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Virginia has elected a new governor and New York City a new mayor on a busy Election Day around the country. Terry McAuliffe defeated Republican State Attorney General Ken Cuccinell in Virginia.  McAuliffe said even though the two had their differences, that does not mean his opponent is not a man of principle.  M...

  Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama was dishonest about the Affordable Care Act and should have phased it in like Massachusetts did with its health care overhaul. The 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor told NBC's ``Meet the Press'' on Sunday that Obama wasn't truthful when he promised that all Americans could keep their health insurance under the federal h

A new book asserts the idea of replacing Vice President Joe Biden with Hillary Rodham Clinton was floated in the president's 2012 re-election campaign. But a former White House chief of staff says it's an idea that didn't get very far.  ...

The management consultant President Barack Obama has asked to oversee the fixes to HealthCare.gov says there are dozens of problems that need to be addressed, but the system is fixable. Jeffrey Zients tells reporters that it will take a lot of work, but the majority of the issues will be resolved by the end of November...

President Obama is again pushing House Republicans to embrace comprehensive immigration reform.  In a White House event, the President argued that the nation's immigration is broken and an overhaul is long overdue.  He said the U.S. w...

Despite serious technical glitches, President Obama says thousands of people are signing up and saving money with the healthcare reform law.  In a White House event, the President acknowledged serious issues in the online rollout of the new healthcare exchanges.  H...

One Republican senator says he's more optimistic now that he has been in the past two weeks.       Mike Johanns of Nebraska spoke after a two-hour meeting between Senate Republicans and President Barack Obama at the White House. He's predicting that in the next few days, a plan put forward by House Republicans ``will kind of morph into a Senate plan...

President Barack Obama is having House Democrats to the White House as a showdown over the budget extends into its ninth day.

One week into the partial shutdown of the federal government, President Obama is digging in his heels.  In a White House news conference, the President said he is willing to negotiate with House Republicans but not until they agree to end the shutdown and raise the federal debt ceiling...

Lawmakers are back at work as the partial shutdown of the federal government pushes into a second week.  House Speaker John Boehner again complained that President Obama refuses to sit down and negotiate with Republicans.  He said the President's refusal to talk is hurting the nation.  ...