Jun 9, 2011 – According to Associated Press sources, numerous members of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s campaign resigned today. The AP is reporting that Gingrich press spokesman Rick Tyler and campaign manager Rob Johnson have resigned, along with strategists and aides in key early primary states. Other sources are reporting that Dave Carney,...

Jun 9, 2011 – Newt Gingrich's campaign staff has resigned en masse, the Associated Press is reporting, raising questions about the future of former House speaker's presidential campaign less than a month after it was formally launched.

Jun 9, 2011 – Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is spending his second day in Detroit today to gather support and money for his campaign. Although temperatures in the Motor City have been as blistering as much of the rest of the country, it’s cooler there today — and former Democratic Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm...

Jun 9, 2011 – Not to say that she is for sure running for president, but Sarah Palin just released a Facebook note that resembles the framework of a foreign policy speech on the campaign trail. In it, she blasts President Obama for wanting “to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes...

Jun 9, 2011 – Egyptians oppose the U.S. sending aid to political groups in their country. This is particularly the case among those who look to the U.S. as a political example. While 75% of the general public opposes U.S. aid to political groups, 88% of Egyptians who see the U.S. as a political...

Jun 9, 2011 – The alliance between likely Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and possible candidate Sarah Palin appears to be fraying. And it's being fueled largely by Bachmann's new campaign manager, Ed Rollins. On Tuesday, veteran Republican strategist Rollins took some shots at Palin. “Sarah has not been serious over the last couple...

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Jun 9, 2011 – The first family is making a rare trip to Camp David this weekend for a little R&R. The retreat in the Maryland mountains has been a favorite of many presidents but hasn't been used as much by President Obama and his family. It will Obama's 17th visit there, according to...

Jun 9, 2011 – BLACKSBURG, S.C. — Kings Mountain National Military Park has promised to respect visitors’ free speech rights after a man says he was told to leave the park over a car decal promoting presidential candidate Ron Paul’s political group. Jack Faw, a 73-year-old Virginia resident whose ancestors fought in the Battle...

Jun 9, 2011 – Former Obama White House adviser David Axelrod this week slammed GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty's economic plan, saying it echoes failed Bush administration policies. Axelrod, who is expected to serve in a senior role on Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, riffed off Pawlenty's claim that if private enterprise provides a...

Jun 9, 2011 – Rapper Lupe Fiasco, known for using political lyrics in his songs, called President Obama “the biggest terrorist” in America. Fiasco revealed his views in an interview on CBS’s “What’s Trending” with Shira Laza. According to the Los Angeles Times, Fiasco said: “For me, I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s...

Jun 9, 2011 – Los Angeles (CNN) -- California wants to shift low-level state offenders to county jails as a way to reduce overcrowding, as ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court, under an unfunded plan that would require legislative and voter approval, the state's top corrections official said Tuesday. State officials filed the plan,...

Jun 9, 2011 – AFTER 33 years at the helm, Yemen’s embattled president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was finally forced out of the country on June 4th and taken to a hospital in neighbouring Saudi Arabia following an attack on his compound in Sana’a, the capital. His faithful media at first made light of his...

Jun 9, 2011 – by Nick Freiling Update: Yesterday, I wrote about a Stockton, CA man whose home was invaded by federal agents, on orders from the Department of Education, looking for evidence that wasn’t there (his estranged wife). He was treated like a violent criminal, stripped and handcuffed and left in...

Jun 9, 2011 – A federal appellate court in Atlanta raised red flags for the administration's signature health reform law Wednesday, questioning the government's ability to require people to buy health insurance. Wednesday's hearing was the third time in the past two months that federal appellate courts have considered a constitutional challenge to...

Jun 9, 2011 – A “Small Arms Treaty” currently being considered by the United Nations could end up infringing on American Second Amendment rights. While the measure must first pass the U.N. and then manage to secure U.S. Senate ratification, it could result in firearms licensing and confiscation, University of Houston professor Larry Bell...

Jun 9, 2011 – In an interview with Hotsheet Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain retreated from his claim that he would only sign bills that are three pages or less. After it was pointed out to him that defense appropriations bills, the Civil Rights Act, the Patriot Act and the Fair Tax...

Jun 9, 2011 – Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington— The U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing California to continue granting reduced, in-state tuition to college students who are illegal immigrants is likely to bolster similar proposals across the nation, as well as a California measure to provide financial aid for the undocumented. The high...

Jun 9, 2011 – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama's governor on Thursday signed a tough new illegal immigration crackdown that contains provisions requiring public schools to determine students' immigration status and making it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride. The bill also allows police to arrest anyone suspected of being an...

Jun 9, 2011 – The Republicans in Congress have moved ahead of President Obama in the public's trust to handle the deficit and battled him to parity on the economy. But another issue, Medicare, poses risks for the GOP, and both political parties are losing ground in another sense: A record number of Americans...

Jun 9, 2011 – The American trade deficit shrank unexpectedly in April after the United States sold $175.6 billion in goods and services overseas, the most exports on record, the government reported on Thursday. The Department of Commerce report said that exports of goods were $126.4 billion and services $49.1 billion, while total...

Jun 9, 2011 – After promising earlier this week not to sign any bills more than three pages long, Herman Cain takes a step back toward political reality in a CBS interview:

Jun 9, 2011 – Newt Gingrich is officially back from vacation and made his first campaign stop in Hudson, New Hampshire today after a nearly two-week break from the campaign trail. At an event at C&M Machine Products Inc., Gingrich signed the “Strong America Now” deficit reduction pledge, which vows to eliminate...

Jun 9, 2011 – Jon Huntsman is trying out a novel strategy: running for president without criticizing the incumbent by name. Since returning from his post as ambassador to China last month, Huntsman has made scant mention of the man who appointed him in May 2009—President Barack Obama. And his would-be campaign officials...

Jun 9, 2011 – Republicans have targeted for repeal a tax on tanning-bed services meant to offset costs of the new healthcare law. House Republicans have targeted for repeal a tax on tanning-bed services meant to offset costs of the new healthcare law. Rep. Michael Grimm (N.Y.) and 23 other Republicans have...