One of President Barack Obama’s top campaign spokesmen is a private equity manager whose firm has shut down several factories and laid off hundreds of people amid a stalled economy.

In a speech at the Latino Coalition's Annual Economic Summit in Washington DC on Wednesday, Mitt Romney called the U.S. education system a failure. Every child deserves a quality education, he said, particularly minority students who are consistently under-served. Fixing it, according to Romney, is the "civil rights issue …

The moderate Republican famously backed Barack Obama in 2008, but this year, so far, he has shied away from endorsing the president — or the GOP nominee

The stage is set for an epic battle over the Hispanic vote in the presidential election, but so far, President Obama is crushing the competition.

The Senate made one last gesture this month to work on the Student Loan bill, but Democratic and Republican versions both failed in a last-minute, and half-hearted, attempt today before lawmakers leave for a week-long Memorial Day holiday. The Democratic bill failed by a 51-43...