(AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – Sunday marked the three-year anniversary since the Senate last passed a budget. April 29 was the record 1,096th day without a federal budget since passing a budget was required by law in 1974. Normally, each house of Congress passes its own budget, reconciles the differences, and then sends the final bill [...]

President Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – At the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday Night, President Barack Obama made a joke at the expense of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The joke alluded to a story Obama told in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, about having eaten [...]

An anti-government protester holds a sign with a message for the Mubarak regime, in Tahrir square in downtown Cairo on Jan. 29, 2011. Secular and liberal Egyptians who led those protests have been largely sidelined in Egypt’s unfolding transition. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (CNSNews.com) – The choice facing Egyptian voters in presidential elections in four weeks’ [...]

President Barack Obama addresses students at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) (CNSNews.com) – President Obama this week advocated his plans for federally subsidized student loans and his desire to keep college costs down at the University of Colorado, a school whose Women and Gender [...]

FILE – In this March 29, 2012 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner has finally endorsed Mitt Romney to be the Republican presidential nominee, saying his economic policies would help Americans find jobs. The Ohio Republican told reporters Tuesday that Romney’s proposals [...]

First lady Michelle Obama. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (CNSNews.com) – First Lady Michelle Obama boasted at a campaign event in Omaha, Neb. on Tuesday that “we made history” when the president’s health care proposal was enacted and the administration issued a regulation mandating that insurance companies provide women with free contraceptives. “Two years ago, we made [...]

(CNSNews.com) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said women’s health care is the “old favorite target” of Republicans when it comes to budget cuts, adding that while the GOP wants “to protect subsidies for big oil,” Democrats want to “prevent breast cancer” and “immunize our children.” “Their priority is to protect the subsidies for [...]

Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., left, jokes with Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., before Rubio spoke about foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (CNSNews.com) – Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who was elected to his first term with help from the Tea Party in [...]

(CNSNews.com)- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Wednesday she believed the Colombian prostitution scandal involving the Secret Service did not result in a breach of security for the president during his visit, but that the behavior of the Secret Service agents indicated “there may be a risk” of such a breach. During the Senate [...]

James Anaya, U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples (CNSNews.com) – The U.S. became the target Monday of a United Nations human rights investigation. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has still not released the human rights report she was required by law to send to Congress on Feb. 25. On Monday, United [...]