Obama calls new French President-elect Hollande
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has called France's new president-elect to congratulate him on winning Sunday's election.
Politics
GOP leaders start to rally around Romney -- sort of
WASHINGTON -- Republican party leaders are starting to rally around Mitt Romney, but it's not exactly a stampede of support for the expected GOP presidential nominee.
Former Gov. Romney takes in Celtics game
BOSTON -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney spent Sunday night at the TD Garden watching the NBA playoff game between the Boston Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks.
Gingrich: Romney has earned the GOP nomination
WASHINGTON -- Former White House candidate Newt Gingrich says Mitt Romney has "earned the right to represent the Republican Party" against President Barack Obama and that he'll help Romney's campaign in any way he can.
Obama plunges into campaign, tears into Romney
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Plunging into his campaign for a new term, President Barack Obama tore into Mitt Romney on Saturday as a willing and eager "rubber stamp" for conservative Republicans in Congress and an agenda to cut taxes for the rich, reduce spending on education and Medicare and enhance power that big banks and insurers hold over consumers.
Paul wins majority of delegates from Maine GOP
AUGUSTA, Maine -- With Mitt Romney's GOP presidential nomination all but decided, Ron Paul supporters took control of the Maine Republican Convention and elected a majority slate supporting the Texas congressman to the GOP national convention, party officials said. The results gave the Texas congressman a late state victory.
Interior sets new drilling rules on public land
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Friday it will for the first time require companies drilling for oil and natural gas on public and Indian lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations.
Panetta: Troop scandals hurt US Afghan mission
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned troops Friday that it takes just seconds for misconduct to make headlines and said that enemy insurgents can use recent military scandals to fuel their fight.
Congress fights over future of export bank
WASHINGTON -- Since the Export-Import Bank was founded in 1934, Congress has methodically renewed its charter two dozen times with little or no controversy, attesting to the independent federal agency's low-key, generally well-regarded mission of helping finance American companies' overseas sales.
Obama: Time to shift attention from wars to home
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says his goal of defeating al-Qaida is within reach and that it's time to turn the country's attention to domestic concerns.
Race, religion collide in presidential campaign
UNDATED -- How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian.
Romney embarking on new political balancing act
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney will need independent voters in November, but he isn't abandoning his "severely conservative" record.
Romney says he wanted gay spokesman to stay on job
PITTSBURGH -- Walking a careful line, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday he had wanted an openly gay spokesman who resigned from his campaign this week to stay on. Hours later, he worked to court the party's conservative wing by meeting with former rival Rick Santorum.
Romney targets 4 percent unemployment
WASHINGTON -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs.
Romney: Regular people teach him about struggles
PITTSBURGH -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it -- and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur.
Romney is a grandfather again
PITTSBURGH -- Mitt Romney is a grandfather again, and he has a surrogate to thank.
GOP Maine Sen. Collins endorses Mass. Sen. Brown
BOSTON -- U.S. Sen. Scott Brown has picked up the endorsement of another Maine senator.
THE RACE: Hiring slowdown could vex Obama plans
The economy isn't cooperating with President Barack Obama's re-election schedule.
Virginia profile rises in presidential contest
PORTSMOUTH, Va. -- Move over Ohio and Florida. Virginia is becoming the hottest new battleground in this year's race for the White House.
PROMISES: So far, no new ones from Obama
WASHINGTON -- So far this spring, President Barack Obama's campaign speeches have been strikingly free of new promises. That's a big change from four years ago.
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