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  • Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program 6 Sep 2010 | 3:34 pm

    President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Milwaukee Laborfest in Milwaukee on Monday.A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that will exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways.


  • Rep. Frank faces town hall foe in Mass. primary 6 Sep 2010 | 1:19 pm

    FILE - In this Monday, April 6, 2009 file photo, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, addresses an audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Frank faces opposition in the Sept. 14, 2010 primary. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's retort was an Internet sensation.


  • Sour economy favors GOP in governor races 6 Sep 2010 | 12:04 pm

    Never before have so many U.S. governorships been up for grabs — and with so much at stake.

  • Obama getting fewer judges seated than Nixon 6 Sep 2010 | 10:42 am

    President Barack Obama put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.

  • Report: Congressional charities pull in corporate cash 6 Sep 2010 | 6:07 am

    At least 2 dozen charities set up or run by lawmakers or their families take donations from companies trying to influence policy, according to a New York Times report.

  • Tea party or establishment, GOP looks for gains 6 Sep 2010 | 12:06 am

    Delaware Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del. is at the Festival Hispano in Millsboro, Del., on Aug. 22.No matter the blend of candidates that Republicans end up with, a persistently weak economy and voter anger add up to enough competitive races to give them at least an outside chance of winning Senate control.


  • Tea party or establishment, GOP looks for gains 5 Sep 2010 | 11:03 pm

    In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It's the way Republican strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians pointing the party toward significant gains in the Senate.

  • Sen. Byrd's family denounces campaign attack ad 5 Sep 2010 | 4:41 pm

    The family of the late Robert C. Byrd blasted the GOP nominee for his U.S. Senate seat Sunday after he used an image from Byrd's memorial service in a TV ad attacking the Democratic nominee.

  • Obama seeks to boost Wis. Democrats 5 Sep 2010 | 1:37 pm

    President Barack Obama greets members of the Wisconsin National Guards 128th Air Refueling Wing upon his arrival at Mitchell International airport in Milwaukee, Wis., on June 30. On Monday,   Obama makes his third Wisconsin visit in a little over two months. President Barack Obama hopes to improve the fortunes of suddenly imperiled Wisconsin Democrats as he celebrates Labor Day with the state's union workers on Monday.


  • Official: Obama backing research tax credits 5 Sep 2010 | 9:48 am

    Seeking ways to spur economic growth ahead of the November elections, the president  will ask Congress to increase and  extend research and development tax credits for businesses, a White House official says.

  • Speaker-in-waiting Boehner balances GOP factions 5 Sep 2010 | 9:34 am

    House Minority leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, participates in a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 16. Boehner could walk down most U.S. streets anonymously. But the perpetually tanned golf lover, who grew up in a Cincinnati family of 14, could become the next House speaker and the GOP leader of opposition to President Barack Obama. John Boehner has left little doubt that the president and other Democrats will face fierce resistance in the House if he is speaker, starting with a push to dismantle Obama's hard-fought health care law.


  • Senate candidate Marco Rubio's father dies at 83 5 Sep 2010 | 8:43 am

    File - Mario Rubio, father of Rep. Macro Rubio, R-Miami, waves to the gallery at ceremonies designating their son as the next Speaker of the House, in this Sept. 13, 2005 file photo taken in Tallahassee, Fla. Marco Rubio's campaign announced Saturday night Sept. 4, 2010 that Mario Rubio died at Baptist Hospital in Miami after suffering from emphysema and lung cancer. (AP Photo/Phil Coale)The father of Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio has died after a long illness. He was 83.


  • NYT: Democrats plan triage to retain House 4 Sep 2010 | 11:46 pm

    NYT: As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members.

  • Obama pledges to work for a thriving middle class 4 Sep 2010 | 5:47 pm

    People watch as Marine One, with President Barack Obama aboard, takes off from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Obama is spending the weekend at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)A strong economy needs bustling Main Streets and a thriving middle class, not just a healthy stock market, President Barack Obama said in paying tribute to the American worker.


  • Fenced-out author leaving home next to Palin 4 Sep 2010 | 5:35 pm

    Joe McGinniss, who is working on a book on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, poses Friday at the home he rented next to Palin's home in Wasilla, Alaska, for three months on Lake Lucille.Author Joe McGinniss  is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving for his Massachusetts home after living next door to his subject, Sarah Palin, for three months in Wasilla, Alaska.
 


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