by Mark Silva Suffice it to say that an entertainment company is in charge of this show: Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush in debate. The two former presidents have have agreed to meet at Radio City Music Hall on Feb...

by Alexander C. Hart Republicans today boycotted the start of a Senate hearing on climate-change legislation. The Republican members of the Environment and Public Works Committee are demanding a full Environmental Protection Agency analysis of the ...

by Mark Silva There's just one thing about being president that has really annoyed him, President Barack Obama says: The flak he caught for taking his wife to New York City for a Broadway play and dinner, a campaign promise kept. "Peo...

by Mark Silva "The mood in America may be blue,'' Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducted a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll with Republican pollster Bill McInturff, tells the survey's sponsors, "but the attitudes to...

by Mark Silva A little more insight into why Sarah Palin was able to resign as governor of Alaska last summer: The advance for that forthcoming memoir of hers was $1.25 million. Going Rogue -- or Going Rouge as satirists have dubbed it ...

by Jim Tankersley and updated 4:50 pm EST President Barack Obama will push back his visit to the international climate change treaty negotiations in Copenhagen from the first week of the conference to its final scheduled day, a senior White House...

by Mark Silva Sarah Palin says she is no birther. The author of Going Rogue insists that she has never suggested that President Barack Obama, a native of Hawaii, was not born in the United States. Yet, in a...

by Mark Silva Gov. Charlie Crist, the popular Florida governor running for Senate, got his numbers crossed, inadvertently directing parents to a sex phone line. Callers to the governor's office heard an on-hold recording of Crist...

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama not long ago fielded a question from a high-schooler in Virginia about how one goes about getting the job that the president has. "Let me give you some very practical tips,'' the president replied....

by Michael Muskal Armed with some good economic news, President Barack Obama took his campaign for more jobs to Pennsylvania today, but ran into more than he bargained for in questions. Speaking at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Schnecksville,...