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By Hector Becerra, Los Angeles Times – Republican presidential candidates blasted the Obama administration during the primaries for not doing enough to combat illegal immigration. But a conservative group is launching a television
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds today announced the availability of the 2012 mobile site developed in partnership with the Iowa State Fair and Iowa Interactive. The
James Q. Lynch, CR Gazette – CEDAR RAPIDS – A visit to one of northeast Iowa’s largest employers illustrated the impact of federal policy, Republican congressional hopeful Ben Lange said after a
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — With the Olympics winding down and a swing-state bus tour planned for the weekend, the attention of the political world is intensely focused
By Seema Mehta and Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times – ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. — Courting frustrated middle-class voters, Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of trying to weaken work requirements
By Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — President Obama supports an effort in Congress to waive taxes on honoraria earned by U.S. athletes who earn Olympic medals in London, the
By Franco Ordonez and Barbara Barrett, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law legislation to provide health care to thousands of sick Marine veterans and their families
By Matea Gold and Melanie Mason, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — If there was one certainty about this year’s presidential campaign, it was that President Barack Obama’s fundraising juggernaut could not be
Tonight, on the planet Mars, the United States of America made history. The successful landing of Curiosity – the most sophisticated roving laboratory ever to land on another planet – marks an
By Lisa Mascaro, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Still no Sarah Palin, but the Republican National Committee announced a roster of mostly conservative headliners for the GOP convention this month in
By Matea Gold, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — For the third month in a row, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney’s campaign outraised the re-election effort of President Barack Obama, scooping up
James Q. Lynch, CR Gazette – From a Media Release: Iowa Republicans continue to make gains in voter registration, expanding their lead over Democrats to more than 21,000 voters in July. The Iowa
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – CHICAGO — A top adviser to President Barack Obama’s campaign lashed out at Mitt Romney on Sunday, arguing that the presumptive Republican nominee is misrepresenting a
Hi, everybody. Today, I want to take a break from the back-and-forth of campaign season, and talk about something that’s brought us all together this week – the Summer Olympics. These games
Susan Crabtree, The Washington Times – President Obama is highlighting the positive numbers in Friday’s employment report, taking credit for 29 straight months of slow-but-steady job increases even as he concedes that
By Alan Boswell, McClatchy Newspapers – NAIROBI, Kenya — Bitter African foes Sudan and South Sudan reported Saturday that they had struck a deal that would let South Sudan re-start oil production
By Chris Megerian and Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration on Friday announced that $119 million more in untapped money was found in
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The issue of how much Mitt Romney has paid in taxes in recent years continued to hound the presumptive Republican presidential
By Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama turned quickly away from the jobs numbers to a more convenient political topic Friday, suggesting that Republicans have their “priorities
By Kim Geiger, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The American public increasingly favors allowing same-sex marriage, but most of the country’s representatives in Congress are not convinced. A new survey by the
By Kathleen Hennessey, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s top regulator is heading for the door. The White House announced Friday that Cass Sunstein, the so-called regulatory czar, will be
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry Branstad, Lt. Governor Reynolds, Board of Regents President Craig Lang, Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Administrator Mark Schouten, and University of Iowa President Sally Mason today
McClatchy-Tribune News Service – The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times: Like everyone else, we’re a bit tired of the gaffe-centric coverage of the presidential race. Every day the two
By Paul West, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid took his jihad over Mitt Romney’s personal finances to the floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday, repeating his
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday voted to reprimand Rep. Laura Richardson, D-Calif., for ethical misconduct. Richardson agreed to the uncommon discipline, including paying a $10,000
By David Lightman and William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers – WARSAW — In some areas, he’d be different from President Barack Obama. In others, even when his fiery rhetoric suggests a dramatic change,
By Kim Geiger, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — House Republicans are accusing President Barack Obama’s White House, and at least one key member of his re-election team, of breaking Obama’s 2008 campaign
By Stephanie Warsmith and Marilyn Miller, Akron Beacon Journal – AKRON, Ohio — President Barack Obama couched himself as the fighter for the middle class and his opponent as the champion of the
By Richard Simon and Jean Merl, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — She reportedly made congressional staffers work on her campaign into the night — and when one asked to go home at
Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – Three political candidates running for seats in Washington County, along with one local business, are being charged with campaign finance violations, marking the first alleged violations of
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Pinnacles National Monument in central California would become the 59th U.S. national park under a bill that cleared the House on Tuesday with
By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Top Department of Justice officials largely dismissed a new Republican congressional report on the ATF’s Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation, saying Tuesday
By Lisa Mascaro, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders reached a tentative budget deal with the White House on Tuesday that would avert a politically risky government shutdown right before
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A 37-year-old Latino mayor and rising star in Texas politics will deliver the keynote speech on the opening night of the Democratic
By Scott Hiaasen and Patricia Mazzei, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — Investigators looking into possible vote fraud in Hialeah, Fla., are now examining at least 31 absentee ballots collected by a suspected
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Attention, federal workers: Pay your taxes or lose your job. That was the message sent Tuesday by the House, which approved the Federal
By Brandon Ross, Cronkite News Service – WASHINGTON — A bill by Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., to ban abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks of pregnancy failed to get
By Matea Gold, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — A hard-hitting new TV spot by the conservative advocacy group Crossroads GPS is scheduled to air within 30 days before the Democratic National
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times – WARSAW, Poland — Mitt Romney took a major risk when he embarked on a foreign tour, inviting complex policy questions and the sort of scrutiny
By David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers – WARSAW, Poland— Mitt Romney will wrap himself in the symbolism of the Cold War Monday, starting a visit to Poland studded with reminders of that era: