Nine weeks before the midterm elections, Barack Obama finds himself on the wrong side of the polls. Where did all that adoration go -- and is a Republican sweep next?
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Private employers added 67,000 jobs, more than forecast, but governments shed jobs in August, the Labor Department reported, as the jobless rate rose to 9.6 percent.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he saw and heard evidence that the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province.
Gang representatives in Chicago held a press conference Thursday to explain why gangs cannot be held solely responsible for stopping street violence, which has escalated this summer.
The Obama administration is weighing a package of business tax breaks - potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars - to spur hiring and to combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt small businesses, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
With the economy downshifting into first gear and their poll numbers sagging, the White House and Democratic congressional leaders are desperate for an economic and political game-changer as they head into the November elections. As it happens, there's one close at hand: the expiration of the "Bush" tax cuts at the end of the year. In this instance, the politics of obstructionism appear to work in the Democrats' favor. If Republicans follow ...
