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Camp David in the international spotlight with G-8
Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, ...
House OKs $642 billion defense bill
Ignoring a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House approved a $642 billion defense budget Friday that breaks a deficit-cutting deal ...
Role unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bid
After months of silence, George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race — with four short words. "I'm for Mitt Romney," the former president ...
George W. Bush offers tepid endorsement of Romney
George W. Bush is backing presumptive Republican White House nominee Mitt Romney. The former president offered a four-word endorsement of Romney as ...
Suddenly Someone: Finding fleeting political fame
Wanna be famous? Forget reality TV. The presidential campaign could be just the ticket from nowhere to notoriety. It can be done with a heartfelt ...
HBO producing documentary about George H.W. Bush
HBO is producing a documentary on the first President George Bush to debut two days after his 88th birthday in June. Titled "41," the film about the ...
THE RACE: Romney likely to look to right for veep
If he follows recent tradition, Mitt Romney will look to his right for a running mate. Speculation over a GOP No. 2 has been percolating for some time ...
No shocker in store: Romney veep search under way
Don't look for a vice presidential shocker from Mitt Romney. His choice of a running-mate — a search he announced Monday he has begun — will be guided ...
Court weighs graphic health warnings on cigarettes
A federal appeals court Tuesday weighed the constitutionality of requiring large graphic photos on cigarette packs to show that smoking can disfigure ...
Whose heroes? Obama constantly invokes GOP icons
President Barack Obama is embracing an unlikely group of political icons as he tries to paint Mitt Romney as extreme: He's praising Republican ...
FACT CHECK: Romney, Obama gloss over realities
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of inflicting a "government takeover of health care" on ...
FACT CHECK: Obama's incomplete history lesson
Few would quarrel with President Barack Obama's point that the Republican Party has drifted to the right in recent years, disavowing ideas it once ...
Dems sharpen attack as GOP rallies behind Romney
President Barack Obama's administration launched a multi-pronged assault on Mitt Romney's values and foreign policy credentials Sunday, while a fresh ...
April leap or May slog, Romney on pace to GOP nod
April looks good for Mitt Romney, with its string of Midwestern and Eastern primaries seemingly tailor-made for the Republican presidential ...
Romney gets Bush backing, but no sign of George W.
George W. Bush is as hard to find in his father's office as he is in the 2012 presidential contest. The 43rd president appears in a gold-framed ...
Rubio endorses Romney, says GOP primary should end
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida endorsed Mitt Romney as the party's presidential nominee Wednesday night, saying it's increasingly clear that ...
Romney edges into mop-up phase of campaign
After a three-month struggle, Mitt Romney edged into the mop-up phase of the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, buoyed by ...
George H.W. Bush to formally back Romney
Former President George H.W. Bush plans to endorse Mitt Romney at an event Thursday in Houston. Romney spokeswoman Gail Gitcho says the two will ...
How health care case will unfold before the court
The Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on Monday over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable ...
Boldest nuclear cutters recently? It's been GOP
The Obama administration's consideration of severe cuts in nuclear weapons generated a flurry of GOP criticism — "reckless lunacy" in the words of ...
Campaign laughs, history on view at Newseum in DC
Tina Fey's red suit, flag pin and eyeglasses worn to channel her Sarah Palin parodies of the 2008 presidential race are going on view at the Newseum, ...
Romney latest pol to join wait-let-me-explain club
Mitt Romney's remark that he's not worried about the very poor, the latest gaffe in a campaign rich with blunders, joins a long list of ...
Experts say Gingrich moon base dreams not lunacy
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to create a lunar colony that he says could become a U.S. state. There's his grand research plan ...
Romney would rank among richest presidents ever
Just how rich is Mitt Romney? Add up the wealth of the last eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Then double that number. Now you're ...