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The United States on Monday called Honduras' weekend election an important step forward but said more needs to be done to achieve reconciliation after a coup earlier this year threw the country into turmoil.
The White House says that Republican wins in two governors' races were not referendums on the president.
Did you hear the one about the best way to identify public officials in New Jersey? Check for the handcuff marks on their wrists.
House districts that could see party switch in 2010 elections. `X' denotes districts where the incumbent is considered among the most endangered.
Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama's slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next year's congressional races and may even threaten their House control.
President Barack Obama says he believes supreme leader Ayatollah ali Khamenei has deep concerns about the civil unrest that has followed the hotly contested presidential election there.
President Barack Obama has called Lebanese President Michel Suleiman to congratulate him on his country's parliamentary election.
The Supreme Court is letting stand a decision that invalidated state laws regulating the ways independent presidential candidates can get on state ballots.
A recount Wednesday confirmed Democrat Tom Perriello's narrow victory over Republican U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode in Virginia's 5th Congressional District.
From Florida to California, they're working hard on the upcoming election — knocking on doors in ethnic neighborhoods, manning the phones in myriad languages and distributing political flyers. But come Tuesday, they won't vote. They can't: They're not citizens.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has ordered a special election Nov. 18 to replace the late U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones.
Don Young, Alaska's lone congressman for the last 35 years, remained locked in a tight race with the lieutenant governor Wednesday, a day after the state's primary election, and the winner may not be decided for days.
Democrats sought Tuesday to tap into their networks of local Hispanic leaders to increase party support and turnout in the effort to deny Republican Sen. John McCain the presidency.
Former state lawmaker Jackie Speier, nearly killed the day of the Jonestown mass murder-suicide three decades ago, won a special congressional election to fill the seat of the late Rep. Tom Lantos.
The Bush administration has begun holding weekend and after-hours interviews for immigrants wanting to be Americans, responding to a heavy workload caused by last summer's flood of citizenship applications.
Some immigrants who sought U.S. citizenship amid an application backlog last summer may very well become Americans ahead of this year's presidential election, the Bush administration's top immigration official said Tuesday.
Americans seeking a change in foreign policy and a new national image abroad flocked to churches in Rome, town halls in England and an Irish pub in Hong Kong on Tuesday to vote in a Democrats Abroad primary.
A deluge of immigration applications in the months preceding a filing fee increase last year should have been foreseen, lawmakers on Thursday told Bush administration officials.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upholds New York's system of choosing trial judges is likely to renew calls for legislative reform, but even some proponents of change say their chances of success are slim.
The Bush administration has authority to rehire retired workers to reduce a backlog of immigration applications that is preventing thousands of people from becoming U.S. citizens in time to vote in November's elections, a Democratic senator said.
President Bush took heart Wednesday in Republican wins for House seats in Ohio and Virginia.
Republicans maintained control of both congressional seats that were up for grabs in special elections Tuesday in Ohio and Virginia, disappointing Democrats who had hoped to extend their gains in the House.
Two incumbents and seven new members were elected Friday to the governing board of directors of the Associated Press Managing Editors by the group's membership.
Supreme Court justices said Wednesday that New York's system of letting political bosses essentially pick trial judges does not appear to violate the Constitution.
Report: Campaign finance laws full of loopholesPoliticians across the country keep finding ways to skirt campaign-finance laws, using ballot-measure committees and other avenues to raise millions in unregulated contributions, according to a report issued Tuesday by a California-based think tank.
Giuliani not running for N.Y. Senate, governorFormer New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he's not running for governor or for U.S. Senate.
Most outrageous comments of 2009Outrageous comments are nothing new to the conservative media -- one might even call them a defining characteristic.
Senate candidates spar over health care, climate changeCoakley began the hourlong debate by defending her decision to support the recent US Senate compromise on health care, voicing reluctant support for the plan even though it contains some restrictions on abortion, which she opposes, and does not feature a government health plan, w …
If I have to read one more comment on Newsvine that accuses President Obama of being "a liar" without providing specific evidence to support such a statement then I'm going to freakin' lose it!
Anti-War Activist Mounts GOP Campaign for Congress"The ground has really shifted away from the neocon agenda," Kokesh told TWI during a break in his campaign schedule. "There was no influx of young people getting into the Republican Party to support John McCain.
Most people don't know this, but If 2/3 of the states apply to congress for a convention to propose amendments to the constitution, congress must call the convention.
Will GOP leaders oust Florida party's embattled chairman?TALLAHASSEE — Embattled Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer is facing a coup from disgruntled party leaders who are angry that he took sides in the state's U.S. Senate primary and are accusing him of causing "irreparable harm" to the party's finances.
When Big Government Is Better by Tony RubolottaThe 435 aristocrats in Congress represent on average approximately 700,000 people each. The allocation of those House seats to the states is determined by an unconstitutional process that leads to manipulation and court intervention where none should be required, or permitted.
A GOP sequel that's worse than noA year ago this month, our economy lost 700,000 jobs. Our financial markets were reeling from reckless decisions made on Wall Street, and leading economists wondered if we were hurtling toward a second Great Depression.
If Health Care Reform Fails, America's Innovation Gap Will Grow Greg Woock is the chief executive of Pinger, a fast-growing Silicon Valley company that makes iPhone applications. So Mr. Woock spends a fair amount of time interviewing job applicants.
Health reform could insure additional 177,000 West Virginians, report saysFamilies USA is a non-profit organization dedicated to achieving high quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
House GOP Deny Irrelevancy: "Bull Nipples Would be VERY Useful"Yeah this is satire.....or.....????
America Through the Looking GlassWhen you look closely at the budget, get beyond the corporate news shows and their mythologies and ask some questions about the subtleties in the legislation and where the money actually goes, you will realize it is not the down-and-outers who are taking your money, it is the big …
Democrats' 'Big Tent' Faces Challenges from Conservative MembersHouse Democrats fought their way back to power in 2006 and expanded their majority in 2008 by recruiting candidates who could win in conservative districts – a strategy that's coming back to bite them as they try to move a sweeping legislative agenda.
Hey Rush: IF You Were Occupied by the Left....Over the months that President Obama has been in the White House and Democrats have controlled Congress a curious thing has happened.
So the Democrats, who enjoy a 60% voting share in congress have decided to drop a government-run insurance option from sweeping health care legislation? From The L.A. Times....
Raise the Army of Texas by Tony RubolottaThe rising call to "Clean House" in the 2010 federal elections has been heard before and gave rise to a Congress no less arrogant or restrained than the one that preceded it.
Americans Want Government to Spend for Jobs, Send Bill to Rich - Yahoo! NewsDec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Americans want their government to create jobs through spending on public works, investments in alternative energy or skills training for the jobless. They also want the deficit to come down. And most are ready to hand the bill to the wealthy.
For conservatives, a political surgeThe energized "tea party" movement, which upended this year's political debate with noisy anti-government protests, is preparing to shake up the 2010 elections by channeling money and supporters to conservative candidates set to challenge both Democrats and Republicans.
America, Here's Your Change Candidate for 2012Johnson has the capability to activate a very enthusiastic portion of the American public with his libertarian message and the fact that he is simply so different.
The Truth of The Two Corporate Owned Political PartiesRead it if you dare. Then look into your mirrors and ask yourself why you continue to vote for these crooks and their numbskull overpaid talk radio lap dog fascists. Change ... for the Worse The Devil and Mr. Obama By JOE BAGEANT
Has the GOP Collapse Begun? Hypothetical "Tea Party" Outpolls RepublicansSomething is afoot among the conservative base -- voting Republican doesn't seem to cut it anymore, and incumbents are getting nervous.Establishment Republicans, take notice. The Tea Party is about to steal your thunder.
Randy Credico, Democratic U.S. Senate candidateThen there's Schumer's foreign policy, just as wretched as his domestic tyranny.
Another One-Time Rival Endorses GillibrandIn a statement announcing his endorsement, Stringer cited Gillibrand's environmentally-friendly initiatives, as well as her shift on gun control as reasons for his support.
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