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Forty-two percent Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for President Obama .

Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication.

As experts debate the potential speed of the US recovery, one figure looms large but is often overlooked: nearly 1 in 5 Americans is either out of work or under-employed. According to the government's broadest measure of unemployment, some 17.5 percent are either without a job entirely or underemployed.

Thata s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.

On August 11th during a town hall meeting in Jefferson County with a packed auditorium of 3000 constituents concerned about health care reform , Senator Claire McCaskill remarked to the crowd, a oeYou dona t trust me?a The overwhelming majority of the crowd shouted, a oeNO!a The next sentence out of her mouth was, "I don't know what else I can do." ...

ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform? Here's a case study.

If the election were held today Obama would lose by a wide margin to Sarah Palin.

President Barack Obama returns from his maiden Asian swing with none of the concrete accomplishments that White Houses typically put in place before big trips, setting up a stark test for his idealistic theory that the United States should act more like a wise neighbor than a swaggering superpower.

President Obama's approval rating has hit a new low of 46 percent, even as a majority of Americans says he is providing the kind of leadership they expected.

Obama Bows, the Nation Cringes A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing.

Investigators in New York City raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official said.

The government Web site -- Recovery.gov -- is under fire for posting a number of jobs created in congressional districts that don't exist and for accepting unrealistic data from several reporting outlets.

Greenpeace activists in Hong Kong urge Obama to take a stand on climate change. US President Barack Obama came to office promising hope and change.

From the National Union of Healthcare Workers : Today's Wall Street Journal and Fresno Bee report that SEIU engaged in illegal threats, ballot-tampering, and other serious violations of election rules during a June union election for 10,000 homecare providers in Fresno, according to voters and union staff who worked for SEIU during the election and ...

The former vice president spoke on climate change at the Mizner Park Amphitheater to a crowd of about 800.

It took five years of legal wrangling with AT&T , but the attorneys who got the communications firm to settle with some 270 Missouri cities Nov.

TheA Missouri Republican Party's Executive Director Lloyd Smith wrote of what they've uncovered in documents linking Secretary of State Carnahan to Missouri's ACORN chapter: What we found was shocking: at least 2,300 pages of correspondence that clearly detailed a close working relationship between the highest levels of Carnahan's office and ACORN ...

ABC News' Jonathan Karl chats with Sen. Ben Nelson on the Capitol Hill subway. "Well, first of all, it has more than a robust public option, it's got a totally government-run plan, the costs are extraordinary associated with it, it increases taxes in a way that will not pass in the Senate and I could go on and on and on," Nelson said in an ...

CNN's Lou Dobbs, a lightning rod for criticism following his transition from a business journalist to an opinionated anchor on such issues as illegal immigration, told viewers on Wednesday that he was quitting his nightly show to pursue new opportunities.

A total of 271 Missouri cities and their lawyers are getting a holiday present in the form of a $65 million settlement with AT&T to settle a 2004 class-action lawsuit over taxes on landlines.