The New York Working Families Party is calling on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to run for president in 2016. – “It’s a vote in the context of two undeclared candidates…
President Barack Obama will tell viewers of the Grammy awards on Sunday night to help stop sexual violence, according to The Washington Post. “It’s not okay – and it has…
Neurosurgeon and conservative favorite Ben Carson was the latest to touch on the issue, raising it during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday”and offering a critique of 2012 nominee Mitt…
President Barack Obama released a statement on Sunday commemorating the life of Dean Smith, the fabled basketball coach at the University of North Carolina who passed away Saturday evening at…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the favored potential GOP presidential contender among likely Republican voters in New Hampshire, according to a new Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm poll. – The New…
But it was a comparison he drew at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday that is receiving the latest criticism, proving just how potent language can be, particularly when it…
Mitt Romney opposed the government’s rescue of U.S. automakers. So did Jeb Bush. Both worked in finance and backed the Wall Street bailout. Both are advocates of tax cuts that…
Dr. Ben Carson said on Sunday that he would make a formal announcement by May about a possible 2016 presidential run. – According to HuffPost Pollster, which tracks publicly available…
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that he could not envision a set of circumstances that would compel the United States to further extend the deadline…
1. This will not be your father’s CPAC The cast changes, somewhat, at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, but for years the format has been the same: back-to-back-to-back-to-back speeches…
READ: Johnson says furloughs coming to DHS if funding stalls – “It is time to see some Senate Democrats willing to take on their own president, but right now, they’re…
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Sunday that he would have to furlough at least 30,000 workers if Congress does not agree to fund his department by…
www.nytimes.com: With advice from more than 200 policy experts, Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to answer what has emerged as a central question of her early presidential campaign strategy: how…
One Republican criticism of President Barack Obama’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State has been that the president has hampered his efforts by ruling out the use of U.S. ground…
Every election cycle can be considered, first and foremost, a monument to hype. With every passing week, the political world is a blizzard of brash predictions, bold pronouncements, and bad…
READ: Rand Paul stakes out libertarian claim in Iowa Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and neurosurgeon Ben Carson came in at 6%, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio earned 5% support, and…
Americans’ views of President Barack Obama have improved slightly in the past two months, and opinions are more positive about the direction of the country and the health of the…
READ: Rand Paul defends shushing interview – He said otherwise, he won’t be allowed to fund new initiatives for border security, hire extra Secret Service agents for the 2016 presidential…
With advice from more than 200 policy experts, Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to answer what has emerged as a central question of her early presidential campaign strategy: how to…
Paul found friendly audiences at the end of a stormy week filled with negative headlines over comments he made about vaccinations and swirling controversy involving one of his advisers in…
Talking to CNBC’s Kelly Evans on Monday, Evans started to follow up with a question about tax repatriation for corporations overseas while Paul was still talking, and the senator started…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to speak before Congress on March 3, but there’s a growing chorus of voices calling on him to cancel the appearance. The latest…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg dropped a truth bomb during a discussion at Georgetown University earlier this week. – Watch a video of her remarks above.
READ: Fiorina says it’s looking more likely she will run for president – But while Kashkari called his ascendance to the upper echelon of California Republican politics a “transformational moment,”…
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden will visit the early caucus state of Iowa next week, stirring speculation once again about the possibility of a presidential run in 2016. –…
READ: Merkel says Ukraine peace ‘uncertain’ after talks with Putin – Merkel is scheduled to visit Washington on Monday. The White House said she will meet with President Barack Obama…
Joe Biden, the vice president and an underdog for the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, is scheduled to be back in Iowa next week. Read the whole story at…
African-Americans have been monumental — and often controversial — forces in the political realm since Reconstruction. Americans are hip to Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Shirley…
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who won’t yet say whether she is running for president, is assembling a massive campaign team-in-waiting that outstrips anything on a Republican side that remains factionalized and…
The Kentucky Republican had a rough week but found a friendly audience Friday night headlining an “Audit the Fed” rally at Jasper Winery in Des Moines, an event packed with…