Politics
Latest Stories
20101005-212806-pic-372018248.jpg
FAULKNER CAMPAIGN Michel Faulkner is picking up major endorsements in his bid to unseat Rep. Charles B. Rangel.
20101005-205558-pic-78092101.jpg
GOP candidate for governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, seen here campaigning in Columbia, S.C., in June, would become the second Indian-American Republican governor if elected. (Associated Press)
20101005-205558-pic-391259739.jpg
STUMPING: Ryan L. Frazier (right), GOP candidate in Colorado's 7th Congressional District, chats with Andrew Bryce in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Minorities are running strongly as Republicans. (Associated Press)
20101005-205558-pic-67095907.jpg
Marco Rubio, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Florida, speaks to supporters in Pensacola, Fla. If elected, he would join a New Jersey Democrat as a second Cuban-American in the Senate. (Associated Press)
Obama Education_Star.jpg
President Obama speaks Tuesday during the White House Summit on Community Colleges in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)
20101005-194047-pic-554078702.jpg
FAULKNER CAMPAIGN Michel Faulkner is picking up major endorsements in his bid to unseat Rep. Charles B. Rangel.
Faulkner%20Headshot.jpg
Ordained Baptist minister and conservative Republican Michel Faulkner is running against Rep. Charlie Rangel in New York's 15th District. (Photo from Faulkner for Congress)
20101005-190713-pic-339124463.jpg
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Gubernatorial candidates Diane Denish, a Democrat (left), and Republican Susana Martinez are in a historic race in which New Mexico will elect its first female governor.
20101005-190708-pic-11762755.jpg
President Carter, shown here in 1979, speaks against a backdrop of solar panels at the White House. Activists used one of Mr. Carter's panels to help persuade President Obama to set an example by powering his residence with solar energy. (Associated Press)
20101005-185302-pic-159262622.jpg
ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama is accompanied by Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., at a White House summit where he announced a plan to link community colleges with potential employers.
Britain_Pakistan_Musharra#4.JPG
Pervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan, in a magazine interview accuses the West of ignoring Kashmir, a "core" dispute between Pakistan and India. (Associated Press)
Mideast Egypt U_Lea.jpg
Former President Bill Clinton (left) meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the Presidential Palace in Cairo on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Obama_Thir.jpg
President Obama, accompanied by Paul Volcker (left), chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., addresses the board on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
White House Solar Pow_Thir.jpg
This file photo released by Solar Design Associates shows the solar thermal system produced by the Harvard, Mass., company, installed on the roof of the White House pool cabana in Washington during the George W. Bush administration. The Obama White House on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, will announce plans to install solar panels for the first time atop the White House's living quarters by spring 2011. (AP Photo/Solar Design Associates)
Mideast Israel Palest_Thir.jpg
Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire (center) appears at the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Monday Oct. 4, 2010, a day before she was deported. Ms. Maguire is under a 10-year ban from entering Israel because of her attempt to breach the Gaza naval blockade aboard a vessel in June. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Hong Kong Japan Polit_Thir.jpg
Protesters hold the banner with the picture of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan near the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong on Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, as they demonstrate over a ship collision near the Diaoyu islands (Senkaku islands). (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
France Europe Terror _Lea.jpg
Mounted police patrol outside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. Japan issued a travel alert for Europe on Monday, joining the United States, Sweden and Britain in warning of a possible terrorist attack by al Qaeda or other militant groups, but tourists appeared to be taking the mounting warnings in stride. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
Supreme_Court_Kagan#5.jpg
IN AND OUT: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan participated in the day's first case, but left before the second case to avoid any conflict of interest. (Associated Press)
20101004-202635-pic-725667852.jpg
Associated Press Construction continues near the West Wing of the White House on Wednesday. The big question being asked around the White House is, what's that noisy construction really all about?