From: Bloomberg By Julianna Goldman Americans are growing more dissatisfied with President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy and say it will be hard to vote to re-elect him without seeing significant progress over the next year and a half. By… more »

*CR Provided picture Washington Examiner By: Julie Mason President Obama's decision to push new gun-control measures in the wake of the mass shootings in Tucson, Ariz., is out of character and faces dubious prospects with a new Republican majori… more »

Pedestrians walk past the headquarters of Commerzbank in Frankfurt July 23, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Ralph Orlowski By Emily Kaiser WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What's odd about this scenario? German business confidence is soaring while U.S.… more »

Time Mark Halperin The Tea Party may be the best thing that has happened to the Republican Party since Barack Obama got elected President. Its members, fed up and fired up, have sacrificed their time and personal pursuits to try to alter the directio… more »

By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News, Copenhagen Developing nations are set to be hardest hit by rising temperaturesProspects of finalising a new binding agreement on climate change by the end of the… more »