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'Salvage work' may await Obama on health care law

No matter how the Supreme Court rules on President Obama's health care law this month, major insurers have promised they'll still cover children up to age 26 and pay for preventative services without...

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Obama's G-20 role limited in grappling with eurozone crisis

Few events make President Obama look less powerful lately than a gathering of European leaders. Europe's economic crisis comes to North America's shores Monday and Tuesday in the form of the Group of...

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Inside Politics: Republican won't seek rematch for Giffords' seat

PHOENIX — The tea party Republican who sought former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' seat in Congress has dropped out of the fall race, two days after losing a special election to serve out her term....

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Obama tells Ohioans he champions the middle

In a speech his campaign billed as a reset after a series of stumbles and a string of bad economic news, President Obama stuck to a long-established script Thursday with the only new line shifting the...

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Catch and release for low-priority illegals proposed

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency charged with guarding the U.S. borders, has written a secret draft policy that would let its agents catch and release low-priority illegal immigrants...

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Lawmakers say F-22 oxygen problem worse than thought

RICHMOND — Two members of Congress said Thursday that new information provided by the Air Force shows an oxygen-deficit problem on F-22 fighter jets is worse than previously disclosed. Sen. Mark R....

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Senate GOP signals halt on circuit judge nominees

Senate Republicans have signaled that they will block further votes on White House nominations for some top federal courts until after the November presidential election, a move Democrats decry as...

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Obama back among Manhattan glitterati

President Obama soaked in the support — and the campaign cash — of Manhattan's elite entertainers Thursday as his re-election team sought to fill its coffers. The president and first lady Michelle...

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EPA set to tighten standards for soot pollution

Responding to lawsuits from 11 states, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new air quality standards to lower the amount of soot that can be released into the air. The Obama...

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PRUDEN: Obama looking for love in lonely places

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Unrequited love is a sad and mournful thing, as any teenager could tell you. Barack Obama, too. His European friends, who swooned with such ardor four years ago, are cooling off. Mr....

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Obama administration to offer immunity to certain illegals

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The...

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Obama grants legal status to young illegal immigrants

The Obama administration said Friday it will stop deporting most illegal immigrant students and young adults in a campaign-year move that escalates the immigration debate to the fore. For years the...

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Romney to N.H.: You 'don't have to settle' for Obama

STRATHAM, N.H. — Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney kicked off his first traditional campaign trip of the general election by returning Friday to the sprawling New Hampshire farm from where he...

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McConnell: Obama a threat to First Amendment

The Senate's top Republican on Friday portrayed the Obama administration as an Orwellian-style authority bent on stifling free speech of dissidents and whose "radicalism" threatens the First Amendment....

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Obama interrupted during immigration remarks

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama responded angrily to a reporter from a conservative online publication who interrupted him during remarks on immigration in the White House Rose Garden. Obama was...

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Romney says he'd give Americans 'a fair shot'

WEATHERLY, Pa. — Mitt Romney on Saturday tried to refocus his bus tour on middle-class economic issues as he visited a Pennsylvania foundry a day after President Barack Obama's new immigration policy...

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Mexican leader expects IMF firewall boost

LOS CABOS, Mexico — Mexican President Felipe Calderon, the G-20 summit host, said Saturday that he expects the world's largest economies to deliver more than the $430 billion pledged to stop the spread...

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Ron Paul backers seek influence at GOP convention

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ron Paul has given up on becoming president, but loyal supporters are promising to promote the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman's principles at the Republican national...

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40 years after Watergate, 'what ifs' are tantalizing

WASHINGTON — Watergate's "what ifs" are still tantalizing.   What if a security guard hadn't noticed tape on a door latch outside Democratic headquarters at the Watergate office building not far from...

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Plouffe won't say if Obama will take part in leaks probe

As U.S. Justice Department attorneys probe recent high-level national security leaks from the White House, a top adviser to President Obama on Sunday refused to say whether the commander in chief will...

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