Authors: Kelly Knaub
(WASHINGTON) -- A new flap in the ongoing battle on voting equality began this week when Mitt Romney accused President Obama’s re-election committee of suing to restrict military voting rights in Ohio. And while Romney did not address the issue campaigning in Indiana Saturday, he called the lawsuit “an...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Mourdock for Senate(EVANSVILLE, Ind.) -- Mitt Romney leant a hand to a tea party backed Senate candidate, Richard Mourdock, in Indiana Saturday, campaigning with him at a BBQ stop Saturday afternoon to urge voters to elect him this fall.
“We gotta get this guy elected in the U.S. Senate, you know that,” Romney...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Department of Defense Photo by Glenn Fawcett(WASHINGTON) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has asked the Pentagon to review the way the military’s legal justice system processes cases in combat zones where U.S. troops have committed criminal offenses against civilians. In a memo released Friday Panetta said the...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Scott Olson/Getty Images(LLANGYNWYD, Wales) -- Ann Romney will find herself in the middle of an old Welsh love story during her weekend getaway to her ancestral home. After leaving the London Olympics, she is visiting the 850-year-old Old House Inn in Llangynwyd, Wales.
According to Richard Stephens-David, landlord of the...
Authors: Carmen Cox
President Barack Obama talks on the phone with members of the U.S. Olympic women's gymnastics team from Air Force One on Aug. 1. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama sidestepped politics in his weekly address Saturday, instead focusing on “something that’s brought us all together...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In this week's Republican address, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor focuses on rebutting the president’s tax proposals, but joins the president in wishing well for the athletes.
“Watching the Olympics this week, I am reminded that one of the things that sets America apart is...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(NEW YORK) -- Former president Bill Clinton is throwing his support behind Priorities USA Action, the super PAC backing President Obama, agreeing to headline a “briefing” for potential donors in New York City later this month.
The event marks Clinton’s first foray into...
Authors: Carmen Cox
White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama turns 51 Saturday, but the birthday gifts are already pouring in. Employment numbers released Friday showed larger-than-expected gains in the workforce, with 163,000 new jobs added in June. Economists were predicting that number to come in at around 95,000.
But it...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Obama administration will formally begin granting some young undocumented immigrants legal status and work permits later this month under a controversial new policy first announced by President Obama in June.
The Department of Homeland Security Friday announced details of the application...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Indigo/Getty Images(SUN VALLEY, Idaho) -- Mitt Romney got some celebrity love when Clint Eastwood showed up at his high-dollar fundraiser Friday evening in Idaho to offer his endorsement of the presumptive GOP nominee.
When the Oscar-winning director was asked why he was supporting Romney, Eastwood responded, “Because I...
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