Archive for April, 2011

US President Barack Obama tours Alabama and meets local residents struggling to pick up the pieces after tornadoes in decade shattered the state, killing hundreds.

Guns, abortion and Donald Trump: Three topics so controversial that Groupon doesn’t want its brand anywhere near them.

It seems a delicious irony that a country born out of hatred of the British crown should do so much to highlight the benefits of monarchy, writes Matthew Norman.

Democratic Congressman Leonard Boswell expressed confidence Friday that he can defeat Republican Congressman Tom Latham in Iowa’s newly drawn 3rd District.

Speaking on the public television program “Iowa Press,” Boswell noted he has represented about 70…

As Democrats in the U.S. Senate took aim at ending subsidies for oil companies, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said Friday there might be legitimate reasons to keep the subsidies in place.

Johnson, a freshman Republican, told reporters that some tax items…

President Barack Obama toured Alabama and met devastated Americans struggling to pick up the pieces after the worst tornadoes in decades shattered communities across the US south and killed more than 300 people.

President Barack Obama toured Alabama and met devastated Americans struggling to pick up the pieces after the worst tornadoes in decades shattered communities across the US south and killed more than 300 people.