Mitt Romney has moved out to an eight-point lead over President Obama in North Carolina after the two men were virtually tied a month ago.The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Tar Heel State shows the putative Republican nominee earning 51% of the vote to Obama’s...
Stocks were sharply lower Monday, with the S&P 500 falling below its key 1350 milestone, as Greece's failure to form a coalition government increased fears that the nation would leave the euro zone.In Europe, Greece's socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos said efforts to form a coalition government failed over the weekend....
MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama's announcement Wednesday that he supports gay marriage boosted the hopes of gay rights groups around the world that other leaders will follow his example, though opponents denounced his switch as a shameless appeal for votes.Several countries, including Canada, Spain and Argentina, allow same-sex...
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe tomorrow calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth.Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence of the movement...
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Mitt Romney implicitly accepted the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night, leaving behind the intraparty fighting that at times sullied his candidacy and vowing to defeat President Obama with a pledge to restore both the economy and Americans’ belief in the future.Speaking as results were showing he was...