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AP Top Political News At 12:32 p.m. EDT
Updated: 12 years 19 weeks ago

SPIN METER: President embraces 'Obamacare'

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now that President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has lifted an unofficial ban on using the opposition's term for his health care law, Democratic activists have been chanting "We love Obamacare" in front of the Supreme Court....

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Calif. Democratic treasurer perpetrated $7M fraud

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee defrauded at least 50 candidates, officeholders and political organizations out of $7 million in a scheme that dates back more than a decade, according to a court filing made Tuesday by federal prosecutors....

Prosecutors' filing hints at plea by Dem treasurer

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento said Tuesday it has entered a court filing in the case of a campaign treasurer charged with looting the political accounts of numerous Democratic candidates, but it would not respond to inquiries about the nature of the filing....

Gingrich scales back his presidential campaign

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Newt Gingrich is dramatically curtailing his campaign schedule, laying off about a third of his staff and dismissing his campaign manager as he focuses on a last-ditch effort to win the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention....

Biden to Va. high school grads: Banish cynicism

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Virginia high school graduates to believe that the U.S. has a bright future....

Romney, on Leno, cracks wise -- just a little

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- On Jay Leno's "Tonight Show," Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney was mostly business - though he slipped in a few jokes at the expense of his host and his main political opponent....

Romney, on Leno, cracks wise -- just a little

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- On Jay Leno's "Tonight Show," Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney was mostly business - though he slipped in a few jokes at the expense of his host and his main political opponent....

Romney says Obama trying to cozy up to Kremlin

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sharpening his attacks, Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of trying to ingratiate himself with the Kremlin as part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness'" in foreign policy....

Romney says Obama trying to cozy up to Kremlin

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sharpening his attacks, Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of trying to ingratiate himself with the Kremlin as part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness'" in foreign policy....

Romney says Obama trying to cozy up to Kremlin

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sharpening his attacks, Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of trying to ingratiate himself with the Kremlin as part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness'" in foreign policy....

Dems, GOP woo unmarried women voters

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
STERLING, Va. (AP) -- As a married woman, Marisa Hannum had her family's conservatism in mind when she backed Republicans in the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections. Now divorced, she is putting her own interests first as she weighs whether to vote for Democratic President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger this fall....

Dems, GOP woo unmarried women voters

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
STERLING, Va. (AP) -- As a married woman, Marisa Hannum had her family's conservatism in mind when she backed Republicans in the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections. Now divorced, she is putting her own interests first as she weighs whether to vote for Democratic President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger this fall....

Arizona legislators again say yes to free tickets

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
PHOENIX (AP) -- It's been a year since the Fiesta Bowl scandal embarrassed legislators, but at least some Arizona lawmakers still like their perks....

Arizona legislators again say yes to free tickets

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
PHOENIX (AP) -- It's been a year since the Fiesta Bowl scandal embarrassed legislators, but at least some Arizona lawmakers still like their perks....

Justices signal deep trouble for health care law

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court's conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails....

Justices signal deep trouble for health care law

Sat, 2024-11-02 14:29
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court's conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails....