability in Iraq are probably far from over, and U.S. military involvement there could very well last years beyond the end of 2011 -- when all U.S. troops are scheduled to depart the war-torn nation, analysts who study Iraq say.Wednesday, September 01, 2010
The death toll from air strikes in Pakistan on Tuesday has climbed to 60, two military officials said.Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Drilling has begun as part of an effort to reach the 33 miners who have been trapped underground in Chile for more than three weeks, authorities said Tuesday.Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Pakistani military officials and a local political official gave conflicting accounts Tuesday of attacks by Pakistani jet fighters targeting suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal region, with a politician saying that at least some of the dead were civilians.Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Authorities in Mexico revealed additional details Tuesday about an accused American-born drug kingpin detained Monday who they say moved tons of cocaine into the United States.Tuesday, August 31, 2010
His beginnings are humble -- he started out sweeping floors in his father's Cincinnati bar and met his wife working as a janitor -- but if Republicans take control after November elections, Rep. John Boehner will likely become the next speaker of the House.Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The air is quickly coming out of the recovery balloon, and economists have mixed views on how to pump it back up.Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview published Tuesday.Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Mexico's government will present a new strategy for preventing the kidnapping of migrants Tuesday, the nation's interior ministry said.Tuesday, August 31, 2010
American-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal, believed to be one of Mexico's most ruthless drug traffickers, was captured Monday, Mexican authorities said.Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Eight people, including one soldier, died on Monday in clashes between the military and suspected drug cartel members in Mexico's eastern state of Veracruz, Salvador Mikel Rivera, the area's attorney general, told CNN.Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Obama administration on Monday portrayed the Mideast peace talks set to get under way Thursday as a beginning, not an end.Monday, August 30, 2010
Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Monday to participate in a ceremony marking the end of the U.S. combat mission there, according to the White House.Monday, August 30, 2010
An aid worker with Samaritan's Purse, a Christian aid organization, has been freed after 105 days in captivity in the Darfur region of western Sudan, a spokeswoman for the organization said Monday.Monday, August 30, 2010
A fire at a retirement home northwest of here killed nine people early Monday morning, Russian state media said.Monday, August 30, 2010
Pakistan's government is not aware of any threat against international aid workers helping with flood relief efforts in the country, despite concerns from U.S. officials and others.Monday, August 30, 2010
Israeli and Palestinian leaders were looking forward to direct talks this week in Washington with both hope and apprehension. The two sides have agreed to hold direct peace talks beginning Thursday, the first such talks since 2008.Monday, August 30, 2010
An explosive device detonated Saturday three blocks away from a Mass honoring 72 migrants found slain near the Mexican border, state media reported.Sunday, August 29, 2010
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah has addressed reports of threats to international aid workers helping with flood relief efforts in Pakistan, calling it "deeply saddening that others would choose to use these environments to propagate themselves or to threaten international aid workers."Saturday, August 28, 2010
The death toll from Pakistan's massive flooding has climbed to 1,639, but the number could rise substantially as flood waters recede and more bodies surface, government officials say.Saturday, August 28, 2010
The planned large rally by Fox News Channel and radio talk show host Glenn Beck on Saturday on the National Mall is causing controversy because of its location and timing.Saturday, August 28, 2010
Primary voters are set to head to the polls this weekend, this time in Louisiana and West Virginia.Friday, August 27, 2010
A worker was paid for 12 years without ever showing up for work at a Norfolk, Virginia, agency funded by federal, state and local money, officials say.Friday, August 27, 2010
President Obama's tax reform task force will deliver its long-overdue report on Friday offering a list of ways to improve the federal tax code.Friday, August 27, 2010
A lead investigator and another official looking into the massacre of 72 migrants whose bodies were found this week in northern Mexico are missing, President Felipe Calderon said Friday.Friday, August 27, 2010
Mario Santos likely never made it to the United States.Friday, August 27, 2010
Mexican investigators have asked diplomats from El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador and Brazil to help identify the bodies of 72 presumed migrants discovered at a ranch in northeast Mexico.Friday, August 27, 2010
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is expected to leave Havana on Friday after a series of meetings with Cuban officials, including the country's foreign minister.Friday, August 27, 2010
The United Nations Security Council in New York held an emergency session Thursday to discuss and condemn widespread rapes in eastern Congo, while the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. said she was troubled by a briefing on the attacks.Friday, August 27, 2010
The U.S. government has obtained information about threats against foreign aid workers who are assisting in flood relief efforts in Pakistan, the State Department said Thursday.Friday, August 27, 2010
Pakistan's government has warned about 500,000 people in the country's southeastern Sindh province they should evacuate immediately because of possible flooding, government officials said Thursday.Friday, August 27, 2010
The Federal Communications Commission asked a Federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision that struck down its longstanding indecency policy.Thursday, August 26, 2010
Howard Gleckman is a resident fellow at the Urban Institute and editor of TaxVox, the blog of the nonpartisan research organization Tax Policy Center. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.Thursday, August 26, 2010
An official with Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, a group with alleged links to a banned Pakistani terrorist organization, says the U.S. Agency for International Development's administrator visited a camp the group is running and praised the work being done there.Thursday, August 26, 2010
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wrapped up a week-long trade mission to Cuba Thursday, a trip in which he also pursued another goal -- bringing about the release of a jailed U.S. contractor.Thursday, August 26, 2010
Before anyone ever heard of the Tea Party movement, there was a grass-roots conservative group from out West that shook up the political status quo.Thursday, August 26, 2010
What goes around ... can blow up in your face.Thursday, August 26, 2010
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo did not know about a rebel attack and mass rape in that region until more than a week after the events took place, a U.N. peacekeeping mission official said Wednesday.Thursday, August 26, 2010
From the sky, the massive inland sea of water stretches beyond the horizon -- flashbacks from a different disaster with a puzzlingly different response to the same desperation.Thursday, August 26, 2010
Seventy-two bodies discovered at a ranch in northeast Mexico belonged to migrants who were making their way toward the United States, Mexican officials said Wednesday.Thursday, August 26, 2010
An infected flash drive put in a U.S. military laptop in 2008 set off the most significant cyberattack ever against the military and brought a turning point in cyberdefense strategy, a top defense official wrote in an article published Wednesday.Wednesday, August 25, 2010
The United States is sending four more helicopters and an amphibious ready group to Pakistan to increase the U.S. response to Pakistan's flood crisis, a U.S. military official said Wednesday.Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a scion of what was once one of Alaska's most famous political families, found her Senate career on the brink Wednesday morning.Wednesday, August 25, 2010
After a night rife with primaries in the far-flung four corners of the United States, plus one in the nation's breadbasket, one race in the far Northwest is still up for grabs.Wednesday, August 25, 2010
When it comes to putting off assignments, college students have nothing on Congress.Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Now that 33 miners who have been trapped in the earth for 19 days have been found alive, the focus is shifting to their physical and mental health as they face a potentially long period before being rescued.Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Sen. John McCain told supporters he will "take nothing for granted" after defeating former Rep. J.D. Hayworth in a bitterly fought Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Arizona Tuesday.Wednesday, August 25, 2010
The Pentagon wants to know what military spouses think of the plan to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of barring openly gay and lesbian soldiers from military service.Tuesday, August 24, 2010
A task force assigned to study why troops kill themselves spelled out what many people have suspected for a long time: that multiple deployments to multiple wars are partly to blame for the sharp increase in military suicides.Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The Obama administration stepped up its defense of the controversial $862 billion economic stimulus plan Tuesday, releasing an analysis that conluded the measure is helping to spark major technological advances in energy production, among other things.Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The debate over the construction of an Islamic center and mosque in New York exploded into a fierce national controversy. President Obama was unable to contain the issue, and his comments only added fuel to the fire. Polls show that his approval ratings continue to fall.Tuesday, August 24, 2010
For almost a million Pakistanis, the misery of epic flooding covering one-fifth of the country has now taken the form of communicable illnesses.Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Some U.S. states facing steep budget gaps have resorted to tax policies that could be harmful over the long term, a non-profit research group said Monday.Monday, August 23, 2010
At least 43 people -- including a former federal lawmaker and 11 suspected militants -- died in four attacks in northwest Pakistan, government and intelligence officials said Monday.Monday, August 23, 2010
I stopped on a recent night in front of the palace of the Polish president. I had no choice: The crowd stood so thick that I could not move. We were hemmed between the buildings on one side of the sidewalk and a police barrier on the other. The wide pavement between was obstructed by gawkers watching a strange performance: a weird seemingly incomprehensible little passion play of stereotyped figures.Monday, August 23, 2010
"My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution."Monday, August 23, 2010
Gunmen shot dead the Sinaloa state director of Mexico's security agency, the agency said Saturday.Saturday, August 21, 2010
The massive flooding that has covered about one-fifth of Pakistan has claimed the lives of more than 1,500 people, authorities said Saturday.Saturday, August 21, 2010
Nuclear fuel is scheduled to arrive at Iran's first atomic energy plant Saturday, a development being watched by Western nations.Saturday, August 21, 2010
They are so small that at first you may miss them. Their newborn cries are impossibly soft, asking for their mother's nourishment.Saturday, August 21, 2010
An American teenager who hopes to establish a "children's peace forest" in North Korea's demilitarized zone says the longstanding hostilities in the region would have to end before his project could take hold.Friday, August 20, 2010
The death toll from massive floods in Pakistan rose to 1,497 on Friday as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said the crisis is a "slow-motion tsunami" that is expected to grow.Friday, August 20, 2010
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.Friday, August 20, 2010
Australians go to the polls on August 21, 2010, and will choose between the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition to form a new government.Friday, August 20, 2010
"This committee doesn't function well on a partisan basis, and in the 22 months that I've been chairman of it we've never acted that way." That was Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd speaking in December of 2008, when American voters had the audacity to believe a new President's promise to rise above the short-sightedness of partisan Washington and unite most Americans around solving big problems.Friday, August 20, 2010
Hip-hop singer and Haiti presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean pushed back on news reports Thursday that he is not on the list of candidates approved to run in this year's presidential election.Friday, August 20, 2010
Russia's top nuclear official Thursday called the pending supply of nuclear fuel to Iran's first atomic energy plant "an event of crucial importance" that proves that "Russia always fulfills its (international) obligations."Thursday, August 19, 2010
If the Bush tax cuts for the majority of Americans are extended, and stimulus spending is allowed to continue, that could boost the economy and help lower unemployment in the near term, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday.Thursday, August 19, 2010
It seems almost certain that the devastating floods that have ravaged Pakistan since late July are going to have a severe and long-lasting impact on Pakistan's already fragile and mismanaged economy.Thursday, August 19, 2010
The top lawyer for the Pentagon tried to talk to an attorney who said he represented the WikiLeaks website on Sunday, August 15, but the attorney never showed for the 10 a.m. telephone call, according to a Defense Department spokesman.Thursday, August 19, 2010
I once asked a president of the Central African Republic, Ange-F??lix Patass??, to give up a personal monopoly he held on the distribution of refined oil products in his country. He was unapologetic. "Do you expect me to lose money in the service of my people?" he replied.Thursday, August 19, 2010
The presidents of Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan held a quartet meeting in Russia's southern Black Sea resort of Sochi Wednesday, where they discussed the international battle against terror and the war on drugs, as well as economic issues, according to the Kremlin.Thursday, August 19, 2010
The United States and South Korean navies will begin a joint exercise off the western coast of the Korean peninsula in response to North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship last March.Thursday, August 19, 2010
Ten medical aid volunteers were killed in one Afghanistan attack in August. In July, a 78-year-old French humanitarian worker was executed along the Mali-Mauritanian border after some three months in captivity.Thursday, August 19, 2010
Pakistan is reeling from a natural disaster affecting 20 million people but relief groups say donors have been painfully slow in helping.Thursday, August 19, 2010
A Pentagon spokesman denied a report out Wednesday that the Army is willing to consider working with WikiLeaks to review classified documents that were leaked and will soon be posted online by the website.Wednesday, August 18, 2010
State Department officials are acknowledging that the world economic situation has had an impact on the ability of many governments to help flood-ravaged Pakistan cope with that country's worst disaster in 80 years.Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The body of Edelmiro Cavazos Leal, the mayor of the city of Santiago in Nuevo Leon state, was found Wednesday, two days after he was abducted, Mexico's interior ministry announced.Wednesday, August 18, 2010
One of the great misconceptions in this country is that what happens in Washington determines what happens in financial markets. It's so simple, convenient, and satisfying to attribute market movements to the President, the Federal Reserve, Congress, the tax code, or some combination of them. It sure makes for great sound bites and slogans -- but often makes for inaccurate analysis.Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq presented his diplomatic credentials to top Iraqi officials hours after arriving in the country Wednesday.Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Internet video-chatting service Skype helps connect people across the globe -- but your representatives in Congress are banned from using it.Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Early this month, three convicted murderers escaped from a prison in Kingman, a small town along Route 66 in northwest Arizona. According to reports, the inmates had broken free from the facility by using a pair of wire cutters. They'd escaped from a medium-security facility operated by Utah-based Management & Training Corp, a private corrections company.Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The U.S. response to the increasing natural disaster in Pakistan is, like so much else when it comes to American relations with that country, too little and too tentative.Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Voters in Washington state and Wyoming picked their candidates for the general election, setting the stage for some potential nail biters in November.Wednesday, August 18, 2010
A Wyoming man has given more than $1.5 million to help defend Arizona's controversial immigration enforcement measure in court, Gov. Jan Brewer's office said Thursday.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Louisiana Democrats are seizing on Sen. David Vitter's role in a 2007 prostitution scandal for a new campaign attack ad that seeks to cut into the Louisiana Republican's commanding lead over his election opponents.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday she was wrong when she claimed that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert as part of border-related violence.
Friday, September 03, 2010
President Obama's former auto czar, Steven Rattner, tried to recruit Nissan-Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn, a Brazilian-born, Lebanese descendant, to run General Motors, a one-time symbol of American success, Rattner wrote in his new tell-all book about the federal bailout of GM and Chrysler.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Two oil rig fires in less than five months in the Gulf of Mexico has spurred environmental groups and some lawmakers out of the woodwork to pressure the Obama administration to extend its six-month ban on deepwater drilling.
Friday, September 03, 2010
A shadowy group calling itself "The Tea Party" won't be allowed on the state's November ballot after a Friday order from the Michigan Supreme Court.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning that the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement.
Friday, September 03, 2010
The internal squabble among Delaware Republicans heated up Friday in the run-up to a contentious Senate primary, as the state Republican Party dropped the L-word -- liar -- in calling out Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell over her alleged financial problems.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Finally, an issue both Democrats and Republicans agree on: term limits. Nearly 8 in 10 American voters like the idea of imposing fixed time limits in office for all members of Congress -- including their own senators and representatives.
Friday, September 03, 2010
With the mid-term elections just two months away, the state of the economy continues to dominate other concerns for most American voters.
Friday, September 03, 2010
The former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $840,000 from a variety of political committees, including more than $670,000 from the NRCC itself.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Two months before Election Day, a new Fox News poll finds that more voters still disapprove than approve of President Obama???s job performance, but his approval rating is up a couple points from its summer lows.
Friday, September 03, 2010
The Sestak campaign said Friday that the president will appear at a Sept. 20 fundraising event in Philadelphia for the Democrat.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Despite its contentious history, most American voters appear to have made a positive judgment about the country???s efforts in Iraq.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Obama administration officials rejected a call Friday for the U.S. Treasury Department to bail out the troubled Kabul Bank in Afghanistan, as nervous customers withdrew millions following a shakeup in the bank's management.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insists she's not running for president in 2012 but that hasn't stopped one of her supporters from rolling out a wishful ad.
Friday, September 03, 2010
New employment figures released Friday fueled Republicans' call for President Obama to replace his economic team and "change course," as the president sought to put the best face on what many say is just more evidence of an economy stuck in neutral.
Friday, September 03, 2010
A key financial backer of the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero once contributed to a U.S.-designated terror group, MyFoxNY.com reports.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Gov. Jan Brewer says she didn't do as well as she wanted in her televised debate with challenger Terry Goddard.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
While James Jay Lee was holding three hostage at the Discovery Channel's headquarters, his image was broadcast to the world, catching the eye of an anti-abortion group that says it crossed once paths with him
Thursday, September 02, 2010
AP - Republican Dan Maes, Democrat John Hickenlooper and American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo are officially on the November ballot in the race for Colorado governor.Friday, September 03, 2010
AP - Gov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state's immigration law and warning of rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a claim that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert.Friday, September 03, 2010
The Newsroom - In its Aug. 10 primary, Colorado set up one of the most intriguing U.S. Senate match-ups in the country, which could be a bellwether race for the national midterms. Sen. Michael Bennet must face the curse of Obama-backed incumbents -- despite running his first election campaign -- against Tea Party-backed Republican Ken Buck, who had suddenly risen to the nomination over the early GOP favorite, former state Lt. Gov. Jane Norton.Friday, September 03, 2010
Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday he would outline new measures next week to boost the U.S. economy, but analysts were skeptical he would be able to deliver a big enough package to lift growth significantly.Friday, September 03, 2010
AP - President Barack Obama is awarding a posthumous Medal of Honor to an Air Force chief master sergeant who braved enemy fire to help three wounded comrades before suffering his own fatal wounds during combat in Laos in 1968.Friday, September 03, 2010
AP - President Barack Obama plans to attend a fundraiser later this month to help Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's campaign for the U.S. Senate.Friday, September 03, 2010
The Upshot - Finally, there's one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on in this highly polarized, hotly contested election year: John Boehner is simply way too tan. In a survey that threatens to send a chill down Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's own perpetually tan spine, Public Policy Polling finds that a majority of voters in Boehner's home [...]Friday, September 03, 2010
AP - Former President Bill Clinton slammed Republicans Friday for their stewardship of the economy during their years in power in Washington, and said the party's campaign message heading into the 2010 midterm elections is: "Put us in because the Democrats didn't fix what we did to you in 21 months."Friday, September 03, 2010
AP - President Barack Obama plans to meet at the White House next week with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AHN'-derz FOHG RAHS'-moo-sihn).Friday, September 03, 2010
Time.com - Nine weeks before the midterm elections, Barack Obama finds himself on the wrong side of the polls. Where did all that adoration go -- and is a Republican sweep next?Friday, September 03, 2010
The Newsroom - Considered a toss-up race, the Virginia contest between Rep. Glenn Nye and Republican Scott Rigell is causing a good deal of concern for backers of Nye, a freshman Democrat. While he's voted in line with the conservative 2nd Congressional District, recent events involving the Department of Defense cuts could directly impact his re-election chances in a bad way.Friday, September 03, 2010
AP - Eager to jumpstart the economy ahead of crucial midterm elections, President Barack Obama said Friday he intends to unveil a new package of proposals, likely including tax cuts and targeted spending, to spark job growth.Friday, September 03, 2010
CQPolitics.com - Pre-primary fundraising reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission provided fresh evidence that New York is a state to watch this cycle, with competitive primaries coming up Sept. 14 and the potential for Republicans to pick up a handful of seats in November.Friday, September 03, 2010
AP - Twenty-one years after she began her undergraduate work, Republican Christine O'Donnell can accurately call herself a college graduate.Friday, September 03, 2010
The Upshot - Buoyed by Joe Miller's surprise win in Alaska's Senate GOP primary, the Tea Party Express is hoping to take down another heavily favored Republican incumbent, this time in Delaware. The group plans to spend $250,000 on radio and TV ads to boost Christine O'Donnell, a largely unknown conservative activist who is vying against longtime GOP [...]Friday, September 03, 2010
AP - President Barack Obama is heading to Pennsylvania to help Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak's bid for the Senate.Friday, September 03, 2010
Time.com - A historic election season has already begun, and our coverage of it will be unrivaled in its scope, depth and insightFriday, September 03, 2010
The Upshot - President Obama heads to Milwaukee?? onMonday, where he'll mark Labor Day at a statewide union event with other local Democratic candidates ??? except for one. Sen. Russ Feingold, who is facing a tougher-than-expected re-election campaign, is too busy to meet up with Obama this weekend. It's the second time this summer that Feingold has dodged [...]Friday, September 03, 2010
The Upshot - While the rest of the political world is preoccupied with the midterm elections, Chicago dentist William DeJean is hatching plans for 2012. He shelled out $5,000 to create an ad encouraging Americans to back a Hillary Clinton presidential run in 2012. He says the spot will run in New Orleans, Washington, New York and Los [...]Friday, September 03, 2010
AFP - First Lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, in a Friday editorial urged Americans to "do something" to support US troops as they return from combat in Iraq.Friday, September 03, 2010
