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Reuters - The White House said on Thursday that President Barack Obama's top economic adviser will visit China from Saturday for three days of meetings.

Union leaders said Wednesday they will mobilize millions of members in 26 states with a message about "economic patriotism" as they try to help Democrats hold onto their majority in the House and Senate.

Tea party activists say they plan to hold politicians accountable in the coming elections for too much government spending and too little attention paid to the Constitution.

John Carney of Delaware is a rarity in a campaign season of foreboding for Democrats, a practicing politician with a strong chance of winning a Republican-held seat in Congress.

AFP - The Federal Reserve chief has vowed to take aggressive steps to boost the US economy if the outlook worsened, as the world's largest economy's pace of growth slowed rapidly in the second quarter.

AP - Any attempts to simplify the complicated U.S.

Across the country, political ad spending is up and attack ads lead the way. Those who take the high road do so at their peril

AFP - The odds of the US economy slipping back into recession have risen as new data point to a worsening housing slump and the manufacturing sector slowing markedly amid high unemployment and weak consumer spending.

First Read: The prominence of the Tea Party has presented longtime Republican moderates and centrists with a dilemma of what to do.

A Republican civil war is raging, with righter-than-thou conservatives dominating ever more primaries in a fight for the party's soul. And the Democrats hope to benefit.