Coburn calls out Senate cohorts as biggest waste in government
The Senate's top waste-watcher says the federal government is bloated with extra spending — including in the halls of Congress itself, where he says senators and staffers are collecting salaries while...
View ArticleInside Politics: UAW donates $1M to Obama super PAC
The United Auto Workers gave $1 million to President Obama's super PAC and another million to super PACs working to elect Congressional Democrats last month, filings showed Monday. And the union...
View ArticleDebating for Dummies: From Dukakis to Ford, some things are better left unsaid
If there's a lesson to be drawn from President Obama's lackluster performance in this year's first presidential debate it's this: A whole lot can go wrong. Oh, sure, candidates practice. Hone their...
View ArticleObama embraces economic record in new commercial
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — With the economy showing some signs of improvement three weeks before Election Day, President Barack Obama on Monday laid down a full embrace of the economic record many Republicans...
View ArticleRomney, RNC set party fundraising record in September
Mitt Romney's financial team and the Republican National Committee set a new Republican record for monthly fundraising in a presidential race, announcing Monday that together they raised $170 million...
View ArticleWhite House ponders a strike over Libya attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House, under political pressure to respond forcefully to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, is readying strike forces and drones but first has to find a...
View ArticleMontana Gov. Brian Schweitzer creates buzz his own way
MARYSVILLE, Mont. (AP) — A day spent with Montana's Brian Schweitzer riding four-wheelers and talking politics makes it easy to understand why he's one of the most unusual — and most effective —...
View ArticleObama, first lady plan to vote early for Nov. 6
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama won't be posing for any photos in the voting booth on Election Day — he's casting his ballot early. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama said Monday they are both...
View ArticleAfter Biden, Obama will be 'respectful' in next debate
After Vice President Joseph R. Biden earned the label "Laughing Joe" after he chuckled, sighed and interrupted his way through his debate with Rep. Paul Ryan last week, Team Obama is stressing that the...
View ArticleObama, Romney consumed by debate preparations
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — With the White House race barreling toward the finish, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were staying out of the spotlight Monday, underscoring the...
View ArticlePRUDEN: Betrayal in Benghazi, Libya, as clear as a sore toe
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Mitt Romney should think of the betrayal in Benghazi as gout in Barack Obama's left big toe, and step on it hard at every opportunity. The president will feel it, and the memory of...
View ArticleTaxpayer losses in bankruptcy of A123 queried
Two senior Republican senators called on the Department of Energy to explain whether the bankruptcy filing Tuesday by an electric car battery maker, A123 Systems Inc., which was awarded nearly $250...
View ArticleFriends memorialize ex-Sen. Arlen Specter in Pa.
NARBERTH, Pa. — Friends and former colleagues, including Vice President Joe Biden, two former Pennsylvania governors, judges and others on Tuesday mourned the loss of former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter,...
View ArticleRyan warns of desperation attacks from Obama
With Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney making his final preparations Tuesday for his second debate showdown with President Obama, his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan took to the stump in...
View ArticleSupreme Court won't block early voting in Ohio
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sided with Democrats on Tuesday in refusing to block a decision over disputed early voting days in the battleground state of Ohio, giving President Barack Obama's...
View ArticleSocial Security benefits to go up by 1.7 percent
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 56 million Social Security recipients will see their monthly payments go up by 1.7 percent next year. The increase, which starts in January, is tied to a measure of...
View ArticleObama, Romney at odds on energy
The most confrontational moments of Tuesday night's presidential debate revolved around energy, with Mitt Romney again blasting President Obama for failing to take full advantage of American oil,...
View ArticlePhoto ID laws blocked, but not killed
MIAMI — Tough new election laws aimed at forcing voters in many states to show photo identification at polling places have been blocked or delayed, delighting mostly Democratic opponents who claim they...
View ArticleEx-GOP official fights N. Dakota sign ban
BISMARCK, N.D. — A former North Dakota Republican Party chairman who doesn't want to take down the political signs in his yard before Nov. 6 has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a century-old state...
View ArticleObama may not get big ‘millennial’ backing again
The country's very youngest voters are tuning out this time. A new poll released Wednesday by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University found that just 48 percent of voters ages 18 to 24...
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