White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew said Sunday that the Obama administration has no plans to compromise further on its mandate that all employer-based health care plans provide women with free contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs, despite harsh criticism from conservatives, Catholic bishops and other religious leaders.
That outcry had ...
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Sunday again questioned Mitt Romney's conservative credentials but said the Republican presidential front-runner remains in the lead because he's "a great candidate."
"I trust that his idea of conservatism is evolving," Mrs. Palin, the GOP candidate for vice president in 2008, said on "Fox ...
Undeterred by Mitt Romney's big weekend, Rick Santorum on Sunday called the bid for the Republican presidential nomination a "two-person race" and said the former Massachusetts governor's campaign has grown "desperate" in its attempt to win over conservative voters.
"For him to suggest that I'm not the conservative in this ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives said Sunday the flap surrounding President Obama's birth-control mandate was far from over, with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saying he'll push to overturn the requirement because it was another example of government meddling.
While a senior White House official shrugged off such remarks, declaring the ...
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
After creating more debt than all presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton combined, President Obama will unveil a budget Monday that will create millions of jobs, take a $1 trillion bite out of the federal debt and magically solve all of America's problems.
Not.
The president's budget will ...
More glass tubes at bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra LLC are headed for the scrap heap.
Attorneys for the company filed papers in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware last week asking for a court order to dispose of up to 3,900 pallets filled with glass tubes that were used to ...
NEWT'S DREAM
Newt Gingrich is not done yet, despite gleeful pronouncements by pundits and foes who insist the Republican presidential hopeful is finished, kaput, washed up. As the campaign trail looms in a post-CPAC world, the nimble Mr. Gingrich has assembled a powerful, familiar and possibly remarkable group to see ...
UTAH
Man charged in plot to kill governor
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man police say threatened to assassinate Gov. Gary R. Herbert is facing multiple felony charges.
Brian Biff Baker was charged Friday in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court with felony counts of drug and weapons possession, ...
Rep. Ron Paul and his loyal band of supporters were uncharacteristically missing from the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last week — and high-profile Republican leaders say the party can't afford for that to happen in November if the GOP is to win the White House.
They pointed to, ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster says Mitt Romney has won the Maine caucuses by a slim margin, giving him a much needed boost following losses in three other contests in the past week.
The former Massachusetts governor defeated Ron Paul, the only other GOP hopeful ...
GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich said that, given the current debate rules, he would refuse to take part in official commission-sponsored debates with President Obama, and instead proposed to face-off in a combat-style debate in front of thousands.
"Why don't we have a debate in large arena with a 100,000 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is pressuring Congress to extend a payroll tax cut for the rest of the year as another deadline nears for Congress to act or see taxes go up for millions of working people.
Lawmakers agreed in December, after much bickering, on a two-month extension, ...
Mitt Romney won The Washington Times/CPAC Presidential Straw Poll on Saturday, and also nipped Rick Santorum as the top choice of conservatives nationwide, according to a new version of the poll conducted for the first time this year that suggests Mr. Romney retains strong support among self-identified conservatives.
Mr. Romney ...
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday called on conservatives to unify behind the eventual Republican presidential nominee to help right a "sinking ship" captained by President Obama.
"Don't let them divide us — we must stand as conservatives with common sense, with a servant's heart, for the good of ...
Mitt Romney won Maine's caucuses on Saturday, with the announcement coming just hours after he also won The Washington Times/CPAC Presidential Straw Poll in Washington — a one-two punch that boosts him during the next two weeks, when there are no more contests.
With most votes counted, Mr. Romney was ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Money pouring into the presidential election from super political action committees and nonprofit campaign groups appears so far to be strictly American in origin, donated by U.S. companies, unions and millionaires. But it's easier than ever to conceal the source of money and the identities of contributors, ...
WASHINGTON — President Obama declared Friday he's found a solution that will protect religious liberty but also ensure that women have access to free birth control, as he rushed to defuse an election-year political uproar that threatened to overtake his administration.
Capping weeks of growing controversy, Obama announced he was ...
SAN DIEGO — A leading Jewish organization and others outraged by a photo showing Marine snipers in Afghanistan posing with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol are demanding President Barack Obama order an investigation and hold the troops accountable.
The Marine Corps has said it does not plan any ...
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says he's cooperating with an Office of Government Ethics investigation into his stock trades and expects to be exonerated.
Alabama Republican Spencer Bachus says he welcomes the opportunity to set the record straight in the investigation, which is focused ... Carrying momentum from his three recent electoral wins, Rick Santorum cast himself Friday as the reliable conservative in the GOP presidential race, arguing that he offers a bolder contrast than rival Mitt Romney on the issues that matter most to conservative and tea party voters. The former Pennsylvania senator told ...
· Surging Santorum woos CPAC conservatives