by Patrick Svitek | Feb 28, 2012 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Tuesday that the United States will lose its standing as a world power if almost $500 billion in spending cuts are piled on top of nearly the same amount of savings already proposed by President Barack Obama over the...
by Patrick Svitek | Feb 27, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A new poll shows President Barack Obama has expanded his lead over the Republican frontrunners to double digits, hinting that the GOP presidential candidates have been bruised by a grueling nomination battle. In the George Washington University-Politico...
by Shirley Li | Jan 31, 2012 | Business, National Security
WASHINGTON – The flames of controversy that burst over President Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray as Director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are still smoldering. Four Republican members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban...
by Chris Kirk | Jan 24, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Will Barack Obama get his swag back? The president used his State of the Union address Tuesday to showcase his policies, but icons from the hip hop community tried to answer the swag question. At “#BarackTalk,” titled after a Twitter...
by Edwin Rios | Jan 24, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON – For those outside the main political parties, the State of the Union looks much different than it did in President Barack Obama’s speech Tuesday night. As Obama outlined his economic blueprint in his address, and the GOP challenged that approach,...
