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The White House is getting ready for the big holiday barbecue and fireworks show at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

She survived Katie Couric and Tina Fey, searing scrutiny, rumors about her baby, anonymous taunts of 'whack job' from those who once touted her credentials to be a heartbeat away.

Yesterday Sarah Palin completed a remarkable media flameout that made her one of the most famous women in the world, the exotic Alaska caribou hunter, one of the most revered and reviled politicians in modern history. The governor announced she is calling it quits, just eight months after she and John McCain went down to defeat.

PRESIDENT Obama recently reignited the immigration debate when he told reporters that congressional leaders of both parties were ready to "actively get something done and not put it off until a year, two years, three years, five years from now, but to start working on this thing right now." In the months ahead, keep an eye on two things: the ...

The race for President was essentially over on February 5, 2008. Super Tuesday night, John McCain and Barack Obama became the choice of each party and the networks all juxtaposed the two nominees side by side on the screen giving their victory speeches.

So much for Al Franken's 60th vote. A coalition of renegade Democrats stands ready to defy the president, writes Matthew Yglesias, and could damage his legislative agenda.

In the world of journalism, there are two kinds of intentionally biased reporting.

When the middle-of-nowhere town of Woodward, Oklahoma invited George W Bush to its Fourth of July celebration, no one really expected the former president to accept.

"First, do no harm." Contrary to popular belief, the phrase doesn't actually appear in the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians.

Vanity Fair's not the only magazine with a Sarah Palin piece out today. Runner's World has a Q&A feature with the Alaska governor, albeit a slightly less buzzy one.

Hours before the House passed its cap-and-trade bill last week, freshman Democrats Tom Perriello and Frank Kratovil were pondering the political fallout of the votes they were about to cast in favor of a plan Republicans were denouncing as "cap-and-tax." "Maybe we should be called the conscience caucus," said the 34-year-old Perriello, who won his ...

Reader Norm pointed me to an article on Miceage.com about the revamped Hall of Presidents exhibit at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Florida.

State Representative Curt Cobb announced Wednesday his acceptance of a judicial position in Bedford County that Republican and Democratic leaders say will lead to a contest for his House seat within the next 150 days.

He swept to power with the support of 78% of American Jews. But has Barack Obama become the bane of Israeli Jews? A gulf between American and Israeli Jews was evident even before Obama moved into the White House.

Sen. John McCain is visiting Phoenix Children's Hospital on Wednesday to discuss Democrats' ambitious health care overhaul, which could create a government-run health care plan option.

Even as the Supreme Court signals a readiness to roll back still further the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's restrictions on political speech, the law's famous backers, Sens.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she'd come out ahead if she went one-on-one with fellow jogger President Barack Obama in a long run, according to an interview published online Tuesday.

Barack Obamas reaction to the mass protests and violence in Iran shows he is following through on his pledge to be more like George H.W. Bush rather than his son, George W. Bush.

Despite costs and public skepticism, Democrats are increasingly confident that they'll enact a vast health care overhaul.

With unusual ubiquity for a losing presidential candidate, Arizona Republican Sen.

Alaska 's lipstick-wearing pit-bull is a "Little Shop of Horrors." That's how one longtime friend and campaign trail companion of John McCain , the vanquished 2008 GOP presidential nominee, described veep nominee Sarah Palin .