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GOP chairman says party needs to 'prosecute' Obama
The chairman of the Republican Party said Monday that the GOP needs to "prosecute the president," arguing that Barack Obama's offenses are a long list ...
Fight for women's vote defines presidential race
A nation at war, crippling joblessness and a looming budget standoff that could wreck the economy have been overshadowed in recent days by an issue ...
Democrats urge immediate repair of Capitol Dome
Democrats controlling the Senate pressed Monday for an immediate infusion of money to repair the iconic dome of the U.S. Capitol, which has fallen ...
Happy now for tea party help, GOP faces challenges
The Republican Party that's showing its face to America this week is a restless institution that relies heavily on the uncompromising passions of tea ...
Analysis: Akin row shows GOP's social-fiscal rift
Every now and then, an event awakens the ever-slumbering tensions between the Republican Party's two core wings: social conservatives and corporate ...
Republican Convention schedule day by day
Officials with the Republican National Convention have cut virtually all of the activities scheduled for Monday and compressed what was to be a ...
Lawmakers want Ariz. border fence started
Members of the Arizona Legislature's border security advisory committee want the state to begin building a mile of fencing along the border with ...
AP-GfK poll: Raise taxes to save Social Security
Most Americans say go ahead and raise taxes if it will save Social Security benefits for future generations. And raise the retirement age, if you have ...
Roger Clemens back on the mound at age 50
Roger Clemens raved about all the fun he had pitching at age 50 and putting smiles on the faces of Sugar Land baseball fans. Still, it wasn't enough ...
Akin Senate bid tests GOP strength in Missouri
A "bellwether," quite literally, is a male sheep wearing a bell that leads the flock — or at least allows a farmer to find his sheep, because the ...
Tea party lawmakers torn between beliefs, politics
Twenty months into a Congress they have tilted rightward, tea party loyalists are finding that ideological purity can be elusive for conservative ...
Akin makes first Mo. appearance since rape remarks
Bolstered by thousands of small individual donations, embattled Republican Congressman Todd Akin reaffirmed his commitment to his U.S. Senate campaign ...
Ohio doctor helps perpetuate rape pregnancy ideas
The discredited notion that a woman's body can resist conception in a sexual assault has persisted in anti-abortion circles for decades, largely ...
Democratic incumbent is content for Akin to stay
Rep. Todd Akin's staunchest defender may turn out to be his chief political rival. As the nation's top Republicans urged Akin this week to abandon his ...
Romney: Big business is fine, helped by tax havens
Creating a potential headache for his campaign, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said big businesses in the U.S. were "doing fine" in ...
Flake seen as heavy favorite in Arizona primary
Little in Arizona cools off in the middle of August. One exception is the GOP's Senate primary election, where the wealthy businessman who spent $6 ...
Convention speakers aim at women, glum partisans
Attention, women: Ann Romney and Sandra Fluke are talking to you. Listen up, glum partisans: Conservatives not in love with Republican presidential ...
Forget the Mormon moment; it's about Catholics
Forget the Mormon moment. The religious group that seems to be figuring most prominently in the presidential election right now is the Roman Catholic ...
Romney promises energy independence by 2020
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney promised on Thursday to aggressively expand offshore oil drilling along Virginia, North Carolina and the ...
Without big donors, Akin seeks small handouts
Abandoned by deep-pocketed national groups, Missouri Rep. Todd Akin is passing a collection plate among his remaining supporters, asking for a few ...
Police investigating reported threat against Akin
U.S. Capitol Police said Thursday that officers are investigating a reported threat against Rep. Todd Akin, the Missouri congressman who has been ...
AP Exclusive: Energy loan watchdog an Obama donor
A veteran Wall Street executive who performed an independent review that exonerated the Obama administration's program of loans to energy companies ...
Calif. congress members ask USDA to reopen plant
Three Central California congressmen cited the region's high unemployment Thursday while asking the federal government to reopen a slaughterhouse at ...