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Anti-Obama messages pop up in diet pill ads. The GOP’s 2010 Senate prospects brighten. Cash for clunkers comes to an end -- and it hasn’t always worked as

Two can play at this game! President Obama garnered headlines Friday, when he used his massive email list from the campaign to promote his legislative agenda

Sens. Reid, Hatch and McCain weigh in on Ted Kennedy’s passing. Kennedy’s friends and colleagues remember the lion of the Senate. The SEIU urges Congress

This morning we ran a piece from our finance reporter Mary Kane on how the Bear Stearns deal struck a nerve with housing advocates who have been calling for

Critics of the conservatives who’ve brought guns to rallies outside of President Barack Obama’s speeches have found an unlikely ally: Bernard Kerik, the former

Freed journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee say they entered North Korea. Tom Ridge disputes information culled from the dust jacket of his new book. Is

Atlanta businessman Herman Cain returns to Iowa Monday following a staff hiccup to open his state headquarters and speak with Scott County Republican Women , but he’ll be doing so under the glare of the Republican Hispanic community.

Romer predicts that unemployment will remain high. But Americans are more optimistic about the economy than they were a year ago. Here’s a shocker: some

The torture advocate and former vice president will be on ABC News’ This Week, interviewed by Jonathan Karl, possibly the only ABC reporter to contribute to

The Massachusetts state Senate will debate Kennedy’s succession today -- and Dukakis picks up a key endorsement. Who leaked McChrystal’s strategy review?

One more point about the Rasmussen poll that’s refocused some attention on Massachusetts. On Nov. 24, 2009, Rasmussen did the last big poll on the Democratic

DES MOINES — Lyndsay Harshman grew up in a small southern Iowa town that had no pediatrician. In May she’ll graduate from medical school to go into pediatrics while balancing $135,000 in student debt.

Just released: I strongly condemn the attacks that occurred this morning in Jakarta, and extend my deepest condolences to all of the victims and their loved

When the Office of Thrift Supervision failed to notice a meth addict was mortgage supervisor at Washington Mutual, its days might have appeared numbered. But thanks to insurance firms looking to pick up government bailout money, it could rise again.

Last week, Richard Goldstone, who investigated Israeli and Hamas war crimes in Gaza for the United Nations, wrote to Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) to say that a

Catholics and clergy dined over $65 plates of sausage, bacon and scrambled eggs Wednesday morning at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., to celebrate

This morning, President Barack Obama addressed today’s positive jobs report and indicated that while the recovery is real, it remains fragile. In the statement,

Although the National Rifle Association has -- at least officially -- stayed out of this fight until now (though judging from some senators’ heavy questioning