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Those are the results of a poll conducted by "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair magazine and issued Sunday. The radio host was picked by 26 percent of those who responded, followed by Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck at 11 percent. Actual politicians — former Vice President Dick Cheney and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin — were the choice of 10 percent each.
Don't mistake former President George W. Bush 's absence from the national conversation with indifference about what his successor's up to these days.
The Democrats’ House majority is expected to shrink in the midterm elections next year. Less clear is whether high unemployment will expand the loss.
Barack Obama is set to make the boldest strategic move of his presidency on Tuesday and order a surge of tens of thousands more US troops into an increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan.
President Obama got some political cover Sunday for his upcoming announcement on sending more troops to Afghanistan.
By a wide margin, Americans consider Rush Limbaugh the nation's most influential conservative voice.
The Obama administration is forging ahead with its civilian surge in Afghanistan but some experts say thousands more are needed while others fear the security situation is making the push ineffective.
Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.
DALLAS, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President George W. Bush disagrees with plenty that his successor is doing, but refuses to openly criticize him, friends say.
Consumer activist and Connecticut native Ralph Nader said Friday that he is "absorbing" the reaction he's receiving about a possible bid for the U.S. Senate, saying he wants to first gauge the level of grass-roots support before making a decision.
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Dressed in a uniform of navy blue trousers, royal blue shirt, a black beret and with a Kalashnikov barrel resting on his boot, Ali Hussein Naji looks out of place in a family leisure park.
If Harry Reid gets a health care bill through the Senate by Christmas, his holiday stocking will be full of success and praise. If he fails, there will be nothing but coal and criticism.
WASHINGTON — He's soared to great heights, moving people with words that put him in a rarified league with such great communicators as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
India and the United States are close to signing a nuclear fuel reprocessing agreement, one of the last requirements to finalise last year's landmark civilian nuclear deal, an official said Sunday.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is expected to face tough questioning during a reappointment hearing this week, and one senator already says he won't support another term for the Fed chief.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on Pakistan to take tougher action against al Qaeda and step up its efforts to track down the group's leader Osama bin Laden.
President Obama is expected to announce his decision on troop levels in Afghanistan this week. When the president takes the podium at West Point on Tuesday, he'll draw not only from America's experience at war in Afghanistan, but from the Soviet Union's as well. Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution talks to guest host Robert Smith about the president's deliberations. Riedel served as a CIA ...
The U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
As President Barack Obama prepares to make the case for sending more troops to Afghanistan, some allies are urging him to return to a line of argument little heard since the Bush years: the United States has a moral obligation to protect the Afghan people, particularly women, from the Taliban.
By: Neil Manimala, COLUMNIST As the New Year approaches, Time magazine has named the ’00s the “Decade from Hell” for the U.S., the worst 10-year period since World War II. Time cites 9/11, the attack on the USS Cole, the George W. Bush vs. Al Gore presidential elect...
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