Rove super PAC makes biggest buy yet
A conservative Super PAC co-founded by Karl Rove and an affiliated organization are making their biggest buy yet in this year's Senate elections, with a new round of ads costing $8 million that will...
View ArticleLabor unions set to unleash millions for ad buys
Labor unions are sitting on at least $122 million in cash that can be spent on politics — more than corporate political action committees have on hand — and have already sent millions to Democratic...
View Article'Sequestration' would weaken borders, lawmaker warns
More than 8,500 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement personnel face termination in January under the Obama administration's automatic spending...
View ArticlePresidential race tightens in Pennsylvania
WIND RIDGE, Pa. — If Republican Mitt Romney scores an upset and snatches Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes away from President Obama, it will largely be because of voters like Norma Fae Morris. The...
View ArticleCalifornia governor takes risk with proposal to raise taxes
LOS ANGELES — There's something cruel yet comical in the way that California voters continually elect Democrats and then forbid them from raising taxes. The latest example of the California...
View ArticlePayroll-tax break has bleak future
While the economy and proposals to help middle-income Americans have dominated the election season rhetoric, a payroll-tax cut that has put an extra $20 a week in the pockets of many workers since last...
View ArticleOn abortion, both sides agree: Tickets offer stark choice
President Obama wants to highlight the issue, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would rather not talk about it — but abortion and birth control are potent issues in the 2012 campaign....
View ArticleInside the Beltway: Gung Ho Republicans
Forget that steady, annoying drone from the liberal press that Republicans have given up on the election. Members of the Grand Old Party "express increasingly positive opinions about the presidential...
View ArticleInside Politics: Lawmakers urge Pentagon to buy U.S.-made uniforms
MILITARY Lawmakers urge Pentagon to buy U.S.-made uniforms Congressional Republicans and Democrats sent an irate letter Tuesday to a Pentagon official requesting that the U.S. military issue uniforms...
View ArticleRomney says Obama campaign 'taking on water'
HENDERSON, Nev. — Mitt Romney said Tuesday the debates have "supercharged" his supporters and left President Obama's campaign "taking on water" as he traveled out west, seeking to shore up his support...
View ArticlePalestinians give cool reception to U.S. debate
JERUSALEM — Palestinians complained Tuesday that the Mideast peace process barely got a mention in the final U.S. presidential campaign debate, saying American standing in the Middle East will be...
View ArticleCongress urges Pentagon to buy American
Congressional Republicans and Democrats sent an irate letter Tuesday to a Pentagon official requesting that the U.S. military issue uniforms made in America, not China. The letter to Frank Kendall,...
View ArticleCourt blocks Indiana from defunding Planned Parenthood
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana stepped between women and their physicians when it enacted a law that blocked Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood just because the organization provides abortions, a...
View ArticleIn homestretch, Obama, Romney begin battleground blitz
DAYTON, Ohio — Leaving behind the string of presidential debates that have put his re-election bid in doubt, President Obama embarked Tuesday on a blitz of battleground states in the final two weeks of...
View ArticleDebates boost Romney favorables
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Mitt Romney crossed a major threshold early this week, briefly moving above 50 percent in his favorability rating, according to the Real Clear Politics average of polls — giving the...
View ArticleForeign-policy fencing is Romney pivot point
Foreign-policy analysts have pointed to Mitt Romney's apparently calculated effort in Monday night's debate to tone down his previously hawkish posture on foreign policy, but on one issue, the...
View ArticlePRUDEN: Waiting for a blowout election to settle the dust for Romney
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Barring a really major blunder — such as revealing that he was born in Lower Volta or endorsing interspecies marriage (the next big civil rights issue) — this election is beginning to...
View ArticleSuspect in D.C. lobbying attack faces terror count
A Virginia man accused of shooting a Washington security guard inside the headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group was indicted on a local terrorism charge, marking the first time in a...
View ArticleRomney’s bid to undo health law faces hurdles
If Mitt Romney wins the White House, he's much more likely to set up a series of roadblocks against President Obama's health care law than he is to wipe it off the books entirely or even block it by...
View ArticleFeds sue Mississippi for rights violations
The Justice Department has targeted Mississippi in a federal lawsuit claiming that the due process rights of children are "repeatedly and routinely" violated when arrested for minor offenses, accusing...
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