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President Barack Obama is out of the country for a few days but hardly off the campaign trail....

Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic challengers raised more money than Republican incumbents in 20 competitive House races from California to Virginia during the first three months of the year, and President Barack Obama's party has the upper-hand in eight other districts where congressmen are retiring....

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) -- Mitt Romney has criticized the Obama administration for allowing a blind Chinese dissident to leave the U.S. Embassy in Beijing....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell. Mormon families, who had gathered here for two days of speeches and spiritual guidance called General Conference, ignored the hecklers or laughed and kept walking....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has endorsed one-time Republican rival Mitt Romney for president....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has endorsed one-time Republican rival Mitt Romney for president....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has endorsed one-time Republican rival Mitt Romney for president....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has endorsed one-time Republican rival Mitt Romney for president....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has endorsed one-time Republican rival Mitt Romney for president....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has endorsed one-time Republican rival Mitt Romney for president....

The presidential race is shaping up as a battle between Republican calls for more government austerity and Democratic appeals for more spending to promote jobs and growth with tax hikes on high-income earners. It mirrors a fight raging in Europe....