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Romney adds to delegate lead with win in Kentucky
Mitt Romney won the Kentucky Republican presidential primary Tuesday, inching closer to the GOP nomination for president. With no serious opposition left, the former Massachusetts governor easily won the contest, claiming at least 32 of the 42 delegates at stake in Kentucky. Voters also went polls in Arkansas, with 33 ...
Biden dismisses Romney's experience in business
The presidential campaign debate over Republican Mitt Romney's tenure at a private equity firm is going down the drain. Vice President Joe Biden argued Tuesday that Romney's experience doesn't make him any more qualified to be president than it does to make him a plumber. "That doesn't mean that private ...
'A woman who. ...': Romney's stories court females
Mitt Romney's courtship of female voters in his typical campaign speech sounds a bit like a movie's casting call. Woman Whose Husband Took an Upholstery Class. Woman Who Is Going Back To College. Woman Who Owns Duplexes. Romney's campaign won't identify these women, making it impossible to check the accuracy ...
Ind. gov. candidate Gregg picks Simpson for ticket
Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg reached out to his party's base Tuesday with his pick for lieutenant governor, a liberal lawmaker with decades of experience at the Indiana Statehouse. Gregg tapped Senate Minority Leader Vi Simpson as his running mate Tuesday. The addition of Simpson, an abortion-rights supporter, to the ...
Ex-campaign aide to DC mayor pleads guilty
In a case that revealed underhanded tactics used to get Vincent Gray elected mayor of Washington, a former Gray campaign aide pleaded guilty Tuesday to funneling campaign funds to another mayoral candidate and shredding records of the transactions. Thomas Gore admitted in U.S. District Court that he converted excessive or ...
THE RACE: Polls show presidential race tightening
With about five months to go, the presidential race is tightening, polls show, with voters nearly evenly divided between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, his likely Republican challenger. Obama and Romney are locked in a dead heat over handling the economy, the top concern of voters, a new Washington ...
Powell not ready to endorse Obama for re-election
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn't ready "to throw my weight behind someone" at this time. The former chairman of the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff and Cabinet member under President George W. ...
Independent groups launch dueling campaign ads
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 job at ...
Fla. Gov. started push to remove voters from rolls
Florida's quest to identify and remove non-U.S. citizens from the voter rolls was started at the direct urging of Gov. Rick Scott, the state's former top elections official said. Ex-Secretary of State Kurt Browning, who resigned this year, told The Associated Press that Scott asked him whether or not non-U.S. ...
Correction: Supreme Court-Illinois Redistricting
In a May 21 story about an Illinois redistricting lawsuit, The Associated Press erroneously reported the proportion of the state's population that is Hispanic. The Hispanic population is 15.8 percent, not 32.5 percent.
Romney's playbook on Bain unclear as attacks grow
The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for him and great hardship, at times, for some American workers. Romney and his aides have struggled to respond consistently to intensifying ...
Jindal lists salary, income sources for 2011
Gov. Bobby Jindal's financial disclosure report for 2011 lists his $127,407 annual salary as governor plus various sources of investment income for him and his wife Supriya. Interest, dividend and capital gains income is reported in ranges. For instance, the report listed eight such sources of income for the governor ...
Romney, Scott see economic recovery differently
Republican Gov. Rick Scott's sunny view of Florida's economy stands in stark contrast to a darker message his party's presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, has been sending. Scott last week hailed another decline in the state's unemployment rate as a sign that Florida, the largest of the presidential swing states, ...
DOJ: Flint to make polls accessible to disabled
Flint is promising to make sure all its polling places are accessible to people with disabilities in time for the November presidential election under a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice. The department said Monday that the agreement with Flint comes under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The department ...
Obama's preference for talks with Iran faces test
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 calls for military ...
Romney's Bain playbook unclear as attacks grow
The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for himself and great hardship, at times, for some American workers. Romney and his aides have struggled to respond consistently to intensifying ...
Summit doubleheader short on surprises
A long weekend of economic and security summits was heavy on stagecraft and light on surprises. The Group of Eight gathering in Camp David, Md., and the larger gathering of NATO leaders in Chicago yielded agreements worked out in advance and already made public. Lengthy statements summing up the summit ...
Alabama House approves GOP-backed districts
The Alabama House split along party lines Monday in approving new House districts supported by a Republican majority aiming to increase its grip on the Legislature. The House voted 66-35 for the GOP-backed House districts after rejecting four district plans proposed by Democrats. The Senate worked until 11:30 p.m. Monday ...
Obama stands by hits on Romney's Bain Capital days
President Barack Obama sought to undermine Mitt Romney's key rationale for his presidential candidacy Monday, sharply attacking his Republican challenger's background as the CEO of a private equity firm and arguing that profit-making alone is not a qualification for the White House. "His main calling card for why he thinks ...
Labor judge overturns union election at Target
An administrative law judge from the National Labor Relations Board has overturned the union election last year at a Target store on New York's Long Island and ordered a new election citing unfair labor practices. The decision comes almost a year after The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local ...
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