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AP - Mitt Romney is "a Massachusetts moderate" who "can't be trusted" on abortion and other core Republican values. Newt Gingrich has questionable judgment for "teaming up with Nancy Pelosi," the Democratic lawmaker the GOP loves to malign. Rick Santorum is a "serial hypocrite" with "a record of...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK Calls for Representative Anthony Weiner's resignation, including from some fellow Democrats, mounted on Wednesday, two days after he confirmed details of an online sex scandal. Word also emerged that the wife he has publicly humiliated is pregnant...

(CNN) -- The Organization of American States voted Wednesday to readmit Honduras into the regional body. Ecuador was the only country to vote against the measure, which was approved 31-1. Honduras was suspended from the OAS after the 2009 coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Back then...

- Sen. Joe Lieberman, the independent from Connecticut, is planning to announce Wednesday that he will not seek re-election, according to two knowledgeable Democratic sources. The move by the former Democratic vice presidential candidate could add even more murkiness to the party's hopes of...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/12/06/ac.obama.agrees.tax.cuts.cnn Washington -- Vice President Joe Biden is expected to meet Tuesday with what could be a surly group of Senate Democrats to discuss an Obama administration deal with Republican leaders that would extend Bush-era tax...

As Election Day gets closer, the rhetoric gets more intense, interesting and, shall we say, passionate. Here are some things that you might have missed. Wigged out The Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission ruled that Joan Heffington, the unsuccessful candidate in the state's GOP gubernatorial...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/10/21/bts.wa.obama.murray.cnn San Francisco, California - President Obama will wake up in San Francisco, California, on Friday amid a five-state, four-day tour aimed at propping up embattled key Senate incumbents. Obama will fly to Los Angeles...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators want BP to set aside $20 billion to pay for cleanup and other costs from the Gulf oil spill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to send BP a letter on Monday proposing the account. That's two days before BP executives meet with President...

Case quits Hawaii congressional primary WAIKIKI, Hawaii, (UPI) -- Former U.S. Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, said Sunday he will drop out of the Democratic primary campaign for a congressional seat captured by a Republican last week. Case, who faced off against fellow Democrat Colleen Hanabusa and...

WH: Clinton sent to ask Sestak to bow out WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- The White House said it sent Bill Clinton to ask Rep. Joe Sestak to back out of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary in exchange for an unpaid job as an adviser. The former president approached Sestak last summer when he began his...