Newt Gingrich is asserting that President Barack Obama pursues an "outrageously anti-American" energy policy that snubs the Keystone oil pipeline and puts too much stock in electric car technology to wean the country from...
An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New "super" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support.
Monday, February 20 2012 10:29 AM EST2012-02-20 15:29:59 GMT
Austin, Tx - In the first 16 days since abandoning his presidential campaign, Governor Rick Perry has been to his office just three times and stayed no longer than three hours each time.
Newt Gingrich slammed his Republican rivals Friday for refusing to appear in a nationally televised debate from his home state of Georgia, a state the former House speaker has made central to his strategy of getting his...
Most Americans don't share Rick Santorum's absolutist take on abortion. He's out of step on women in combat. He questions the values of the two-thirds of mothers who work. He's even troubled by something as...
President Barack Obama on Friday called for more steps to help U.S. companies compete overseas, standing in front of an enormous Boeing Dreamliner to summon a bright future for American manufacturing and exports.
Americans are getting an election-year tax present. Congress voted with rare speed and cooperation Friday to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and to renew unemployment benefits for millions...
Capitol Hill negotiators Thursday officially unveiled hard-fought compromise legislation to prevent 160 million workers from getting slapped with a payroll tax hike, but it ran into turbulence in the Senate, where...
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum released four years of federal income tax returns on Wednesday night, showing a sharp rise in his personal wealth spurred by his growing work as Washington-based corporate...
Congressional negotiators ended a bruising election-year fight and sealed an agreement late Wednesday on legislation to renew a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more, a top priority...
Wednesday, February 15 2012 4:08 PM EST2012-02-15 21:08:56 GMT
SAN ANTONIO - A federal judge has told Republican leaders in Texas to plan as though the state's primary will be May 29 because the long-running dispute over redistricting likely won't allow for it to be held any earlier.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress Tuesday that the president's new $3.8 trillion spending plan would impose new taxes on only 2 percent of the nation's wealthiest families and the alternative would be...
Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to...
A day after Mitt Romney regained some momentum in the Republican presidential contest, his rival Rick Santorum went on the attack, calling the front-runner "desperate" while promising to compete aggressively to win the state...
Mitt Romney narrowly won Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign with a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this week. But the former Massachusetts...
Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to...
Social issues dominated the 2012 presidential race Friday, as President Barack Obama tried to calm a storm over religion and birth control and the Republicans vying to replace him jockeyed to outdo each other in proving...
All of a sudden, abortion, contraception and gay marriage are at the center of American political discourse, with the struggling - though improving - economy pushed to the background.
A resurgent Rick Santorum won Republican presidential caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado on Tuesday night, a stunning sweep that raised fresh questions about front-runner Mitt Romney's appeal among the ardent...
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich did his best to ignore his poor showing in three states Tuesday, spending the day campaigning in Ohio and staying out of sight when primary results rolled in from Minnesota, Colorado...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shifted his focus from the economy to abortion, religious freedom and gay marriage in recent days, part of an intensified effort to win over social conservatives in states voting...
In a reversal, President Barack Obama is embracing the big-money fundraising groups he assailed as a "threat to democracy" on the grounds they let money corrode elections. His shift is a pragmatic move to win re-election,...
Tuesday, February 7 2012 11:55 AM EST2012-02-07 16:55:26 GMT
SAN ANTONIO — Texas is all but certain to have an even later say in choosing the Republican presidential nominee after what at first looked like a breakthrough deal in a bitter dispute over redistricting maps ended with wide rejection of the proposal.
Monday, February 6 2012 4:09 PM EST2012-02-06 21:09:31 GMT
SAN ANTONIO - A congressman's lawyer says the Texas attorney general has agreed to a temporary voting map that could keep the April 3 date for primary elections in Texas.
Monday, February 6 2012 12:06 PM EST2012-02-06 17:06:59 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Rick Perry is breaking his silence. The Texas governor is speaking Monday at a Williamson County Republican Party dinner north of Austin.
Friday, February 3 2012 5:15 PM EST2012-02-03 22:15:35 GMT
SAN ANTONIO - The once-a-decade fight over political boundaries in Texas has been so frenetic that a Democrat who bolted for the GOP saw his state House district redrawn solidly blue, opted against re-election, then got new hope from the U.S. Supreme Court that it might go red again.
Friday, February 3 2012 5:03 PM EST2012-02-03 22:03:34 GMT
WASHINGTON — In an effort to cut the unemployment rate among veterans, President Barack Obama is calling for a new conservation program that would put veterans to work rebuilding trails, roads and levees on public lands.
Tuesday, January 31 2012 12:43 PM EST2012-01-31 17:43:44 GMT
Attorneys for the Justice Department and state of Texas are making their closing arguments in a Washington courtroom over whether electoral maps crafted by the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature violate the Voting Rights Act.
Monday, January 30 2012 11:54 AM EST2012-01-30 16:54:34 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas - Democrats have three top candidates to choose from in the primary race for the U.S. Senate, but their ultimate choice will probably say more about the party's future in Texas than who goes to Washington next year.
Friday, January 27 2012 12:09 PM EST2012-01-27 17:09:52 GMT
SAN ANTONIO - The fight over newly drawn political maps in Texas is shifting back to San Antonio to see if a statewide April 3 primary can be salvaged.
Tuesday, January 24 2012 11:13 AM EST2012-01-24 16:13:02 GMT
A lot of people are asking "What's next?" now that Governor Ricky Perry has dropped his GOP presidential bid. Now, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are left with their hats in the ring.
Friday, January 20 2012 12:57 PM EST2012-01-20 17:57:41 GMT
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Friday threw out electoral maps drawn by federal judges in Texas that favored minorities. The unsigned opinion left the fate of Texas' April primaries unclear.
Thursday, January 19 2012 1:23 PM EST2012-01-19 18:23:56 GMT
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Newt Gingrich, adding a fresh layer of unpredictability to the campaign two days before the South Carolina primary.
Friday, January 13 2012 6:17 PM EST2012-01-13 23:17:09 GMT
BLUFFTON, S.C. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is training his hottest fire on President Barack Obama rather than his GOP presidential rivals as he campaigns in coastal South Carolina.
Tuesday, January 10 2012 4:02 PM EST2012-01-10 21:02:00 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas - Following arguments over redistricting before the U.S. Supreme Court, the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas says the state might be forced to hold two primary elections.
Monday, January 2 2012 6:26 PM EST2012-01-02 23:26:25 GMT
SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, campaigning in Iowa's heavily conservative northwest corner the day before Tuesday's caucuses, urged conservatives to support one of their own who hasn't been part of the Washington and Wall Street establishments.
Thursday, December 29 2011 3:57 PM EST2011-12-29 20:57:58 GMT
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - A swaggering Rick Perry parachuted into Iowa last summer and landed at the top of the GOP presidential field. He had a job-creation message, an off-the-cuff speaking style and a fledgling campaign organization. He quickly nosedived.
Wednesday, December 28 2011 4:05 PM EST2011-12-28 21:05:24 GMT
SANTA FE, N.M. - Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a longshot candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said Wednesday he is leaving the GOP in favor of running as a Libertarian.
Wednesday, December 21 2011 12:09 PM EST2011-12-21 17:09:51 GMT
EXETER, N.H. - Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who has drawn little attention with his bid for the Republican nomination for president, is dropping his GOP campaign to run for the Libertarian Party nomination.
Tuesday, December 13 2011 6:42 PM EST2011-12-13 23:42:20 GMT
SAN ANTONIO - A panel of 3 federal judges plans to discuss what happens next in the deeply complicated legal wrangling over political districts in Texas.
Wednesday, November 30 2011 6:48 PM EST2011-11-30 23:48:22 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas - Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has a net worth of at least $200 million, according to federal disclosure reports obtained by The Associated Press.
Friday, November 25 2011 5:21 PM EST2011-11-25 22:21:50 GMT
EDINBURG, Texas - A state lawmaker who switched to the Republican Party even though he's from the Democratic stronghold of South Texas says new federally drawn voting maps are forcing him to retire.
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