The Obama administration has approved the first group of young illegal immigrants who will be able to avoid deportation for up to two years and get a work permit. The approval process is months ahead of schedule.
Mitt Romney says the United States is indeed a united nation in its determination to halt terrorists and to protect freedom "at home and across the world."
Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent 6 years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was killed by a missile believed to have been fired by a U.S.-operated, unmanned drone aircraft according to Yemeni military officials.
As Democrats and Republicans gear up for the final stretch of their closely contested race for the White House, President Barack Obama squeaked out a fundraising victory over Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney says his pledge to repeal President Barack Obama's health law doesn't mean that young adults and those with medical conditions would no longer be guaranteed health care.
Some of the country's evangelical Christian leaders are urging a get-out-the-vote effort from the North Carolina city that just hosted the Democratic National Convention.
President Barack Obama is unleashing a new Medicare offensive against rival Mitt Romney, eager to shake his Republican challenger off his economic focus and turn the campaign on to territory more favorable to Democrats.
President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney, their contest defined anew by joblessness, are seeking to frame the campaign on their own terms.
Sixty days to the election, President Barack Obama is charging onto the campaign trail pleading for patience from hard-pressed Americans toying with the notion of change, and portraying Republican rival Mitt Romney as unproven.
On the same night Democrats conclude their national convention, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has released plans to launch a television advertising campaign across eight swing states.
Democrats wrapped up their national convention Thursday night in Charlotte, and some enthusiastic local supporters gathered in Pitt County to watch President Barack Obama's speech.
With unemployment at 8.3 percent, Obama said the task of recovering from the economic disaster of 2008 is exceeded in American history only by the challenge Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced when he took office in the Great Depression in 1933.