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President Barack Obama has promoted a story of the historic first gay kiss since repeal of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.”

A picture and a link to the story was posted on Obama's re-election blog (barackobama ...

Michele Bachmann on Thursday was heckled by a gay robot during a campaign stop in heavily Democratic Iowa City, the Iowa City Patch reported.

The man dressed in a robot suit shouted Bachmann down during her rapid 20-minute campaign stop at ...

(Reuters) - Congress, after months of bitter fighting, is poised on Friday to pass a payroll tax cut extension that President Barack Obama argues is vital to the health of the economy.

The legislation would continue for two months a 4.2 percent payroll tax rate that otherwise would expire on December 31 and ratchet up to 6.2 percent for ...

Former US president George H.W. Bush said Mitt Romney is the Republican Party's "best choice" to challenge President Barack Obama in the 2012 election in an informal endorsement published Thursday.

"I think Romney is the best choice for us," the elder Bush told the Houston Chronicle, citing Romney's "stability, experience, principles."

"He's a fine person," he ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Senate Republican on Thursday sought to break a year-end impasse over extending a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, an issue that has deeply divided his party and raised the risk of an economic downturn in 2012.

Mitch McConnell urged fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives to drop their opposition to a Senate-passed bill ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Senate Thursday definitively approved Prime Minister Mario Monti's 33-billion-euro austerity package aimed at restoring market confidence in the euro zone's third-biggest economy.

The Senate voted 257 to 41 in a confidence vote called to speed the passage of the measures.

(Reporting By Steve Scherer)

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Republican presidential frontrunners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney barnstormed high-stakes New Hampshire, with Gingrich vowing to roll back President Barack Obama's "radical socialism" and Romney warning against "a path to make us more like Europe."

The two candidates spent a cold, sleet-filled day in this state, whose first-in-the-nation Jan. 10 primary is less than three weeks away.

Republican contests ...

Republican White House hopeful Ron Paul, courting Iowa voters who are key to his campaign, called Wednesday for a "minding our own business" US foreign policy and an end to "perpetual war."

"No more wars unless you declare them, and fight them, and win them, and get them over with, because perpetual war is bankrupting our country," he told a ...

US Republican lawmakers faced a torrent of political pressure and media scorn Wednesday after triggering an uproar by blocking a compromise plan to extend a tax break for 160 million Americans.

The conservative editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, normally a bastion of support for House of Representatives Republicans, branded the episode a "fiasco" that could end up reelecting ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to making drunken and profanity-laced telephone threats to U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor and his family.

Glendon Swift, 64, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to threatening a family member of a federal official and accepted prosecutor's recommendation for a 13-month prison sentence for the October 27 calls ...