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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's approval rating has hit its highest point in two years — 60 percent — and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In worrisome signs for Republicans, the president's standing improved not just on foreign policy but also on the economy, and independent Americans — a key voting bloc in the November 2012 presidential election — caused the overall uptick in support by sliding back to Obama after fleeing for much of the past...

TUCSON – In their first joint appearance since losing the 2008 presidential election, Sen. John McCain and former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reunited here Friday in an attempt to bolster his conservative credentials in the face of spirited primary challenge. Revisiting many of the same lines and themes used during their presidential run, Palin told an estimated crowd of 4,000 at the Pima County Fairgounds that McCain deserved re-election to a fifth term because of his lead role in the battle against President Obama and congressional Democrats. “When the pundits and talking heads said, conservatism, it’s dead ....

WASHINGTON – Claiming a historic triumph that could define his presidency, a jubilant Barack Obama signed a massive, nearly $1 trillion health care overhaul on Tuesday that will for the first time cement insurance coverage as the right of every U.S. citizen and begin to reshape the way virtually all Americans receive and pay for treatment. After more than a year of hyperpartisan struggle — and numerous near-death moments for the measure — Obama declared "a new season in America" as he sealed a victory denied to a line of presidents stretching back more than half a century. Democratic lawmakers...

New York -- End war, forever. Make the planet greener. Please help my dad find work. Make it rain candy! Thousands of kids detailed their hopes and expectations for President Obama in letters and drawings as part of a "Dear Mr. President" project, with 150 chosen for publication in a free e-book being released today, on Presidents Day.

Could it be? Less than two weeks from the inspiring images of the inaugural, has Pres. Obama let the focus of power slip to . . . Nancy Pelosi? So reported Wall Street Journal editorial board member Holman Jenkins on this evening’s Journal Editorial Report on Fox News Channel. Jenkins presented the news not as his own critique, but as the opinion of erstwhile Obama supporters on Wall Street. JER host Paul Gigot elicited the stunning response with a question playing off a comment by Mary Anastasia O’Grady about the paucity of truly stimulative measures in the supposed stimulus plan....

Sep 10 02:11 PM US/Eastern By RON FOURNIER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - As a prosecutor at Nuremberg, Thomas Dodd charged the Nazis with "the apprehension of victims and their confinement without trial, often without charges, generally with no indication of their detention." His son, Sen. Chris Dodd, wonders today whether he did enough to stop the United States from violating that same rule of law in the war on terror. "For six decades, we learned the lessons of the Nuremberg men and women well," the Democratic presidential candidate writes in his book, "Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative...

Cold Cash Congressman Says He Has 'Never Taken a Bribe' in New Campaign Ad December 01, 2006 11:50 AMAvni Patel Reports: Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson (D-La.) has taken to the airwaves to unequivocally deny the allegations that have plagued him for months. "I have never taken a bribe from anyone,"  he asserts in a new campaign ad. Jefferson is running for re-election despite being at the center of a federal bribery investigation. He faces a run-off against fellow Democrat State Rep. Karen Carter on Dec. 9. Carter has seized on the probe in her campaign against Jefferson, and recently...

Mrs. Clinton Is Forgiven, but for a PriceBy JOYCE PURNICK URING her big book party at the Four Seasons on Monday, Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked if she found it painful to relive her rough marital days. "It was difficult," she said. "It, you know, they were very difficult times; they should have remained personal and private matters. But they were pulled into the public so I felt I had to, you know, write about what was part of the public history." She got that right. She did have to. Those are the rules, unwritten but unyielding. New York's junior...