
Arms cheating would backfire

Turns out politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry.
A week after conceding the tight GOP primary to Joe Miller, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she's not a quitter and is "still in this game."

President Obama is not finding many allies in his latest call for bipartisan cooperation on new infrastructure spending and tax breaks, and even Democrats say nothing will get done in the two months before congressional elections.

In what could prove a sleeper race with national implications, some West Virginia Democrats say they are seeing signs that the state's Senate race could be turning into an unexpectedly tough and expensive battle.

If you thought passing the health care overhaul was messy, wait until Republicans try to repeal it if they regain power this fall.
The Justice Department won't say whether the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP's undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore.

A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the island chain.

President Obama will announce on Monday a plan to spend at least $50 billion on long-term investments for the country's transportation infrastructure, another attempt to stimulate the lagging U.S. economy ahead of the November elections.