In an interview with Entertainment Tonight that will air Monday, President Obama discussed his friendship with George Clooney, calling the actor a “wonderful guy.” “The truth is we got to know each other because of a substantive issue,” Obama said. “He is a terrific advocate on behalf of the people of Darfur, and to the people of [...]
Hundreds of thousands of teachers have lost their jobs in recent years. And as U.S. students go back to school amid a presidential campaign with clashing budget visions, President Barack Obama is sounding the alarm. Since since the end of the recession three years ago, 300,000 educators have lost their jobs — 7,000 in the last [...]
WASHINGTON — Democrats are mocking Republicans in the House of Representatives for voting to repeal the health care reform law and keep their own enhanced medical care. When Congress passed the health care law, it required members of Congress to get their insurance on exchanges with the rest of the public. But in voting to [...]
WASHINGTON — Roseanne Barr said Thursday she’s running for the Green Party’s presidential nomination – and it’s no joke. The actress-comedian said in a statement that she’s a longtime supporter of the party and looks forward to working with people who share her values. She said the two major parties aren’t serving the American people. [...]
Gallup, meet Google. The web giant has launched a hub for the 2012 election that tracks the popularity of presidential candidates using search trends, mentions in Google News and YouTube views, rather than more traditional polling data. Google’s new politics site, available atGoogle.com/elections, marks the company’s latest effort to move beyond indexing information and to develop [...]
Last week started off with the eighth Republican primary debate of the year, on Monday night. According to my own count, there were 15 questions (and answers) on tax reform, 2 on energy and jobs, one heated back-and-forth on health care, 12 questions and responses on immigration, 5 on the home-mortgage crisis, 3 on the [...]
GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain came down hard on immigration Saturday on the campaign trail, telling crowds in Tennessee that part of his policy would be to build an electrified fence on the Mexican border that could potentially kill anyone trying to enter the country illegally. He backed away from that proposal Sunday morning, however, [...]
WASHINGTON — The Republican presidential primary is heading into the home stretch before voters get to select which of the nine major candidates will get to face President Barack Obama next November. The release of the candidates’ third-quarter campaign finance reports on Friday and Saturday helps to illuminate which candidates are overperforming their goals and [...]
WASHINGTON — Despite a late entrance into the Republican presidential primary, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has reported an impressive $17.2 million in campaign donations from his Aug. 13 announcement through the end of September, according to a disclosure report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Saturday. A closer look at the numbers brings out [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is targeting vital North Carolina and Virginia this week, as he kicks off a three-day bus tour that is as much about campaigning for his jobs bill as it is shoring up support in two southern states he wrested from Republican control when he won the White House. Obama’s 2008 [...]
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