Plane intrudes on airspace as Obama departs L.A.
LOS ANGELES — The North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled two F-16 fighter jets Friday to intercept a small plane that violated restricted airspace as President Barack Obama was about to...
View ArticleObama wants Congress to help homeowners
RENO, Nev. — President Barack Obama is pressing Congress to help homeowners trying to avoid foreclosure, taking his economic pitch to hard-hit Nevada. Obama wants Congress to make it easier for...
View ArticleObama urges Congress to help homeowners
A day after raising nearly $20 million for his reelection, President Obama visited foreclosure-ridden Nevada Friday and urged Congress to approve legislation that would help more struggling homeowners...
View ArticleObama pushes billion-dollar stimulus plan
Putting pressure on Congress to approve parts of his latest economic stimulus plan, President Obama urged Americans Saturday to push lawmakers to approve his multibillion-dollar "to-do list" for...
View ArticleRomney urges grads to honor family commitments
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Mitt Romney is telling students at a Christian university that marriage is between one man and one woman. Romney on Saturday told the Liberty University commencement that marriage...
View ArticleGOP: Gay marriage an issue but not like economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama delighted his liberal base by coming down on the side of gay marriage, but he cheered the opposition, too. Republican activists now want to use Obama's stance...
View ArticleRomney backs traditional marriage at Liberty University
Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney assured the thousands of conservative Christians gathered for the graduation ceremony at Liberty University, the school founded by evangelical icon Jerry Falwell,...
View ArticleNorth Carolina a political headache for Democrats
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party's national convention in...
View ArticleCURL: Team Obama panics, and it's only May
ANALYSIS/OPINION: It's mushroom cloud after mushroom cloud for President Obama. We'll never see the internal polls, but the externals are awful: Down 8 percent to challenger Mitt Romney in the latest...
View ArticleZOGBY: President Obama's weekly report card (May 7-13)
Grade: A "This is simply a great week for President Obama. A part of the job of both being president and campaigning for re-election is stealing the buzz. He did it big time this week with his...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: Meet the meat police
Behold, it's "climate smart" beef, sure to heighten the hubbub from global warming alarmists over cow flatulence, industrial agriculture and the collective impact of meat-eaters upon the Earth's...
View ArticleLawmakers: Probe, punish 'bomb' leak
Congressional lawmakers called Sunday for a criminal investigation over the leak revealing that the so-called "underwear bomber" who boarded a U.S.-bound jet last month was actually a Saudi Arabian...
View ArticleChina tensions spur deeper ties between U.S., Philippines
China's assertive behavior is breathing life into America's historically tumultuous relationship with the Philippines. With Washington turning its attention more to the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S....
View ArticleHouse GOP works with Romney on health care
House Republican leaders are quietly working with Mitt Romney's campaign to fashion a unified GOP health care platform to replace President Obama's health law, according to lawmakers involved in the...
View ArticlePoll shows Obama's chief edge is enthusiasm factor
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Obama are statistically tied with 43.6 percent and 43.2 percent support, respectively, among likely voters surveyed in the first...
View ArticleFoes hit Arizona Rep. Flake for working as lobbyist
Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican...
View ArticleGay marriage gives Romney chance to fire up base
While many Republicans consider the sudden emergence of gay marriage as an issue in the 2012 presidential campaign an unhelpful distraction, social conservatives Sunday insisted the Obama...
View ArticleInside Politics: Hearing set on Secret Service scandal probe
The chairman of the Senate committee with jurisdiction over homeland security says he's scheduled a hearing for May 23 to review the Secret Service investigation of the Colombia prostitution scandal....
View ArticleStates toughen laws on attempted strangulation
By the time the late-night argument ended, Jacqi Galles had been hoisted off the ground in a tight stranglehold and choked so vigorously that she says she nearly passed out. She fled her home and...
View ArticleBoth parties using bills to settle scores across aisle
Congress is producing little this election year that will become law, yet both parties are churning out bills designed to make the other side look bad. Take a look at separate measures that would...
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