Elections

Budget Battles

  • Romney's VP List: A Cautious, Wide Open Search

    By Steve Holland, Reuters

    The presumptive 2012 nominee, Romney is expected to make a steady, "do-no-harm" vice presidential choice and avoid the type of "Hail Mary" selection that Palin represented, in his bid to unseat...

  • Obama Targets Human Rights Abuses

    By PHILIP BARBARA, Reuters

    President Barack Obama will issue an order on Monday to allow imposition of sanctions on foreign nationals who use new technologies such as cell-phone tracking and Internet monitoring to help carry...

  • The Socialist Who Can Rattle the Global Economy

    By Patrick Smith

    At the end of a week of bad news across Europe, the French have handed the Continent another cliffhanger: In the first round of polling for the presidency on Sunday, incumbent Nicholas Sarkozy...

  • 5 Ways to Turn Obama’s Economic Failures Around

    By Mortimer B Zuckerman, US News and World Report

    Op-Ed: America has long been a country where almost everyone, including the poor and unskilled, could get a job. Given the will to do a reasonable day's work, a job was a passport to economic and...

  • New Curbs on Voter Signups

    By Deborah Charles, Reuters

    New state laws designed to fight voter fraud could reduce the number of Americans signing up to vote in this year's presidential election by hundreds of thousands, a potential problem for President...