Oct 13, 2011 – London (CNN) -- A top executive at the company that publishes the Wall Street Journal left Dow Jones this week amid allegations that the paper's European edition used underhanded methods to boost circulation figures, the newspaper itself reported Thursday. Andrew Langhoff, the executive, left on Tuesday, following an internal...

Oct 13, 2011 – WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday sought to reconcile what it said was solid evidence of an Iranian plot to murder Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States with a wave of puzzlement and skepticism from some foreign leaders and outside experts. Senior American officials themselves were struggling...

Oct 13, 2011 – The government of Iran on Thursday escalated its rebuttal of American criminal charges that it was behind a murder conspiracy in Washington, calling the claims that Iranian agents had plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador with the help of a Mexican drug gang so ludicrous that even politicians and press...

Oct 13, 2011 – Washington (CNN) -- The United States has had "direct contact with Iran" about the alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in the United States as the Obama administration ratchets up its rhetoric against the Islamic republic. State Department spokeswoman Victorial Nuland, disclosed the development at a press briefing....

Oct 13, 2011 – Oklahoma billionaire George Kaiser has been in the headlines in recent months thanks to his role as a major investor in Solyndra LLC, the now-bankrupt California solar panel maker hailed by President Obama as a model for America's "clean energy future." Congress is investigating why the Obama administration gave...

Oct 13, 2011 – The Obama 2012 re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Thursday that their fundraising haul was $70 million for the third quarter, down from the second quarter, but far ahead of the GOP field. According to Fox News tallies - the campaign had...

Oct 13, 2011 – Brian Harrison, the chief executive of Solyndra – the solar energy firm that filed for bankruptcy last month after receiving a $528 million federal loan – has stepped down in the wake of multiple investigations into the company that threaten to tarnish the White House....

Oct 13, 2011 – Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the center of one of the largest insider trading cases in history, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan. It was the longest prison term in history for insider trading, the...

Oct 13, 2011 – One investor in the failed solar firm Solyndra pushed for White House support of the start-up in early 2009, as the company sought a half-billion-dollar Energy Department loan, documents show. David Prend, a co-founder of the Boston venture capital firm Rockport Capital, met with Obama’s...

Oct 13, 2011 – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man accused of trying to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb in his underpants, changed his plea to guilty on all counts before saying he did it "to avenge the killing of my Muslim brothers and sisters." After consulting...

Oct 13, 2011 – Thrush and Budoff Brown break down the rationale for the day-long spate of attacks on Mitt Romney by the President Obama re-elect: Obama and his Chicago campaign brain trust seem to have come to their conclusion about Romney at the exact moment many Republicans realized...

Oct 13, 2011 – Thrush and Budoff Brown break down the rationale for the day-long spate of attacks on Mitt Romney by the President Obama re-elect: Obama and his Chicago campaign brain trust seem to have come to their conclusion about Romney at the exact moment many Republicans realized...

Oct 13, 2011 – Rick Santorum’s campaign is challenging Herman Cain to name all of the economic advisers behind his “9-9-9” tax plan, calling on the rising presidential hopeful to detail more of the thinking behind his catchy proposal. Cain regularly touts “9-9-9” as a “transparent” alternative to the current tax code. Santorum’s...

Oct 13, 2011 – Looking ahead after his poll bounce, Herman Cain suggests either Paul Ryan or Jim DeMint as good fits for his Cabinet or the VP slot during an appearance on the Steve Gill Show. Continue Reading "I will be looking for someone as Vice President who understands problem solving the same...

Oct 13, 2011 – The question that everyone is asking about Herman Cain right now is very simple: Is his surge in the presidential race for real? Mr. Cain, the former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza, does not follow any of the traditional rules of presidential politics. He has no...

Oct 13, 2011 – President Obama’s campaign raised more than $42 million in the third quarter of the year, once again outpacing his Republican rivals despite the country’s economic woes and his low poll numbers. In addition to the money raised directly for his campaign, Mr. Obama helped the Democratic National...

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Oct 12, 2011 – President Barack Obama has been traveling the country to tout his plan to create jobs, but a plurality of Americans has no opinion on whether it should pass, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. The findings are part of the poll to be released at 6:30 p.m....

Oct 12, 2011 – WASHINGTON – Despite President Obama's exhortations, the Senate voted down his $447 billion jobs package Tuesday by failing to end a Republican-led filibuster. The bill died on a 50-49 tally, a majority of the 100-member Senate but well short of the 60 votes needed to keep the bill alive....

Oct 12, 2011 – Washington (CNN) -- Shortly after his $447 billion jobs plan stalled Tuesday in the Senate, President Barack Obama vowed to break the broad initiative down into numerous, separate bills -- potentially setting up even more showdowns between Democrats and Republicans on how to boost the economy and where to get...

Oct 12, 2011 – A U.S. House panel subpoenaed the Obama administration over a law enforcement program that allowed illegal U.S. gun purchases in an effort to link the weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said today a...

Oct 12, 2011 – Herman Cain appears to be the latest Tea Party sensation. A new poll from Public Policy Polling has the one-time Godfather's Pizza CEO leading Mitt Romney by eight percentage points, 30 percent to 22 percent. Those are the exact same percentages the very same polling outfit reported yesterday...

Oct 12, 2011 – More than 42,000 individuals contributed to this impressive number, staff member Catherine Faulkner confirmed to Townhall.…

Oct 12, 2011 – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has released a Web video, “Postal Crisis 101: The Postal Bailout,”demonstrating the way that a taxpayer funded bailout would continue the United States Postal Services' deficit budget by flooding the accounting books with false "overpayment." The videos' timely release helps gain...

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