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Ryan prepares to take on skilled debater Biden
To prepare for his biggest test yet on the national stage, untested debater Paul Ryan has been hauling two thick briefing books around the country and ...
McCaskill hits Akin with ads featuring raped women
Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill took aim Wednesday at Republican challenger Todd Akin with a new series of TV ads featuring rape survivors ...
Biden likely to play 'hardball' in VP debate
Four years ago, Joe Biden was careful not to appear overly aggressive in his vice presidential debate with Sarah Palin, then a newcomer to the ...
Tight Senate, House races turn snarky and personal
Short on time and tempers, House and Senate candidates in tight races are turning snarky and personal in their attacks on their opponents. The stakes, ...
Akin chides gov't money tied to McCaskill's spouse
Businesses affiliated with the husband of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill have received almost $40 million in federal subsidies for low-income housing ...
GOP senator defends W.Va. Dem vs TV attack ad
A Republican U.S. senator is defending West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin from a GOP colleague's attack ad. Manchin is the target of a ...
Veteran AP Georgia newsman Dick Pettys dies at 66
From Georgia's last segregationist governor to the first Republican to hold the office since Reconstruction, Dick Pettys covered Georgia politics for ...
In Ohio, Mandel's Senate bid faces Dems' scrutiny
Josh Mandel drew murmurs of approval from a dozen or so Republicans as he delivered a quick rundown on the budget and energy, and plenty of laughs as ...
APNewsBreak: Raese built golf club without permits
Republican Senate candidate John Raese filled in wetlands and damaged more than 2 miles of streams when he rerouted them to create waterfalls on a ...
House GOP freshmen face voters, now as incumbents
For Rep. Scott Rigell and other Republican House freshmen, groundskeeper Beth Richardson is a dream voter. Sanitation truck driver Jerry Brown is a ...
Maine's 6 Senate hopefuls all hail from elsewhere
Maine has always been proud of the commodities it claims as homegrown, among them Stephen King, L.L. Bean, lobster, and a host of political icons ...
Arizona getting to know Carmona in Senate race
Arizona voters have seen Richard Carmona in combat fatigues, in a surgeon's mask and gown, wielding a pistol as a SWAT team member and most recently ...
Close race for Montana senator amid Obama drag
Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is hanging on in a brutal re-election battle in Montana despite a drag from President Barack Obama, who is poised to lose ...
King's independent bent roils Maine Senate race
With his wispy gray-blond hair and moustache, independent Senate candidate Angus King is a familiar face to the Bath Iron Works shipyard workers who ...
NHL lockout forces canceled games through Oct. 24
What seemed inevitable for the NHL has become reality. The league canceled the first two weeks of the regular season on Thursday, the second time ...
Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis raise concerns
Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer.
Lawmakers divided on counterterror effort
Stinging criticism from Congress about a counterterrorism effort that improperly collected information about innocent Americans is turning up the heat ...
Outside money fills airwaves in tight Senate races
Campaign cash from outside political groups is flooding into conservative states with close Senate races like Indiana, Arizona and Montana, where ...
Analysis: Presidential debate to set tone for race
As millions of Americans watch, President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney will be chasing opposite goals in their first debate. The key for ...
New blood turns Colorado to political battleground
Not too long ago Colorado was political flyover country, known for skiing and football — and being a reliable vote for the Republican presidential ...
GOP reviews turning negative on Romney's campaign
On the eve of the first presidential debate, the early autumn Republican reviews are in for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, and they are not ...
Georgian president concedes but democracy rules
Defying expectations, President Mikhail Saakashvili conceded Tuesday that his party had lost Georgia's parliamentary election and his opponent had the ...
Dems out to reverse GOP's 2010 gains in Illinois
Pizzeria owner Bobby Schilling catapulted to Congress two years ago with robust tea party support, the endorsement of "Joe the Plumber" and a sharply ...