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President Barack Obama's campaign is ramping up criticism of Republican Mitt Romney's record in Massachusetts, while the Republican nominee is contrasting his record in the private sector with the... more

Legislation coming up for a House vote would make it a federal crime to carry out an abortion based on the gender of the fetus. The measure takes aim at the aborting of female fetuses, a practice... more

Escalating violence in Syria has become the ultimate no-win political situation for President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney: The deepening crisis is impossible for their... more

Keep your friends close, and your former presidents closer.President <a class="tagLink" href="http://townhall.com/tags/barack-obama">Barack Obama</a> is welcoming his favorite foil, former... more

A simple congressional request for the United States to distinguish between Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict and millions of their descendants poses a high-stakes... more

In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough on... more

What's next for Mitt Romney? The Republican presidential nomination finally in hand, he will spend the next three months trying to undercut President Barack Obama on the economy while portraying... more

Mitt Romney says he believes in America. For a while, his campaign's new app touted "A Better Amercia."Ooops. That typo distracted from the rollout Tuesday of a Romney campaign app designed to run... more

Congress has given itself two more months to come up with long-term solutions for the debt-burdened federal program that provides insurance for homes and businesses in areas subject to flooding.A... more

WASHINGTON _ The Obama administration added new sanctions on a Syrian bank Wednesday as a top White House official said the U.S. wants to economically throttle the regime of Syrian President... more

The following recalls have been announced:___TOYS "R" US IMAGINARIUM 5-SIDED ACTIVITY CENTERDETAILS: Imaginarium 5-Sided Activity Center imported by Toys "R" Us Inc. of Wayne, N.J.; sold at Toys... more

The government is expanding E. coli testing in some raw meat, a move expected to prevent more people from contracting the bacteria that can cause severe illness or death.The meat industry has been... more

The Obama administration moved Wednesday to impose stiff new tariffs on wind-energy towers made in China, the latest strike in an escalating trade war over clean energy.The Commerce Department... more

The White House is warning that President Barack Obama will veto a widely popular House spending bill for veterans' programs and construction projects at military bases.The veto promise comes... more

By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wanted for the Treasury Department: a new boss who can fix trillion-dollar-plus budget deficits, overhaul the tax system and spur a reluctant Europe... more

Knowledgeable baseball fans can argue all day whether it was the split-finger fastball _ and not performance-enhancing drugs _ that kept Roger Clemens on top of his game well into his 30s and... more

The Obama administration added new sanctions on a Syrian bank Wednesday as a top White House official said the U.S. wants to economically throttle the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and... more

Solyndra and Bain Capital have become the battleground on which President Obama and Mitt Romney are warring over who would best lead the U.S. economy. <a class="tagLink"... more

Donald Trump may have briefly sidetracked Mitt Romney's campaign message in Las Vegas with his renewed "birther" talk, but it isn't the first time an opinionated supporter has put a candidate in... more

Mitt Romney won 105 delegates in the Texas primary on the night he clinched the Republican nomination for president, giving him more than two-thirds of the delegates up for grabs in the... more

Planned Parenthood is launching a TV ad campaign in three battleground states suggesting that women's rights would suffer if Republican Mitt Romney is elected president. The political arm of the... more

By Samuel P. Jacobs SCHAUMBURG, Illinois (Reuters) - Republican Representative Joe Walsh was campaigning recently at a diner in this Chicago suburb when he came across an elderly woman who... more

The Pentagon says al-Qaida still enjoys safe haven in some areas of eastern Afghanistan, and even though its numbers are small, its presence worries the top American commander there.Pentagon... more

(Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful <a class="tagLink" href="http://townhall.com/tags/mitt-romney">Mitt Romney</a> took a commanding lead on Tuesday in early returns from the Kentucky... more

By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prostitution scandal in Colombia involving U.S. Secret Service employees did not result in any security breach and was not behavior that reflected... more