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S. Supreme Court ruling that President Barack Obama and others warn may drown out the voice of the American people by allowing corporations, unions and other groups to spend unlimited funds in political campaigns without even identifying themselves.
On a largely party-line vote of 219-206, the Democratic-led House sent the bill to the Senate where it [...]
Obama had summoned McChrystal from Afghanistan to answer for remarks he and his aides made in an explosive Rolling Stone magazine article that disparaged the president and other civilian leaders.
The conduct represented in the recently published article does not meet the standard that should be set by a commanding general, Obama said bluntly in the [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing for a vote on the legislation by the end of the week.
Democratic leaders have been struggling all week to come up with a compromise that could win the support of their caucus as well as at least one Republican to get the 60 votes needed to advance [...]
McChrystal, the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan and architect of Obamas war strategy, was summoned back to Washington to explain his enormous mistake to the president, the White House said.
Obamas spokesman said all options were on the table but the president stressed he wanted to speak to McChrystal first.
I think it is clear that [...]
Eighteen months later, the question persists.
But on the eve of a key G20 meeting, Summers appears comfortable with his role in tackling the worlds Hydra-like economic problems.
Sitting in a wingback chair in his office overlooking the White House Rose Garden, the 55-year-old former Treasury Secretary said he has worked to soften some of his [...]
Stanley McChrystal will be asked to explain remarks he and his aides made in a Rolling Stone magazine article that disparaged the president and mocked other senior civilian leaders.
The situation poses a tough dilemma for Obama, who faces the choice of either being seen as tolerating insubordination from the military or shaking up the [...]
This was a very good day for consumer protection, said Democrat Christopher Dodd, the top senator on the panel. We withstood the amendments that would have undercut that.
But lawmakers on a Senate-House of Representatives panel backed away from their toughest proposals as they pressed to finish their work before President Barack Obama discusses financial reform [...]
S. citizens to speak and associate freely against the governments efforts to fight terrorism.
In a victory for the Obama administration, the justices voted, 6-3, to reverse a ruling by a U.S. appeals court that declared parts of the law unconstitutionally vague.
The law barring material support was first adopted in 1996 and strengthened by the USA [...]
The lawsuitoriginally filed by Louisiana-based Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC and joined by more than a dozen companies involved in offshore drilling operations — is the first legal action seeking to reverse the drilling ban imposed by the U.S. Department of Interior.
The companies are seeking a restraining order to bar enforcement of the moratorium, declared after [...]
The former president helped Senator Blanche Lincoln overcome anti-incumbent fervor and win a bruising Democratic primary in their home state of Arkansas on June 8.
Last month, Clinton provided a hand in snuffing out Republican hopes of picking up a seat in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania by stumping for Mark Critz, the Democrat who [...]