Actress-turned-activist sees GOP immigration deal
Actress-turned-activist Eva Longoria says Republicans have a moral, political and economic duty to compromise on immigration. Longoria is credited ...

Spain's ruling party to probe alleged corruption
Spain's governing Popular Party announced Saturday that it will investigate the financial activities of a former treasurer whom a court said had ...

Analysis: Weak House GOP seeks leverage vs. Obama
Celebration doesn't seem to be high on the agenda as House Republicans, their majority renewed by the voters last fall, lay the groundwork for another ...

Big party for Democrats, quiet reflection for GOP
For many Republicans, this is a good weekend to get away from it all. With hundreds of thousands of Democrats traveling to nation's capital for ...

Analysts: Political party polls in Kenya a failure
Political party primaries to select candidates for Kenya's March national elections have been fraught with irregularities, disorganization and ...

GOP eyes new election laws
After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win. From Wisconsin to ...

Regional vote to offer clues to Merkel future
Chancellor Angela Merkel is riding high in polls as she seeks a third term at the head of Europe's biggest economy. But a major state election this ...

Poll: Most see damage if US debt limit not raised
Most Americans think jarring economic problems will erupt if lawmakers fail to increase the government's borrowing limit. Yet they're torn over how ...

House GOP may seek short-term debt limit extension
House Republicans may seek a quick, short-term extension of the government's debt limit, a move that would avoid an immediate default by the Treasury ...

Jewish-Arab party makes long-shot election bid
An Arab woman who's been toiling on the fringes of Israeli politics for nearly two decades has broken out of obscurity in this year's election with ...

Obama is flexing his leverage on debt, immigration
President Barack Obama is assembling an ambitious second-term agenda, pushing aggressively where he thinks he has political leverage but moving more ...
House Democrats want to repeal debt ceiling
House Democrats are pushing legislation to repeal the federal debt ceiling, saying the borrowing limit has no practical purpose and has come to be ...

Stormy issue of Sandy aid settles down in House
The political tempest stirred up by Superstorm Sandy appears to have moved on after wreaking havoc among congressional Republicans divided over how ...

House approves $50.5 billion in Sandy aid
More than 10 weeks after Superstorm Sandy brutalized parts of the heavily populated Northeast, the House approved $50.5 billion in emergency relief ...

Ron Paul's GOP legacy growing in states like Iowa
Ron Paul is exiting the political stage, but his legions of followers insist they are only getting started. Libertarian-leaning loyalists of the ...
Gingrich: GOP unwise to pick fight on debt limit
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says House Republicans are making a mistake by using the issue of increasing the borrowing limit to challenge ...

Cost-cut talk is long on emotion, short on details
In the heated talk about deep spending cuts that will dominate Congress in the coming weeks, one thing is likely to be in short supply: details.
Senate GOP leader optimistic about Afghanistan
The United States should keep a residual force of about 10,000 in Afghanistan after combat forces leave at the end of 2014, the Senate Republican ...

THE RESET: Obama: voters would blame both parties
President Barack Obama makes congressional Republicans the villains in the government's drama of lurching from crisis to crisis. But he also suggests ...
Boehner: GOP will pass 'responsible' debt bill
Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) says the GOP-controlled House will "do its job" and pass legislation to lift the nation's borrowing cap and keep the ...

Greece: Shots fired at ruling party HQ
A gunman fired a spray of bullets at the headquarters of Greece's governing center-right New Democracy party near central Athens early Monday, with ...
Colin Powell says GOP having 'an identity problem'
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says his own Republican Party is having "an identity problem." The former Joints Chief of Staff chairman who ...

Shifting landscape as Brown mulls Mass. Senate run
Scott Brown was a little-known Republican state senator who shocked Massachusetts Democrats three years ago by winning a U.S. Senate seat in a special ...
Top Dems urge Obama to weigh unilateral debt hike
President Barack Obama's top Democratic allies in the Senate advised him Friday to consider "any lawful steps" to make sure the government does not ...