Jesse Jackson Jr. Returns Home After Treatment for Bipolar Disorder
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — Nearly three months after taking a medical leave from Congress, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., returned home to his family in Washington, D.C. Friday, according to one of his aides.Jackson has been undergo…
Jobs Report ‘Not Good Enough,’ President Obama Says
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(PORTSBOUTH, N.H.) — President Obama said Friday’s news that the economy added just 96,000 jobs last month was “not good enough” and that “we need to create more jobs faster” to recover from the…
Gabby Giffords Leads Pledge of Allegiance at DNC
Alex Wong/Getty Images(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, whose political career was cut short when she was shot in the head by a gunman at a constituent event on Jan. 8, 2011, took the stage at the Democratic National Convention Thurs…
DNC Convention Hall Reaches Capacity, Hundreds Shut Out
Mario Tama/Getty Images(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Nearly four hours before President Obama would accept the Democratic nomination for president, the gates outside the Time Warner Cable Arena were locked and hundreds of would-be attendees were turned away.At …
Cardinal Timothy Dolan Gives Pro-Life Prayer at DNC
Alex Wong/Getty Images(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York and a leading Catholic-American voice opposing abortion and President Obama’s health care reform law, inserted what some saw as an anti-abortion remark …
Secret Service Investigating Democratic Delegate
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — New York delegate Julia Rodriguez told a reporter on camera that if she bumped into Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, she “would like to kill him,” leading the U.S. Secret Service …
August Job Numbers: Last Ones Before Voting Begins
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Election Day isn’t until Nov. 6, which gives Democrats and Republicans three more monthly jobs reports to anticipate, right?Not exactly. Although job numbers for August, September and October will be…
Temporary Lockdown of DNC Arena Leaves Attendees, Donors Stranded
Alex Wong/Getty Images(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Talk about pressing the flesh. The Time Warner Cable Arena, which is hosting the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., went on lockdown Wednesday night, with close to 200 people outside the entran…
Dems Punt on Plan to Stage DNC Without Corporate Money
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — For more than a year, the Democratic National Committee touted its “unprecedented” plan to prohibit corporate and lobbyist funding of the 2012 convention in Charlotte, but it found it just couldn’t put o…
Obama, Clinton Fundraiser Appointed to National Security Panel
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — For one of President Obama’s top fundraisers, the appointment last year to an elite group of State Department security advisors appeared to be an odd fit.Rajiv Fernando, a Chicago securities trader, has never touted any internat…
National Debt Tops $16 Trillion, Says Treasury Department
Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The national debt has reached an all-time high of $16 trillion, according to the Treasury Department.The new debt figures came out just hours before the three-day Democratic National Convention kicked off in Charlotte…
Obama Sand Sculpture on Display in Charlotte
Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce/CVB(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Myrtle Beach, S.C., has brought the beach to Charlotte, N.C., this week for the 2012 Democratic National Convention. A 15-ton sand sculpture of President Obama is on display outside Blackfin…
Unemployment Rates Showcased in Convention States
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — As the Democratic National Convention kicks off today in Charlotte, N.C., President Obama must make his case for a second term against a backdrop of 8.3 percent national unemployment, and the rate in the stat…
Lawyer: Navy SEAL Author Did Not Violate Non-Disclosure Agreements
John Moore/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) — The attorney for the former Navy SEAL whose tell-all book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has led the Pentagon to consider taking legal action against him says the author did not violate non-disclosure a…
Lawyer: Navy SEAL Author Did Not Violate Non-Disclosure Agreements
John Moore/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) — The attorney for the former Navy SEAL whose tell-all book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has led the Pentagon to consider taking legal action against him says the author did not violate non-disclosure a…
Federal Court Blocks Controversial Texas Voter ID Law
Brand X Pictures/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A federal court in Washington ruled on Thursday that a Texas Voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act, effectively blocking the law from taking effect.
The unanimous three judge district court ruled, “T…
AIG Bailout Leads to $17.7 Billion Government Profit After TARP
STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The federal government has sold off the remainder of its AIG securities for a surprise $17.7 billion profit, the latest piece of the controversial TARP government bailout to make a profit.The AIG profit, announc…
AIG Bailout Leads to $17.7 Billion Government Profit After TARP
STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The federal government has sold off the remainder of its AIG securities for a surprise $17.7 billion profit, the latest piece of the controversial TARP government bailout to make a profit.The AIG profit, announc…
Vice President Joe Biden: ‘Detroit’s Getting Back Up’ Economically
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(DETROIT) — Revving up a crowd at a Detroit high school, Vice President Joe Biden offered up one of his father’s old adages to illustrate the tenacity the people of Detroit possess as their city works to recover from the c…
White House: CBO Report Shows ‘Urgent Need’ for Congressional Action
Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The White House is pointing the finger at Republicans in Congress after the Congressional Budget Office warned that the looming “fiscal cliff” could push the economy into recession.Wednesday’s report…