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Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush is set to endorse Mitt Romney, as Rick Santorum says he would consider joining Romney on a GOP presidential ticket. Bush's endorsement, expected to be made official Thursday, comes as Newt Gingrich says he will scale back his campaign. Bush, president...

AP - Rick Santorum is looking for another upset or two, while Mitt Romney is hoping to keep his leading rival at bay in the run-up to the 20th debate of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. More...

AP - Social issues dominated the 2012 presidential race Friday, as President Barack Obama tried to calm a storm over religion and birth control and the Republicans vying to replace him jockeyed to outdo each other in proving their conservative fervor. More...

AP - Mitt Romney hopes his presidential campaign hasn't ignored Rick Santorum's aggressive attacks for too long, as caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota on Tuesday could reshuffle the race for the Republican presidential nomination. More...

AP - As they try to derail Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, his challengers face an urgent task: raising enough cash to compete. More...

AP - Newt Gingrich loves selling himself — both as a presidential hopeful and as a for-profit author. More...

AP - It seldom fails as an applause line for Republican presidential candidates: beating up on the United Nations. More...

AP - Sharon Bialek's former boyfriend said Monday the then-couple spent an evening with Herman Cain in the 1990s. That countered the GOP presidential candidate's earlier statements that he never met the woman who has accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior more than a decade ago. More...

AP - Voters chose governors in Mississippi and Kentucky on Tuesday, casting ballots that could foreshadow the public's political mood just two months ahead of the first presidential primary and nearly four years into the worst economic slowdown since the Depression. More...

AP - A year before the 2012 presidential election, Hispanic voters are facing a choice. They can continue to support President Barack Obama despite being hurt disproportionately by the economic downturn or turn to Republicans at a time when many GOP presidential hopefuls have taken a hard line...

AP - Nevada Republicans have shifted their presidential caucuses to early February, a move that ends an increasingly bitter standoff among rival states and for the first time clarifies the path to the Republican presidential nomination. More...

STRATHAM, N.H. – Just as Mitt Romney declared Thursday that he's in, it's suddenly looking like he'll have more company in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. While Romney made his candidacy official in New Hampshire, political heavyweights Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani...

(CNN) -- Politicians are in plentiful supply this Memorial Day as the ramp-up to the 2012 presidential election begins in earnest. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who began a nationwide bus tour Sunday, generated plenty of buzz, visiting Fort McHenry in Baltimore and Mount Vernon in Virginia on...

SANAA, Yemen – Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis packed a square in the capital and marched in villages and cities across the nation on Friday in what appeared to be the largest demonstrations in more than a month of demands the country's longtime ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh step down. Youth...

Donald Trump is not a serious candidate for president. Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee are showing more interest in selling books than in building the policy chops required to be commander in chief. And yet their every move is documented by a media hungry for web clicks, an obsession ratified by a...

MEXICO CITY – The former presidential candidate of Mexico's leading leftist party is temporarily splitting with the group over a possible alliance with conservatives. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he has taken a "temporary leave" from the Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD. PRD leaders...

-- Ugandans voted Friday in a presidential election that could extend the term of the incumbent, who has been in power for 25 years. A new term would give President Yoweri Museveni five more years. This is the third consecutive time opposition front-runner Kizza Besigye has run against the...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2011/02/10/bts.dc.cpac.donald.trump.cnn -- Potential Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Sen. John Thune, Tim Pawlenty and Rep. Ron Paul all get their chance Friday to address the annual Conservative Political Action Conference -- a gathering of...

U.N. peacekeepers stand guard in front of the Golf Hotel in Abidjan after armed fighters took up positions around it. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the "political stalemate" in the Ivory Coast could lead to fighting, and he repeated his call for the incumbent to leave office after...

Phoenix, Arizona -- A political rock star welcome and adoring chants of "Go Sarah" greeted Sarah Palin at a Phoenix bookstore as the former Alaska governor kicked off her latest book tour that, to some, also looks like a much hyped, early bid for the White House. Palin's book, "America by...