WASHINGTON  Notch one more victim of the recession: With crucial midterm elections nearing, Democrats have lost the advantage they’ve held for years as the party the public trusts to steer the economy.The timing could be fortunate for the Republicans. With jobs and the economy dominating voters’ concerns, the GOP will wield the issue as a [...]

NEW ORLEANS Louisiana-born porn star Stormy Daniels announced Thursday that she will not run for U.S. Senate in her home state, ending a yearlong flirtation with politics that began as Republican incumbent Sen. David Vitter was working to overcome a sex scandal.In an e-mailed statement, Daniels said she cannot afford a run for the Senate [...]

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama and presidents, prime ministers and other top officials from 47 countries start work Monday on a battle plan to keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands.Confronting what he calls the “single biggest threat to U.S. security,” Obama is looking for global help in his goal of ensuring all nuclear materials worldwide [...]

Obama will hold talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao before hosting high-level delegations from nearly 50 countries for the opening of the global conference, where the focus will be on how to prevent nuclear terrorism.In the one-on-one meeting with Hu, Obama hopes to cement China’s commitment to help ratchet up pressure on Iran over its [...]

Afghanistan played down on Wednesday recent anti-Western remarks by President Hamid Karzai, saying they were not aimed at specific countries and would not affect relations between Kabul and the international community.A war of words between Karzai and the White House escalated on Monday following accusations by the Afghan president last week that the West carried [...]

WASHINGTON  President Barack Obama and his family are attending Easter service at a historically black Methodist church in southeast Washington.The Obamas traveled Sunday morning to the Allen Chapel AME Church. The first family has attended a variety of Protestant churches in the nation’s capital since Obama’s election. The Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church traces its roots [...]

WASHINGTON The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee says domestic terrorism is a real and growing danger Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, says the political discourse in the U.S. turns extreme and incendiary at times, and that can lead some people to take radical actions.Federal authorities report an uptick in the activities of [...]

IOWA CITY, President Barack Obama dared Republicans to try to repeal his new health care law, telling them Thursday to “Go for it” and see how well they do with voters in November.”Be my guest,” Obama said in the first of many planned appearances to sell the revamp before fall congressional elections. “If they want [...]

Vladivostok  Russian citizens approximately 1.500 anti-government protest as part of a series of demonstrations began done by the opposition in the city of Vladivostok. The plan will be protests across the whole of Russia today. The critics of this government declared a national protest against the Russian government failed to overcome the worst economic crisis [...]

JERUSALEM Israel’s prime minister is urging calm following another stern rebuke from Washington over plans to build 1,600 apartments in contested east Jerusalem.Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday “not to get carried away and to calm down” over the crisis with the U.S.News of the construction plan emerged during Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to [...]