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Census: Whites no longer a majority in US by 2043
White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043, according to new census projections. That's part of a historic shift that already ...
Most Googled in 2012: Whitney, PSY, Sandy
The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, millions of people searched the Web to find out about a ...
THE RESET: Fed forges ahead with easy-money policy
As President Barack Obama and Congress agonize over strengthening the economy without fattening the $16 trillion national debt, the Federal Reserve ...
2012 styles that made our heads turn
Every year fashion offers up the good, the bad and the ugly. But what the industry is really built on — and consumers respond to — is buzz. Here are ...
Top Jindal aides use personal email to strategize
Top officials in Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration used personal email accounts to craft a media strategy for imposing hundreds of millions ...
Big knockout may set up Pacquiao-Marquez again
The idea of Manny Pacquiao being knocked out cold was shocking enough. The sight of him face down on the canvas, unresponsive even as bedlam broke out ...
Romney's '47 percent' chosen as year's best quote
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's comments about 47 percent of the population dependent on the government and "binders full of ...
USDA chief: Rural America becoming less relevant
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has some harsh words for rural America: It's "becoming less and less relevant," he says. A month after an election ...
Shadowy donor behind record 'super' PAC checks
A lawyer in Tennessee who is mysteriously linked to millions of dollars in campaign contributions steered to congressional candidates doubled his ...
Fiscal cliff ads pick up where campaign stopped
Debate over the "fiscal cliff" has money pouring into television, print, radio and online ads, picking up where the wall-to-wall election campaign ...
With election over, less attention to jobs report
Reaction to the monthly jobs numbers isn't what it used to be. The first unemployment report since President Barack Obama's re-election barely got a ...
Higher rates or fewer tax breaks - what's worse?
In the fiscal cliff wars, a pivotal battle is raging between Democrats demanding to raise revenue by boosting tax rates on the nation's highest ...
Election hits $2B mark amid last-minute donations
Remarkable for its last-minute surge of contributions, the U.S. presidential election witnessed unprecedented sums of cash boosting two men in their ...
Analysis: DeMint move defies GOP shift to center
The surprise job change by the Senate's most prominent tea partyer will complicate Republican moderates' bid to nudge their party toward the center ...
$2 billion price tag for presidential election
The 2012 presidential election broke the $2 billion milestone in its final weeks, becoming the most expensive in American political history, according ...
Illegal immigration drops after decade-long rise
New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases. The number of ...
Fox's correspondent on front lines with Obama
Ed Henry's assignment covering the White House would be a challenge for any journalist, no matter his employer. Yet Henry works at Fox News Channel, ...
Poll shows support for raising taxes on the rich
Americans prefer letting tax cuts expire for the country's top earners, as President Barack Obama insists, while support has declined for cutting ...
Spending cuts shadow Obama meeting with tribes
Hours after talking tough against Republicans in "fiscal cliff" negotiations, President Barack Obama and members of his Cabinet reassured hundreds of ...
Pentagon begins planning for massive budget cuts
The Defense Department has begun planning for the roughly $500 billion in personnel and program cuts over a decade that will be needed if Congress and ...
Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year
Thanks to the election, socialism and capitalism are forever wed as Merriam-Webster's most looked-up words of 2012. Traffic for the unlikely pair on ...
Ryan, Rubio plot party future as 2016 talk starts
Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio, two potential 2016 presidential candidates, laid out policy prescriptions for their Republican Party on Tuesday night, ...
Back to budgets, Ryan returns to comfortable topic
Paul Ryan is getting his groove back. A month after the GOP's presidential ticket lost an election, the party's vice presidential nominee finds ...
Mitt Romney rejoins Marriott board
Former presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is rejoining Marriott International's board of directors. He's held the post with ...
Romney's big loss leaves GOP with no clear leader
Mitt Romney's shadow looms over a Republican Party in disarray. The face of the GOP for much of the last year, the failed presidential candidate has ...