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Despite both presidential candidates' belief that aggressive action is needed to reduce the country's carbon emissions, talk of climate change has amounted to a mere whisper.
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Data on polling trends suggest that the 2008 US presidential elections will be a tight race, and continue to be open to interpretation. According to Fox News, one group of voters in the latest Gallup daily tracking poll put John
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Fifteen days to go in White House race
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Bob Schieffer says presidential campaigns have become endurance races and wonders, are we choosing the person best qualified to be president, or just holding a contest to see who can go the longest without sleep?
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The latest campaign ad from U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama says rival John McCain, if elected, would continue George W. Bush's failed policies, while running mate Joe Biden accuses the Republicans of having their priorities wrong as Exxon Mobil reports record profits while the country's GDP shrinks.
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When first families move into the White House, they set a tone through dcor.
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From uranium mining to "green" businesses, the environment proved to be one of the hot topics Thursday night at a federal all-candidates forum in Whitehorse.
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Just as President Bush is convinced he did the right thing in Iraq, he is convinced he is doing the right thing on the economy.
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The caption calls him the "high priest of deceit and global destruction". The picture has him belching fire like a dragon. And who is the subject of this highly personal attack? None other than Al Gore, who last year won the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for their success in bringing the climate-change crisis to global public attention.
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The new approach, which would have the government inject capital directly into banks, is one that administration officials had publicly opposed.
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A new approach that would inject capital into banks raises questions on whether officials squandered time with an earlier $700 billion plan to buy securities.
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If the suit makes the man, McCain s in trouble. Obama, on the other hand, needs to lose the Urkel-style dad jeans. AT FIRST glance, there wasn't much to the way Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain dressed for the debate Tuesday in Nashville, other than their partisan choices in necktie color -- a pale shade of blue for Obama and red stripes for McCain. Both wore two-button, notch-lapel jackets with a single vent in the back (Obama's was black, McCain's was dark charcoal). Both wore white dress shirts with a spread collar.
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The economic free fall gripping the nation may bring down one of the main environmental objectives: capping the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming.
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This is the time of year when investors and the financial media begin talking about which stocks will do best depending on who wins the election -- and which candidate will help, or hurt, the stock market.
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To endure their long ordeal, John McCain and the other U.S. servicemen held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam in the 1960s developed a number of survival techniques. None was quite as effective as the one former Navy pilot Richard Stratton remembers: "If you kept your mind occupied, you were...
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By creating reserves, researchers have given animals the safehouses they need to thrive. But as climate change encroaches on that territory, they'll need escape routes to survive
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Associated Press: “The administration will use perhaps as much as $250 billion of the $700 billion bailout program recently passed by Congress to purchase stock in U.S. banks…” President Bush will deliver a statement in the White House Rose Garden at 8:05 am ET Tuesday after meeting with his working group on financial markets. Developing... [...]
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A financial industry official says the Bush administration has decided to greatly expand protections for the U.S. banking system out of concern for the faltering economy.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- As a first term congressman, Democratic U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley can't run on experience....
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Senator McCain gave a little "straight talk" (his words) on a campaign stop today in Virginia Beach. McCain acknowledged his trailing in the polls but rallied the crowd by painting a gloomy picture of Obama in the White House with...
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Bush ally Silvio Berlusconi will be treated to formal state dinner, talks on economic crisis.
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-- Guest list for Monday's White House dinner honoring Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as provided by the White House.
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He used the remnants of a broken podium to toast Bush
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Cracked. Shattered. Whatever. Forget the glass ceiling, policy trumps gender in the race for the White House as far as Hillary Clinton is concerned. “Of course it’s exciting to have a woman on the ticket,” Clinton said in a CNN interview when asked about the vice presidential candidacy of Republican Sarah Palin. “But that in and of itself is [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday threw cold water on a push by Democrats for another economic stimulus package, pointing to the financial rescue package as the antidote for the ailing U.S. economy.
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Relief over the success of Europe's intervention in the banking crisis will give way Wednesday to discord over climate change.
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Hillary Clinton was back in the spotlight on Tuesday doing a series of television interviews in which she ruled out running for president in 2012 and said she wasn't interested in any high-level positions if Barack Obama becomes president.
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WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Clinton lost a tough battle for her party’s presidential nomination this year and says she is unlikely to make another run for it. In an interview with Fox News aired on Tuesday, she was first asked to rate on a scale of one to 10 whether she would become the next majority [...]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of America's most renowned science museums dives into politics again this week with a new exhibition on climate change that curators say is an effort to separate fact from fear.
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HEMPSTEAD, New York (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama face off in their final debate on Wednesday, with McCain hoping a strong performance can begin to turn around a White House race that could be slipping away.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration explicitly endorsed the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods against al Qaeda suspects in a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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President Bush welcomed the Detroit Red Wings to the White House Tuesday, celebrating a Stanley Cup championship team that overcame odds and age and even had one player who scored a goal with his teeth.
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The White House sent secret memos to officials at the CIA explicitly endorsing the use of harsh interrogation techniques including waterboarding, reports the Washington Post.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of America's most renowned science museums dives into politics again this week with a new exhibition on climate change that curators say is an effort to separate fact from fear.
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HEMPSTEAD, New York (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama face off in their final debate on Wednesday, with McCain needing a strong performance to begin to turn around a White House race that could be slipping away.
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The latest economic data, including retail sales and payroll reports, combined with the credit crunch mean that the U.S. economy is in a weak state and will take time to recover, the White House said on Wednesday.
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Ed Stelmach wants the federal government and the provinces to unite behind a single plan to deal with climate change.
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While security gains remain fragile in Iraq, the government is making political progress in the country, reaping the benefits of Washington's successful troop surge strategy, the White House said Wednesday.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The global financial crisis could hardly come at a worse time for nations seeking a new agreement on climate change that - on top of everything else - will cost tens of billions more dollars....
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The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the Bush administration put its endorsement of interrogation techniques such as water boarding into writing. That endorsement came in the form of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004. The...
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