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  • Inside Politics: Obama, Democrats redouble fundraising efforts

    President Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts. They're doing it in the wake of robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from party faithful who are highly motivated to topple the Democrat.


  • **FILE** Pro-life advocates march past the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 as part of the March for Life. The group rallied at the National Mall and marched to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes that Roe v. Wade will be overturned. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    'Pro-choice' Americans found in record-low minority

    A record low 41 percent of Americans identify themselves as "pro-choice" on abortion, according to a poll released Wednesday, while the number of Americans who say they are "pro-life" bounced back into the majority.


  • North Dakota Democrat hopeful distancing self from Obama

    North Dakota's prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded.


  • President Obama speaks May 8, 2012, at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies dinner in Washington. (Associated Press)

    MILLER: Running from Obama's anti-capitalism

    President Obama's disdain for free enterprise is starting to offend even his fellow Democrats. In a rare breach of loyalty, Mr. Obama's political allies have publicly criticized campaign attacks on GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's business success.


  • ** FILE ** Colin Powell, a secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meets with President Obama in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington in December 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Powell not ready to endorse Obama for re-election

    Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn't ready "to throw my weight behind someone" at this time.


  • ** FILE ** In this May 8, 2012 photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Lansing, Mich. Romney padded his lead in the race for convention delegates in Republican presidential primaries Tuesday in Arkansas and Kentucky as he inches closer to the nomination he's all but certain to win. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

    Romney outpaces Obama in Ky., Ark. primaries

    President Obama won 58 percent of the vote in Kentucky's Democratic primary on Tuesday but lost 42 percent of the vote to "uncommitted" — another worrisome sign for him as he seeks re-election.


  • Work group must complete P.G. casino study by late June

    A new state commission charged with crafting a bill to expand gambling in Maryland will have to overcome a short time frame and skepticism from House lawmakers.


  • Tea party candidate Ted Cruz (left) responds in January to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst during a Republican primary debate in Austin. The former Texas solicitor general has repeatedly challenged Mr. Dewhurst's conservative credentials in the primary race for the U.S. Senate seat left open with the retirement of Kay Bailey Hutchison. (Associated Press)

    GOP race in Texas has echoes of Indiana

    The next skirmish in the internal war over the direction of the Republican Party plays out in Texas next week, when primary voters choose a Senate candidate as tea party insurgent Ted Cruz is mounting an aggressive challenge to the establishment-backed candidate, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.


  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr'

    In the early history of the United States, the names of two "might-have-beens" stand out. Each fought bravely in the American Revolution, though each was hamstrung by vanity, easily hurt feelings and a deep-seated rage against those men they considered ungrateful for services rendered.


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