Topic: Barack Obama

Conservative billionaire Joe Ricketts is planning to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the super PAC era against President Obama,  The New York Times reports.

A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from, The New York Times reports.

While Supreme Court watchers focus on the insurance requirement in President Obama's healthcare law, the election year ruling next month may also decide on billions in new taxes.

Mitt Romney will win the presidential election and must make deficit reduction and job growth his first priorities, outspoken businessman Ken Langone told CNBC.

Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday vowed that the House will not wait until after November elections to find a way to avoid a year-end "fiscal cliff" – and that House Republicans will, again, refuse to raise the national debt limit, unless Congress offsets the hike with spending cuts the Christian Science Monitor reports.

The House speaker draws an election-year battle line, saying he would back an increase in the government's borrowing authority only if there were an equal amount of spending cuts.

The differences between President Obama and Mitt Romney on Medicare are stark, but both candidates agree that the other's plan would end the program as it now exists.

Ron Paul says he is done spending money on his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

President Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new effort  to undermine his business credentials.

Hollywood  wines and dines President Obama chez George Clooney, raising  nearly $15 million, a record for a single fundraiser.

Mitt Romney counters a report suggesting he bullied high school classmates, insisting he didn't know some were gay.

LAS VEGAS — Put a room full of hedge fund pros together to talk politics and chances are pretty good that it's going to be more fun to be Karl Rove than Robert Gibbs.

President Barack Obama says Joe Biden got "a little bit over his skis" in publicly embracing gay marriage, forcing Obama to speed up his own plans to announce his historic support for  same-sex marriage.

U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, a 35-year veteran of the Senate and leading foreign policy voice, was defeated in the Indiana Republican primary by a Tea Party-backed challenger on Tuesday, the first Senate incumbent ousted in the 2012 election year.

House Speaker John Boehner told CNBC he would like to see a top tax rate of 25 percent and warned that the United States had no alternative but to reduce its $16 trillion debt.