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Powell not ready to endorse Obama for re-election
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn't ...
SPIN METER: Rivals airbrush anti-Romney words
Remember Newt Gingrich calling Mitt Romney a liar? Michele Bachmann saying Romney's unelectable? Rick Santorum calling Romney "the worst Republican ...
THE RACE: Endorsements slow as Romney closes in
As Mitt Romney closes in on nailing down the Republican presidential nomination, endorsements from prominent Republicans are slowing to a trickle.
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 ...
Walker says Republicans should focus on his race
Gov. Scott Walker said Friday that Republicans gathering for the annual state convention this weekend should be focused on ensuring he and five other ...
Romney to shift focus from gay rights to economy
Republican Mitt Romney is trying to shift his campaign's focus back to the sluggish economic recovery and will use a commencement speech at an ...
Americans divided as Obama endorses gay marriage
Kate Varnum was at her Iowa home watching her newly adopted infant son when news flashed that Barack Obama had become the first sitting U.S.
Romney moves within 200 delegates of nomination
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won most of the delegates in a three-state primary sweep and added a few more Wednesday from previous contests ...
Indiana's long-serving Lugar fights for survival
The face of Indiana politics for nearly four decades, Republican Sen. Richard Lugar is battling for political survival against a tea party-backed GOP ...
Obama targets middle-class voters through airwaves
Targeting middle-class voters, President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled a sweeping $25 million, nine-state ad campaign whose centerpiece is a ...
Santorum endorses one-time rival Romney
Former presidential hopeful Rick Santorum urged his supporters to back fellow Republican Mitt Romney's campaign Monday in a late-night email that ...
GOP leaders start to rally around Romney - sort of
Republican party leaders are starting to rally around Mitt Romney, but it's not exactly a stampede of support for the expected GOP presidential ...
Romney, Mormons brace for a mean political season
As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints ...
Romney: Obama shouldn't use bin Laden in campaign
Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of politicizing the death of Osama bin Laden a year ago but said it was "totally ...
France's Le Pen won't endorse anyone for president
The leader of France's resurgent, anti-immigrant far right, Marine Le Pen, said Tuesday she would not endorse either candidate in the country's ...
Santorum wants promises from Romney before backing
Rick Santorum wants to ensure the GOP's policy platform represents conservatives' interests. Newt Gingrich wants help retiring his campaign debt and ...
Moderate Islamist gains in presidential race
A moderate Islamist campaigning to be Egypt's next president has won the support of some unlikely allies — the country's most conservative religious ...
In Egypt president race, Muslim clerics seek voice
Egypt's presidential contenders have been going through a new campaign rite of passage. One by one over recent weeks, they appeared before a panel of ...
Far right Le Pen - the face of French opposition?
Nicolas Sarkozy is parroting French far right leader Marine Le Pen and embracing her anti-immigrant electorate in a desperate bid for a second term ...
Gingrich to end presidential campaign next week
Newt Gingrich began taking steps Wednesday to shut down his debt-laden White House bid, setting the stage to endorse one-time rival Mitt Romney next ...
6 reasons it's the Year of Big Money in politics
Sure, there's always handwringing about money in politics. This time really is different, though — the first presidential race since the courts ...
James Murdoch grilled over UK phone hacking
James Murdoch defended his record at the head of his father's scandal-tarred British newspaper unit before a U.K. inquiry Tuesday, saying that ...
Rep. Holden, dean of Pa. House members, unseated
U.S. Rep. Tim Holden, Pennsylvania's longest-serving congressman, lost his re-election bid in the Democratic primary, while Rep. Mark Critz beat ...
Romney sweeps 5 wins, promises 'better America'
Mitt Romney laid claim to the fiercely contested Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night with a fistful of primary triumphs, then urged all ...
Santorum hints at Romney endorsement
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says he expects to endorse Mitt Romney. Santorum says that he believes Romney is "the right ...