President Barack Obama greets supporter at a campaign rally at the Paul R. Knapp Animal learning center, Thursday, May 24, 2012 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

DES MOINES, Iowa –  On his first visit back to the Iowa state fairgrounds since the 2008 campaign, President Obama tonight used a grassroots rally to launch sharp new attacks against rival Mitt Romney over the debt and deficit and vigorously defend his own handling... More »Obama accuses Romney of 'cow-pie distortion' on debt, deficits

Cory Booker hits back at critics via Twitter: ‘Sorry I make u sick'

Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker has apparently had enough of saying he's sorry this week. The rising Democratic star has been under fire since a Sunday appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press"during which … More »Cory Booker hits back at critics via Twitter: ‘Sorry I make u sick’

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  • John Edwards arrives at a federal courthouse following his lunch break as the jury deliberates for a fourth day in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, May 23, 2012.  Edwards faces 30 years in prison after pleading not guilty to six campaign finance corruption charges.(AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

    The jury in John Edwards' campaign corruption trial has concluded a fifth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.

  • 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...

  • DETROIT — It’s not just the media that won’t forget Mitt Romney saying in New Hampshire earlier this year that he likes “being able to fire people.” The candidate revealed in a wide-ranging interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan that the remark, which...

 
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