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Ryan wants Romney to beat Obama 'by acclamation'
Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said Thursday that he wants the Republican campaign message to be so detailed and compelling that Mitt Romney ...
NATO rebuilding partner operations with Afghans
Most U.S. and coalition combat units in Afghanistan have returned to their practice of partnering with Afghan forces, nearly two weeks after the top U
Court security firm to pay $1.9M for lax gun tests
A private security company that provides guards for most of the nation's federal courthouses has agreed to pay nearly $1.9 million to settle ...
Republicans assail Obama on 9/11 attack in Libya
Republicans lashed out at President Barack Obama and senior administration officials over their evolving description of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on ...
Tea party hero changes tune to woo Ind. moderates
Richard Mourdock became one of the tea party's biggest winners of the 2012 primary season when he knocked off veteran Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar in ...
Panetta: Terrorists behind attack on US in Libya
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday there can be no doubt that terrorists had planned and carried out the attack on the U.S. Consulate in ...
Older voters look beyond Medicare, Social Security
Get in line, Medicare and Social Security. Seniors, like just about everyone else, have money on their minds. Who wins the trust of seniors, a group ...
VIDEO: Virginia city inundated with political ads
This is a city under siege. Political ads are blasting across the television airwaves here, delighting broadcasters but making viewers cringe.
$42.6 million FEMA trailer settlements approved
A federal judge gave his final approval Thursday to a $42.6 million class-action settlement between companies that made and installed ...
Gay marriage NY arguments put US lawyer on defense
A federal appeals court panel forced a Justice Department lawyer into an awkward position Thursday, making him explain the government's decision to ...
Debates a shot at finding that 'defining moment'
In presidential politics, everybody's searching for "the moment." The campaigns don't know when or how it will come, but they watch for something — ...
A third of public fears police use of drones
More than a third of Americans worry their privacy will suffer if drones like those used to spy on U.S. enemies overseas become the latest police tool ...
Obama presents his closing case in 7 states
TITLE: "Table" LENGTH: Two minutes. AIRING: In the closely contested states of New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, and Colorado.
New ad seeks to show Romney's compassionate side
TITLE: "Too Many Americans" LENGTH: 60 seconds. AIRING: Mitt Romney's campaign did not disclose where the ad is running. KEY IMAGES: Romney, wearing ...
What do Ohio's white working-class voters want?
To look at Ohio is to glimpse America in a nutshell — a state full of places where laborers, truck drivers, cooks, store clerks and business owners ...
Obama makes a pitch to veterans, military families
President Barack Obama has appealed to veterans and military families in defense-focused southeast Virginia, casting himself as a president who is ...
THE RACE: Obama, Romney spar in battleground VA
President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney are chasing each other around the map. It's just not always clear who's doing the chasing and who's being ...
NY's latest sex scandal dogged by sordid past
It was an odd assignment for the young, pretty staffer when she was ordered to go along on a trip to Atlantic City with her boss. But the reason soon ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Syria
The issue: Syria's conflict is the most violent to emerge from last year's Arab Spring. The protests started peacefully but prompted a brutal ...
Judge backs lobbyist ban on gov't boards
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's ban on federally registered lobbyists serving on government advisory ...
Obama ahead of Romney in Iowa polls as vote starts
Republican Mitt Romney is struggling in swing-state Iowa at a perilous point: just as voters here start casting early ballots in the presidential race
Obama makes new appeal in 2-minute ad
Trying to command attention and build his lead in the polls, President Barack Obama unveiled a new two-minute TV commercial Thursday calling for an ...
Reforms create competitive House races in Calif.
Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, the longest-serving member of California's largest-in-the-nation congressional delegation, offered a taste of his ...
Ryan says foreign policy 'blowing up in our faces'
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan criticized President Barack Obama on Wednesday over the protests in the Middle East, saying the region ...
Romney: My health care law is evidence of empathy
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is pointing to his Massachusetts health care law as evidence that he has empathy for ordinary Americans.