President Barack Obama on Monday refused to acknowledge the existence of a presidential "kill list" despite multiple assertions by top-ranking officials in his administration that the list exists.
11:22 AM 09/05/2012
Democrats have high hopes that last night’s keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, can deliver Latino voters to the Democratic ticket and give them a decisive electoral majority.
4:19 AM 09/05/2012
San Antonio mayor Julian Castro's strong push for large-scale public investment in San Antonio, a program dubbed “SA2020,” has been the centerpiece of his tenure as San Antonio’s mayor.
12:22 PM 08/31/2012
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke left the door open to a third round of quantitative easing in his annual Jackson Hole, Wyo., speech Friday.
3:54 PM 08/23/2012
A presidential election prediction model developed by two University of Colorado professors points to a big win for GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney in November.
4:18 PM 08/22/2012
Tootsie Roll Industries, the manufacturer of Tootsie Rolls, Dots, Blow Pops, and other candies, has grown increasingly secretive, the Wall Street Journal reports.
3:49 PM 08/16/2012
Former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, a co-chair of President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, will speak at the GOP convention later this month, the Washington Post reports.
5:38 PM 08/13/2012
JP Morgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon vigorously defended the size and practices of his bank and other financial institutions in a recent interview published in New York Magazine, at one point nearly yelling, "It's a free. Fucking. Country."
12:53 AM 08/10/2012
Tasty Kabob, a small food-truck business based in Washington, D.C., was forced to relocate from its usual parking spot due to an anti-Mitt Romney Democratic National Committee bus parked outside the Republican National Committee headquarters.
10:58 AM 08/09/2012
The National Taxpayers Union criticized official White House videographer Hope Hall on Wednesday, alleging that her position blurs the line between legitimate government functions and political campaigning.
12:00 AM 08/08/2012

12:00 PM 08/02/2012
After her third consecutive gold medal in three-meter springboard synchronized diving, Chinese diver Wu Minxia's parents told her that her grandparents had died and her mother had breast cancer.
4:15 PM 07/31/2012
Police arrested a man Sunday night after he carried a firearm into a a Thorton, Colorado theater nine days after the Aurora shootings, Kieran Nicholson of the Denver Post reports.
12:01 PM 07/30/2012
Mitt Romney was greeted by Polish supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul as his motorcade passed through Gdansk on Monday. Volunteers from the Romney campaign struggled in vain to use umbrellas to block a large Ron Paul banner from sight, Bonney Kapp of CBS News reports.
1:38 PM 07/27/2012
House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he would like Ohio Sen. Rob Portman to be Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate.
3:25 PM 07/26/2012
"Call Me Maybe" singer Carly Rae Jepsen has alerted Vancouver, Canada police to the theft of nude images from her computer, TMZ reports.