Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama clashed over NAFTA, health care and the war in Iraq Tuesday night in a crackling debate at close quarters one week before a pivotal group of primaries.
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee made his first stop in The Miami Valley on Tuesday.
New information from the campaign trail, as three presidential candidates announce plans to visit the Miami Valley in the coming days. Senator Hillary Clinton will hold a rally Saturday in Huber Heights.
By MATHEW LEE
2010-09-05T18:12:34Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Israeli and Palestinian leaders plan talks with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Jerusalem this month. The setting is a symbolic move to show the seriousness of peace negotiations....
Sunday, September 05, 2010
By JULIE PACE
2010-09-05T16:23:06Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seeking ways to spur economic growth ahead of the November elections, President Barack Obama will ask Congress to increase and permanently extend research and development tax credits for businesses, a White House official said Sunday....
Sunday, September 05, 2010
By DAVID ESPO
2010-09-05T13:56:46Z
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It's the way Republican strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians pointing the party toward significant gains in the Senate....
Sunday, September 05, 2010
By CHARLES BABINGTON
2010-09-05T13:02:49Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Boehner could walk down most American streets without turning a head....
Sunday, September 05, 2010
By SCOTT BAUER
2010-09-05T17:18:47Z
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President Barack Obama hopes to improve the fortunes of suddenly imperiled Wisconsin Democrats as he celebrates Labor Day with the state's union workers on Monday....
Sunday, September 05, 2010
By LIZ SIDOTI
2010-09-05T08:39:52Z
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Frustrated, discouraged and just plain mad, a lot of people who have lost jobs - or know someone who has - now want to see the names of Democrats on pink slips. And that's jeopardizing the party's chances in Ohio and all across the country in November's elections....
Sunday, September 05, 2010
By DAN JOLING
2010-09-04T23:21:06Z
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate....
Saturday, September 04, 2010
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
2010-09-04T20:07:04Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who rode voter anger to office in New Jersey last year, is endorsing Mike Castle's bid to win the GOP primary in Delaware and is joining a pack of party leaders trying to block a tea party-backed candidate's bid....
Saturday, September 04, 2010
By PAUL DAVENPORT and AMANDA LEE MYERS
2010-09-04T22:11:23Z
PHOENIX (AP) -- A claim by Arizona's governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up....
Saturday, September 04, 2010
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2010-09-04T22:17:23Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported....
Saturday, September 04, 2010
David Plouffe has agreed to a seven-figure deal to write a book about last year's presidential election. ???The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory??? will also detail the business lessons of a $1 billion start-up.
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Democrat Al Franken is asking the Minnesota governor and secretary of state to issue an election certificate that would let him take office in the Senate.
Monday, January 12, 2009
The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 49- vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with almost all of the counting in Minnesota's Senate race done.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
With the state Canvassing Board ready to award the last pile of votes in Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, Democrat Al Franken clung to a narrow lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The final count, however, showed no sign of being settled soon.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
The Democrat edged ahead of his Republican incumbent on Friday for the first time in Minnesota's long-running U.S. Senate recount.
Friday, December 19, 2008
The mother of Levi Johnston, the 18-year-old boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's teenage daughter, has been arrested on drug charges, the Anchorage Daily News reported Friday.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Republican Sen. Norm Coleman went before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to block improperly rejected absentee ballots from Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, with his lawyer warning that justices must act to prevent a repeat of the tortured 2000 Bush-Gore impasse.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
With the winner of Minnesota's U.S. Senate race still a mystery, a five-member board now steps in to see if a winner can be decided between rivals Norm Coleman and Al Franken.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Jesus, Bob Dylan and Mickey Mouse will play a part in determining Minnesota's next senator. So will voters who scrawled the same name for every local race.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The decision by the Minnesota board overseeing the U.S. Senate recount has cleared the way for counting of wrongly rejected absentee ballots in the unresolved race is seen as a boost for Al Franken.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Democrats have taken a seat from House Republicans after the counting of provisional ballots in a race in central Ohio.
Monday, December 08, 2008
The first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress took advantage of dissatisfaction with an incumbent dogged by corruption allegations and reflects the changing nature of New Orleans politics since Hurricane Katrina.
Monday, December 08, 2008
