Known as small donors, these people are personally invested in a candidate’s march to becoming president, many ready to become active at the ground level as foot soldiers of the campaign.Financial disclosures last week showed Obama’s campaign in 2011 raised 60 percent of funds, or $58. million, from donors who gave less than $200.The [...]

The Guam deployment had been held hostage by a political stalemate in Japan over the shifting of the Futenma base to another site on Okinawa, an issue given added importance in recent years by China’s growing military might in the region.Japanese newspapers said the new plan would allow Washington to shrink the expensive Guam relocation [...]

I am a candidate for president of the United States. I will be a candidate for president of the United States, Gingrich said in Las Vegas. We will continue to campaign all the way to Tampa, the party’s nominating convention in late August.The former U.S. House speaker suffered a second straight defeat to Mitt Romney, [...]

I am a candidate for president of the United States. I will be a candidate for president of the United States, Gingrich said in Las Vegas.The former U.S. House speaker suffered a second straight wide defeat to Mitt Romney, this time in the first of the west Republican caucus in Nevada.With 43 percent of precincts [...]

Recent headlines in both countries have been reminiscent of the Cold War, with the Russians threatening to deploy missiles aimed at countering a proposed U.S. missile shield, and the Americans responding that they will build the system, come what may.The planned U.S. shield, endorsed by NATO, would deploy U.S. interceptor missiles in and around Europe [...]

Gingrich made his comments on Friday in a speech to a coalition of religious leaders in Las Vegas ahead of Nevada’s Republican presidential caucuses on Saturday, as he tried to boost support among the state’s social conservatives.His speech, held at Nevada’s largest non-denominational church and also webcast, was heavy on rhetoric against what the former [...]

If we do not begin the process, I know what will happen: more bloodshed, increasing resistance by those whose families are being killed and whose homes are being bombed, and a greater likelihood that Syria will descend into civil war, she said.Speaking at the Munich Security Conference just as Russia and China were vetoing a [...]

The declarations came amid declining defense budgets and growing U.S. discontent over Europe’s low spending and diminishing capabilities, which add to the United States’ defense burden.Panetta said the U.S. Army would still have about 37,000 soldiers in Europe even after it withdraws two of its four combat brigades – about 7,000 soldiers – as part [...]

The housing crisis has been the single biggest drag on our recovery from the recession. It has kept millions of families in debt and unable to spend, and it has left hundreds of thousands of construction workers out of a job, Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.Obama this week unveiled the details [...]

After activists reported that more than 200 people were killed in shelling by government troops in Homs, Obama said the attack was an unspeakable assault and urged Assad to step down from power.Yesterday the Syrian government murdered hundreds of Syrian citizens, including women and children, in Homs through shelling and other indiscriminate violence, and Syrian [...]