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Gingrich raising cash, profile for Akin Senate bid
Shunned by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin turned Tuesday to former presidential hopeful Newt ...
Romney moves to reframe debate on abortion, autos
In ads, his own remarks and most recently the words of a top supporter, Republican Mitt Romney seems determined to soften emphasis on abortion and ...
Romney, GOP suddenly plunging onto Democratic turf
Mitt Romney is suddenly plunging into traditionally Democratic-leaning Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and his GOP allies are trying to put Michigan into ...
Obama to air ads in Mich. touting auto bailout
President Barack Obama's campaign plans to air advertising in Michigan beginning Wednesday touting the president's support of the auto industry, ...
Romney, Obama, talk of Sandy week before election
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney edged back into active campaigning on Tuesday while President Barack Obama stayed close to the White ...
Q&A: Could Sandy postpone the election?
One week before a close election, superstorm Sandy has confounded the presidential race, halted early voting in many areas and led some to ponder ...
Nature slams campaigns into real world
Suddenly, after drifting through months of confusing finger-pointing and iffy economic theory, the presidential candidates are getting walloped by an ...
Obama to view storm damage in New Jersey
President Barack Obama will travel to storm-stricken New Jersey on Wednesday to view damage from the massive storm that struck the East Coast and to ...
Regional elections foretell turmoil in Italy
Italy risks heading into political turmoil after a regional election showed a huge level of voter distrust in mainstream political parties, a result ...
Oh no Ohio! Living under a political barrage
This is what it's like to be an Ohioan in the maddening final days of Campaign 2012: A cacophony of screeching voices spew attack ads from television ...
Nasty campaign tactics: Phony voting instructions
With a week to go until Election Day, the nasty campaign tactics are coming out. People in Florida, Virginia and Indiana have gotten calls falsely ...
GOP groups invest in Neb., NM Senate races
A Republican-leaning outside group is investing in Nebraska's suddenly tighter Senate race, looking to shore up Republican Deb Fischer as she tries ...
Romney expands ad campaign into Pennsylvania
Mitt Romney is launching a statewide advertising campaign in Pennsylvania. The Republican presidential candidate is making a final-week bid to defeat ...
Ukraine opposition hesitant after ruling party win
Ukrainian opposition parties on Tuesday appeared split over whether to recognize the ruling party's victory in a parliamentary election denounced as ...
Presidential race rained out even in sunny states
Crista Laughlin was a mile high and dry, but Superstorm Sandy still kept the 40-year-old Obama campaign volunteer from walking precincts or working ...
Pot, gay marriage, suicide are ballot-item topics
After all the economy-focused campaign talk, voters in some states will get a chance on Election Day to sound off on intriguing topics that the ...
Kuwait opposition activist held for ruler insults
Opposition groups in Kuwait say a leading political activist has been arrested on charges of criticizing the Gulf nation's ruler during protests.
Bahrain bans all protest gatherings amid violence
Bahrain imposed emergency-style rules Tuesday banning all protest gatherings and threating legal action against groups considered backing escalating ...
Superstorm Sandy causes flooding in New York City
Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New ...
Gaffe-prone candidates hurt GOP's Senate chances
Republicans hopeful of taking over the Senate should be measuring the drapes. But a series of blown opportunities two years ago and again this year ...
A week to go: Sandy disrupts presidential campaign
Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Superstorm Sandy as ...
Hurricane upends final week of Mass. Sen. campaign
The powerful storm ravaging the East Coast is upending the final week of campaigning in Massachusetts' grueling U.S. Senate race. Republican Sen.
Mother of Mo. Sen. McCaskill dies at age 84
Betty Anne Ward McCaskill, the mother of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and a political trailblazer in her own right, died Monday at her home in St.
Ukraine's ruling party leads in vote called biased
The Ukrainian president's party will retain its strong grip on power, according to returns Monday from a parliamentary election that was criticized ...
Clinton: Romney claim about Jeep a 'load of bull'
Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton have criticized Mitt Romney for saying that Chrysler is shifting production of its Jeep ...