Republican Mitt Romney has fended off a few attacks on his business record and sailed through a high-stakes debate that his rivals used to jockey for.
The US failed to achieve a budget breakthrough on Sunday and instead worked on rival plans in an impasse that heightened prospects for a debt fault.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday supported a bipartisan proposal for a new deficit-reduction plan aimed at averting a debt default.
US President Barack Obama announced a plan on Wednesday to start withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan in a first step towards ending the long war.
Key members of Republican Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign team resigned on Thursday in a devastating blow to his 2012 election hopes.
President Barack Obama said on Friday he believed US lawmakers are close to a budget deal but warned an impasse could lead to a government shutdown.
The Obama administration strongly backed a United Nations vote on Thursday for a no-fly zone and other help for Libyan rebels.
The US, in a sharp shift in tone, wants the United Nations to authorise not just a no-fly zone to aid Libyan rebels but also air strikes.
US President Barack Obama proposed a five-year freeze on some government spending and warned of painful cuts ahead on Tuesday.
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/ 23 September 2010
Israel should extend its settlement building moratorium and Arab states should move toward normal ties with the Jewish state, Barack Obama said.