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NEW YORK (AP) -- An independent group supporting President Barack Obama's re-election is spending $660,000 to run a TV ad in four states bashing Mitt Romney....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A deep-pocketed casino mogul is pouring a $10 million infusion of cash into a group backing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's cause just as the Romney campaign makes its largest ad buy since becoming the all-but-certain GOP challenger to President Barack Obama....

NEW YORK (AP) -- An independent group supporting President Barack Obama's re-election is spending $660,000 to run a TV ad in four states bashing Mitt Romney....

Under pressure to bring down the high price of gas, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder will outline a proposal Tuesday to increase federal supervision of the oil markets in an effort to clip the wings of speculators who are profiting off the volatility of the oil market.

The president outlines his plan for protecting the oil market from speculators and manipulators.

The battle between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney will be the most expensive presidential contest ever - by a long shot....

If he follows recent tradition, Mitt Romney will look to his right for a running mate....

Only two presidential candidates have sought and received federal matching campaign funds this election cycle, and they're hardly household names....

Both presidential candidates are tending to essentials at this stage in their campaigns....

Mitt Romney is nipping at President Barack Obama's heels in Rust Belt states that Obama won in 2008 but which polls show are becoming more competitive in a slowing economy....

More details emerge in the tale of spending and travel abuses at the General Services Administration, including an $800,000 conference at a Las Vegas casino, fake award ceremonies to get around regulations and "scouting visits" to Las Vegas by officials and family members.

LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan lottery winner was charged with fraud Tuesday for collecting food stamps and public health insurance despite pocketing a $735,000 jackpot.

Amanda Clayton, 25, was silent during a brief court hearing after spending a night in jail. A not-guilty plea was entered, and her ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's state government employment policies have not discriminated against black employees and job applicants, a judge ruled Tuesday in a case closely watched by civil rights activists.

District Judge Robert Blink issued the ruling after overseeing a trial last fall in the class-action lawsuit affecting ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker John Boehner has finally endorsed Mitt Romney to be the Republican presidential nominee, saying his economic policies would help the unemployed find jobs....

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner after the girl threw a tantrum and the police chief defended the action.

The girl's family demanded Tuesday that this central Georgia city change policy so that other children aren't treated the same way. They say the child was shaken ...

A baby endures President Obama, President Bush proves he is literate and Rick Santorum eyes his next objective.

Well over a year after Congress voluntarily imposed a ban on pork barrel spending, the number and cost of earmarks have dropped dramatically, a report said Tuesday -- but the snouts are not out of the trough altogether.

CNN explains the importance and stress of tax day, when it originated and what happens if you don't take it seriously.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The first challenge to the constitutionality of the so-called fetal pain anti-abortion laws enacted in several states has come from an unlikely place. So has the second.

Rick Hearn, the lawyer in the center of this fight, represents an Idaho woman challenging her state's abortion laws ...

WASHINGTON — The space shuttle Discovery soared over the Washington Monument, the White House and the Capitol in a high-flying salute to the nation's capital Tuesday.

The world's most traveled spaceship, hitching a ride on top a Boeing 747 jet, took a couple of leisurely spins at an easy-to-spot 1,500 ...