US Election News
PARIS (Reuters) - An opinion poll published on Sunday showed that French far-right leader Marine Le Pen would lose to far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon in her home district in parliamentary elections next month. The Ifop-Fiducial poll showed ...
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Oil slid below $98 a barrel Monday in Asia, bringing its fall over three trading days to about 7 percent, as a slowdown in U.S. hiring and election results in Europe dimmed expectations of stronger economic growth. Benchmark ...
As they say in the movies, here we go again. Election season is upon us and, once more, we're scuffling over the ground rules — in this case, maintenance of the voter registration rolls. The bell has sounded, summoning skeptics and cynics out ...
BANGKOK (AP) -- World stock markets were pummeled Monday by election results in Greece and France that heightened uncertainty about Europe's ability to solve its debt crisis. Signs of a faltering economic recovery in the U.S. compounded the dour ...
The event was attended by stars including Barbra Streisand, Robert Downey Jr and Tobey Maguire, and executives from the movie, music, television, legal and health care industries. The President told supporters that after years of "evolving" on the issue ...
It was a rare reflection by Mitt Romney on his life as a young Mormon, offered as proof to struggling Americans that despite being born into privilege and amassing a $250 million fortune, he too had known hard times. A day after being labelled “out of ...
Republicans hastily add anti-equal marriage coda to a defence bill 3 In a sign that equal marriage might be made a more prominent issue than previously thought, following President Obama's support for the measure, Republican-led House of Representatives ...
A timely exposure by the press helped rebuff a nasty boorish Ad campaign to coarsen US politics. A Chicago billionaire’s 10 million dollar plan to bank roll the race-infused statements of Pastor Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr, a former confidant of President ...
Election results from early voting and Saturday’s municipal ... “It’s been a crazy week for us,” he said. “I never thought this would garner the attention this has.” MacNair said he initially thought the attention and spectacle ...
WASHINGTON — For Senate Republicans, 2012 is starting a lot like 2010. They have a shot at taking control away from Democrats as long as insurgent conservatives who are defeating the party’s more establishment candidates in primaries don’t ...