Politics

WHY IT MATTERS: Taxes
The issue: Just about every U.S. taxpayer is facing a significant tax increase next year, unless Congress and the White House can agree on a plan to ...
Study: Fewer kids living in violent households
The Justice Department says the number of children living in violent households fell by 68 percent over an 18-year period. The department's Bureau of ...
GOP struggles to parse Romney remarks
Being called "obviously inarticulate" by your running mate isn't something a presidential candidate ever wants to hear. Yet Rep. Paul Ryan was trying ...
US removes penalties against Myanmar's president
The U.S. Treasury has removed Myanmar's president, Thein Sein, from a list of individuals who are barred from doing business or owning property in ...
High court won't stop Texas voting map
The Supreme Court is allowing Texas to use congressional districts that were drawn by a lower federal court for the November election. The court ...
Congressional Democrats seize on Romney video
Democrats running for the House and Senate are pouncing on Mitt Romney's remarks that nearly half of all Americans think they are "victims" entitled ...
US penalties in effect for Taliban-allied Haqqanis
U.S. sanctions against the Pakistan-based Haqqani (hah-KAH'-nee) network of militants have come into force following the Obama administration's ...
AP Source: Obama to meet with Suu Kyi
A senior administration official says President Barack Obama will meet privately with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the White House ...
Farm-state lawmakers returning home empty-handed
Farm-state members of Congress have campaigned for decades on the back of farm bills delivering election-season subsidies and other goodies to rural ...
Romney keeps relearning history's gaffe lessons
Who says Mitt Romney doesn't worry much about the very poor? That he believes corporations are people, too? That his wife drives two Cadillacs? Romney ...
Navy: Affair caused Conn. sub boss to fake death
Told that her lover had died, the young woman drove for hours to the man's home in Virginia, traveling with her mother and sister to offer condolences
Obama jabs at Romney over his '47 percent' remarks
President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night the occupant of the Oval Office must "work for everyone, not just for some," jabbing back at Mitt ...
Army tests body armor tailored for female soldiers
Female soldiers from Fort Campbell deploying to Afghanistan will field test the first Army body armor that is shorter and better tailored specifically ...
Analysis: Romney sharpens differences with Obama
Republican Mitt Romney, in describing nearly half of Americans as being docile dependents of the state, and saying it's a "foreign concept" for ...
Obstacles may delay drones' access to US skies
Difficult to resolve safety and security obstacles may prevent the Federal Aviation Administration from meeting a deadline to allow civilian drones ...
Half avoid taxes, get US help, but many not poor
Mitt Romney got the math about right. But when he said 47 percent of Americans pay no income taxes and are "dependent on government," he blurred ...
Judge: Police to enforce Ariz. immigration law now
A judge in Arizona ruled Tuesday that police can immediately start enforcing the most contentious section of the state's immigration law, marking the ...
Republicans: Bad gets worse for Romney
A bad stretch for Mitt Romney just got worse, and Republican insiders now are growing increasingly pessimistic about the GOP presidential nominee's ...
Pa. high court wants review of voter ID access
Pennsylvania's highest court on Tuesday told a lower court that it should stop a tough new voter photo identification law from taking effect in this ...
Half avoid taxes, get fed help but many not poor
Mitt Romney got the math about right when he said 47 percent of Americans pay no incomes taxes and are "dependent on government" for support. But he ...
Carter grandson arranged Romney video's release
Midway through a routine Internet search, James Carter IV stumbled upon a video that just didn't seem right. The grandson of former President Jimmy ...
Romney: 'Great divide' exists over tax philosophy
Republican Mitt Romney said Tuesday that Democratic President Barack Obama believes government should "take from some to give to the others" as he ...
Romney questions Palestinian commitment to peace
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's comments expressing doubt about Palestinians' commitment to peace again highlight the closeness of his ...