Politics Informer

Call it the Obama effect: A presidential visit can be good advertising for restaurants and businesses.

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Like many Texas Republicans, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has waited in line for higher office for nearly a decade.

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BEIJING (Reuters) – Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng appealed on Thursday for asylum in the United States, throwing into doubt a deal used to coax him out of hiding in the U.S. embassy in Beijing and fanning U.S.-China tensions at a sensitive ti…

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Richard Grenell, a foreign policy spokesman for Mitt Romney, resigned on Tuesday after an unexpectedly messy and public dispute over his role and reputation.

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An appeals court in San Francisco threw out a convicted terrorist’s lawsuit accusing a Bush administration lawyer who wrote the so-called torture memos of authorizing illegally harsh treatment of “enemy combatants.”

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For President Obama, the days leading up to his re-election kickoff have been spent straddling the precarious line between hawk and dove, and possibly redefining his party for years to come.

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As Mitt Romney has emerged as the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, most of his rivals have ended up in debt that is not easily paid off.

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Staff members had tried to prepare for the impact of a tabloid newspaper article about John Edwards’s extramarital affair, one former aide testified.

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Dr. Rose, the Dallas County medical examiner in 1963, waged an unsuccessful battle to perform the autopsy on the assassinated president.

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The changes institutionalize tactics adopted ad hoc in Iraq and Afghanistan, including putting some conventional units under Special Operations command.

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