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Obama team wrongly says Romney moves goal posts
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's campaign says Republican rival Mitt Romney is trying to "move the goal posts" and reverse his position on unemployment. Actually, that's a fumble of the facts....
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One year after credit card reform: How protected are we?
Virginia Tech consumer advocate says beware of new fees from credit card companies.
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Obama birth certificate OK by Arizona official
PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona's secretary of state says Hawaii's verification of President Barack Obama's birth records meets necessary requirements and that the president will appear on Arizona's ballot in the fall....
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Romney says Congress should wait to act on economy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney says that if elected Congress should wait until he takes office to block automatic spending cuts and to keep tax cuts from expiring....
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Rep. King: CIA, Pentagon, too close to filmmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee chairman is charging that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden....
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Romney defends record at Bain Capital firm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney is aggressively defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and insists it makes him qualified to be president....
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Obama, Dems redoubling money efforts to keep edge
DENVER (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts. They're doing it in the wake of robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from party faithful who are highly motivated to topple the Democ...
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Competitive Senate race shaping up in North Dakota
MINOT, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota's prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded....
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Romney oil adviser also a big super PAC donor
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm didn't wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney's top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after Hamm joined the Romney campaign, he gav...
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Independent groups launch dueling campaign ads
NEW YORK (AP) -- An independent group seeking to oust President Barack Obama launched a new TV ad Tuesday suggesting Obama had let down the voters who vaulted him into the White House in 2008. A pro-Obama group answered with an ad slamming Republican Mitt Romney, featuring a woman who lost her j...
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'A woman who. ...': Romney's stories court females
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Mitt Romney's courtship of female voters in his typical campaign speech sounds a bit like a movie's casting call....
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Obama to push clean energy technologies in Iowa
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is heading to the political battleground state of Iowa this week to prod Congress to act on his agenda....
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Cuccinelli, other AGs ask court to allow imported execution drug
Officials ask Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to appeal a decision blocking the importation of an execution drug.
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Powell not ready to endorse Obama for re-election
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is declining to renew the endorsement he gave Barack Obama two years ago, when he called Obama "a transformational figure." Pressed in a network interview to say whether he's backing Obama, the former chairman of the Joint Chie...
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Obama's preference for talks with Iran faces test
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's preferred path to end the Iranian nuclear standoff faces a stern test this week when world powers sit down with Iran in another bid to press it to meet international demands to prove it is not trying to develop nuclear weapons. Failure will strengthen ...
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Old feud in Bush administration part of Ariz. race
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Richard Carmona arrived in Washington a political novice in 2002 and left four years later scarred and frustrated. He didn't go quietly....
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Romney's Bain playbook unclear as attacks grow
NEW YORK (AP) -- The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend his quarter-century in the business world....
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Warner, Rubio and others roll out startup jobs bill
In an unlikely alliance, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., will today join with tea-party favorite Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in introducing legislation to build on the Jobs Act signed into law earlier this year.
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Senate toughens Iran penalties over nuke program
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Intent on weakening Iran economically, the Senate on Monday approved tough new penalties on the Tehran regime to thwart its nuclear ambitions....
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Obama stands by hits on Romney's Bain Capital days
CHICAGO (AP) -- President Barack Obama sought to undermine Mitt Romney's key rationale for his presidential candidacy Monday, sharply attacking his Republican challenger's background as a venture capitalist and arguing that profit-making alone is not a qualification for the White House....
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Booker is latest gaffe-prone campaign surrogate
NEW YORK (AP) -- Add Newark Mayor Cory Booker to the list of people who speak for the presidential candidates, and then veer wildly off message....
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Obama stands by hits on Romney's Bain Capital days
CHICAGO (AP) -- President Barack Obama is defending his criticism of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, saying Romney's record at the private equity firm Bain Capital is rightfully part of the campaign debate....
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Obama: US making 'diligent progress' on Pakistan
CHICAGO (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. is making "diligent progress" on re-opening supply routes from Pakistan to Afghanistan....
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Mandel, Renacci donations subject of federal probe
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Federal officials have investigated questionable campaign contributions to two Ohio officeholders, Rep. James Renacci (reh-NAY'-see) and state treasurer and Senate candidate Josh Mandel (man-DEHL'), both Republicans....
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Mandel, Renacci donations subject of federal probe
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Federal officials have investigated questionable campaign contributions to two Ohio officeholders, U.S. Rep. James Renacci (reh-NAY'-see) and state treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel (man-DEHL')....
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