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The article reports on the primary challenge set by the conservative group Club for Growth to Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and mentions that the group aims to help elect candidates adhere firmly to low-tax philosophy and small-government.

The article reports on the plan of President Barack Obama in retrieving a deficit-reduction deal in the U.S. in 2013 and mentions that he will organize a meeting with Congressional Democrats and Republicans.

The article reports on President Barack Obama's nomination for Sylvia Mathews Burwell to lead the Office of Management and Budget in the U.S. in 2013.

The article reports on the challenge faces by Democrats and Republicans on how to reach an agreement about the U.S. spending policy for the whole year of 2013 in order to avoid a government shutdown starting March 27.

The article focuses on the differences on viewpoints between the Democrat and Republican parties on taxes, Medicare and Social Security as U.S. President Barack Obama offers his deficit reduction deal in the U.S.

The article reports on the concerns raised by aid proponents on the potential impact of the decision of U.S. President Barack Obama to withdraw military troops in Afghanistan on the future of the civilian aid in the country.

The article discusses the potential influence of economic factors in the possible immigration overhaul in the U.S. The author mentions that the changes in the economy and demographics of Mexico is weighing in the immigration debate. He adds that the issue of border security is also affecting immigration in the U.S.

The article offers information on the second inaugural address of U.S. President Barack Obama which calls for progressive values.

The article reports on efforts of U.S. President Barack Obama to address the country's growing deficit, which he believes can be solved if both political parties can agree on another cuts on spending and tax increases.

WASHINGTON -- The complex and fraught politics of wealth and class, undercurrents all along in the race between President Obama and Mitt Romney, are surfacing in increasingly visible ways in the presidential campaign, presenting big risks and opportunities to both sides. The contrasting images of the week could hardly have been more evocative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current election is producing very few goose bumps, except perhaps among those who get all tingly when they view billionaire-financed attack ads. The incumbent, who drew adoring throngs last time, cannot always fill a room this time. The challenger's risk-averse, carefully plotted strategy is a business plan worthy of a Harvard M.B.A. - and consciously the antithesis of the improvisational, let's-take-a-shot style of the war hero Republican nominee of four years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is no good time for a presidential candidate to face what Mitt Romney faced last week, when The Washington Post reported that he had tormented a fellow student while at prep school in the 1960s. But the months between the end of the primary season and the formal start of the general election at the conventions are an especially perilous period for candidates in Mr. Romney's position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mitt Romney effectively wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination. Newt Gingrich said he would drop out. President Obama stumped through key swing states. But there's a case to be made that the developments this week with the greatest long-term meaning for American politics took place across the Atlantic, not in Washington or New Hampshire or Iowa. In Britain, the economy lapsed into a double-dip recession, a result in part of a strict fiscal austerity plan imposed by the conservative government. And political tremors swept across the Continent as the European Union engaged in a fierce battle over whether Germany is demanding excessively deep budget cuts in the effort to keep debtor countries from financial collapse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

President Obama's campaign has left no doubt about how it intends to run against Mitt Romney, portraying him as a bazillionaire elitist and conviction-free flip-flopper who has allied himself with the Republican Party's most extreme positions. -After a year in which he was excoriated on an almost-daily basis by Mr. Romney and the others seeking the Republican nomination, Mr. Obama is now letting loose his competitive, street-ball side, mocking his opponent's vocabulary and suggesting a Republican victory would lead to social Darwinism. The comments by a Democratic strategist Wednesday night about Ann Romney's work history were condemned by Mr. Obama and his inner circle but only reinforced the sense that a lot Democrats are primed to play rough in 2012. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Let's say you're moving steadily toward wrapping up the Republican presidential nomination and you allow yourself to begin thinking ahead to the question of a running mate. Your party has a potentially devastating problem with Hispanic voters, so your thoughts naturally drift in that direction. After the contraception wars, it wouldn't hurt to have a woman at your side. It would be nice if you could have an ambassador to the Tea Party movement to help shore up your credentials with the right. And of course, it's always helpful to chose someone from a swing state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When it comes to inspiring Tea Party support, Mitt Romney often seems more burdened by his record than helped by it. There is his Massachusetts health care plan, complete with an individual mandate of the sort that helped fuel the rise of the Tea Party movement when President Obama adopted it on a national level. There is his willingness as governor to turn to revenue increases as well as spending cuts to balance the budget in his state, the kind of fiscal compromise that almost no Republican in Washington could support these days without provoking Tea Party wrath. There is his history of evolving ideologically along with changing political circumstances, raising a flag among those Tea Partiers who demand steadfast principles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rick Santorum creates a stir by speaking out against prenatal testing. Virginia's governor and legislature get caught up in an emotional debate over requiring women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound. President Obama, under pressure, recalibrates his position on health-insurance coverage of contraception for employers with religious affiliations. Social issues are back with a vengeance, dominating the dialogue on the presidential campaign trail, in Congress and in state capitals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

2:55 p.m. Updated ''One of the things about being president,'' President Obama said the other day in an interview with NBC News, ''is that you get better as time goes on.'' Whether he has gotten better is a judgment voters can make in November. But as his handling of two controversial decisions this week showed, there is little doubt that he is different, changed by three years in the White House in ways that speak to fundamental questions about him among both his supporters and his critics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Both are Harvard-educated millionaires. Both have been criticized as elitist and technocratic. Both have struggled to handle the populist anger coursing through politics. In an election climate largely defined by the anxieties of the middle class, working people are now more likely than not to face a choice in November between two candidates who sometimes seem to have trouble relating to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To those who bemoan the lack of better choices in presidential elections, third-party fantasies come easily at this stage in a campaign. End hyper-partisanship and Washington dysfunction: Vote Bloomberg-Petraeus in 2012! Those dreams are even more vivid than usual this time around, and not just because polls show striking levels of discontent within both parties about politics as usual. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The drop in the unemployment rate last month opens up a new front in the presidential campaign, with the White House getting a first big opportunity to define an improving trend in the economy and Republicans emphasizing that conditions still remain unacceptably bad. Within minutes of the government's announcement that the jobless rate had declined to 8.6 percent in November from 9 percent a month earlier, Mitt Romney blasted out a statement noting that unemployment had remained above 8 percent throughout the 34 months of President Obama's tenure in office, ''the longest such spell since the Great Depression.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A year out from Election Day: an eon in political time, sufficient to alter circumstances substantially for or against either party. But Friday's tepid jobs report brings a fresh reminder of the stubborn difficulty President Obama and his team face in overcoming one of their most enduring mistakes, one made before he even took office. Ten days prior to Mr. Obama's taking the oath of office in January 2009, his economic team released a report outlining the estimated benefits of the $775 billion stimulus plan he was seeking. The projections were quite specific. The stimulus legislation passed just a few weeks later at about the size the White House had sought. Had all gone as promised by the report, the unemployment rate right now would have been around 6.5 percent, heading down to around 6 percent by the end of this year and a little over 5 percent at the end of next year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORRECTION APPENDED He'll have hundreds of millions of dollars, the bully pulpit, Air Force One and high-profile supporters from Warren Buffett to Lady Gaga behind him. But President Obama's chances of re-election could come down to a single strategic question: To what degree can the history of 2004 be repeated in 2012? Or to break the question into its most important component parts: [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The air in the capital these days is thick with references to trillion-dollar deficits, debt-to-G.D.P. ratios and mandatory spending. But the budget debate that became fully engaged last week is about far more than accounting and arcane policy disputes. What is under way now is the most fundamental reassessment of the size and role of government -- of the balance between personal responsibility and private markets on the one hand and public responsibility and social welfare on the other -- at least since Ronald Reagan and perhaps since F.D.R. The battle ahead ''is the big one, and goes to the very major questions about the role of government,'' said G. William Hoagland, a former Republican staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. ''This is going to be a very fundamental clash of ideologies.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- On this much, President Obama's friends and foes could agree: He eludes simple labels. Yes, he's a liberal, except when he's not. He's antiwar, except for the one he's escalating. He's for bailouts, but wants to rein in the banks. He's concentrating ever-more power in the West Wing, except when he's being overly deferential to Congress. He's cool, except when he's fighting-hot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT was a ''risky scheme,'' in the view of its passionate opponents, an example of ideological overreach and political hubris. The president's party wavered in the face of organized and spontaneous protests, especially from the elderly. Eventually, President George W. Bush's plan to add private investment accounts to Social Security, the centerpiece of his second-term agenda, withered and died. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE recession will end. No one is marking the calendar, least of all President Obama, but the president is hinting at an audacious ambition as he waits for that inevitable if distant day: a redefining of American capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the expected content of President George W. Bush's State of the Union speech.

The article reports on the statement that Laura Bush has no intention of becoming Hillary Rodham Clinton by U.S. President George W. Bush.

The article reports that President George W. Bush saluted the memory of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks in the U.S.

The article reports on the announcement of President George W. Bush about the improvement of Iraqi police and armed forces that could reduce American troops in Iraq.

The article reports that South Dakota Democrat Tom Daschle said that the Congress implicitly authorized spying on Americans when it endorsed granting President George W. Bush broad power in 2001 to combat terrorism.

The article focuses on U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney's praise of the U.S. aid efforts in the earthquake devastated are of Pakistan.

The article focuses on U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney's conversation with reporters during his flight from Pakistan to Oman.

The article presents information on the surprise visit made by U.S. Vice President, Dick Cheney, to Iraq.

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush shows a belief in Representative Tom DeLay's innocence.

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush emphasized on the need of patience to achieve the condition of stability in Iraq.

The article presents the comments of U.S. President George W. Bush on the failure of the U.S. government to respond to Hurricane Katrina.

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush has begun a coordinated effort to focus more attention on the positive developments and to take credit for them.

The article presents information about a conversation between former U.S. intelligence official Karl Rove and a journalist for the "Time" magazine.

The article focuses on U.S. President George W. Bush who has emphasized to discourage illegal immigration.

This article presents information on the efforts of U.S. President George W. Bush in uniting the Republican party on the issue of immigration.

The article focuses the issues related to wrong pre-war intelligence information about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush is beginning a new effort to shore up his credibility and cast his critics as hypocrites.

The article presents information on a fund being established by I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, to help pay for his legal defense in the United States Central Intelligence Agency leak case.

The article states that administration officials in the U.S. and the U.S. President George W. Bush have carefully avoided disclosing anything about any involvement of the president may have had in the events surrounding the leak of a covert C.I.A. officer's identity.

This article reports that Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor in the CIA leak case is trying to find out whether senior White House adviser Karl Rove concealed form the grand jury a conversation with a Time magazine reporter in the week before an intelligence officer's identity was made public in 2003.

This article presents information on the credibility of White House press secretary Scott McClellan.

The article states that the U.S. government named Donald E. Powell, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Deposit insurance Commission and a former Texas banker, to coordinate the federal role in rebuilding the parts of the Gulf Coast devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The article focuses on the promotion of David S. Addington and John P. Hannah, longtime aides to U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney.