Politics

Pelosi: Don't extend payroll tax cut next year
The Social Security payroll tax cut should be allowed to expire at the end of this year and lawmakers should turn instead to overhauling the entire ...
Mich. police reprimanded over homeless man's death
A Saginaw police supervisor has been demoted and two officers have been disciplined for their roles in the fatal shooting of a knife-wielding, ...
Obama gaining in battleground state contributions
Showing impressive momentum, President Barack Obama raised more in high-dollar contributions than Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during ...
Corruption trial opens for former Detroit mayor
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick repeatedly stuffed his bank account and paid off credit cards with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, the ...
Defense hawk backs US withdrawal from Afghanistan
One of the strongest defense hawks in Congress says the United States should withdraw its forces from Afghanistan amid increasing signs that even ...
AP sources: US to take Iran group off terror list
The Obama administration will remove from the U.S. terrorism list an Iranian militant group formerly allied with Saddam Hussein, officials said ...
Biden hits Romney's 47 percent remark in NH
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Vice President Joe Biden says GOP nominee Mitt Romney is "profoundly wrong" in saying 47 percent of Americans see ...
Georgian protesters demand prosecutions for abuse
Thousands rallied Friday in Georgia to demand the prosecution of top officials fired in a prison abuse scandal that threatens to unseat the governing ...
Vintage lawmakers try for comebacks to Congress
When bearded Democratic maverick Rick Nolan dropped out of Congress 32 years ago to start a vegetable farm in rural Minnesota, the Reagan revolution ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Wall Street regulation and reform
The issue: The 2008 financial crisis roiled the banking system and swamped the global economy, leaving millions of Americans jobless, underemployed ...
No ethics charge for Democratic Calif. Rep. Waters
California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters won't be charged with ethics violations following allegations she steered a $12 million federal bailout to ...
Out: Three giant rallies a day. In: Fundraisers
Four years ago, the presidential contenders were packing airplane hangars, city squares and college arenas in a sprint to Election Day. This year, the ...
THE RACE: Romney running into some GOP headwinds
Republicans expected the Nov. 6 presidential election to be a national referendum on Barack Obama's presidency and economic stewardship. But some GOP ...
German upper house seeks women quota in boardrooms
The German Parliament's upper house is calling for a mandatory quota for women on companies' supervisory boards. The house, which represents Germany's ...
Obama's record in Muslim world: strides, setbacks
Images of angry mobs in Arab cities burning American flags and attacking U.S. diplomatic posts suggest the Muslim world is no less enraged at the ...
Black women rally against voter ID laws
Deidra Reese isn't waiting for people to come to her to find out whether they are registered to vote. With iPad in hand, Reese is going to community ...
Obama has more campaign money to spend than Romney
At the end of August, President Barack Obama had about $88.8 million to spend on the final months of the campaign, nearly twice as much as Republican ...
Obama has $88 million to spend in final weeks
President Barack Obama has about $88 million available to spend for the presidential campaign's final stretch, giving him a sizable cash-on-hand ...
Obama: Extremists used video as 'excuse' to attack
President Barack Obama said Thursday that extremists used an anti-Islam video as an excuse to assault U.S. interests overseas, including an attack on ...
Obama suggests Romney is out of touch with America
President Barack Obama cast Mitt Romney on Thursday as an out-of-touch challenger for the White House and an advocate of education cuts that could ...
Romney has $50.4 million for fall sprint
At the end of August, Republican Mitt Romney had about $50.4 million to spend on the final months of the campaign, though reports released Thursday ...
Republicans, IG take Justice Dept. to task
House Republicans eagerly joined the Justice Department's inspector general in taking the agency to task Thursday for its bungled gun-trafficking ...
House moves to reverse administration welfare plan
House Republicans on Thursday followed up Mitt Romney's remarks about people who get federal aid with a bill that would reverse what they call ...
Bourbon Street 'no preaching' law challenged
A street preacher sued on Thursday to block a city ordinance that restricts religious or political speech on Bourbon Street after dark. In his federal ...
Partisan Dems, GOP can only agree defense cuts bad
The only thing a bitterly partisan Congress can agree on as it heads for the exits is that looming defense cuts will have a devastating effect on the ...