More than two dozen current and former law enforcement officials in the United States - including police officers, prosecutors and judges -- are warning the Canadian government against mandatory minimum sentences for minor marijuana offences.

Through stock offerings in the United States, investors poured $115 million into a China -based coal mining company that was actually an empty shell, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday. Read full article >>

Recalling President George Washington’s farewell advice against tying the United States too closely to any foreign nation, Veterans for Peace urges President Obama to publicly warn Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu against attacking Iran with the expectation of U.S. military support.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Canned Fruit Market in United States: Business Report

The government has asked the U.S. government to grant permission for the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced in the United States to Japan, according to sources.

Y.E. Yang (53), South Korea, def. Graeme McDowell (12), Northern Ireland, 2 and 1. Hunter Mahan (21), United States, def. Zach Johnson (44), United States, 19 holes.

As China, India, Russia, and Brazil join the global middle class, brains and money will increasingly flow away from the United States

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday the United States, not the state, owns the rights to lease several power-producing rivers in Montana.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shortly before the United States ended a two-month pause in missile strikes on militants in Pakistan last month, senior U.S. officials telephoned their Pakistani counterparts and told them Washington would be resuming its covert drone program despite mounting objections in Islamabad. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among those who spoke ...

President Obama’s re-election campaign today designated 35 state, local and community leaders as national co-chairs, or “ambassadors” for the president, who will play a high-profile role in defending his record and mobilizing voters for November. The list includes current and former Democratic members of Congress,...

President Obama and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney offered competing proposals Wednesday for how the government should tax citizens and companies, previewing the ideological clash over taxes that is likely to be at the forefront of the general-election campaign. Read full article >>

President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the agreement passed by Congress last week to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits while preventing a cut in payments to Medicare doctors.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made an opening offer in what could be a long negotiation with corporate America on Wednesday, putting forward his first detailed plan to cut the corporate tax rate. Though it has little chance of becoming law in an election year with Congress paralyzed over fiscal issues, the plan shows Obama's intent to favor domestic over offshore manufacturing ...

They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn’t, he’s a secularist who is waging war on religion. On some days he’s a Nazi, but on most others he’s merely a socialist. His especially creative opponents see him as having a “Kenyan anti-colonial worldview,” while the less adventurous say that he’s an elitist who spent too much time in Cambridge, Hyde Park and other excessively academic ...

President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the agreement passed by Congress last week to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits while preventing a cut in payments to Medicare doctors.

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled plans to cut the top corporate tax rate to 28 percent and choke off lucrative loopholes, an election-year gambit that tests Republicans' pro-business credo.

President Barack Obama rolled out a corporate tax overhaul plan Wednesday that lowers rates but also eliminates loopholes and subsidies cherished by the business world. A long-shot for action in an election year, the plan nevertheless stamps Obama's imprint on one of the most high-profile issues of the presidential campaign.

President Barack Obama signed the payroll tax cut extension into law Wednesday, notching an election-year victory and rare bipartisan agreement in the continuing partisan battle over jobs, taxes and debt.

President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation is heading in the right direction and most independents now approve the way he's addressing the nation's post-recession period.