Michele Bachmann wins Iowa Republican poll
AMES, Iowa (Reuters) - Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll on Saturday in the first big test of the 2012 Republican presidential race, as Texas Governor Rick Perry launched a White House bid that could reshape the race. | Video
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Analysis: Glimmers of hope for deficit-cutting panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Having said no to taxes for months, Republicans now are saying maybe, in the face of public disgust over a deadlock in the Congress, a near government default and a worsening global economic crisis.
Obama, Cameron discuss markets, Syria: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama spoke on Saturday with British Prime Minister David Cameron about recent developments in the global financial system, the White House said, after a violently volatile week in markets.
Obama to name Pimco VP, Harvard economist to Fed: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has identified two economists to fill vacant seats on the Federal Reserve's powerful seven-member board, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
Congress faces tough decisions on gasoline tax
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A multibillion-dollar gasoline tax to maintain U.S. highways and mass transit will be in jeopardy when Congress resumes in early September in the wake of bruising budget and aviation funding battles.
Appeals court rules against Obama healthcare law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law suffered a setback on Friday when an appeals court ruled that it was unconstitutional to require all Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty.
Special report: How Washington took the U.S. to the brink
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's largest economy was headed toward an unprecedented default, and all Washington wanted to talk about was the manner in which the president had left a room.
Special report: Huntsman's path to White House starts in China
BEIJING (Reuters) - Jon Huntsman is a savvy operator who knows how to work a crowd. But it was someone in a crowd who worked Huntsman on a bitterly cold Sunday last month when the U.S. envoy to China was seen at a small anti-government protest in Beijing.
Special report: Stuck between the Tea Party and a hard place
DAYTON, Ohio (Reuters) - This John Boehner was not the John Boehner that Tea Party leaders in the room thought they knew. | Video
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