2012

The Economist, the respected weekly current affairs magazine, on Thursday said it was backing US President Barack Obama for re-election, although with less enthusiasm than four years ago.

Silicon Valley is of two minds regarding who should be the next president of the United States.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took his claim that President Barack Obama had stolen $716 billion from Medicare to the next level on Thursday and asserted that seniors "most likely" would not be able to see specialists if the president is re-elected.

Citing media reports about the connection between climate change and Hurricane Sandy, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was arrested on Wednesday while attempting to deliver supplies to activists in Texas who're camping in trees to block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Libertarian maverick's message of small government and social tolerance thrills young voters and threatens president's hopes

With less than a week to go before election day, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is suggesting that the president of the United States doesn't like half of the country because African Americans have a "grievance against whites."

A Christian group in Texas is threatening to file a formal complaint with the Attorney General's office because a woman who lives near Austin was forced to cover up her "Vote the Bible" T-shirt after election officials suggested that it could be construed as illegal electioneering.

There are 12 battleground states that deserve close attention as Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney go head to head in Tuesday's historic election:

WASHINGTON — US political campaigns will spend $6 billion in federal races this year, making the 2012 general election the most expensive poll in American history, experts said Wednesday.

The images of a paralysed New York City at the mercy of Hurricane Sandy's wall of water have forced climate change on to the political agenda in the final week of the 2012 presidential election campaign. Campaigners said the devastating storm could turn out to be the October Surprise of the elections, exposing Republicans' failure to engage with an issue that is no longer a distant threat, but a present day danger.

Death is no longer the fusty business it once was: from swipeable bar codes on headstones to designer urns, webcam-based ceremonies and virtual memorials, funerals have shot into the 21st century.

Hollywood star Brad Pitt is pledging $100,000 to the fight for same-sex marriage in four states where its future is on the ballot on Tuesday, the Human Rights Campaign said Wednesday.