Common prenatal tests become campaign issue
WASHINGTON -- First birth control, now prenatal testing? Once again a fact of life for many American women has become a jarring issue in the presidential race.
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Unions gearing up to spend big in 2012 election
WASHINGTON -- Unions are gearing up to spend more than $400 million to help re-elect President Barack Obama and lift Democrats this election year in a fight for labor's survival.
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Poll: Santorum surges, Obama leads Republicans
WASHINGTON -- A surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Barack Obama eight months before Americans vote, a new survey shows
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Arizona finally gets GOP candidates' attention
MESA, Ariz. -- Rick Santorum is looking for another upset or two, while Mitt Romney is hoping to keep his leading rival at bay in the run-up to the 20th debate of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Obama campaign names 35 national co-chairs
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has named 35 national co-chairs, including elected officials, campaign volunteers and a few celebrities.
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Santorum makes prenatal testing a campaign issue
WASHINGTON -- First birth control, now prenatal testing? Once again a fact of life for many American women has become a jarring issue in the presidential race.
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Clinton heads abroad to push Syria diplomacy
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to ramp up diplomatic efforts against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime on a trip to North Africa this week, as some countries begin to explore the possibility of arming Syria's rebels.
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AP source: Obama seeks 28 percent corp. tax rate
WASHINGTON -- Laying down an election-year marker in the debate over taxes, the Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and to seek an even lower effective rate for manufacturers, a senior administration official says.
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Obama joins Jagger, B.B. King, to belt out blues
WASHINGTON -- The president just couldn't say no: Mick Jagger held out a mic almost by way of command, and soon Barack Obama was belting out the blues with the best of them.
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US Rep. Bachmann says she'll seek old Minn. seat
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Fresh off the national stage of a failed presidential bid, Republican Michele Bachmann said Tuesday that she will seek re-election to her Minnesota congressional seat, even though her home is being thrown into a district currently represented by a Democrat.
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Romney says Obama has 'fought against religion'
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's administration has "fought against religion" and sought to substitute a "secular" agenda for one grounded in faith.
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Santorum says Obama elected as 'a rock star'
PHOENIX -- Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum belittled President Barack Obama on Tuesday as a rock star who won the White House four years ago, and dismissed fellow GOP rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich as unable to provide solid conservative change for the nation.
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Santorum blasts Obama's motives on power, abortion
PHOENIX -- A surging Rick Santorum is making increasingly harsh remarks about President Barack Obama, questioning not just the president's competence but his motives and even his Christian values.
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Gingrich tells OK lawmakers he'll reel in feds
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A once-powerful Washington figure himself, Newt Gingrich says he'd shrink the role of the nation's capital if sent back as president.
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Santorum leaps on social issues in Republican race
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- The differences between the top two Republican presidential candidates are becoming starker as Rick Santorum drives harder on religious and social issues that Mitt Romney rarely discusses in detail.
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Santorum says he was an outsider inside Congress
PHOENIX -- Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum says he was an outsider while inside Congress, a lawmaker who attacked corruption from within.
