Yahoo! News: Politics News
 AP - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Friday backed prominent conservative James Dobson's claim that President Barack Obama's administration would block medical treatment for stroke patients over age 70. Professional medical groups have called such statements bogus.
3 Feb 2012 at 6:10pm
 AP - A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012:
3 Feb 2012 at 6:03pm
 AP - A confident Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of failing to do enough to create jobs as he campaigned Friday ahead of GOP presidential caucuses this weekend in a state with sky-high unemployment and foreclosure rates. Newt Gingrich, who is fighting for a respectable showing here, rolled out a fresh line of criticism by comparing the former Massachusetts governor to Obama.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:35pm
 AP - Mitt Romney talks about his love for America almost every day. Twice now, the Republican presidential front-runner has even broken into song.
3 Feb 2012 at 3:55pm
AP - The debate coach who worked with Mitt Romney ahead of two well-received debate performances in Florida is no longer with the Republican's presidential campaign.
3 Feb 2012 at 7:38pm
AP - In Nevada, people could once buy homes and feed their families with money earned from free-spending tourists who flocked to Sin City for relaxed gambling and liquor laws.
3 Feb 2012 at 4:15pm
 AP - The stronger the economy gets, the more the presidential race comes down to what voters believe: Are things actually getting better? Or is it all still a mess?
3 Feb 2012 at 4:59pm
 AP - The millionaires, billionaires and companies giving big sums to political committees supporting Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama have important business with the next president. Some are already in trouble with the government. Some are pressing for new laws or regulations that would benefit their interests in energy, mining and high finance.
3 Feb 2012 at 7:13pm
Politico - For many supporters, this was fundamental betrayal.
3 Feb 2012 at 6:50pm
Politico - Some believed he was receiving too much credit for Romney's comeback.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:25pm
AP - President Barack Obama has spent time with around 25 wealthy donors who paid $35,800 each to talk with him behind closed doors at a Washington hotel.
3 Feb 2012 at 3:25pm
AP - St. Louis businessman John Brunner has already poured at least $1 million into his Republican quest to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, and new documents show Brunner has a lot more where that came from.
3 Feb 2012 at 6:01pm
 AP - The Obama administration has more than doubled, to about 21,000 names, its secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States, including about 500 Americans, the Associated Press has learned. The government lowered the bar for being added to the list, even as it says it's closer than ever to defeating al-Qaida.
2 Feb 2012 at 3:53pm
The Christian Science Monitor - Somalia’s seven-month-long famine – which killed tens of thousands and forced nearly 4 million people dependent on food aid for survival – has finally come to an end, according to the United Nations.
3 Feb 2012 at 12:01pm
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | According to The Ticket, President Obama is saying that job gains in January are a sign of economic recovery and he's telling Congress not to "muck it up." A jobs report released February 3 showed that 243,000 jobs were added in January, and unemployment has slipped to 8.3 percent.
3 Feb 2012 at 8:06pm
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msnbc.com: Politics
Mitt Romney likes to say on the campaign trail that President Obama's policies made the recession worse, but most statistics don't bear that out.
3 Feb 2012 at 3:23pm
A weeklong firestorm over the Susan G. Komen foundation's decision to cut off -- and, on Friday, restore -- a grant to Planned Parenthood marked one of the high points in political battle targeting the finances of the nationwide network of reproductive health clinics.
3 Feb 2012 at 12:42pm
Newt Gingrich had no comment about January's jobs figures at an event late Friday morning in Nevada because, the former House speaker explained, he hadn't seen them yet.
3 Feb 2012 at 3:31pm
In what’s likely to be a boost to President Obama’s chances of winning a second term, nonfarm payroll employment jumped by 243,000 last month as the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since February of 2009.
3 Feb 2012 at 10:41am
Right after Election Day, a lame-duck Congress will face a horrific fiscal train wreck: sharp tax increases, combined with automatic spending cuts.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:54am
First Read: President stresses fairness, housing and the auto industry success as he eyes a general election race against Mitt Romney.
3 Feb 2012 at 8:10am
Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, a Mormon with close ties to church leaders, is expected to carry an overwhelming majority of votes Saturday from Nevada members of the church.
3 Feb 2012 at 7:57am
President Barack Obama is to visit a state-of-the-art fire station in a Washington suburb on Friday.
3 Feb 2012 at 6:43am
With members of Congress convinced their political survival depends on their image, the House is wasting no time in considering a Senate-passed bill that would ban insider trading by lawmakers and thousands of executive branch officials.
3 Feb 2012 at 6:41am
The bruising Republican primary has given President Obama and his campaign an opportunity to craft his message for the general election, especially as it relates to winning over independents.
2 Feb 2012 at 4:40pm
Donald Trump formally endorsed Mitt Romney for president on Thursday, describing the former Massachusetts governor as "tough" and "smart" and the best pick in the GOP primary.
2 Feb 2012 at 3:01pm
Dozens of American industries and businesses, from biodiesel producers to stock car racing facilities, are urging Congress to quickly revive 60 targeted tax breaks that expired on Dec. 31.
2 Feb 2012 at 12:54pm
First Read: Republicans criticize the public stance but Obama may be able to declare an effective end to a second war before November’s election.
2 Feb 2012 at 8:22am
President Barack Obama has long relished a dragged-out Republican primary contest that would leave the eventual Republican nominee battered before the fall election.
2 Feb 2012 at 7:30am
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, denies report that he had to call a "truce" with House Marjority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.
2 Feb 2012 at 12:44pm
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Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives will swiftly take up a Senate-passed bill to curb insider trading by lawmakers next week, a top Republican said on Friday as Congress clamors to promote the measure in the face of flagging approval ratings.
  
3 Feb 2012 at 4:59pm
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Mitt Romney surged on Friday toward an apparent easy win in Nevada, with a new poll showing him beating rival Newt Gingrich by a 2-to-1 margin on the eve of the state's presidential nominating contest.
 
3 Feb 2012 at 5:25pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation backed down from its decision to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion and birth control services, following a massive outcry by supporters of the world's largest breast cancer charity.
 
3 Feb 2012 at 4:02pm
(Reuters) - He won't be in this Sunday's Super Bowl and his Denver Broncos are already 50-to-1 longshots for next year's National Football League title, but if Tim Tebow swapped the pigskin for politics, he just might be a shoo-in for the White House.
 
3 Feb 2012 at 5:59pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unexpectedly strong jobs report on Friday boosted President Barack Obama's re-election prospects, but the trend must last to deny his opponents the biggest cudgel they have to bash him before the November election.
 
3 Feb 2012 at 1:57pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats have begun preparing a backup plan to extend a tax cut for workers if a special congressional negotiating committee fails to reach quick agreement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Friday.
 
3 Feb 2012 at 4:48pm
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) - If Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was unsettled by making headlines that jangled nerves from Kabul to Washington on his trip to Europe this week, it didn't dampen his infectious chuckle as he headed to a security summit in Germany on Friday.
 
3 Feb 2012 at 6:34pm
FOXNews.com
A drop in the unemployment rate is always good economic news, but those of all political stripes say .. it's not as good as it looks.
3 Feb 2012 at 6:40pm
Pressure is building on Google. On Friday, the European Union asked Google to the delay the rollout of its new privacy policy, scheduled for March 1, until the E.U. can work out whether it is in line with Europe's data protection laws.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:56pm
With election season in full swing, the Labor Department reports are bound to serve as a political football every month until November, and with his administration under fire on the campaign trail for slow economic growth despite stimulus funding and other measures, Obama is eager for some good news.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:37pm
Washington Post report is the first to use such a specific timeframe, after Fox News previously reported concerns from former members of Obama's national security team that a unilateral strike from Israel could occur sometime in 2012.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:25pm
Proposed legislation in the state of Ohio would ban the purchase of lions, bears, gorillas and other exotic animals, but it also would allow current owners of such animals to keep the pets if they meet strict new requirements.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:23pm
The Air Force says it will cut the service by nearly 10,000 active, National Guard and Reserve airmen next year, as part of a broad move to downsize and shift capabilities around the country to be better prepared for wars of the future.
3 Feb 2012 at 4:54pm
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich showed no interest in going easy on each other heading into Saturday's Nevada caucuses, despite polls that show the former Massachusetts governor well ahead in the contest.
3 Feb 2012 at 3:56pm
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