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House urges D.C. to loosen gun laws for troops
The House voted late Thursday to urge the District of Columbia to allow U.S. troops to carry personal firearms within the nation's capital — and the city's non-voting member of Congress is vowing a fight to try to block the move.
Paul's final moneybomb draws half a million
Rep. Ron Paul's final fundraising "moneybomb" on Thursday raised more than half a million dollars, giving the Republican presidential candidate money to continue his push to win delegates to the GOP's convention.
Romney gives rundown of 'Day One' plans
With more than five months out from the election, Mitt Romney's presidential team released a new "Day One" television ad Friday in English and Spanish that spells out his plan to approve the Keystone oil pipeline, reshape the tax code and begin to repeal President Obama's health care overhaul — all on his first day in office.
Tampa bars allowed to stay open later at RNC
Thirsty attendees of this year's Republican National Convention will have an extra hour to get a drink, as the Tampa City Council voted Thursday to allow bars to say open until 3 a.m.
Romney rejects SuperPAC plan to link Obama to Wright
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has rejected a Republican super PAC plan to focus on President Obama's relationship with his incendiary former pastor and spiritual adviser in the months leading up to the November election.
Romney's April cash haul has Team Obama scrambling
President Obama's campaign operatives are sounding the alarms about Mitt Romney's March fundraising haul — almost equal to Mr. Obama's during the same month.
GOP counters Obama push for vet vote
Republicans launched a preemptive strike against President Obama's planned launch of his effort to woo military voters, claiming that the Democrat's administration has failed to meet the needs of veterans.
Warren contributed to Native American cookbook
Elizabeth Warren contributed recipes for herbed tomatoes, spicy barbecued beans and crab with tomato mayonnaise dressing to a Native American cookbook decades ago — the latest in the saga of the U.S. Senate candidate's claims to Cherokee ancestry that were disproven this week.
Libertarian Johnson makes explosive point in new ad
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is blowing stuff up to make a point.
Romney almost matches Obama's April fundraising
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee announced Thursday that they've raised $40.1 million in April — nearly matching the $43 million that President Obama pulled in last month.
Obama team: Romney created wealth, not jobs
Even as President Obama's campaign pressed its attack on Mitt Romney's record as a venture capitalist, a campaign official went out of her way Tuesday to defend the industry that is contributing large sums of money to the president's re-election.
Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate
President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat on Wednesday when senators voted 99-0 to reject it.
Obama order aimed at preserving Yemeni political transition
President Obama issued an executive order Wednesday allowing the Treasury Department to freeze the U.S.-based assets of anyone obstructing the administration-backed political transition in Yemen.
Romney hits Obama over red ink
Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney said Wednesday that President Obama has failed to follow through on his vow to end the kind of debt spending racked up during the George W. Bush years — creating a cloud of economic uncertainty that is hurting graduating college students, homeowners and seniors alike.
Boston Globe corrects claim of Warren's ancestry
The Boston Globe ran a correction in Tuesday's paper admitting an error in its reporting of Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's ancestry in a May 1 article titled "Document ties Warren kin to Cherokees," saying they have no proof that the Democrat is part Cherokee as she has claimed.
