Tag: America

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are hunkered down with advisers ahead of Tuesday's debate in New York, with the US president under pressure to bounce back after a languid first ...

In November 1929, days after a stock market crash in New York sent shock waves through the global financial system, the Economist optimistically assured its British readers, "The material prosperity of the United ...

The case against long hours. Declinists, get ready to fret: Sometime this past summer, the average net worth of Canadianssurpassed that of Americans. Adding insult to injury, Canadians have universal health ...

A recent rumor claiming that U.S. President Barack Obama was wearing an "Allah ring" in a photograph has been denied by anAmerican reporter in a piece written for about.com. The claim, which ...

Singer to join former president Bill Clinton at rally in Parma on 18 October as Midwestern state assumes great importance. For Barack Obama's bid for re-election to the White House – ...

All elections get called the most important for decades. This one really is: two very different paths for the future are on offer. “HOW’S that hopey-changey stuff working out for ...

Every morning that President Barack Obama chooses to receive the daily intelligence briefing in person, Vice President Joe Biden sits by his side in a matching armchair in the Oval Office. ...

Venezuela's authoritarian president Hugo Chavez is a villain out of a Batman movie: buffoonish and sinister in equal measure. Sunday's vote result powerfully exposes both sides of his clown-prince system ...

What if American political reporters covered the Chinese horse race? It was a tense moment in the private room at the back of Vice President Xi Jinping's campaign bus. The ...

Fifty-two people were hurt Friday in a pileup involving dozens of vehicles on an interstate highway on Florida's Gulf Coast, police said. The accident, which occurred about 3:30 p.m., involved ...