MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AFP) – Michele Bachmann, a Congresswoman championed by the Republicans' Tea Party wing, announced she had formally filed her candidacy in the 2012 presidential election.
PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. investigators have impounded an Air France A380 which collided with a smaller jet at New York's John F. Kennedy airport on Monday but the airline says transatlantic A380 flights will be unaffected.
WASHINGTON - The US Marine Corps is buying 80 F-35C joint strike fighter planes, the Pentagon said, casting doubt on plans to buy a vertical-landing version still under development.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A right-wing Internet radio host was sentenced on Tuesday to 33 months in prison for threatening the lives of three Chicago federal appeals court judges after they upheld a local gun control law.
Supporters of Tea Party favorites Alaska Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller and Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul have been "acting like street thugs," MSNBC's Chris Matthews said Wednesday.
