A sharp rise in inflation has provoked fierce criticism of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - not only from his reformist opponents, but also from senior conservatives who helped bring him to power but now say he is mismanaging the economy. ...more

December 28, 2007

The Senate on Tuesday night passed a spending bill combining funding for 14 Cabinet departments with $70 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...more

December 19, 2007

Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson on Friday proposed slowing the growth of Social Security benefits and creating voluntary, government-matched savings accounts, becoming the first candidate of either party to offer a detailed proposal to fix the nation's retirement system. ...more

November 10, 2007

Those things that go bump in the night? About one-third of people believe they could be ghosts. ...more

October 27, 2007

Republican Mitt Romney targeted presidential rival Rudy Giuliani on Friday, arguing that his own real-world experience and socially conservative values represent the 'Republican wing of the Republican Party.' ...more

October 13, 2007

President Bush confirmed yesterday his intention to nominate Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge from New York, to become the next attorney general of the United States. ...more

September 18, 2007