Politics

Biden: Running company not same as leading country

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
MARTINS FERRY, Ohio (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says the business background that Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney touts on the campaign trail doesn't necessarily make him fit to run a country....

Biden to Va. high school grads: Banish cynicism

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Virginia high school graduates to believe that the U.S. has a bright future....

Grow up, Congress -- make a deal on debt

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
Congressional Republicans are threatening another game of chicken with the debt ceiling. This will get America nowhere, says John Avlon.
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Can Obama use Hollywood's soft power?

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
Timothy Stanley says Obama must stay on the right side of moviemakers if he wants to use their cultural influence--and big donations--to get reelected
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Mich. boy finds piece of finger in Arby's sandwich

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan teen made a grisly discovery after biting into an Arby's junior roast beef sandwich.

Ryan Hart said he had nearly polished off his sandwich last Friday when he bit into something tough to chew that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out.

Turns ...

Romney, Republican Party raise $40M in April

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his party together raised $40.1 million in April....

Billionaire won't air Obama-Wright campaign ads

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama's former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic....

Closing arguments made in Edwards trial

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Attorneys hammered at the credibility of John Edwards and his once-trusted aide as arguments in his campaign corruption trial ended Thursday, leaving jurors to decide whether the presidential candidate's sex scandal cover-up amounted to a crime or a litany of lies.

Jurors begin deliberations Friday on six counts of ...

The Wright Strategy

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
By Jason L. Riley Using Jeremiah Wright to attack President Obama is certainly fair game, but it may not be smart politics.


THE RACE: Obama asserts he's in control of agenda

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
Newt Gingrich's dynamic style in his first months of running the House as speaker in 1995 reduced President Bill Clinton to asserting that he was still relevant. Now President Barack Obama seems to be proclaiming much the same thing....

THE RACE: Politics a factor in weekend summits

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
President Barack Obama is taking a break from active campaigning for a few days to host back-to-back world summits. Yet U.S. presidential politics will be lurking just offstage at both....

THE RACE: Politics a factor in weekend summits

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
President Barack Obama is taking a break from active campaigning for a few days to host back-to-back world summits. Yet U.S. presidential politics will be lurking just offstage at both....

Justice: Prisons to step up anti-rape efforts

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is ordering federal, state and local prisons to increase efforts to stop prison rape by issuing mandatory screening, enforcement and prevention regulations in hopes of reducing sexual victimization behind bars.

The Justice Department announced the regulations Thursday on the heels of a new study showing ...

Obama's likeability a factor in election

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
Despite the heated campaign, lackluster performance on the economy and negative feelings many conservatives have toward President Obama, many voters still like Obama as a person.
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Obama as campaigner is 'just another politician'

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2025-04-30 22:43
President Obama's re-election team has turned the candidate of hope and change into a ferociously political animal: The outsider who flew above polarized politics now does nothing but campaign and polarize.
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