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Eight days after his re-election, President Obama today holds his first full-scale news conference in the East Room of the White House since March.

Although the story so far is of a personal failing, it's possible that the widening sex scandal surrounding retired Gen.

Virtually everyone agrees that allowing the nation to fall off the fiscal cliff would be a bad thing.

There's more than deer lurking in the New England woods these days.

Phase II of this story has begun:

There has been vigorous public debate this election cycle about the Supreme Court; from the Citizens United case to the Affordable Care Act.

As thousands of volunteers help the victims of Superstorm Sandy in New York and New Jersey, military veterans are discovering a real need for a sense of mission.

A day after the story broke, the news remains stunning — CIA director and retired Gen.

Now that the election is over Washington is transfixed by the

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency David Petraeus submitted his resignation today, citing an extramarital affair.

Every second-term president has to rebuild some or all of his Cabinet as high-profile members often time their resignations with the end of the president's first term.

NPR.org's Scott Neuman wrote earlier about how "a mixture of demogr

Once the news of President Obama's reelection spread, the congratulations started raining in.

Proudly displayed by voters on their foreheads, their children and even their dogs, the ubiquitous "I Voted" sticker became a social media star on Tuesday.

As Americans go to the polls, one of the closest presidential races in years may be determined by a state in the Midwest and a hurricane named Sandy.

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