Camps use online data to target voters
NEW YORK — Voters who click on President Obama's campaign website are likely to start seeing display ads promoting his re-election bid on their Facebook pages and other sites they visit. Voters...
View ArticleEdwards jury to return for deliberations
GREENSBORO, N.C. — With the jury at the John Edwards trial set to begin deliberations for a seventh day Tuesday, speculation grows that the 12 people charged with deciding the fate of the 2004...
View ArticleRomney to clinch GOP nomination with Texas win
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is set to clinch the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago...
View ArticleObama honors Medal of Freedom recipients
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is honoring a diverse group of political and cultural icons, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, astronaut John Glenn and rock legend Bob Dylan,...
View ArticleJohn Edwards jury resumes deliberation for 7th day
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The jury in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial is deliberating for a seventh day after a judge gave the panel a stern warning not to talk about the case over the weekend. The...
View ArticleU.S. boots envoy of Syria after weekend massacre
The Obama administration is expelling the top Syrian diplomat in Washington in response to Friday's reported massacre of 108 people, including 49 children, in the village of Houla. U.S. officials told...
View ArticleIt's no secret: There are more government secrets than ever
The number of official government secrets rose to its highest level last year, auditors reported Tuesday, even though President Obama promised that his administration would be the most open and...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: All booked up
President Obama's glittering support in Hollywood on the West Coast is about to be augmented by titans in the book publishing world on the East Coast. They will soon step forward and make themselves...
View ArticleRunoff set in Texas Senate race
Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and tea-party favorite Ted Cruz are heading to a July 31 runoff in the state's Republican Senate primary, the Associated Press declared late Tuesday. With 57 percent of...
View ArticleSuspended GSA executive back on the job
More than a month after he was put on leave when a video surfaced showing him joking about the lavish spending — $823,000 — at a taxpayer-funded General Services Administration conference in Las Vegas,...
View ArticleAs Texas ensures GOP nod, Romney campaign takes shape
After clinching the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday in Texas, Mitt Romney has emerged from a bloody primary slog running neck-and-neck with President Obama — putting him in the exact same...
View ArticleAbortion funding fight could complicate defense spending legislation
Senate lawmakers have opened the door to a fight over military-funded abortions, voting in committee to expand abortion coverage for servicewomen to cases of rape or incest as part of a major military...
View ArticleRomney 'answers call' on energy in Colorado
DENVER — A video from a Colorado coal town brought the Mitt Romney campaign to the community Tuesday, where he touted his pro-development energy strategy and blasted President Obama for tying the hands...
View ArticleMcDonnell, O'Malley also in spotlight in Walker recall
Next week's recall election in Wisconsin between Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett sets up not only a high-profile battle between the two candidates but a side skirmish between Virginia...
View ArticleObama team to focus on Romney's record in Mass.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's campaign is opening a new critique of Mitt Romney, focusing attention on the Republican's economic record as governor of Massachusetts. Obama's team looked to...
View ArticleObama's health care aid to small firms disappoints
WASHINGTON (AP) — It seemed like a good idea at the time, but a health insurance tax credit for small businesses, part of President Obama's health care law that gets strong support in public opinion...
View ArticleFirst lady will sponsor Navy submarine
The White House announced this week that first lady Michelle Obama will serve as a sponsor for the USS Illinois, a Virginia-class submarine named after her home state. As a sponsor, Mrs. Obama will...
View ArticleObama signs reauthorization of Export-Import Bank despite earlier opposition
President Obama on Wednesday reauthorized the Export-Import Bank, raising its lending authority 40 percent to $140 billion by 2014, one day before the 78-year-old federal bank would have been shut down...
View ArticleAwkward: Obama to host Bush, the man he blames for it all
Talk about awkward. When President Obama hosts former President George W. Bush at the White House on Thursday to unveil his predecessor's official portrait, he'll pay tribute to the man whom he has...
View ArticleRepublicans introduce their own version of Dream Act
Rep. David Rivera on Wednesday introduced the first Republican version of the Dream Act in this Congress which would give a select group of high-achieving illegal immigrant students the chance to stay...
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