A bitter divide remained in the US before Tuesday’s deadline to raise the country’s debt ceiling, to avoid a crippling default.
US President Barack Obama proposed a five-year freeze on some government spending and warned of painful cuts ahead on Tuesday.
What gets a Tea Party activist going? A good way of answering that is to browse the stalls at a Tea Party rally.
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/ 16 October 2010
But amid all the political weirdness, the middle and working classes aren’t putting up a fight
Court decision lets Corporate America gang up
on floundering Democrats on the sly.
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/ 27 January 2009
US President Barack Obama will on Tuesday hold talks with congressional Republicans who complain his -billion stimulus plan is too expensive.
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/ 3 December 2008
Reflecting what’s on the minds of Americans, "bailout" and "socialism" have beaten "maverick" in a US dictionary word-of-the-year competition.
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/ 13 October 2008
Republican hopeful John McCain has bowed to a growing chorus of condemnation over his personal attacks in the US election campaign.
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/ 13 October 2008
American voters have lost faith in the Republican party amid the economic meltdown, says a Republican strategist.
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/ 12 October 2008
Nothing typifies the plight of John McCain’s campaign more than the roller-coaster ride of his vice-presidential pick, Sarah Palin.
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/ 11 October 2008
John McCain’s election campaign on Friday night suffered the body blow for which Republicans had been bracing themselves.
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/ 5 September 2008
Republican John McCain cast himself as an independent-minded reformer on Thursday, and vowed ”change is coming” if he is elected president.
Under fire from Republicans, top Democratic politicians in the United States are considering lifting a ban on new offshore oil drilling.