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AP Top Political News At 12:32 p.m. EDT
Updated: 12 years 20 weeks ago

Romney says Chinese activist should be protected

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the U.S. should do everything it can to protect a Chinese activist who escaped house arrest and was reported to be hiding in the U.S. embassy in Beijing....

Romney says Chinese activist should be protected

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the U.S. should do everything it can to protect a Chinese activist who escaped house arrest and was reported to be hiding in the U.S. embassy in Beijing....

Weaker al-Qaida still plots payback for US raid

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil....

Romney, Secret Service, GOP: Obama mocks them all

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- This year's primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama's scattershot humor at Saturday night's celebrity studded White House Correspondents Dinner....

Romney, Secret Service, GOP: Obama mocks them all

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- This year's primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama's scattershot humor at Saturday night's celebrity studded White House Correspondents Dinner....

Who will Obama poke fun at during reporters' gala?

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump's White House ambitions in biting remarks at last year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner....

Romney shakes up the strategy, tones down rhetoric

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney's Etch A Sketch moment is at hand....

Romney shakes up the strategy, tones down rhetoric

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney's Etch A Sketch moment is at hand....

Romney: Obama 'long on words' 'short on action'

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Mitt Romney on Thursday said President Barack Obama is "long on words and short on action" when it comes to fixing the economy....

GOP follows Romney's lead in parrying Democrats

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now that Mitt Romney has emerged as the likely GOP presidential nominee, congressional Republicans increasingly are taking their cues from him even if it causes heartburn and grumbling among conservatives unhappy about having to beat a tactical retreat....

GOP follows Romney's lead in parrying Democrats

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now that Mitt Romney has emerged as the likely GOP presidential nominee, congressional Republicans increasingly are taking their cues from him even if it causes heartburn and grumbling among conservatives unhappy about having to beat a tactical retreat....

GOP follows Romney's lead in parrying Democrats

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now that Mitt Romney has emerged as the likely GOP presidential nominee, congressional Republicans increasingly are taking their cues from him even if it causes heartburn and grumbling among conservatives unhappy about having to beat a tactical retreat....

GOP follows Romney's lead in parrying Democrats

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now that Mitt Romney has emerged as the likely GOP presidential nominee, congressional Republicans increasingly are taking their cues from him even if it causes heartburn and grumbling among conservatives unhappy about having to beat a tactical retreat....

GOP follows Romney's lead in parrying Democrats

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now that Mitt Romney has emerged as the likely GOP presidential nominee, congressional Republicans increasingly are taking their cues from him even if it causes heartburn and grumbling among conservatives unhappy about having to beat a tactical retreat....

Obama asks Congress to act on 'to-do' list

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama is asking Democrats and Republicans to act on his "to-do list" for Congress, a five-point plan he says would create jobs and help restore middle-class security....

Obama's 'to do' list for Congress: jobs, mortgages

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- President Barack Obama is contrasting himself with congressional Republicans by saying they have blocked his job creation plans. He says now is not the time for inaction....

Obama calls on lawmakers to end gridlock

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to end partisan gridlock and pass proposals he says would put Americans back to work....

Obama pushing 'to do' list for Congress

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Applying pressure on Congress, President Barack Obama intends to lay out an election year "to do" list Tuesday that urges lawmakers to take another look at economic proposals to promote job creation and help families refinance their mortgages....

Obama to campaign in Iowa, promote energy plan

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- As President Barack Obama readies for a return to the Iowa State Fairgrounds, his campaign is reminding voters that it was in that same spot where Republican rival Mitt Romney declared last year that "corporations are people."...

Obama criticizes Romney as 'backwards on equality'

Wed, 2024-11-06 18:45
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- President Barack Obama wasted little time casting his historic embrace of same-sex marriage as a political wedge issue Thursday, telling a Hollywood fundraising crowd that it shows how his vision of the country differs from Republicans....